• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.109-118
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• 2002

The present work is aimed at providing additional new pure cultures of oxalate utilizing bacteria and its preliminary characterization for further work in the field of oxalate-metabolism and taxonomic studies. The taxonomy of 14 mesophilic, aerobic oxalotrophic bacteria isolated by an enrichment culture technique from soils rhizosphers, and the juice of the petiole/stem tissue of plants was investigated. Isolates were characterized with 95 morphological, biochemical and physiological tests. Cellular lipid components and carotenoids of isolates were also studied as an aid to taxonomic characterization. All isolates were Gram-negative, oxidase and catalase positive and no growth factors were required. In addition to oxalates, some of the strains grow on methanol and/or formate. The taxonomic similarities among isolates, reference strains or previously reported oxalotrophic bacteria were analysed by using the Simple Matching (S/ sub SM/) and Jaccard (S$\_$J/) Coefficients. Clustering was performed by using the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic averages (UPGMA) algorithm. The oxalotrophic strains formed five major and two single-member clusters at the 70-86% similarity level. Based on the numerical taxonomy, isolates were separated into three phenotypic groups. Pink-pigmented strains belonged to Methylobacterium extorquens, yellow-pigmented strains were most similar to Pseudomonas sp. YOx and Xanthobacter autorophicus, and heterogeneous non-pigmented strains were closely related to genera Azospirillum, Ancylobacter, Burkholderia and Pseudomonas. New strains belonged to the genera Pseudomonas, Azospirillum and Ancylobacter that differ taxonomically from other known oxalate oxidizers were obtained. Numerical analysis indicated that some strains of the yellow-pigmented and nonpigmented clusters might represent new species.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제25권10호
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• pp.1148-1155
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• 2015

가축의 배합사료는 가축의 성장을 유지하기 위한 충분한 영양소를 함유하고 있어 적절한 온도와 습도하에서 부패되기 쉽다. 착유우 사료를 여름철 고온 다습한 환경 조건인 수분 33%, 온도 30℃에서 15일 동안 부패시키면서 일어나는 미생물 및 화학적 변화를 조사하였다. pH는 최초 6.29에서 4.66으로, 수분활성은 0.99에서 0.95으로 각각 감소하였다. 세균은 6.2×10⁶~1.6×10⁷ CFU/g에서 5일째에 최대 2.1×10⁹ CFU/g까지 증가하였으며 이후 10⁸ CFU/g수준을 유지하였다. 곰팡이는 약 10³에서 8.0×10⁴ CFU/g으로 증가하였다. 세균은 Acinetobacter oleivorans, Pediococcus acidilactici, Acinetobacter oleivorans, Weissella cibaria 및 Methylobacterium komagatae이 성장하였고, 곰팡이는 Fusarium속과 Mucor속이 분리되었다. 10일까지는 수분 함량은 증가하였고(p<0.01), 조단백질 함량은 큰 변화가 없었으나 조지방은 약 6.0%에서 5.5%로 감소하였다(p<0.01). 조섬유와 조회분은 각각 2.0~3.0%, 4.5~4.8%의 범위에서 변화되었으나 유의적인 차이는 없었다. 총에너지는 4,400 kcal/kg로 거의 변화가 없었다. 사료가 부패되면서 젖산과 프로피온산은 증가하였고 아세트산은 검출되지 않았다(p<0.01). 제랄레논은 59.2 μg/kg에서 623.8 μg/kg으로 약 10.5배가 증가하였다. 결론적으로 사료부패가 일어나는 동안은 pH 감소, 생균수의 증가 및 다양한 화학적 변화가 관찰되었다.