• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.108-114
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• 1992

The fermentative characteristics in ethanol production from lactose, with increased ethanol tolerance, of a fusant yeast strain constructed by protoplast fusion of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Kluyveromyces fragilis were studied. The ethanol tolerance of this strain was increased to 8.0%, compared with the parent K. fragilis. During batch ethanol fermentation the optimal cultivation conditions for this fusant yeast were an initial pH of 4.5, a culture temperature $30^\circ{C}$. stirring at 100 rpm without aeration in 10% lactose medium (supplied with 1.0% yeast extract). Using this fusant strain in whey fermentation to ethanol, maximum ethanol production reached 3.41% (w/v) (theoretical yield; 66.7%) after a 48 hour cultivation period.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.622-627
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• 1993

Rhodospirillum rubrum P17 was used to investigate the pontential for the treatment of soybean curd waste and for the utilization of the biomass produced. The maximal biomass production and COD removal from the waste water were obtained at 30C, pH 7.0 under 2,500lux production and 50 rpm of agitation. The initial COD level of the soybean curd waste water was 3,240mg/l, and after 4 days of cultivation in batch culture, 3.46g/l of cells was obtained and COD level of the waste water reduced to 150mg/l (COD removal rate 95.4%).

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.230-233
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• 2011

To determine the cost-effectiveness of converting fish waste into liquid fertilizer, this study analyzed the production of 3 L of liquid fertilizer from the fermentation of fish waste. The total product cost of the fertilizer was calculated to be $165.26 for a one-batch operation. If the seed culture was repeated five times, the total product cost could be reduced to $36.39/L. According to this analysis, the reutilization of fish waste as liquid fertilizer was not particularly economically attractive at present, and plant-scale production would be necessary for commercialization. This is the first cost-effectiveness analysis of the bioconversion of fish waste into liquid fertilizer.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.197-202
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• 1995

The conditions for the $\beta$-fructofuranosidase production from alkalophilic, thermophilic Bacillus sp. TA-11 were investigated. The maximal enzyme production was obtained when the strain was cultured at 50$\circ$C for 36 hrs with batch culture in the optimal medium containing 1.0% sucrose, 0.6% yeast extract, 0.1% each of KH$_{2}$PO$_{4}$, K$_{2}$HP0$_{4}$, NaH$_{2}$PO$_{4}$, and initial pH 9.5, and the final enzyme activity under the above condition was 102 units per ml of cell free extract.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.1053-1056
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• 2011

Optimal conditions for a high cell density fermentation were investigated in a recombinant Escherichia coli producing salmosin, a platelet aggregation inhibitor. The optimized carbon and nitrogen sources were glycerol 10 g/l, yeast extract 30 g/l, and bacto-tryptone 10 g/l, yielding the dry cell weight (DCW) of 10.61 g/l in a 500 ml flask culture. The late-stage induction with 1% L-arabinose in a 5 l jar fermentor showed the highest DCW of 65.70 g/l after 27 h of the fed-batch fermentation. Around 2,200 mg/l of the protein was expressed as an inclusion body that was then refolded to obtain the active salmosin of 96 mg/l. We also confirmed the inhibitory activity against platelet aggregation of the active salmosin from the high cell density fermentation.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.340-345
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• 2010

The culture variables were optimized to increase 1,3-dihydroxyacetone (DHA) production by Gluconohacter oxydans ZJB09112 in shake flasks and bubble column bioreactors. After fermentation in the optimized medium (g/l: yeast extract 5, glycerol 2.5, mannitol 22.5, $K_2HPO_4$ 0.5, $KH_2PO_4$ 0.5, $MgSO_4{\cdot}7H_2O$ 0.1, $CaCO_3$ 2.0, pH 5.0), when five times of glycerol feeding were applied, $161.9{\pm}5.9\;g/l$ of DHA was attained at a $88.7{\pm}3.2%$ conversion rate of glycerol to DHA.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.24 no.B
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• pp.171-176
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• 2004

The effects of agitation and aeration for exopolysaccharide(EPS) production through batch cultivation of an Enterobacter sp. isolated from the composter were investigated. During the EPS fermentation under conditions of constant agitation speed from 200 to 900 rpm and constant aeration rate of 0.5-2.5 vvm, the low yields of EPS(4.8-5.2g/L) was observed as the viscosity increase of culture broth. With the stepwise increases in agitation speed and aeration rate, the EPS production and the viscosity of EPS were increased 1.3~1.4 times and 2.3~3.6 times higher than those of the fixed conditions, respectively. Therefore, these stepwise increases were considered as the key operating parameters for enhancing EPS production. The max. EPS(6.8g/L) and viscosity(14,000cp) were obtained when the agitation speed was increased from 300 to 900 rpm for 54hrs at 1.5 vvm.

• Environmental Sciences Bulletin of The Korean Environmental Sciences Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.169-175
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• 1999

2,4-Dinitrophenol(DNP) is a metabolic uncoupler that prevents cells from creating energy for growth and it has been suggested that the availability of sodium ions may be important in mitigating the effects of uncouplers. Accordingly, the degradation of DNP was investigated using activated sludge which had been adapted to mineralize DNP. After the acclimation of the activated sludge, the effect of sodium ions on the toxicity of high concentrations(80 to 100mg/L) of DNP was investigated over a sodium ion concentration range of 9.3$\times$10-5 to 94mM. The concentration of sodium ions in the activated sludge mixed liquor seemed to have little effect on the DNP toxicity. However, a lack of sodium in the grwoth media resulted in a reduction of the DNP degradation rate by a bacterial isolate from the activated sludge culture identified as Nocardia asteroides.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.245-246
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• 2000

Agrobacterium sp. ATCC 31750( formerly Alcaligenes faecalis subsp myxogenes) was used to produce curdlan. Since the curdlan is secondary metabolite, it is important for curdlan production to increase cell concentration. The fedbatch operation was used to increase cell concentration with addition of carbon and nitrogen sources. When the initial sucrose concentration was 20g/L, it was consumed in 24 hrs and the cell concentration was 6g/L in a batch culture. The sucrose solution(200g/L) was fed to control the sucrose concentration above 10g/L.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.587-592
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• 2005

Hydrolyzates from lignocellulosic biomass contain a mixture of simple sugars; the predominant ones being glucose, cellobiose and xylose. The fermentation of such mixtures to ethanol or other chemicals requires an understanding of how each of these substrates is utilized. Candida lusitaniae can efficiently produce ethanol from both glucose and cellobiose and is an attractive organism for ethanol production. Experiments were performed to obtain kinetic data for ethanol production from glucose, cellobiose and xylose. Various combinations were tested in order to determine kinetic behavior with multiple carbon sources. Glucose was shown to repress the utilization of cellobiose and xylose. However, cellobiose and xylose were simultaneously utilized after glucose depletion. Maximum volumetric ethanol production rates were 0.56, 0.33, and 0.003 g/L h from glucose, cellobiose and xylose, respectively. A kinetic model based on cAMP mediated catabolite repression was developed. This model adequately described the growth and ethanol production from a mixture of sugars in a batch culture.