• KSBB Journal
• /
• 제13권4호
• /
• pp.383-390
• /
• 1998

Bacillus subtilis DT134 was resistant to 50-fold higher concentration of cadmium ions (Cd2+) than cadmium-sensitive B. subtilis BD224 in Luria Broth (LB) medium. Minimal inhibition concentration test in LB agar plates also showed similar results. The elevated cadmium resistance of B. subtilis DT134 strongly suggested a possible existence of cadmium resistance gene in it. Southern blot with Staphylococcus aureus cadA gene fragment (757 bp NlaIV-XmnI cadA DNA fragment) as probe was carried out to test the existence and similarity of the gene. In high stringency condition, there was no detectable signal, but in low stringency, a strong signal specific to the cadA probe could be detected. These results strongly suggested that there was some similarity between total DNA of B. subtilis DT134 and S. aureus pl258 in terms of cadmium resistance gene and the resistance mechanism might be an efflux mechanism. The subsequent efflux experiment showed that the cadmium resistance mechanism of B. subtilis DT134 was also due to the efflux of cadmium.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 대한전기학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전기물성,응용부문
• /
• pp.51-53
• /
• 2002

This research aims to develop a multiple channel electrochemical DNA chip using micro-fabrication technology. At first, we fabricated a high integrated type DNA chip array by lithography technology. Several probe DNAs consisting of thiol group at their 5-end were immobilized on the sold electrodes. Then target DNAs were hybridized by an electrical force. Redox peak of cyclic-voltammogram showed a difference between target DNA and mismatched DNA in the anodic peak current. Therefore, it is able to detect a various genes electrochemically after immobilization of a various probe DNA and hybridization of label-free DNA on the electrodes simultaneously. It suggested that this DNA chip could recognize the sequence specific genes.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국전기전자재료학회 2006년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.7
• /
• pp.402-403
• /
• 2006

This research aims to develop the multiple channel electrochemical DNA chip using microfabrication technology. At first, we fabricated a high integration type DNA chip array by lithography technology. Several probe DNAs consisting of thiol group at their 5-end were immobilized on the gold electrodes. Then target DNAs were hybridized and reacted. Cyclic voltammetry showed a difference between target DNA and control DNA in the anodic peak current values. Therefore, it is able to detect a plural genes electrochemically after immobilization of a plural probe DNA and hybridization of non-labeling target DNA on the electrodes simultaneously. It suggested that this DNA chip could recognize the sequence specific genes.

• KSBB Journal
• /
• 제18권3호
• /
• pp.190-196
• /
• 2003

임신이나 배란진단과 같이 가정에서 직접 사용할 수 있는 형태의 membrane strip 크로마토그래피 방법을 이용하여 식중독 균 DNA 분석시스템을 개발하였다. 분석물질로서는 빈번하게 발생하고 있는 식중독 미생물 중에서 S. typhimurium을 선택하였으며, Salmonella 종에 특이한 유전자 부위인 invA 유전자 분석을 목표로 하였다. 우선 이 유전자는 본 실험실 내에서 설계한 primer 쌍을 사용한 PCR 공정을 통하여 증폭되었다. 이렇게 증폭한 산물을 본 연구자들이 설계한 DNA probe와의 hybridization을 통하여 분석함으로써 전통적으로 사용하고 있는 전기영동 분석법의 단순히 분자크기에 의한 분리법과 비교하여 특이한 분석을 할 수 있었다. 이때 PCR 후 과량으로 잔존하는 primer를 별도로 제거하지 않고 hybridization을 수행할 수 있도록 특별하게 DNA probe를 설계하였다. 또한, probe가 증폭된 DNA와 hybridization 하였을 때 고체표면에 의한 간섭효과가 최소화되도록 설계 시 반영되었고 더욱이 streptavidin-비오틴의 결합을 이용하여 probe를 고정함으로써 고상에서의 상호작용이 더욱 용이하도록 배려하였다. 이러한 분석방법을 이용하여 분석한 결과 시료첨가 후 20-40분 정도에 최소 $10^3$cfu/mL (10 cells/system) 농도의 박테리아를 분석할 수 있었다. 이러한 결과는 일반적으로 사용하는 전기영동법보다 약 10배정도 더 민감한 결과일 뿐만 아니라 실험실 기기를 사용하지 않고 분석을 수행함으로써 분석시료가 제공되는 현장에서도 식중독 균의 탐지가 가능하게 되었다.

• Animal cells and systems
• /
• 제3권3호
• /
• pp.311-317
• /
• 1999

Prolactin (PRL) was reported to be locally synthesized in many brain areas including the hypothalamus, thalamus (TH) and hippocampus (HIP). In the pituitary lactotrophs, PRL synthesis is dependent upon a pituitary-specific transcription factor, Pit-1. In the present study, we attempted to identify Pit-1 or Pit-1-like protein in brain areas known as the synthetic sites of PRL. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and Northern blot analysis showed the same Pit-1 transcripts in brain areas such as the medial basal hypothalamus (MBH), preoptic area (POA), TH, and HIP with the Pit-1 transcripts in the anterior pituitary (AP). Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) was run with nuclear protein extracts from brain tissues using a double strand oligomer probe containing a putative Pit-1 binding domain. Shifted bands were found in EMSA results with nuclear proteins from MBH, POA, TH and HIP. Specific binding of the Pit-1-like protein was further confirmed by competition with an unlabeled cold probe. Antisense Pit-1 oligodeoxynucleotide (Pit-1 ODN), which was designed to bind to the Pit-1 translation initiation site and block Pit-1 biosynthesis, was used to test Pit-1 dependent brain PRL transcription. Two nmol of Pit-1 ODN was introduced into the lateral ventricle of a 60-day old male rat brain. RNA blot hybridization and in situ hybridization indicated a decrease of PRL mRNA signals by the treatment of Pit-1 ODN. Taken together, the present study suggests that Pit-1 may play an important role in the transcriptional regulation of local PRL synthesis in the brain.

• 한국식물병리학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국식물병리학회 2003년도 정기총회 및 추계학술발표회
• /
• pp.130-130
• /
• 2003

Gummy stem blight pathogen is very difficult not only to monitor the inoculum levels prior to host infection, and also it is destructive and hard to control in field condition. We have applied RAPD technique to elucidate the genetic diversity of the genomic DNA of Didymella bryoniae and also to generate specific diagnostic DNA probe useful for identification and detection. The 40 primers produced clear bands consistently from the genomic DNA of twenty isolates of Didymella bryoniae, and two hundred seventy-three amplified fragments were produced with 40 primers. The combined data from 273 bands was analyzed by a cluster analysis using UPGMA method with an arithmetic average program of NTSYS-PC (Version 1.80) to generate a dendrogram. At the distance level of 0.7, two major RAPD groups were differentiated among 20 strains. RAPD group (RG) I included 8 isolates from watermelon except one isolate from melon. RAPD group (RG) IV included 12 isolates from squash, cucumber, watermelon and melon.. In amplification experiment with SCAR specific primer RG1F-RG1R resulted in a single band of 650bp fragment only for 8 isolates out of 20 isolates that should be designated as RAPD Group 1. However, same set of experiment done with RGIIF-RGIIR did not result in any amplified product.. Our attempts to detect intraspecific diversity of ITS region of rDNA by amplifying ITS region and 17s rDNA region for 20 isolates and restriction digestion of amplified fragment with 12 enzymes did not reveal polymorphic band. In order to develop RAPD markers for RGIV specific primer, a candidate PCR fragment( ≒1.4kb) was purified and Southern hybridized to the amplified fragment RGIV isolates. This promising candidate probe recognized only RGIV isolates

• The Plant Pathology Journal
• /
• 제15권1호
• /
• pp.57-61
• /
• 1999

Xanthomonas campestris pv. glycines causes bacterial pustule disease on susceptible soybean leaves and produces a bacteriocin, named glycinecinA, against most xanthomonads including Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria. One of the 5 isolated DNA regions responsible for bacteriocin production, a 1.7 kb DNA region for the glycinecinA gene, was used as a probe to detect the presence of the homolog DNA in other bacterial strains. Among 55 bacterial strains tested, only X. campestris pv. glycines showed the positive signal with glycinecinA DNA. Two oligomers, heu2 and heu4, derived from a glycinecinA DNA were used to carry out the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis with chromosomal DNA from 55 different bacterial strains including 24 different strains of X. campestris pv. glycines, 9 different pathovars of xanthomonads, and other 22 bacterial strains of different genus and species. By separation of the PCR products on agarose gel, a 0.86 kb DNA fragment was specifically detected when X. campestris pv. glycines was present in the amplification assay. The 0.86 kb fragment was not amplified when DNA from other bacteria was used for the assay. Southern analysis with glycinecinA DNA showed that the PCR signal was obtained with X. campestris pv. glycines isolates from various geographic regions and soybean cultivars. Therefore, the 1.7 kb DNA region for the glycinecinA gene can be used for the pathovar-specific probe for the DNA hybridization and the primers heu2 and heu4 can be used for the pathovar-specific primers for the PCR analysis to detect X. campestris pv. glycines.

• 한국균학회지
• /
• 제27권1호통권88호
• /
• pp.20-26
• /
• 1999

우리나라에서 자생하는 송이버섯의 구분 방법으로 제조된 OPO-2 primer을 사용할 때 송이에게만 특이적인 band가 나타났다. 그리고 제한효소 처리와 dot blot의 결과에서 이들 특이적인 DNA절편은 송이 genomic DNA에서 한개의 copy만 존재하는 것으로 나타났으며, 다른 외생균근 버섯의 DNA에서는 발견되지 않았다. 또한, 이들 DNA 절편의 염기서열을 분석한 결과 770bps로 나타났다. 이러한 유전자의 정보를 이용한 NCBI Blast 염기서열 분석에서 높은 상동성을 갖는 유전자는 발견할 수가 없었고, 단백질서열 분석에서도 거의 동일하게 나타났다. 따라서 translation통한 아미노산 서얼분석에서 이들 DNA절편의 유전자는 단백질에 관한 유전자이라기 보다는 다른 정보와 관련된 유전자로 생각되어진다.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
• /
• 제38권1호
• /
• pp.63-66
• /
• 1995

본 실험에서는 대두 ${\beta}-conglycinin$의 ${\alpha}'$ subunit 유전자의 발현에 관여하리라 추정되는 대두 배인자 3(SEF3) 역가를 가지는 대두 핵 추출물 조제 방법에 대하여 조사하였다. 역가 조사를 위한 DNA의 표지 반응 후에 추가로 1 mM dATP를 첨가하여 반응을 지속한 경우가 첨가하지 않은 경우보다 약 4배 높은 방사능 역가의 DNA 탐침을 얻을 수 있었다. 이러한 DNA 탐침을 이용하여 핵 추출물 조제 방법에 따른 대두 배인자 3의 역가를 gel mobility shift assay로 조사한 결과, 조제 중 glycerol 첨가가 배인자 3을 안정화시켰고, polyethylenimine을 이용한 대두 핵 추출물 조제법이 배인자 3의 비역가를 증가시키는 데 이용될 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Genomics & Informatics
• /
• 제21권1호
• /
• pp.13.1-13.8
• /
• 2023

Importance of accurate molecular diagnosis and quantification of particular disease-related pathogenic microorganisms is highlighted as an introductory step to prevent and care for diseases. In this study, we designed a primer/probe set for quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) targeting rgpA gene, known as the specific virulence factor of periodontitis-related pathogenic bacteria 'Porphyromonas gingivalis', and evaluated its diagnostic efficiency by detecting and quantifying relative bacterial load of P. gingivalis within saliva samples collected from clinical subjects. As a result of qRT-PCR, we confirmed that relative bacterial load of P. gingivalis was detected and quantified within all samples of positive control and periodontitis groups. On the contrary, negative results were confirmed in both negative control and healthy groups. Additionally, as a result of comparison with next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based 16S metagenome profiling data, we confirmed relative bacterial load of P. gingivalis, which was not identified on bacterial classification table created through 16S microbiome analysis, in qRT-PCR results. It showed that an approach to quantifying specific microorganisms by applying qRT-PCR method could solve microbial misclassification issues at species level of an NGS-based 16S microbiome study. In this respect, we suggest that P. gingivalis-specific primer/probe set introduced in present study has efficient applicability in various oral healthcare industries, including periodontitis-related microbial molecular diagnosis field.