• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.98-105
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• 1985

In the sheep and cattle's rumen, facultative anaerobic cellulolytic bacteria were isolated by using Hungate's roll tube technique. In the 21 isolated species, one was screened by its strong cellulolytic activity and identified as Cellulomonas fimi C-14 by investigate morphological, cultural, physiological characteristics and electron microgram. Optimum conditions of the cell growth and enzyme production were pH 6.5 an $30^{\circ}C$, Thiamine and biotin support a good growth of C. fimi C-14. In the enzyme activities, Crystalline cellulose hydrolyzing activity, CMCase activity and ${\beta}-glucosidase$ activity were 20.6, 226.6 and 0.56$(unit{\times}10^3/ml)$ at pH 6.0, $40^{\circ}C$. By addition of fungal cellulase, enzyme activity was increased. Simultaneous Saccharification Fermentation is better than two step fermentation in ethanol yield with Saccharomyces cerevisiae DY2.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.303-309
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• 1988

In order to establish the process of interspecific protoplast fusion of the genus Cellulomonas capable of utilizing of cellulose, C. flavigena NCIB 12901 and Cellulomonas sp. CSI-1, the optimum conditions for the regeneration and fusion were examined. The condition of suitable osmotic stabilizer for the protoplast regeneration of C. flavigena was established by using 0.4M sorbitol. And then, by addition of 3% po]yvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) to cell wall regeneration medium, regeneration frequency was increased 3 times higher than that without PVP addition. The optimum conditions for the interspecific protoplast fusion between auxotrophic and antibiotics resistant mutants were obtained with 40%(W/V) of PEG (polyethylene glycol) 6000 as the fusogenic agent and 25mM of CaCl$_2$on treating time for 15 min. The fusion frequency between mutants was from 2.0$\times$10$^{-4}$ to 4.0$\times$10$^{-4}$ under the optimum conditions. The fusants were confirmed to revert from protoplast to cells of rod type during regeneration process and the aggregation of protoplast by PEG was observed. Also the progress of fusion was observed by scanning electron microscopy, Many isolated fusants were shown to be complement clones of both parents which occured at a high frequency among the isolated clones.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.167-169
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• 1977

Cellulosic single cell proteins produced from rice straw by three strains of cellulolytic bacteria were analysed for their composition and for their amino acid patterns. It was showed that they contains 52.2∼70.3％ of crude Protein, 11.6∼13.9％ of crude fat and 11.5∼18.1％ of ash. The sulphur containing amino acids and threonine were analysed to be the limiting amino acid in the cellulosic SCP. The protein scores were calculated as 80.0 for Cellulomonas flavigena KIST 321, 78.00 for Cellulomonas fimi and 61.8 for Cellulomonas aurogena KIST 11. The nutritional value of the cellulosic SCP is discussed from the results.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.31 no.11
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• pp.1519-1525
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• 2021

Hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) is recognized to be carcinogenic and toxic and registered as a contaminant in many drinking water regulations. It occurs naturally and is also produced by industrial processes. The reduction of Cr(VI) to Cr(III) has been a central topic for chromium remediation since Cr(III) is less toxic and less mobile. In this study, fermentative Fe(III)-reducing bacterial strains (Cellu-2a, Cellu-5a, and Cellu-5b) were isolated from a groundwater sample and were phylogenetically related to species of Cellulomonas by 16S rRNA gene analysis. One selected strain, Cellu-2a showed its capacity of reduction of both soluble iron (ferric citrate) and solid iron (hydrous ferric oxide, HFO), as well as aqueous Cr(VI). The strain Cellu-2a was able to reduce 15 μM Cr(VI) directly with glucose or sucrose as a sole carbon source under the anaerobic condition and indirectly with one of the substrates and HFO in the same incubations. The heterogeneous reduction of Cr(VI) by the surface-associated reduced iron from HFO by Cellu-2a likely assisted the Cr(VI) reduction. Fermentative features such as large-scale cell growth may impose advantages on the application of bacterial Cr(VI) reduction over anaerobic respiratory reduction.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.221-225
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• 1994

For producing single cell protein from the agricultural waste, heat treatment and antibiotics on the growth of Cellulomonas sp. KL-6, isolated in rotting leaf and the adjacent soil mixture, were examined. The organism was able to grow until 5 min. at $65^{\circ}C$, 1 min. at $75^{\circ}C$ and 1/4 min. at $85^{\circ}C$ in gradually rising temperatures. It can be Seen that preheating the suspension at $48^{\circ}C$ results in a marked decrease in heat resistance. On heating at temperature of $55^{\circ}C$ for 30 min., strain KL-6 was more resisted in the 0.1 M phosphate buffer when such substrates as casamino acid (1%), yeast extract (1%) or xylose (5%) were added to it whereas this organism was appeared weaker resistances in 0.1 M phosphate buffer when cysteine (0.03 M), sodium citrate (1%) or casein (1%) were in fused into it. Test strain was susceptible to penicillin-G $(1.563\;{\mu}g/ml)$ and ampicillin $(3.125\;{\mu}g/ml)$, but the organism was resisted to kanamycin $(>200\;{\mu}g/ml)$. The treatment of strain KL-6 with sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) resulted in the elimination of R-plasmid from the host strain and the elimination rate with SDS $(10{\sim}30\;{\mu}g/ml)$ was about $9.2{\sim}31.2%$, respectively.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.119-125
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• 1988

$\beta$-Glucosidase of Cellulomonas sp. CS1-1 in cellular compartment was localized with cell-bound form while Avicelase and carboxymethylcellulase (CMCase) were appeared with extracellular enzyme. Cell growth on cellulose or CMC minimal broth was increased by glucose addition. $\beta$-Glucosidase production on cellobiose or CMC minimal broth was repressed by the addition of glucose. However, on CMC minimal broth, the enzyme production was specially stimulated by cellobiose addition. $\beta$-Glucosidase production was also induced by CMC, starcth and maltose compared with glycerol, arabinose, xylose and trehalose. From the above results, it was concluded that glucose effect on $\beta$-glucosidase biosynthesis showed catabolite repression, but enzyme production was induced by cellobiose, CMC, and starch, indicating that $\beta$-glucosidase is inducible enzyme. Yeast extract stimulated $\beta$-glucosidase production more than peptone and ammonium sulfate. $\beta$-Glucosidase activity was increased with 50mM MgCl$_2$in 10mM potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0). Optimum conditions for enzyme activities were pH 6.0 and 42$^{\circ}C$, Km value of $\beta$-glucosidase for p-nitrophenyl-$\beta$-D-glucosidase was 0.256mM and Ki for $\beta$-D(+)-glucose was 9.0mM.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.275-282
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• 1997

The prcx.iuction of extracellular 1,4-${\beta}$-glucanase by Cellulomonas sp. CS1-1 on microcrystalline cellulose, sigmacell was maximal after 5-day cultivation as 280 units/mL, which was three times higher than the level produced on carboxymethyl cellulose. A carboxymethyl cellulase containing the carbohydrate of 8.2% was purified from the culture filtrate by successive procedures of column chromatographies. Purification factor was calculated as 22-folds with the specific carboxymethyl cellulase activity of 31.9 units/mg. The molecular weight and isoelectric point of the purified enzyme were 54,000 and pI 5.4, respectively. The optimal pH and temperature were 6.0 and $45^{\circ}C$, and the enzyme was stable between pH 6.5 and 7.5 and below $50^{\circ}C$. The estimated Km and Vmax were 10 mg/mL and $6.25{\mu}mol/min$ for carboxymethyl cellulose and 30.3 mg/mL and $2.85{\mu}mol/min$ for sigmacell, respectively. The enzyme was partially inhibited by $Ag^+$, $Zn^{+{+}}$, $Fe^{+{+}}$ and EDTA, while completely inhibited by $Cd^{+{+}}$ and $Hg^{+{+}}$ at 1 mM concentration.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.167-172
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• 1977

Colony morphology, growth responses on some simple carbon sources and taxonomic position were established for three stock cultures of National Collection of Industrial Bacteria, Scotland. It was confirmed that NCIB 8077 belonged to the Cellulomonas species and that NCIB 8633 and NCIB 8634 belonged to the Pseudomonas species. Taxonomy of other cellulolytic bacteria published on various journals was also discussed.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.613-618
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• 1996

Microorganisms capable of producing ascorbic acid-2-phosphate (AsA2P) from ascorbic acid (AsA) and pyrophosphate (PPi) were screened from the culture collection of this laboratory. Among them, Cellulomonas sp. AP-7 showed the highest productivity of AsA2P. The optimal conditions for the production of AsA2P from AsA and PPi with cell-free extract as an enzyme source were investigated. The reaction mixture for the maximal production of AsA2P consisted of 21 g protein of cell-free extract per liter as the enzyme source, 250 mM AsA, 200 mM sodium pyrophosphate, 150 mM sodium acetate buffer (pH 4.5). By using this reaction mixture, 31.9 mM of AsA2P, which corresponded to a 12.76% yield based on AsA, was produced after incubation of 48 hr at 33$\circ$C.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.1-4
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• 1977

In order to produce cellulosic single cell protein from the cellulosic wastes, 252 strains of cellulose assimilating bacteria were isolated front 225 sources of microorganisms such as decomposed wood, compost soils, soils, cotton fabrics and useless paper. The isolates were investigated for their ability to utilize cellulose as carbon source. One of them was screened by its stong cellulose assimilating abililty, and was identified as Cellulomonas flavigena.