• 제목/요약/키워드: Metabolic Engineering

검색결과 741건 처리시간 0.027초

유산균 대사공학 기술의 개발 현황 (Current Strategies for Metabolic Engineering of Lactic Acid Bacteria)

  • 한남수;조승기;김유진
    • KSBB Journal
    • /
    • 제25권4호
    • /
    • pp.311-318
    • /
    • 2010
  • Lactic acid bacteria display a relatively simple metabolism wherein the sugar is converted mainly to lactic acid. The extensive knowledge of metabolic pathways and the increasing information of the genes involved allows for the rerouting of natural metabolic pathways by genetic and physiological engineering. In this contribution, the lactic acid bacteria as an efficient cell factory for different (food) ingredients will be presented. The emphasis will be on some successful examples of metabolic engineering and on the physiology of these bacteria, which makes them so suitable as a cell factory.

Kinetics of Strictly Anaerobic Ethanol Fermentation from Starch by Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum

  • PARK, YOUNG-MIN;CHUL-HO KIM;SANG-KI RHEE
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
    • /
    • 제2권4호
    • /
    • pp.288-292
    • /
    • 1992
  • Kinetics of anaerobic ethanol fermentation by Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum were investigated for the one-step production of ethanol from starch. A mutant strain with a high ethanol yield was induced from C. thermohydrosulfuricum. The mutant, designated as ME4, produced anaerobically 6.1 g/l of ethanol, 3.1 g/l of lactate and 0.1 g/l of acetate from 20 g/l of starch at $68^{\circ}C.

  • PDF

Selection of an Ethanol Tolerant Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum Strain

  • PARK, YOUNG-MIN;CHUL-HO KIM;SANG-KI RHEE
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
    • /
    • 제2권3호
    • /
    • pp.226-229
    • /
    • 1992
  • An ethanol tolerant mutant was selected by successive transfers of Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum ATCC 33223 into the media with progressively higher ethanol concentrations. The growth kinetics of the mutant were characterized under various growth conditions. Physiological differences such as enhanced growth, tolerance to various solvents, alteration of the optimum temperature and the ratio of end products during fermentation were noticed in the mutant.

  • PDF

Gene Expression and Secretion of the Anticoagulant Hirudin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  • Sohn, Jung-Hoon;Lee, Sang-Kwon;Choi, Eui-Sung;Rhee, Sang-Ki
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
    • /
    • 제1권4호
    • /
    • pp.266-273
    • /
    • 1991
  • Hirudin, a 65-amino acid protein isolated from the salivary gland of the bloodsucking leech, Hirudo medicinalis, is a potent thrombin-specific inhibitor and blocks the thrombin-mediated conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin in clot formation. We have studied the gene expression and secretion of hirudin in yeast. Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A gene coding for hirudin was synthesized based on the amino acid sequence and cloned into a yeast expression vector $YEG{\alpha}-1$ containing the ${\alpha}-mating$ factor pre-pro leader sequence and galactose-inducible promoter, GALl0. Recombinant S. cerevisiae was found to secrete biologically active hirudin into the extracellular medium. The secreted recombinant hirudin was recovered from the culture medium and purified with ultrafiltration and reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography. Approximately 1 mg of hirudin per liter was produced under suboptimal culture conditions and brought to about 90% purity in two steps of purification.

  • PDF