Studies on the Protoplast Formation of Cellulomonas flavigena and its Observations under Scanning Electron Microscope

Cellulomonas flarigena의 원형질체 형성과 주사전자현미경적 연구

In order to develope a protoplast fusion of the genus Cellulomonas having high assimilibility of cellulose, the optimum conditions for the protoplast formation of Cellulomonas flavigena NCIB 12901 was investigated and observed by means of Scanning Electron Microscope. The results suggested that the susceptibility of the cell wall by lysozyme treatment on protoplast formation was considerably depend on the cultural periods of the cells. Cells of C. flavigena at mid exponential phase could more efficiently convert to protoplast cells than those at late exponential phase did. The rate of the protoplast formation was 95%, even though the rate was over 99.9% on counting by indirect method after osmotic shock treatment, when cells of the organism at mid exponential phase were treated with lysozyme (400$\mu\textrm{g}$/$m{\ell}$) for 6 hours and observed by SEM. In the evaluation of protoplast formation of the genus Cellulomonas, direct method of the observation under Scanning Electron Microscope was much more reliable than the counting method of protplasts after osmotic shock treatment. Because defferences between the number of spheroplast and protoplast were not able to be figured out on counting the number of protoplast after osmotic shock treatment.

Cellulose분해력이 높은 Cellulomonas flavigena NCIB 12901의 원형질체 융합을 위한 원형질체의 형성조건을 조사하여 본 결과 배양기간에 따라 원형질체의 형성율이 매우 달라져 대수증식기 말기보다는 중기때의 세포를 lysozyme처리하는 것이 더 효율적이며 lysozyme 400$\mu\textrm{g}$/$m{\ell}$ 농도로 6시간처리 하여 95% 이상이 형성됨을 관찰할 수 있었다. 또한 원형질체 형성확인법으로 osmotic shock에 의한 원형질체 계수법은 spheroplast의 형성과 원형질체의 형성이 구별되어 지지 않으므로 그 결과가 전자현미경상으로 직접 관찰된 결과와 일치하지 않는 경우가 있어 전자현미경으로의 관찰이 뒤따라야 하는 것을 알 수 있었다.