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Chitosan Stimulates Calcium Uptake and Enhances the Capability of Chinese Cabbage Plant to Resist Soft Rot Disease Caused by Pectobacterium carotovorum ssp. carotovorum

  • Jang, Eun-Jung;Gu, Eun-Hye;Hwang, Byoung-Ho;Lee, Chan;Kim, Jong-Kee
    • Horticultural Science & Technology
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.137-143
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    • 2012
  • Chinese cabbage plant was grown hydroponically for 4 weeks in order to examine the temporal relationship of calcium concentration of the nutrient solution with calcium content in the leaf tissue and susceptibility of the tissue to soft rot disease by $Pectobacterium$ $carotovorum$ ssp. $carotovorum$ (Pcc). Calcium concentration from 0.5 to 32.0 mM was maintained for 1 week using Hoagland & Arnon solution. The calcium content of the leaf was proportionally increased to the concentration of the nutrient in the solution (r = 0.912). In contrast, the severity of soft rot symptom in the young leaves was inversely related with the amount of calcium supplied to the nutrient solution (r = 0.899). Water-soluble chitosan, prepared by hollow fiber filtration (> 100 kDa) was applied into the nutrient solution from 0.0 to 5,000 ppm. The chitosan of 10 ppm was the most effective to promote calcium uptake of the leaf, showing 155% of the control. The same chitosan solution prohibited most soft rot development of the leaf by Pcc, exhibiting only 53% of the control. Among different molecular weight fractions, chitosan fraction obtained from 30-100 kDa molecular weight cut-off promoted calcium uptake the most up to 163% of the control, and reduced the development of soft rot disease recording merely 36% of the control of the leaf tissue. The results obtained in the present study suggest that large scale production of water-soluble chitosan with an optimum molecular weight and its commercial application to Chinese cabbage production will be important to improve yield and quality of the crop.

Preparation and Characterization of TiO$_2$ Ultrafiltration Membranes for Reclamation of Waste Lubrication Oil (폐윤활유 재생용 TiO$_2$ 한외여과막의 제조 및 특성평가)

  • 김계태;현상훈
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.244-254
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    • 1999
  • 폐윤활유 재생용 TiO2 한외여과막은 정밀영과용 지르코니아 복합막(즉, 복층담채) 및 알루미나 단층 담체(기공크기 0.1$mu extrm{m}$)상에 졸-겔 코팅법에 의하여 TiO2 분리막 층을 코팅하여 제조 하였다. TiO2 졸의 특성 분석을 통하여 봉입침지(sealed dip-coating) 및 가압 코팅(pressurized coating)법으로 결함이 없는 TiO2 복합막을 제조할 수 있는 코팅조건을 최적화 하였다. 합성 TiO2 한외여과막의 분리막층 두께는 1$\mu\textrm{m}$이하의 범위에서 조절되었으며,기공값을 보여주었으며 75$0^{\circ}C$까지 열처리하여도 80%정도의 용질배제율(기공크기 22.5nm)을 유지하는 점으로 봐서 고온 공정을 요하는 폐윤활유 재생막으로서 충분한 열적 안정성을 갖고 있었다.

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Micellar Enhanced Ultrafiltration (MEUF) and Activated Carbon Fiber (ACF) Hybrid Processes for the Removal of Cadmium from an Aqueous Solution

  • Rafique, Rahman Faizur;Lee, Seunghwan
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.52 no.6
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    • pp.775-780
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    • 2014
  • Micellar enhanced ultrafiltration (MEUF) was used to remove cadmium from an aqueous solution using sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as a surfactant. Operational parameters such as initial permeate flux, retentate pressure, initial cadmium concentration, pH solution, molecular weight cut-off (MWCO), and molar ratio of cadmium to SDS were investigated. Removal efficiency of cadmium from an aqueous solution increased with an increase of retentate pressure, pH solution and molar ratio of cadmium to SDS, and decreased with an increase of initial permeate flux. Higher removal efficiency of cadmium from the aqueous solution was achieved using lower MWCO (smaller membrane pore size). Under optimized experimental condition, cadmium removal efficiency reached 74.6 % within an hour. Using MEUF-ACF hybrid process the removal efficiency of both cadmium and SDS was found to be over 90%.

Simultaneous Production of Invertase and Yeast Extract from Baker's Yeast (Baker's yeast로부터 invertase 및 yeast extract 동시 생산공정)

  • 최순자;정봉현
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.308-311
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    • 1998
  • A novel process was developed to simultaneously produce invertase and yeast extract from baker's yeast using ultrafiltration (UF) and microfiltration (MF) membrane processing. After the extraction of invertase under the optimal condition obtained in this study, invertase was separated from yeast cells using a hollow fiber membrane with a pore size of 0.1 $\mu\textrm{m}$. The resulting permeate containing invertase was concentrated using a hollow fiber membrane with a nominal molecular weight cut-off of 30 kDa. The yeast cell and permeate solutions, which were obtained after MF and UF membrane processing, respectively, were mixed together, and the autolysis was performed at 50$^{\circ}C$ in the presence of 5% (w/v) ethanol and 1% (w/v) NaCl. As a result, the yeast extract and invertase could be simultaneously produced from baker's yeast by this novel process.

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Remediation Groundwater contaminated with Nitrate and Phosphate using Micellar-enhanced ultrafiltration

  • 백기태;양지원
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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    • 2002.04a
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    • pp.334-337
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    • 2002
  • The drinking water industry faces a growing number of difficultiesin the treatment of groundwater for drinking water production. Groundwater sources are frequently contaminated with nitrates and phosphates due to usage of chemical fertilizer In this study, feasibility of micellar enhanced ultrafiltation (MEUF) was investigated to remediate groundwater contaminated with nitrate and phosphate. Ultrafiltration membrane was cellulose acetate with molecular weight cut off (MWCO) 10,000 and celtyl pyridinium chloride (CPC) was used to form pollutant-micelle complex with nitrate and phosphate. The results show that nitrate and phosphate rejections are satisfactory. The removal efficiency of nitrate and phosphate show 80% and 84% in single pollutant system, respectively with 3 molar ratio of CPC to pollutants. In the multi-pollutant systems, the removalefficiency increased to 90 % and 89 % for nitrate and phosphate, respectively, The presence of nitrate in the solutions did not affect the removal of phosphate and that of phosphate did not affect the removal of nitrate. The concentration of CPC in the permeate and removal efficiency of CPC was a function of the concentration of CPC in the feed solutions.

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Hemolytic Activity of Culture Supernatant of Xenorhabdus nematophilus, a Symbiotic Bacterium of Entomopathogenic Nematodes

  • Ryu, Keun-Garp;Bae, Jun-Sung;Kwack, Kyu-Bum;Kwon, O-Yul;Park, Sun-Ho
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.526-529
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    • 2002
  • Lysis of erythrocytes isolated from human, rabbit, and mouse blood samples was investigated with the culture supernatant of Xenorhabdus nematophilus in a primary form. Prior to use, the culture supernatant of the bacteria was concentrated and the concentrate was dialyzed against Tris-HCl buffer (10 mM, pH 8.1) by ultrafiltration using PM-5 membrane with a molecular weight cut-off of 5,000. At $30^{\circ}C$, the supernatant exhibited no lytic activity towards three types of erythrocytes. However, at $4^{\circ}C$, the supernatant showed selective lytic activity towards rabbit erythrocytes within 90 min. yet did not lyze human or mouse erythrocytes. Microscopic examination clearly revealed that most of the rabbit erythrocytes had been fumed into ghost forms.

Treatment of Starch Wastewater by Anaerobic Digestion Combined with Hollow Fiber UF

  • No, Seong-Hui;Na, Jae-Un;Kim, Seon-Il
    • 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.745-748
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    • 2000
  • Anaerobic digester coupled with hollow fiber membrane unit. Treatment of starch waste with anaerobic digester-membrane system was studied. $0.17\;m^2$ area of hollow fiber membrane unit of known pore size was immersed into laboratory-scale anaerobic digestion system. The gas production was about $0.74\;m^3/kg$ COD treated. The COD removal efficient was about 80-95% depending on the hydraulic retention time. Crossflow ultrafiltration as Post treatment to anaerobic filter. The study conducted with different membrane pore size indicated that membrane with 1,000,000 molecular weight cut-off size gave a higher COD removal efficiency in the range of 83-87% while giving a study flux of $120-130\;L/m^2\;{\cdot}\;h$. A study was conducted to see the long term clogging effect of membrane also.

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세라믹막의 분획분자량 (Molecular Weight Cut-Off) 특성화

  • 현상훈;강범석;조철구;하호관
    • Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1994.04a
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    • pp.58-58
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    • 1994
  • 슬립캐스팅법으로 제조한 튜브형 $\alpha$-알루미나 담체 (평균기공크기 = $0.1 \mum$)에 졸-겔 침지코팅(dipcoating) 또는 가압코팅 (pressurized coating) 법에 의하여 극미세입자 $\gamma$-AlOOH, $TiO_2, SiO_2$, 및 aluminosilicate diphasic 졸을 코팅한 후 300 ~ 500$\circ$C 에서 열처리하여 세라믹 복합막을 제조하였다. 복합막 전체에 대한 균열유무는 $N_2$ 기체투과율의 평균압력에 대한 의존성으로부터 평가하였으며, 한외여과 (ultrafiltration)에의 응용성을 규명하기 위하여 막의 재질 및 제조조건에 따른 polyethylene glycol (PEG) 수용액의 분획분자량 변화를 측정하였다. 합성 세라믹 복합막의 분획분자량 측정 결과 $SiO_2$의 경우 2,000 정도로 매우 우수하였으며 $\gamma-Al_2O_3, TiO_2$, 그리고 aluminosilcate 막들은 6,000 ~ 10,000 범위 값을 갖고 있었다. 또한 막의 기공크기 및 분획분자량을 제어하기 위한 방법으로서 $TiO_2$ 복합막을 300 ~ 700$\circ$C 에서 열처리하였으며 이들에 대한 분획분자량 변화를 비교 분석하였다.

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Antioxidative Effect of Enzymatic Protein Hydrolysate from Lecithin-Free Egg Yolk (레시틴 추출 잔사인 계란노른자의 효소적 단백질 가순분해물의 항산화 특성)

  • 박표잠;정원교;최영일;김세권
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.131-139
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    • 2000
  • Lecithin-free egg yolk protein (EYP), the by-product of lecithin extraction from egg yolk, which is denatured with an organic solvent, would normally be discarded. In this study, the denatured protein was renatured with alkali, and hydrolyzed with Alcalase in order to utilize by-product. The hydrolysate was separated through a series of ultrafiltration membranes with molecular weight cut-off (MWOO) of 10, 5 and 1 kDa, and the antioxidative activities of the hydrolysates was investigated. The 5K hydrolysate, permeate from 5 kDa membrane, showed stronger antioxidative activity than 10 K and 1 K hydrolysate which were permeated from 10 kDa and 1 kDa membrane, in a linoleic acid autoxidation system. In addition, the optimum concentration of antioxidative activity for 5 K hydrolysate was 1%, and the activity was about 37% higher as compared with α-tocopherol. The synergistic effect was also increased by using the hydrolysates with α-tocopherol.

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Purification and Characterization of Angiotensin I Converting Enzyme lnhibitory Peptides from Enzymatic Hydrolysate of Cod Liver Protein (대구의 간 단백질의 효소적 가수분해물로부터 안지오텐신 I 전환효소 저해 펩타이드의 분리.정제 및 특성)

  • 최영일;박표잠;최정호;변희국;정인철;문성훈;김세권
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.140-149
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    • 2000
  • In order to utilize marine processing waste which would normally be discarded, cod liver protein was hydrolysed by ${\alpha}$-chymotrysin, and the hydrolysate was investigated for the new angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor. Thy hydrolysate was separated into three major types, with molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) values less than 10 kDa, 5 kDa and 1 kDa of ultrafiltration membranes, respectively. ACE inhibitory peptides were isolated from the fractions passed through MWCO 1 kDa membrane, and purified by using ion-exchange chromatography on a SP-Sephadex C-25 column, gel filtration on a Sephadex G-15 column, and HPLC on an ODS column. The purity was identified with capillary electrophoresis. The amino acid sequences of two peptides were Met-Ile-Pro-Pro-Tyr-Tyr (IC50=10.9 ${\mu}$M) and Gly-Leu-Arg-Asn-Gly-Ile (IC50=35.0 ${\mu}$M)

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