• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
• /
• 제15권6호
• /
• pp.388-395
• /
• 1987

천연섬유소 분해활성이 우수하고 그 효소 유도기구도 Trichoderma reesei와는 다른 Penicillium verruculosum F-3을 모균주로 사용하여 돌연변이 처리에 의한 유전적 개량을 시도함으로써 cellulase 생산성이 증진된 조절변이주를 얻고자 변이주 유도조건 변이주에 의한 cellulase 생성조건을 검토하였다. 한천평판상에서의 변이주의 선택분리 효율을 향상시키기 위하여 각종 colony 소형화제의 영향을 검토한 바 Oxgall을 배지에 1.5% 첨가하였을 때가 가장 좋았다. Cellulase 고생산성 변이주 선정의 한 지표로서 대사산물 억제의 해제를 선택했다. P. verruculosum F-3은 glucose 또는 glycerol 농도 1% 이상에서 본 효소생성이 억제되었다. 변이주 유도조건으로서 UV조사의 경우는 19분 처리로 약 0.2%, NTG 처리의 경우는 200$\mu\textrm{g}$/$m\ell$ 농도로 1시간처리로 48%의 생존율을 나타냈다. 변이처리 한 균주를 여지붕괴도, cellulose agar plate에서의 clear zone의 크기, cellulose powder 배지로 배양한 조효소액의 여지분해활 성을 조사하여 우수균주로서 UV-9, UV-10 및 NTG-3을 최종 선발했다. 각종 탄소원을 함유하는 배지에서의 cellulase 생산성을 조사한 바 KC-M-W 배지로 배양한 UV-9, UV-10 및 NTG-3의 여지분해 활성은 친주보다 각각 34%, 55%, 41% 증가되었으나, UV-9 및 NTG-3은 COA 자화능이 현저히 저하되었다. 변이주 UV-10은 COA-4 배지로 배양했을 때 친주에 비해 단백질량 30%, Avicel 분해활성 30%, 여지분해활성 20%, salicin 분해활성 50% 증가가 인정되었고, 비록 역가는 낮았지만 glucose 및 cellobiose를 함유하는 배지에서 CMC 및 salicin 분해활성을 구성적으로 생산하였다.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
• /
• 제38권5호
• /
• pp.387-392
• /
• 1995

대두 glycinin 유전자의 조직 특이적이고 분화 발달 특이적인 발현 조절 메카니즘을 연구하기 위하여 Gy2 유전자의 5' upstream 부위 염기서열을 조사한 결과, glycinin 유전자의 발현을 조절하는 인자로 여겨지는 여러 가지 조절 인자들을 발견하였다. 진핵세포 유전자에 공통적으로 존재하는 TATA box와 AGGA box가 존재하고, 종자 저장 단백질에서 공통적으로 발견되는 embryo factor binding sequence, RY repeat CACA sequence, ${\beta}$-conglycinin enhancer 와 유사한 sequence 등이 발견되었다. 이러한 조절 요소들이 Gy2 유전자의 발현 조절에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 Gy2유전자의 5' upstream부위를 Exo III nuclease와 여러가지 제한효소를 이용하여 일련의 deletion mutants를 제조한 후 GUS 유전자와 결합시켰다. 이들 여러가지 chimeric constructs를 대두 원형질체에 전입하고 원형질체로부터 추출물을 분리하여 GUS 활성을 조사한 결과, $-28l{\sim}-223$ 혹은 $-l70{\sim}-122$ 부위를 포함하였을 경우 활성이 감소하였고, $-223{\sim}-170$ 혹은 $-l22{\sim}-16$ 부위를 포함하였을 경우 활성이 높게 나타났다. 이러한 Gy2 유전자의 이중적인 발현 양상은 glycinin 유전자의 발현조절에 음성 조절 요소와 양성 조절 요소가 관여하고있다는 사실을 제시해 주고 있다. 또한 이들 여러가지 chimeric constructs로 형질 전환된 담배의 종자와 잎에서 GUS활성을 조사한 결과, CaMV promoter를 포함하는 chimeric construct는 종자와 잎에서 모두 활성을 나타냈으나, Gy2 Promoter를 포함하는 chimeric constructs는 종자에서만 GUS 활성을 나타내고 잎에서는 활성이 나타나지 않는 조직 특이적인 발현 양상을 나타내었다.

• Journal of Photoscience
• /
• 제9권2호
• /
• pp.86-89
• /
• 2002

Blue light activates proton pump, and creates electrical gradient across the plasma membrane and drives $K^{+}$ uptake in stomatal guard cells. In this presentation, we provide evidence for regulatory mechanisms of the pump and the identification of blue light receptor. The pump is shown to be the plasma membrane H$^{+}$- ATPase and is activated through phosphorylation of the C-terminus. Phosphorylation occurred and 14-3-3 protein bound to the phosphorylation site. The binding of 14-3-3 protein was required for the H$^{+}$-ATPase activation. We also found that phot1 phot2 double mutant does not respond to blue light but other mutants respond to blue light by stomatal opening. However, all these mutants are capable of stomatal opening in the presence of fusicoccin, an activator of the H$^{+}$-ATPase. These results suggest that both photl and phot2 act as blue light receptors in guard cells.d cells.

• 한국발생생물학회지:발생과생식
• /
• 제15권3호
• /
• pp.215-221
• /
• 2011

Endocytosis of the Notch ligand, DeltaD, by mind bomb1 is indispensable for activation of Notch in cell fate determination, proliferation, and differentiation during zebrafish neurogenesis. Loss of mind bomb1 activity as an E3 Ubiquitin ligase causes the accumulation of deltaD at the plasma membrane and results in the ectopic neurogenic phenotype by activation of Notch in early zebrafish embryogenesis. However, the regulatory mechanism of deltaD during neurogenesis is not identified yet. This study aims to analyze the pathway of mib1 and deltaD after endocytosis in vivo during zebrafish embryogenesis. Mind bomb1 and deltaD are co-localized into autophagosome and mutant form of mind bomb1 fails to cargo deltaD into autophagosomes. These findings suggest that mind bomb I mediates deltaD regulation by autophagy in an ubiquitin-dependent manner during zebrafish embryogenesis.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
• /
• 제4권3호
• /
• pp.176-182
• /
• 1994

The light-organ symbiont of pine cone fish, Vibrio fischeri, senses its presence in the host and responds to environmental changes by differentially expressing its symbiosis-related luminescence genes. The V. fischeri luminescence genes are activated by LuxR protein in the presence of an autoinducer. In an effort to elucidate the mechanism of regulation of luxR, a plasmid containing luxR was mutagenized in vitro with hydroxylamine and a luxR mutant plasmid was isolated by its ability to activate luminescence genes cloned in E. coli in the absence of the autoinducer. The specific base change identified by DNA sequencing was only single base transition at ＋78 from the transcriptional start of luxR. Based on a Western immunoblot analysis, the nucleotide change directed the synthesis of much higher level of LuxR protein without any amino acid substitutions. The results suggest that the region including the ＋78th base is presumably internal operator required for autorepression of luxR, and the increased cellular level of LuxR results in activation of luminescence genes by autoinducer independent fashion.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
• /
• 제19권6호
• /
• pp.583-587
• /
• 1991

대장균 W3110으로부터 NTG 및 UV를 사용하여 여러 단계의 돌연변이 실험을 거치면서 스레오닌 고생산균주인 대장균 TF427를 선별하였다. 선별된 변이주는 스레오닌 유사체인 AHV 내성, 메치오닌 및 이소루이신 요구성을 특징으로 한다. 5-L 발효조 실험에서 44시간 발효하였을 때 46.5g/l의 스레오닌이 생산되었다. 효모분석에 의하면, TF427의 아스파토키나아제 I의 활성은 스레오닌에 의해 저해받지 않았으며, 이 효소의 합성은 스레오닌과 이소루이신에 의해 억제를 받지 않았다.

• Animal cells and systems
• /
• 제8권1호
• /
• pp.57-63
• /
• 2004

This study provides evidence that expression of EphA8 receptor in NG108-15 cells results in a substantial increase in the number of neurite-bearing cells. However, the EphA8-induced neurite outgrowth does not require either ephrin-A5 stimulation or ectopic expression of $p110{\gamma}$ PI-3 kinase. In contrast, co-expression of a lipid kinase-inactive $p110{\gamma}$ mutant together with EphA8 causes neurite retraction in the presence of ephrin-A5 stimulation. This effect was not observed in the absence of ephrin-A5 stimulation. Significantly, the tyrosine kinase activity of EphA8 is not important for either of these processes. Taken together, our results strongly suggest that $p110{\gamma}$ PI-3 kinase is critically involved in the regulatory process by which ephrin-A5 exerts effects on the EphA8-induced neurite outgrowth.

• 미생물학회지
• /
• 제29권3호
• /
• pp.160-166
• /
• 1991

The regulatory mechanism of tubercidin biosynthesis in Streptomyces tubercidicus was studied. In a wild type strain, addition of adenine and histidine into the medium decreased the tubercidin production by 60-65% and 40%, respectively. The effects of adenine and histidine were alleviated by the addition of inosine monophosphate and 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribotide. The production of tubercidin in S. tubercidicus K115 strain ($ade^{-}$ ) was nearly shut off by histidine. In contrast with K115 strain, adenine inhibited the tubercidin biosynthesis in S. tubercidicus K412 strain ($his^{-}$. In S. tubercidicus F667 strain ($ade^{-}$ , $his^{-}$ ), tubercidin production was increased by adenine and histidine. From the effects of adenine and histidine on tubercidin biosynthesis in S. tubercidicus wild type and mutant strains, it became known that feedback control by adenine and histidine of biosynthetic pathwat for purine ribonucleotide and histidine are involved in the regulation of tubercidin biosynthesis.

• 한국식물학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국식물학회 1999년도 제13회 식물생명공학심포지움 New Approaches to Understand Gene Function in Plants and Application to Plant Biotechnology
• /
• pp.37-40
• /
• 1999

cDNAs for long- and short-chain acyl-CoA oxidases in fatty acid $\beta$-oxidation were isolated and were characterized their enzymatical and molecular properties. Both oxidases were exclusively localized in glyoxysomes, indicating that glyoxysomes can completely metabolize fatty acids to acyl-CoA by their cooperative action. In order to clarify the regulatory mechanisms underlying degradation of storage oil, we tried to obtain glyoxysome-deficient mutants of Arabidopsis. We screened 2,4-dichlorophenoxybutyric acid (2,4-DB) mutants of Arabidopsis which have defects in glyoxysomal fatty acid $\beta$-oxidation. Four mutants can be classified as carrying alleles at three independent loci, which we designated pedl, ped2, and ped3, respectively (where ped stands for peroxisome defective). The characteristics of these ped mutants are described.

• IMMUNE NETWORK
• /
• 제2권1호
• /
• pp.1-5
• /
• 2002

Estimated number of adults and children newly infected with HIV-1 during 2001 alone is 5 million in total. An effective vaccine, in addition to education & public health approaches, has been believed to be the best option to stop the HIV-1 transmission, especially for developing countries. Among AIDS vaccine candidates, DNA vaccine is relatively safe and, in a certain extent, mimics some attributes of live attenuated vaccine, with regard to in vivo gene expression & the type of immunity induced. We recently demonstrated that DNA vaccines expressing SIVmac239 structural and regulatory genes, augmented with coadministration of IL-12 mutant induced the strongest T cell responses, resulting in low to undetectable setpoint viral loads, stable $CD4^+$ T cell counts, and no evidence of clinical diseases or mortality by day 420 after challenge. This finding is the second demonstration, following the protective result of live attenuated SIV vaccine in SIVmac-rhesus monkey model, which was known to have safety problem. So, our DNA vaccines could give a significant impact on HIV-1 epidemic by slowing or stopping the spread of HIV-1, leading to eventual eradication of HIV-1 and AIDS in the population.