• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.1539-1543
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• 2015

Background: Uroplakins have been widely investigated as potential markers in patients with bladder cancer because these proteins are specific to the urothelium. However, the role of uroplakin proteins in bladder cancer remains unknown. In this study, preoperative serum levels of uroplakin III were measured in patients with urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder and examined for possible association with clinicopathological features and clinical outcomes. Materials and Methods: This study included 52 bladder cancer patients at various stages and 28 healthy controls. Uroplakin III levels were detected in preoperative sera using an automated dot blot system and a micro-dot blot array. Results: There was a significant increase in serum uroplakin III levels in patients with bladder cancer as compared to healthy controls (p<0.05). In addition, serum uroplakin III levels were associated with muscle-invasive status, high grade and lymphovascular invasion (p<0.02). Log-rank tests indicated high serum uroplakin III to be significantly associated with cancer-specific mortality. Conclusions: Determination of serum uroplakin III level could be valuable for identifying patients with biologically aggressive bladder cancer.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제43권12호
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• pp.975-988
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• 2020

Hypoxia plays important roles in cancer progression by inducing angiogenesis, metastasis, and drug resistance. However, the effects of hypoxia on long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) expression have not been clarified. Herein, we evaluated alterations in lncRNA expression in lung cancer cells under hypoxic conditions using lncRNA microarray analyses. Among 40,173 lncRNAs, 211 and 113 lncRNAs were up- and downregulated, respectively, in both A549 and NCI-H460 cells. Uroplakin 1A (UPK1A) and UPK1A-antisense RNA 1 (AS1), which showed the highest upregulation under hypoxic conditions, were selected to investigate the effects of UPK1A-AS1 on the expression of UPK1A and the mechanisms of hypoxia-inducible expression. Following transfection of cells with small interfering RNA (siRNA) targeting hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α), the hypoxia-induced expression of UPK1A and UPK1A-AS1 was significantly reduced, indicating that HIF-1α played important roles in the hypoxia-induced expression of these targets. After transfection of cells with UPK1A siRNA, UPK1A and UPK1A-AS1 levels were reduced. Moreover, transfection of cells with UPK1A-AS1 siRNA downregulated both UPK1A-AS1 and UPK1A. RNase protection assays demonstrated that UPK1A and UPK1A-AS1 formed a duplex; thus, transfection with UPK1A-AS1 siRNA decreased the RNA stability of UPK1A. Overall, these results indicated that UPK1A and UPK1A-AS1 expression increased under hypoxic conditions in a HIF-1α-dependent manner and that formation of a UPK1A/UPK1A-AS1 duplex affected RNA stability, enabling each molecule to regulate the expression of the other.

• 한국동물번식학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국동물번식학회 2001년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.19-19
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• 2001

Mammalian urothelium undergoes unique membrane specialization by making the asymmetric unit membrane (AUM) that is covered with the apical cell surface during terminal differentiation. The AUM contains several major integral membrane proteins including uroplakin Ia, Ib, II and III. The genes for uroplakins have been cloned from humans and mice, but not from porcine. In this study, we report the cloning of the UPII genomic DNA, which codes for the full length open reading frame for the uroplakin II protein. The deduced amino acid sequence encodes of a hydrophobic NH$_2$-terminal peptide, a prosequence, and a mature protein. The prosequence contains three potential N-glycosylation sites and a RGRR cleavage site that may be involved in uroplakin II processing and maturation. Northern and immunohistochemistry analyses showed that the porcine UPII gene is only expressed in urothelium and that the protein was specifically localized in urothelial superficial cells. A 2kb of upstream in the promoter sequence contains multiple transcription factor binding sites, including GC-box, SPI, AP2, and GATA-box sites, but not for TATA or CAAT-box sequences. Comparison of the porcine UPII promoter sequence with that of the murine by MEME system presented two conserved motifs, suggesting a cis-acting regulatory role for the conserved sequences. Sequence homology between two species in motif A and B was 79% and 80% respectively, although their relative locations were different. During the gestation, mouse bladder at estrus stages and day 10 after parturition showed higher UPII expression, while showed lower expression at peri-implantation stage. Taken together, our results showed that the porcine UPII gene was expressed highly and specifically in the bladder urothelium and that steroid hormones for implantation changed the expression of UPII in the bladder, although the biological significance of UPII remains to be not determined.

• 한국동물번식학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국동물번식학회 2004년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.194-194
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• 2004

Tissue-specific expression of the desired gene product in the targrt tissue is central to the concept of bioreactor. One approach is to use a tissue-specific promoter to drive desired gene. To investigate the feasibility of tissue-specific gene expression for bladder using the porcine uroplakin(UPII) promoter and its transcriptional control the efficacy of this promoter as well as well as fragments in regulating gene expression were cell lines using DNA transfection. (omitted)

• 한국동물번식학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국동물번식학회 2002년도 춘계학술발표대회 발표논문초록집
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• pp.90-90
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• 2002

In this study, we report the cloning of the porcine UPII genomic DNA, which contains a putative full-length open reading frame encoding the UPII protein. A comparison of the porcine UPII gene coding sequence with the previously published mouse UPII sequence demonstrates that only the exon sequences are partially conserved. Northern and immunohistochemical analyses show that the porcine UPII gene is expressed only in the urothelium and that the protein specifically localizes to urothelial superficial cells. (omitted)

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2017년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.700-703
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• 2017

베큘로바이러스 벡터가 uroplakin II promoter, polyhedron promoter, vesicular stomatitis virus G (VSVG), enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP), protein transduction domain (PTD) 등의 유전자로 재조합 되었다. 이렇게 재조합된 베큘로바이러스 벡터들은 여러가지 세포주에 감염을 시켰다. 우리는 이 재조합 벡터와 다른 대조 벡터를 비교하여 유전자 전달과 유전자 발현을 비교하였다. 그 결과 이 재조합 베큘로바이러스 벡터는 대조 벡터에 비하여 유전자 전달과 유전자 발현의 효율이 우수한 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국동물번식학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국동물번식학회 2003년도 학술발표대회 발표논문초록집
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• pp.43-43
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• 2003

This study was conducted to produce transgenic pig harboring human tissue plasminogene activator (tPA) gene. Two different tPA genes containing bovine $\beta$-casein promoter and mouse uroplakin promoter were prepared for microinjection and confirmed the expression level of tPA protein from the CHO (Chinese hamster ovary) cell lines by gene transfection. Concentration of tPA expression from the six cell lines (all of CHO cells) were average 212.4 ng/ml. Reconstructed DNA to used the CHO cell were microinjected into the pronuclei of in vivo embryos The total of 2,307 zygotes were collected from 95 donors and 1,851 embryos were in 1-cell stage which were visualized the pronuclei for DNA microinjection. The concentration of linear DNA was 2.0 ng per microliter and injected into zygotes with two pronuclei on an inverted Nikon microscope equipped with narishige micromanipulator and modulation contrast optics. The 541 embryos injected with bovine $\beta$-casein promoter-tPA were transferred to 22 recipients. The 1,154 embryos injected with mouse uroplakin promoter-tPA were transferred to 51 recipients. Sixty nine offspring from 9 delivered sows were produced. We analysed the transgenes with PCR methods from 69 offsprings, but could not detect the PCR product from piglet tails DNA.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2018년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.444-447
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• 2018

Baculovirus 발현 시스템은 박테리아 발현 시스템, 특히 복잡한 번역 후 변형을 필요로 하는 것과 비교하여 다량의 재조합 단백질을 생성하는 빠르고 비용 효율적인 방법을 포함하는 많은 알려진 장점을 갖는다. 특히 재조합 baculovirus는 광범위한 포유류 세포 유형에서 벡터를 전달하고 재조합 단백질을 발현 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 pcDNA3.1로부터 재구성된 baculovirus 벡터를 사용하였는데 이 벡터는 cytomegalovirus (CMV) 프로모터, uroplakin II promoter, polyhedron promoter, 수포 구내염 바이러스 G (VSVG), 녹색 형광 단백질 (EGFP), 단백질 전달 도메인 (PTD) 유전자 등 다양한 유전자들로 재조합 되어 개발되었다. 이러한 재구성 된 벡터를 다양한 세포 및 세포주에 감염시켰다. 이렇게 개발된 baculovirus 벡터는 재조합된 유전자들의 전이성 및 발현성을 기존의 일반적인 벡터와 비교하여 분석하였다. 본 연구결과로 이렇게 개발된 baculovirus 벡터는 기존의 대조군 벡터보다 전이성 및 발현성면에서 더 높은 효율을 갖는다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2018년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.588-591
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• 2018

Baculovirus는 원래 알팔파 루퍼 (looper)로부터 분리되었으며 154 개의 오픈 리딩 프레임 (ORF)을 가진 134-kbp 게놈을 포함하고 있다. 주요 캡시드 단백질 VP39는 약간의 단백질과 함께 p6.9 단백질로 DNA를 감싸는 뉴클레오 캡시드($21nm{\times}260nm$)로 형성된다. 그것들은 막대 모양의 캡시드 안에 이중 가닥의 고리 모양의 슈퍼 코일 DNA 분자이다. 야생형 baculovirus는 용균 및 폐색 된 생명주기를 모두 나타내며 바이러스 복제의 3 단계에 걸쳐 독립적으로 발달한다. 재조합 baculovirus는 광범위한 포유류 세포 유형에서 벡터를 전달하고 재조합 단백질을 발현 할 수 있다. 특히, 이들 baculovirus 벡터에 우세한 선별 마커를 포함시킴으로써 많은 세포에서 다양한 재조합 유전자를 발현시킬 수 있다. 본 연구의 배큘로 바이러스 벡터는 cytomegalovirus (CMV) 프로모터, uroplakin II promoter, polyhedron promoter, 수포 구내염 바이러스 G (VSVG), 녹색 형광 단백질 (EGFP), 단백질 전달 도메인 (PTD) 유전자 등으로 재구성되었다. 이러한 재구성 된 벡터를 다양한 세포 및 세포주에 감염시켰다. 우리는 다른 재조합 벡터와 비교하여 이러한 재조합 벡터의 전이 및 발현을 조사하는 수행하였다. 본 연구에서, 우리는 이 재조합 벡터의 형질 감염 및 발현이 어떤 대조군 벡터보다 더 높은 효능을 갖는다는 것을 알았다. 본 연구는 과학 기술부, 한국 정보 기술 진흥 기금 (MSIP)이 후원하는 한국 연구 재단 (NRF)을 통해 중견 연구원 프로그램 (NRF-2016R1A2B4016552)을 통해 지원되었다.