• BMB Reports
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.426-430
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• 1997

The helical periodicity of the triple-stranded $(dT)_n{\cdot}(dA)_n{\cdot}(dT)_n$ sequence was determined by measuring gel-mobilities of bent DNA fragments containing the sequence. In the bent DNA fragments, a $GA_{22}G$ $CT_{22}C$ sequence was located between two bent DNA loci composed of six $A_{6}{\cdot}T_{6}$ repeats. and the DNA length between the bent DNA loci was varied by 1 base pair over a full helical turn. The gel mobility of each bent DNA fragment reflected the overall extent of DNA bending and varied with the DNA length between the two bent loci. Mobilities of the bent DNA fragments in 5% polyacrylamide gel were measured after preincubating the DNA fragments both in the presence and absence of $CT_{22}C$ oligonucleotide. By comparing the bent DNA fragments containing an intermolecular triplex structure with those of a genuine duplex structure in the gel mobilities, the helical periodicity of the $T_n{\cdot}A_n{\cdot}T_n$ triplex DNA was determined to be $11.5({\pm}0.3)bp/turn$.

• Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.479-486
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• 1993

This study was attempted co develope a method for detection of Theileria sergenti infection on the basis of hybridization of parasite DNA with a probe. For construction of a T sergenti genomic library, T sergenti DNA was digested completely with Bam-HI and the fragments were ligated into the Bam-HI site of pUC-19 before transformation of Escherichia colistrain JM83. To detect clones containing the parasite's DNA sequences, a genomic DNA library of T sergenti constructed in pUC-19 was screened by cracking and Southern hybridization. Seven colonies were chosen from 29 colonies which were screened by transformation of Escherichia coli strain JM83. Seven transformants were comfirmed from seven colonies by cracking. The sizes of transformants were about 5Kb, 5.7Kb, 4.3Kb, 7.75Kb, 7.85Kb, 5.8Kb, 3.8Kb, respectively. DNA inserts, T sergenti DNA, and bovine DNA were hybridized with radio-labelled T sergenti DNA. Two($pT_1$, $pT_1$) of the seven inserts and T sergenti DNA reacted strongly but another 5 inserts and bovine DNA showed weak reation. All of the DNA inserts were not reaction, but T sergenti DNA were very weakly and bovine DNA were strongly reacted to hybridization with radio-labelled bovine DNA. Therefore, we obtained total 7 T sergenti DNA fragments in this study.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.38.1-38.6
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• 2019

DNA methylation is a relatively stable epigenetic modification that can regulate and stabilize gene expression patterns and hence establish cell identity. Because metabolic intermediates are key factors of DNA methylation and demethylation, perturbations in metabolic homeostasis can trigger alterations in cell-specific patterns of DNA methylation and contribute to disease development, including type 2 diabetes (T2D). During the past decade, genome-wide DNA methylation studies of T2D have expanded our knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying T2D. This review summarizes case-control studies of the DNA methylome of T2D and discusses DNA methylation as both a cause and consequence of T2D. Therefore, DNA methylation has potential as a promising T2D biomarker that can be applied to the development of therapeutic strategies for T2D.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.185-192
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• 1996

Bacteriophage T7 gene 2.5 protein, a single-stranded DNA binding protein, is required for T7 DNA replication, recombination, and repair. T7 gene 2.5 protein has two distinctive domains, DNA binding and C-terminal domain, directly involved in protein-protein interaction. Gene 2.5 protein participates in the DNA replication of Bacteriophage T7, which makes this protein essential for the T7 growth and DNA replication. What gene 2.5 protein makes important at T7 growth and DNA replication is its binding affinity to single-stranded DNA and the protein-protein important at T7 DNA replication proteins which are essential for the T7 DNA synthesis. We have constructed pGST2.5(WT) encoding the wild-type gene 2.5 protein and pGST2.5$\Delta $21C lacking C-terminal 21 amino acid residues. The purified GST-fusion proteins, GST2.5(WT) and GST2.5(WT)$\Delta$21C, were used for whether the carboxyl-terminal domain participates in the protein-protein interactions or not. GST2.5(WT) and GST2.5$\Delta$21C showed the difference in the protein-protein interaction. GST2.5(WT) interacted with T7 DNA polymerase and gene 4 protein, but GST2.5$\Delta$21C did not interact with either protein. Secondly, GST2.5(WT) interacts with gene 4 proteins (helicase/primase) but not GST2.5$\Delta$21C. these results proved the involvement of the carboxyl-terminal domain of gene 2.5 protein in the protein-protein interaction. We clearly conclude that carboxy-terminal domain of gene 2.5 protein is firmly involved in protein-protein interactions in T7 replication proteins.

• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.29-36
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• 1997

한국산 기름종개속 어류중 Cobitis taenia complex의 집단간 유전적 차이에 따른 종 분화 여부를 밝히고자 6개 집단을 대상으로 mitochondrial DNA(mtDNA)의 RFLP분석을 실 시하였다. C. taenia complex mtDNA를 10개의 6-base cutting 제한효소로 처리한 다음 그 절편 양상을 비교, 분석한 결과 6개 집단 공히 mtDNA 의 전체 genome 크기는 약 17.0$\pm$ 0.5Kbp였으며 공동절편수(F)에서 C. t. taenia 2개집단과 C. t. stria와 C. t. lutheri 4개 집단 간의 F값은 평균 0.263으로 차이가 있었으나, C. t. striata 와 C. t. lutheri 사이는 F=0.569로 가깝게 나타났다. 염기치환율 (p)에 있어 C. t. taenia는 C. t. striata 및 C. t. lutheri와 평균 p=0.082로 뚜렷한 종간차이를 보였으나, C. t. striata와 C. t. lutheri 집단들은 p=0.033으로 매우 가까운 유사성을 나타내었다. MtDNA 분석결과 C. taenia complex 중 C. t. taenia는 완전히 종분화가 이루어진 별종으로, C. t. striata와 C. t. lutherisms 아직 종수준의 분화가 이루어지지 않은 아종으로 분류함이 타당하다고 사료된다.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.194-208
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• 1993

DNA 복제시 중추적 단백질은 DNA 합성을 수행하는 DNA polymerase이다. 따라서 DNA polymerase의 구조 및 기능에 대한 연구는 DNA polymerase의 중합반응에 대한 기작을 비롯하여 교정 및 수선기능에 대한 정보를 얻게 함으로써 복잡한 DNA 복제 기적을 이해하는 첩경이 된다. Bacteriophage T7의 Gene 5 단백질은 T7 DNA polymerase로 Richardson group에 의해 처음으로 발견되었으며, E. coli의 12 KDa thioredoxin과 tight complex를 형성한다. T7 DNA polymerase의 클로닝은 분자생물학의 새로운 장을 열어준 중요한 의미를 지닌다 . 본 연구에서는 T7 DNA polymerase의 구조적, 기능적 특성을 파악하고 DNA 염기서열 분석에의 응용 및 DNA 염기서열 결정을 위한 새로운 전략 및 최근연구 동향에 대해 기술하였다.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.67-76
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• 2002

The effect of transgene inactivation in T2, T3 and F2 generations was analyzed in progeny seedlings which had been generated by Agrobacterium (LBA4404/pBI121)-mediated transformation in Arabidopsis thaliana. In a system which investigated in the expression of $\beta$-glucuronidase(GUS)gene in kanamycin-resistant (ke $n^{R}$)seedlings, GUS inactivated seedlings were observed in 5 of 12 tested lines of T2 generation and the frequency of GUS inactivation was approximately 2.3%. Lines with multi-copies of T-DNA exhibited severe GUS gene inactivation with the frequency of 5.8% in T2 generation. In T3 generation lines exhibited GUS gene inactivation with the frequency of 1.3%. In contrast, inactivation increased dramatically up to 12.6% in multi-copy T-DNA line. A similar phenomenon was also found in F2 progeny from a transgenic line which had been crossed with wild-type Arabidopsis plant, WS-O (GUS gene inactivation frequency 9.9%). These results indicate that the foreign gene introduced into the plant was inactivated progressively in its transmission during subsequent generations and the transgenic line with multi-copies of T-DNA tended to show more increased inactivation.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.66-75
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• 2018

This paper is the second part of the January 2018 issue of the Korean Society for Engineering Education, The "Equilibrium and Unbalance Analysis of Taegeuk Pattern DNA Matrix Codes," and is an extension of the paper published in the IoT Section of the 2017 Summer Conference in Jeju. In this paper, we have reviewed the history of what is life, and 5G Mobile communication: with IoT followed by recent research on influenza RNA gene mutation and DNA mutation variants, and the insights of Watson and Crick. Inspired by a single Franklin DNA X-ray diffraction photograph, they received the Nobel Prize for the Nature publication of DNA that has three patterns and regular repeatability. Professor MoonHo Lee has solved the three patterns in Diagonal, Left to Right, and Vertical matrices in a 2x2 matrix[CU; AG] and A = T = U = 30% C = G = 20%. We also proposed DNA Watch. This is the Healthcare IoT, which is seen by the DNA Watch on the wrist, the type of Tai Chi pattern of the body, and is immediately connected to the smartphone and delivered to the doctor.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.131-140
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• 2004

T7 bacteriophage gp4 is the replicative DNA helicase that unwinds double-stranded DNA by utilizing dTTP hydrolysis energy. The quaternary structure of the active form of T7 helicase is a hexameric ring with a central channel. Single-stranded DNA passes through the central channel of the hexameric ring as the helicase translocates $5'\rightarrow3'$ along the single-stranded DNA. The DNA unwinding was measured by rapid kinetic methods and showed a lag before the single-stranded DNA started to accumulate exponentially. This behavior was analyzed by a kinetic stepping model for the unwinding process. The observed lag phase increased as predicted by the model with increasing double-stranded DNA length. Trap DNA added in the reaction had no effect on the amplitudes of double-stranded DNA unwound, indicating that the $\tau7$ helicase is a highly processive helicase. Global fitting of the kinetic data to the stepping model provided a kinetic step size of 10-11 bp/step with a rate of $3.7 s^{-1}$ per step. Both the mechanism of DNA unwinding and dTTP hydrolysis and the coupling between the two are unaffected by temperature from $4∼37^{\circ}C$. Thus, the kinetic stepping for dsDNA unwinding is an inherent property of tile replicative DNA helicase.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.229-237
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• 1983

Total tRNA genes from Aspergillus nidulans were cloned for the further investigation of the structure and expression of Aspergillus tRNA genes. Aspergillus DNA was isolated from spores and cloned into pBR322 plasmid DNA using BamHI and $T_4$ ligase. The recombinant hybrid DNA was transformed into E. coli HB101 and some 30,000 transformants were initially selected. Of these, about 5,300 E. coli clones containing Aspergillus DNA inserted into plasmid pBR322 at BamHl site have been isolated. The hybridization data obtained from the labeled Aspergillus $^{32}P-tRNA$ indicated that 105 colonies carried the total tRNA genes. From the data above and cohybridization experiment, tRNA genes of Aspergillus nidulans seem to be twice more clustered than those of yeast.