• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.1060-1067
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• 2006

This study was undertaken to determine the effect of reservoirs on water quality and the distribution of pathogenic and indicator bacteria in a drinking water distribution system (total length 14km). Raw water, disinfected water, and water samples from the distribution system were subjected to physicochemical and microbiological analyses. Most factors encountered at each season included residual chloride, nitrate, turbidity, and phosphorus for heterotrophic bacterial distribution, and hardness, heterotrophic bacteria, sampling site, and DOC (dissolved organic carbon) for bacteria on selective media. No Salmonella or Shigella spp. were detected, but many colonies of opportunistic pathogens were found. Comparing tap water samples taken at similar distances from the water treatment plant, samples that had passed through a reservoir had a higher concentration of heterotrophic bacteria, and a higher rate of colony formation with 10 times as many bacteria on selective media. Based on the results with m-Endo agar, the water in reservoirs appeared safe; however, coliforms and opportunistic pathogenic bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa were identified on other selective media. This study illustrates that storage reservoirs in the drinking water distribution system have low microbiological water quality by opportunistic pathogens, and therefore, water quality must be controlled.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2002

To evaluate the effect of reed population on the distribution and activities of microorganisms, vertical distribution of heterotrophic bacteria, degradation rate of cellulose, extracellular aminopeptidase activity (APA) and metabolic diversity based on GN2 Microlog plate were measured at two salt marsh stations in Hogok-ri, Namyang Bay, west coast of Korea. The number of heterotrophic bacteria at station 1 (reed population inhabited area) showed 2 to 6 times higher than that of station 2 (exposed area) with exception in the surface layer. Cellulose degradation rates in station 1 showed more than 50%. month-I and higher than that of station 2 (10.2 to 38.4%. $month^{-1}$). Yet the APA at two stations did not show difference except surface layer and suggested that APA might not be a significant factor in degrading marsh plant debris. Lipid class compounds, cell wall polymers and L-alanine were widely used by microorganisms. The number and activities of bacterial populations especially concerned in plant debris degradation seemed to be stimulated by the reed communities.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.256-261
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• 1988

낙동강 하구 생태계의 종속영양세균의 특성과 이에 미치는 환경요인의 영향을 조사하였다. 해수역에 위치한 정점에서 분리한 세균군집이 담수역에서 분리한 군집보다 광염성 세균으로 이루어져 있으며, 하계에 분리한 군집이 동계군집에 비해 광온성세균으로 구성되어 있었다. 또한 수계의 세균군집은 육상에서 유입되는 비토착성세균에 의해 다양성이 커지며, 환경이 악화되면 세균군집의 다양성이 감소하는 현상이 관찰되었다.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.527-533
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• 2006

Tetracycline is one of the mostly used antibiotics around the world. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the fate of two different types of tetracycline resistant bacteria in biological wastewater treatment plants. Tetracycline resistant enterics and heterotrophic bacteria were monitored under two different lab-scale experimental conditions. Tetracycline resistant enteric bacteria showed the lower percentages of total enteric bacteria and net specific growth rate in the monitored activated sludge system as compared to tetracycline resistant heterotrophic bacteria. Therefore, total enterics, potentially E.coli, might not be the best indicator microorganism for evaluating the antibiotic resistant bacteria in biological wastewater treatment plant.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.101-110
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• 2021

다양한 환경에서 미세조류와 종속영양세균(heterotrophic bacteria) 사이의 상호작용은 일반적이다. 본 연구에서는 미세조류 Chlorella sp. MF1907와 서로 다른 속(genus)에 속하는 31종의 종속영양세균을 공배양(co-culture)하여 MF1907의 광합성 활성에 미치는 종속영양세균의 영향을 규명하였다. 6종의 종속영양세균(Agromyces, Rhodococcus, Sphingomonas, Hyphomicrobium, Rhizobium, Pseudomonas)은 MF1907의 광합성 활성을 증가시켰으며(p < 0.05), 12종의 종속영양세균(Burkholderia, Paraburkholderia, Micrococcus, Arthrobacter, Mycobacterium, Streptomyces, Pedobacter, Mucilaginibacter, Fictibacillus, Tumebacillus, Sphingopyxis, Erythrobacter)은 MF1907의 광합성 활성을 저해하였다(p < 0.05). 종속영양세균 중 MF1907의 광합성 활성에 유의미한 효과(positive, negative, neutral)를 나타낸 16종을 선택하여 MF1907의 종속영양에서 독립영양으로의 활성 전환에 미치는 이들의 영향을 평가하였다. 8종의 종속영양세균은 공배양 결과와 동일하게 MF1907의 종속영양에서 독립영양으로의 활성 전환에 영향을 미쳤다. 하지만 나머지 8종은 공배양 결과와 MF1907의 종속영양에서 독립영양으로의 활성 전환에 미치는 결과가 반대를 나타내었다. 공배양과 활성 전환 실험 모두에서 일관되게 Pseudomonas와 Agromyces는 MF1907의 광합성 활성을 강하게 증가시켰으며(p < 0.05), Burkholderia, Streptomyces, Erythrobacter는 MF1907의 광합성 활성을 강하게 저해하였다(p < 0.05). 본 연구 결과는 다양한 종속영양세균과 미세조류 사이의 상호작용 이해를 도모하고 종속영양세균을 활용하여 자연 환경과 공정 시스템에서 미세조류의 바이오매스를 조절할 수 있음을 시사한다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.339-343
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• 1991

Heterotrophic activity, total bacteria and salinity were determined seasonally in the estuary of Naktong River over half tidal cycle. Heterotrophic activity was determined by the uptake of [U- $^{14}$ C]glucose. Heterotrophic activity fluctuated with the tides and was decreased as salinity increased. Teh great activity occurred near low ebb tide at all seasons except summer. The main environmental factor affecting hetreotrophic activity was the salinity rather than water temperature in the estuary of Naktong River. In order to estimate the effect of salt, salt was added to estuarine water. Vmax for glucose of salt-added water was 17% and 77% of original estuarine water at station 1 and 2 respectively and slight increase was observed at station 3. Respiration rate and Kt+Sn for glucose of salt-added sample increased at all 3 stations. The increase of the Kt value implies the reduced affinity of bacterial population for glucose. The effects of salinity on the heterotrophic activity were more extensive in the upper region of estuary than at the mouth.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.329-338
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• 1991

From July 1985 to December 1986, 28 variables of phycal-chemical factors, bacteria and heterotrophic activity were investigated 17 times at 3 stations in the estuary of Naktong River and the influences of environmental factors to bacterial population and heterotrophic activity were analyzed through multiple regression. The results of multiple regression were as follows. At station 1, total bacteria and heterotrophic bacteria(Z-25) could explain 57% of the variation of maximum uptake velocity for glucose and 54% of turnover time for glucose was explained by total coliform bacteria and MBOD, Sixty four percent of the variation of Kt+SN was accounted for salinity, MBOD-N and inorganic phosphate. Turnover rate for acetate was also accounted for the change of MBOD-P by 56%. At station 2 maximum uptake velocity for glucose depends on MBOD-N by 81%; turnover time on bacteria by 50%; Kt+Sn on avilable nutrient by 61%. More than 50% of maximum uptake velocity and turnover time for glucose were influenced by bacteria and that of Kt+Sn by the change of nutrient in the surface water of station 3. In the bottom water of station 3, the change of maximumuptake velocity, turnover time and Kt+Sn for glucose was controlled by total bacteria and available nutrient, bacteria, the change of nutrient salts respectively. On the whole, more than 50% of maximum uptake velocity and turnover time for glucose could be due to the change in the number of bacetria and the value of Kt+Sn was affected by the change of nutrient salts. Turnover rate for acetate was controlled by available phosphate at station 1 and by bacteria at station 2 and 3, which showed a distinct difference between the environmental factors which govern the rate of glucose and acetate uptake in the Naktong esturine ecosystem. And bacterial communities were controlled by available nutrients at station 1, by nutrient salts and salinity at station 2 and in the surface water of station 3 and by salinity in the bottom water of station 3.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.855-863
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• 2007

In order to understand the temporal distribution of pico- and nanoplankton and factors controlling its distribution at a station in Okkye Bay of Masan Bay located in the southern part of Korea, this study was conducted on two weeks interval from April 2005 to April 2006, and several abiotic and biotic factors were measured. During the study, picoplankton consisted of picoflagellates, cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria, and nanoplankton consisted of nanoflagellates excluding dinoflagellates. The concentration of chlorophyll-a (chl-a) was a mean of $4.33\;{\mu}g/L$, and the nanoplanktonic ($<20\;{\mu}m$) chl-a size fraction was a mean of 39.5 % and significantly correlated with water temperature. The abundances of cyanobacteria and photosynthetic flagellates (PF) were means of $24.4{\times}10^{3}\;cells/mL\;and\;2.87{\times}10^{3}\;cells/mL$, respectively. The contribution of picoflagellates to the PF abundance varied among the sampling occasions and was a mean of 29 %, but to the PF carbon biomass was 2.6 % only. The PF abundance had significant relationships with water temperature, and silicate and TIN concentrations, suggesting that the PF abundance seemed to be primarily bottom-up regulated. The abundance of heterotrophic bacteria was a mean of $3.18{\times}10^{6}\;cells/mL$ and unlike other ecosystems it did not have relationships with chl-a and heterotrophic flagellates (HF), suggesting that bacterial abundance did not seem to be bottom-up or top-down regulated. HF mostly consisted of cells less than $5{\mu}m$ and its abundance was a mean of $2.71{\times}10^{3}\;cells/mL$. Of the HF abundance, picoflagellates occupied about 31 %, and occupied about 9 % of the HF carbon biomass. HF grazing activity on heterotrophic bacteria was relatively low and removed about 10 % of bacterial abundance, suggesting that HF might not be major consumers of bacteria and there seems to be other consumers in Okkye Bay. These results suggest that Okkye Bay may have a unique microbial ecosystem.

• 환경생물
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.85-90
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• 2002

인위적으로 pH 구배가 조성된 회분배양 시스템 (batch culture system)내에서 산성화에 따른 종속영양 세균 군집의 종조성 변화를 분석하였다. 총세균의 개체수는 산성화에 영향을 받지 않았으며, 종속영양세균 군집의 크기는 pH가 낮아질수록 감소하였다. 전 pH구간에서 분리된 종속영양 세균들은 모두 12속 22종으로 나타났으며, 이중 그람음성 세균은 64%,그람양성 세균은 36%의 비율로 분포하였다. pH가 낮아짐에 따라 그람양성 세균의 분포 비율은 감소하는 반면, 그람음성 세균의 분포 비율은 증가하는 양상을 보였다. 각 pH 구간별 속의 분포 비율은 pH 7에서는 12개 속이 출현하였으나, pH 3에서는 5개 속만 출현하여 pH가 낮아짐에 따라 속의 다양성이 감소하는 양상을 나타내였다. 세포외 효소의 활성도는 $0.008-0.292\;\mu{M}\ell^{-1}\;hr^{-1}$의 범주로 나타났고, 산성화에 따라 세포외 효소의 활성도는 급격히 감소하여 pH 5이하에서는 5-38%의 낮은 활성을 나타내었다.

• Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.58-65
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• 2002

The study of microbial communities in sediments is impaired by the lack of reliable extraction methods. This study reports on the efficiency of recovery of a method for extracting bacteria, protists and diatoms from sandy sediments using a modified decant/fix method. The best extractions were achieved after fixation with a microtubule stabilising fixative and subsequent sonication for 80 seconds. We estimate that the efficiencies of recovery of bacteria and mixed heterotrophic flagellates were $96.4{\pm}3.5\%$ and $96.9{\pm}4.6\%$, respectively. Diatoms were recovered with an efficiency of 38-83% and varied considerably from species to species. This study suggests that the decant/fix method is effective in extracting small cells such as bacteria and heterotrophic flagellates, and that the efficiency of recovery of the method varies due to cell length and different types of organisms. When microbial carbon biomass had been underestimated by up to 32%, with much of that relating to larger cells such as microalgae and ciliates. We note that the corrected abundances may be still a subset of the total numbers present.