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Antibacterial and anesthetic substances are extracted from sea anemones
Professor Park Nam-gyu
The research team of Prof. Park Nam-gyu of the Department of Biotechnology at Pukyong National University announced that it was the first to discover Crassicorin Ⅰ, a bioactive substance with both antibacterial and anesthetic properties in anemone. The research team separated and froze the digestive organ, pharynx tissue, from the live sea anemone purchased from Gijang-gun, Busan, and mixed the acetic acid solution in an appropriate ratio and heated it for a certain time. As a result, the research team confirmed that this prevents the activity of protease, and extracts the substance to have antibacterial and anesthetic effects. This research paper, written by Prof. Park as a correspondent author and Dr. Kim Chan-hee, who works together in his laboratory, has been published in the latest issue of the European Society of Biochemistry, 「The FEBS Journal」, ’Defensin-neurotoxin dyad in a basally branching metazoan sea anemone’.
Prof. Park explained, "Because this new substance is a protein in vivo, it has the advantage of not being toxic like a chemical antibiotic and decomposing well in the body. It can be used as an alternative to antibiotics and substances that have anesthetic and analgesic effects." Since 2013, as part of the next-generation core environmental technology development project conducted under the auspices of the Ministry of Environment and Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI), Prof. Park’s research team has been steadily researched on the use of harmful organisms such as sea anemones, starfish and jellyfish, which are destroying coastal ecosystems and overgrowing due to abnormal temperatures, and research to secure species of domestic marine life. 기사 바로가기(클릭!)
19 September 2017