• 한국식품위생안전성학회지
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.356-360
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 강한 내열성을 가지는 비병원성 Bacillus atrophaeus, Bacillus subtilis, Geobacillus stearothermophilus 포자의 열 저항성을 분석하여 레토르트 식품 제조 시 직접적인 멸균 여부 판정에 사용 가능성을 평가하고자 하였다. B. subtilis 포자의 D₁₂₁-value는 2.9±0.1분이었으며, Zvalue는 43.0±1.4℃로 나타났다. G. stearothermophilus 포자의 D₁₂₁-value는 4.3±0.1분이었으며, Z-value는 25.0±1.6℃로 나타났다. B. atrophaeus 포자의 D₁₂₁-value는 3.7±0.1분이었으며, Z-value는 35.8±1.4℃로 나타났다. B. subtilis, G stearothermophilus와 B. atrophaeus 포자의 D₁₂₁-value는 모두 레토르트 식품 멸균 확인에 사용되는 C. botulinum 포자의 D₁₂₁-value 보다 높은 값을 나타내었다. 이러한 결과를 종합하여 볼 때 레토르트 식품 멸균 시 병원성 포자형성균인 C. botulinum 대신 B. subtilis, G. stearothermophilus, B. atrophaeus 포자를 사용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 또한 기존 세균발육 실험에 소요되는 13일보다 단시간인 2-3일에 멸균 여부를 확인할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 식물병연구
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.234-238
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• 2002

Bacillus stearothermophilus YC4l94는 in vitro 와 in vivo 에서 병원균 Pythium aphanidermatum에 대한 억제 효과를 보였다 in vitro 실험에서 P. aphanidermatum의 유주포자낭 형성과 피낭포자 발아를 억제하였을 뿐 아니라 식물체에 적접 길항균 제제 처리 시 50% 이상의 방제가를 보였다. 그리고 다른 화학 살균제와 비슷한 방제효과를 보여 미생물 제제로서의 개발 가능성을 보여주었다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.349-354
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• 1985

Plasmid pBR322와 runaway Plasmid pSY343을 vector로 사용하여 E. stearothermophilus IAM 11062내의 $\alpha$-amylase 유전자를 E. coli내에 클로닝 하였다. 이때 얻어진 $\alpha$-amylase유전자는 제한효소 Hind III의 말단을 갖고 있는 4.7kb의 크기였으며 E. coli내에서 이들 유전자는 비교적 안정적 있게 유지되고 발현되었다. 재조합 $\alpha$-amylase유전자가 클로닝된 E. coli는 B. stearothermophilus IAM 11062보다 3배의 $\alpha$-amylase를 더 많이 생성하였다. EDTA를 사용한 osmotic shock 방법에 의하여 E. coli내에서 생성된 $\alpha$-amylase는 그 효소 생성량의 75%정도가 periplasm에 존재함이 밝혀졌다. 재조합된 $\alpha$-amylase 유전자에 의해서 E. coli에서 생성된 $\alpha$-amylase는 최적 작용온도가 55$^{\circ}C$로서 이들의 열안정성과 분자량(61,000)도 B. stearothermophilus IAM 11062의 $\alpha$-amylase와 거의 동일하게 나타나 E. coli와 B. stearothermophilus IAM 11062에서 생성된 $\alpha$-amylase는 효소학적 성질이 같음을 보여주었다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.599-606
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• 1994

Bacillus stearothermomophilus, a strong xylan degrader, was confirmed to express multiple esterase activities in addition to the major xylanolytic enzymes. One of the genes encoding the esterases was isolated from the genomic library of B. stearothermophilus constructed with EcoRl restriction endonuclease and pBR322 plasmid. Three recombinant plasmids showing the tributyrin degrading activity were selected from approximately 7, 000 E. coli HB101 transformants, and were found to have the same insert of a 3.2 kb DNA fragment. Restriction mapping and hybridization studies revealed that the gene(estII) on the hybrid plasmid (pKMG7) had originated from the B. stearothermophilus chromosome, and was distinct from the estl, another esterase gene of B. stearothermophilus isolated in the previous work. The E. coli cells harboring pKMG7 produced an acetylxylan esterase that exibited similar substrate specificity to the esterase encoded by the estI gene.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.293-297
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• 2002

효모 S. cerevisiae에서 B. stearothermophilus 유래의 CGTase를 발현 생산하였으며, 분비, 생산된 단백질을 정제하여 그 특성을 조사하였다. 재조합 효모 S. cerevisiae 2805/pVT- CGTS가 생산하는 CGTase의 분자량은 효모에서 발현될 때 고당쇄가 부가되어 야생형의 68kDa에 비해 15-160% 증가된 약 78-178 kDa으로 나타났다. 효모 S. cerevisiae에서 발현된 CGTase의 효소반응 최적활성조건은 pH7.0, $65^{\circ}C$였고, 열안정성에 있어서 $75^{\circ}C$에서 약 90%의 잔존활성을 가질 정도로 내열성이 개선되었다. 효모 S. cerevisiae에서 발현된 CGTase는 5% soluble starch를 기질로 약 40.2%의 CD 전환율 및 3 : 6 : 1의 $\alpha$-, $\beta$-, ${\gamma}$-CD의 생산 비율을 나타내어 야생형과 별다른 변화가 없었다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.297-302
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• 1998

Bacillus stearothermophilus No.236 xylB 유전자가 삽입된 재조합 플라스미드 pKMG12를 가지고 있는 E. coli HB101 균주를 이용하여 B. stearothermophilus $\beta$-xylosidase B을 생산, 정제하고 효소의 일반특성을 조사하였다. Ammonuim sulfate 분획, DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B 이온 교환 크로마토그래피, Sephacryl S-200 및 Superdex 200HR 젤 크로마토그래피의 과정을 거쳐 정제하였으며 정제된 효소는 SDS-PAGE 및 zymogram 실험을 통해 $\beta$-xylosidase B의 단백질임을 확인하였다. 정제 $\beta$-xylosidase B는 반응액의 수소이온 농도와 온도에 매우 민감하며 최적 활성 pH 및 온도는 각각 pH 6.5와 $50^{\circ}C$로 결정되었다. $\beta$-Xylosidase 활성은 1 mM $Mn^{2+}$ 첨가에 의해 약 35% 활성화됨을 보였으나 $Ag^{+}$, $Cu^{2+}$ 및 $Hg^{2+}$ 등의 중금속이온의 존재하에서는 거의 완전한 저해를 나타내었다. 또한 본 효소는 비록 높지는 않으나 $\alpha$-arabinofuranosidase 활성도 가지고 있어 B. stearothermophilus No 236의 $\beta$-xylosidase A 효소 보다 최소한 arabinoxylan의 분해에 있어서 더 우수한 효소로 판단되며 o-nitrophenyl-$\beta$-D-xylopyranoside 기질에 대한 $K_{m}$ 값과 $V_{max}$ 값은 각각 6.43 mM과 $1.45\mu$mole/min 로 계산되었다. 한편, $\beta$-xylosidase B 분자량은 gel 여과법으로는 약 160 kDa, 그리고 SDS-PAGE에 의해서는 약 54 kDa로 측정되어 본 효소는 trimer의 구조를 가지고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.687-690
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• 1999

Bacillus stearothermophilus No. 236 isolated from the soil is a strong xylan degrader producing all the xylanolytic enzymes. However, the strain was discovered to be highly intractable to its transformation. In the present study, we have developed a reliable method for transformation of B. stearothermophilus No. 236 by a systematic examination of several factors which might have an influence on the efficiency of electrotransformation. Notably, we found that the most critical factor influencing the transformation efficiency (TE) was the incubation temperature after pulsing, with its optimum incubation of $37^{\circ}C.\; At\; 50^{\circ}C$, the optimum growth temperature of the B. stearothermophilus strain, the transformants could not be obtained at a recognizable level. The combination of field strength of 7.5 kV/cm along with pulse duration of 10 msec (resistance of $400{\Omega}\; and\; capacitance\; of\; 25{\mu}F$) was shown to be the best electrical parameters at the incubation temperature of $37^{\circ}$. A higher TE was obtained when the cells were harvested at an early-exponential phase. Twenty percent of PEG-8000 in a suspension buffer and an addition of 0.1% glycine in the growth medium resulted in about 4-fold and 3-fold increases in TE, respectively. We also found that the plasmid DNA which had been cycled through the host B. stearothermophilus cells enhanced TE by one order of magnitude higher. Under the presently described conditions, $2.5{\times}10^{5} transformants per ${\mu}g$ DNA was attained.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.331-335
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• 1996

The second $\beta$-Xylosidase gene (xylB) from Bacillus stearothermophilus was isolated from the genomic library, cloned into pBR322, and subsequently transferred into Escherichia coli HB101. Six out of 10, 000 transformants were selected from the selective LB medium supplemented with p-nitrophenyl-$\alpha$-L-arabinofuranoside (pNPAf) and ampicillin ($50\mu g$/ml) based on their ability to form a yellow ring around the colony. One of the clones was found to harbor the recombinant plasmid with 5.0 kb foreign DNA, which was identical to the $\alpha$-L-arabinofuranosidase gene (arfI) previously cloned in this lab, while the other five had 3.5 kb of the foreign DNA. Southern blotting experiments confirmed that the 3.5 kb insert DNA was from B. stearothermophilus chromosomal DNA. A zymogram with 4-methylumbelliferyl-$\alpha$-L-arabinofuranoside as the enzyme substrate revealed that the cloned gene product was one of the mutiple $\alpha$-L-arabinofuranosidases produced by B. stearothermophilus. Unlike the arfI gene product, the product of the gene on the insert DNA (xylB) showed an activity not only on pNPAf but also on oNPX suggesting that the cloned gene product could be a bifunctional enzyme having both $\alpha$-L-arabinofuranosidase and $\beta$-xylosidase activities.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.385-392
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• 1996

Bacillus stearotheymophilus, a potent xylanolytic bacterium isolated from soil, was tested for the strain's strategies of pentose utilization and the evidence of substrate preferences. The strain metabolized glucose, xylose, ribose, maltose, cellobiose, sucrose, arabinose and xylitol. The efficacy of the sugars as a carbon and energy source in this strain was of the order named above. The organism, however, could not grow on glycerol as a sole growth substrate. During cultivation on a mixture of glucose and xylose or arabinose, the major hydrolytic products of xylan, B. stearothermophilus displayed classical diauxic growth in which glucose was utilized during the first phase. On the other hand, the pentose utilization was prevented immediately upon addition of glucose. Cellobiose was preferred over xylose or arabinose. In contrast, maltose and pentose were co-utilized, and also no preference on between xylose and arabinose. Enzymatic studies indicated that B. stearothermophilus possessed constitutive hexokinase, a key enzyme of the glucose metabolic system. While, the production of $^{D}$-xylose isomerase, $^{D}$-xylulokinase and $^{D}$-arabinose isomerase essential for pentose phosphate pathway were induced by xylose, xylan, and xylitol but repressed by glucose. Taken together, the results suggested that the sequential utilization of B. stearothermophilus would be mediated by catabolite regulatory mechanisms such as catabolite inhibition or inducer exclusion.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2000년도 추계학술발표대회 및 bio-venture fair
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• pp.56-59
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• 2000

Thermophilic bacterium, Bacillus stearothermophilus NUB3621, was engineered to produce ethanol from glucose by introducing cloned thermostable pyruvate decarboxylase and alcohol dehydrogenase genes. A novel promoter sequence was screened and used for the enhancement of these two enzymes. Successful redirection of metabolic flux into ethanol was obtained. In addition, gene expression profiling using Bacillus subtilis DNA microarray was analyzed to overcome the intrinsic low glucose utilization of B.stearothermophilus. Many known and unknown genes were identified to be up or down regulated under glucose-containing media.