• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.90-95
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• 2001

Cysteine 계 cathepsin B 단백질 분해 효소는 고등동물의 세포조직 내에 lysosome에 존재하며 병원성세균의 침입을 막고 불필요한 단백질을 분해시키며 또한 면역세포의 항원인식에 대한 단백질 생산 등에 관여하는 효소이다. 이 cathepsin B의 과량 발현은 암전이, 만성적 염증성 질환, 류머티스 관절염, 노인성치매 등의 원인이 된다. 이 cathepsin B를 저해하는 것으로 밝혀진 S. luteogriseus KT-10으로부터 분리한 저해제 KHS10을 이용하여 분광광도계를 사용, 그 저해력을 조사하였다. Cathepsin B 저해제 KHS10은 경쟁적 저해를 나타내며 cathepsin B는 기질 CLN에 대해 Km 값은 0.5mM을 Vmax 값은 $29.4\mu$M로 나타내었으며, 합성기질인 BANA에 대해서는 Km 값이 2mM을 Vmax 값은 7.8$\mu$M/min로 나타났다. 저해제 KHS10의 Ki 값은 $0.43{\mu}$M로 측정되었다. Cathepsin B에 대한 저해제 KS10의 반응시간에 대한 저해력은 1시간 반응시 저해력이 100%에 가깝게 높게 나타났으며 온도에 의한 저해율은 $25^{\circ}C$에서 활성이 가장 높게 나타났다. Cathepsin B와 저해제 KHS10이 반응 전 배양은 5분간의 전 배양으로 높은 저해율을 나타내었으며 또한 pH에 의한 저해활성은 pH 6.0에서 가장 높게 저해하는 것으로 조사되었다. 저해제 KHS10는 $100^{\circ}C$에서 1시간 열을 가해도 그 잔류 저해력은 80% 이상 유지되었다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제22권12호
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• pp.2175-2185
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• 2000

호흡율은 활성미생물의 상태를 정확하게 나타낼 수 있는 상태변수로서 활성슬러지 공정을 모사하는데 유용하게 이용될 수 있다. 크게 competitive, noncompetitive, uncompetitive로 분류되는 독성물질은 미생물의 반속도상수와 비성장율을 증가/감소시켜 기질제거능을 떨어뜨린다. 본 연구에서는 장기폭기법으로 운전되는 pilot-scale 활성슬러지 공정을 대상으로 대표적인 noncompetitive 억제물질인 산성폐수가 유발하는 독성영향을 예측할 수 있는 모델을 도출하고 호흡율을 중심으로 활성슬러지의 거동을 모사하였다. Noncompetitive 억제 모델을 이용하여 pH 3.9~5.5의 산성폐수 유입시 호흡율의 실측치와 계산치는 상관계수가 0.96 이상으로 매우 근사한 결과를 보였다. 그러나 COD로 표현된 유출수 기질농도는 독성영향에도 불구하고 큰 변화를 보이지 않았다. 이는 유입수중의 생분해성 기질(readily biodegradable substrate) 농도가 낮기 때문인 것으로 판단되었다. 그리고 유입수의 기질농도 감소에 의한 호흡율의 감소보다 산성폐수에 의한 호흡율의 감소가 훨씬 크게 나타나 기질농도 감소에 따른 호흡율 기초 독성감지 장치의 오류 가능성은 적은 것으로 판단되었다.

• International Journal of Oral Biology
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.17-23
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• 2012

Recent studies indicate that reactive oxygen species (ROS) are critically involved in persistent pain primarily through spinal mechanisms, and that mitochondria are the main source of ROS in the spinal dorsal horn. To investigate whether mitochondrial ROS can induce changes in membrane excitability on spinal substantia gelatonosa (SG) neurons, we examined the effects of mitochondrial electron transport complex (ETC) substrates and inhibitors on the membrane potential of SG neurons in spinal slices. Application of ETC inhibitors, rotenone or antimycin A, resulted in a slowly developing and slight membrane depolarization in SG neurons. Also, application of both malate, a complex I substrate, and succinate, a complex II substrate, caused reversible membrane depolarization and enhanced firing activity. Changes in membrane potential after malate exposure were more prominent than succinate exposure. When slices were pretreated with ROS scavengers such as phenyl-N-tert-buthylnitrone (PBN), catalase and 4- hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl (TEMPOL), malate-induced depolarization was significantly decreased. Intracellular calcium above $100{\mu}M$ increased malateinduced depolarization, witch was suppressed by cyclosporin A, a mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) inhibitor. These results suggest that enhanced production of spinal mitochondrial ROS can induce nociception through central sensitization.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.86-90
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• 2008

Caspase-3 (CASP3) plays a key role in apoptosis. In this study, HAX-1 was identified as a new substrate of CASP3 during apoptosis. HAX-1 was cleaved by CASP3 during etoposide-(ETO) induced apoptosis, and this event was inhibited by a CASP3-specific inhibitor. The cleavage site of HAX-1, at $Asp^{127}$, was located using N-terminal amino acid sequencing of in vitro cleavage products of recombinant HAX-1. Overexpression of HAX-1 inhibited ETO-induced apoptotic cell death. It also inhibited CASP3 activity. Together, these results suggest that HAX-1, a substrate of CASP3, inhibits the apoptotic process by inhibiting CASP3 activity.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.23-29
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• 1995

Microsomes from human liver sample HL 110 oxidized aflatoxin $B_1$ $(AFB_1)$ to $AFB_1$ exo-8, 9-epoxide which was detected as a glutathione (GSH) conjugate with excess GSH S-transferase and to aflatoxin $Q_1$ ($AFB_1$; 3$\alpha$-hydroxyafiatoxin $B_1$), and testosterone to 6$\beta$-hydroxytestosterone. Anti-P450 3A4 nearly completely inhibited all of the reactions. Some fiavonoids inhibited all of the reactions. While other fiayonolds stimulated 8, 9-epoxidation and inhibited 3$\alpha$-hydroxylation. Gestodene inhibited all of the reactions when gestodene was metabolized by human liver microsomal P450 3A4 prior to adding substrate. But, ges-todene was added in the enzyme mixtures in the presence of $AFB_1$, it could not inhibit 8, 9-epoxidation of $AFB_1$. Nifedipine and troleandomycin inhibited both of the reactions of $AFB_1$ but only 3$\alpha$-hydroxylation was inhibited by the oxidation product of nifedipine. Although, troleandomycin was known as a mechanism-based inhibitor, the chemical did not show any detectable inhibitory effect on 6$\beta$-hydroxylation of testosterone. The results suggest that there are several different substrate-binding sites on P450 3A4.

• BMB Reports
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.150-156
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• 1997

Tyrosinase was purified from Solanum melongena by ammonium sulfate precipitation, Sephadex G-150 and DEAE-Sephacel column chromatography. The molecular weight of the purified tyrosinase was approximately 88,600 daltons with 805 amino acid residues. The amino acid composition showed the characteristic high contents of glycine, glutamic acid and serine residues. The enzyme had high substrate specificity towards (+)-catechin. The $K_m$, value for L-DOPA was 20.8 mM. L-ascorbic acid, ${\beta}-mercapto-ethanol$, sodium diethyldithiocabamate, KCN and $NaN_3$ had strong inhibitory effects on enzyme activity. Sodium diethyldithiocabamate was a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme with a $K_i$ value of $5.2{\times}10^{-2}\;mM$. The optimum pH of the enzyme was 9.0 and the optimum temperature was $65^{\circ}C$ with L-DOPA as a substrate. In addition, the activity was enhanced by addition of $Ca^{+2}$ or $Cu^{+2}$, but decreased in the presence of $Fe^{2+},Fe^{3+}$ and $Zn^{2+}$ ions.

• BMB Reports
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.350-354
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• 1998

To understand the role of protein kinase C (PKC) in the regulation of chondrogenesis, we examined proteins which are phosphorylated by PKC. Stage 23/24 chick embryo wing mesenchymes were micromass-cultured to induce chondrogenesis and cell extracts were phosphorylated in a condition that activates PKC. Several proteins including 63 and 66 kDa proteins were phosphorylated. The 66 kDa protein was phosphorylated only in the presence of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) and phosphatidylserine CPS), and the phosphorylation was almost completely diminished by bisindolylmaleimide, a PKC inhibitor. In addition, partially purified PKC increased the phosphorylation of the 66 kDa protein. Treatment of cultures with lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) promoted chondrogenesis and phosphorylation of 66 kDa protein, while PMA and thymeleatoxin inhibited both of the two events. Our results suggest that the 66 kDa protein is a putative substrate of PKC, and phosphorylation of the 66 kDa protein, probably by $PKC\alpha$ is required for chondrogenesis.

• 대한화장품학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한화장품학회 2003년도 IFSCC Conference Proceeding Book I
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• pp.225-231
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• 2003

To search and development a new material with superior melanogenesis inhibitory activity, the bioactivities (obs. pl$_{50}$) of alkyl-3,4-dihydroxybenzoyl esters and N-alkyl-3,4-dihydroxybenz-oyl amides as substrate molecules were measured in mouse melanoma cells. And also, we have studied that 3-D QSARs (3 dimensional Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships) between molecular interaction field of substrates and the bioactivities were analyzed using CoMFA (Comparative Molecular Field Analyses) method. When cross-validation value (q$^2$) is 0.68 at 3 components, the Pearson correlation coefficient ($r^2$) is 0.900. From the basis on the findings, the model was appeared by the contour map such as steric field and electrostatic field relationships between quantitative structure and the bioactivity of the various substrate derivatives. Measured bioactivities (obs. pl$_{50}$) of unknown compounds are very similar to predicted activity (pred. pl$_{50}$) according to the CoMFA model. As the results of prediction, we could conclude that the bioactivities were increased by creation of R$_1$ substitution of 5,5-dime-thylhexoxy, 6,6-dimethylheptyl, 1-amino-6,6-dimethylheptyl group etc and R$_2$ substitution of hydroxy, methyl, methoxy group etc.p etc.

• BMB Reports
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.517-525
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• 2005

Solid phase peptide synthesis method, which was introduced by Merrifield in 1963, has spawned the concept of combinatorial chemistry. In this review, we summarize the present technologies of solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) that are related to combinatorial chemistry. The conventional methods of peptide library synthesis on polymer support are parallel synthesis, split and mix synthesis and reagent mixture synthesis. Combining surface chemistry with the recent technology of microelectronic semiconductor fabrication system, the peptide microarray synthesis methods on a planar solid support are developed, which leads to spatially addressable peptide library. There are two kinds of peptide microarray synthesis methodologies: pre-synthesized peptide immobilization onto a glass or membrane substrate and in situ peptide synthesis by a photolithography or the SPOT method. This review also discusses the application of peptide libraries for high-throughput bioassays, for example, peptide ligand screening for antibody or cell signaling, enzyme substrate and inhibitor screening as well as other applications.

• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.117-122
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• 2005

Polyphenoloxidase (PPO) was extracted from Solanum tuberosum Jasim by various chromatographic methods and was subsequently purified and characterized. PPO was purified upto 78-fold from the crude extract. SDS-PAGE profile of the enzyme showed a major subunit of PPO with molecular weight of 40 kDa. The optimum pH and temperature for the maximum activity of PPO was 6.5 and $25^{\circ}C$, respectively. The enzyme was found to be quite stable between 10 and $40^{\circ}C$, whereas it was almost inactivated at $70^{\circ}C$ when incubated for 30 min. Substrate specificity study indicated that catechol was the most suitable substrate for PPO isolated from purple-fleshed potato with a $K_m$ value of 21.1 mM. The most effective inhibitor was ascorbic acid, followed by L-cysteine, citric acid, EDTA, and boric acid. Studies on the effect of metal ion on PPO activity showed that magnesium and copper were inhibitory, while iron and zinc ions increased the activity of PPO.