• Journal of Species Research
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.137-144
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• 2015

As a result of the research project 'Survey and excavation of Korean indigenous species' to secure unrecorded species in Korea, a total of 14 unreported bacterial strains assigned to the phyla Deinococcus-Thermus and Bacteroidetes were isolated from various environmental habitats all around Korea. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity and affiliation to the clade with the closest species, it was concluded that the isolates represent deep groups of the phyla Deinococcus-Thermus and Bacteroidetes. There have been no records about these 14 unreported species in Korea; therefore 2 species of 2 genera in the class Deinococci within the phylum Deinococcus-Thermus, and 11 species of 9 genera in the class Flavobacteriia and one species in one genus in the class Sphigobacteriia within the phylum Bacteroidetes are described as unreported species found in Korea. Gram staining reaction, morphological and other biochemical characteristics are described in the species description section.

• Journal of Species Research
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.91-100
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• 2017

Five bacterial strains, ES10-3-3-1, KKM10-2-2-1, Ant11, JM10-4-1-3, and KMS4-11 assigned to the genus Deinococcus were isolated from soil samples collected from Namyangju-si in Gyeonggi-do, Gangnam-gu and Dongdaemun-gu in Seoul, Korea. In addition, four bacterial strains, KKM10-2-7-2, JM10-2-5, JM10-2-6-2, and KKM10-2-3 assigned to the genus Hymenobacter were isolated from soil samples collected from Gangnam-gu and Dongdaemun-gu in Seoul, in South Korea. The five Deinococcus species were Gram-stain positive, pink-pigmented, and short-rod or coccus shaped. The four Hymenobacter species were Gram-stain negative, red-pigmented, and short-rod shaped. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strains ES10-3-3-1, KKM10-2-2-1, Ant11, JM10-4-1-3, and KMS4-11 were most closely related to Deinococcus citri $NCCP-154^T$ (with 99.8% similarity), Deinococcus grandis DSM $12784^T$ (99.0%), Deinococcus marmoris DSM $12784^T$ (98.8%), Deinococcus claudionis $PO-04-19-125^T$ (98.7%), and Deinococcus radioresistens $8A^T$ (99.8%), respectively. KKM10-2-7-2, JM10-2-5, JM10-2-6-2, and KKM10-2-3 were most closely related to Hymenobacter algoricola $VUG-A23a^T$ (99.1% similarity), Hymenobacter elongatus $VUG-A112^T$ (99.1% similarity), Hymenobacter gelipurpurascens $Txg1^T$ (99.1% similarity), and Hymenobacter psychrotolerans $Tibet-IIU11^T$ (99.3% similarity), respectively. These nine species have never been reported in Korea; thus, five Deinococcus species are reported in the family Deinococcaceae, order Deinococcales, class Deinococci, phylum Deinococcus-Thermus and four Hymenobacter species are reported in the family Cytophagaceae, order Cytophagales, class Cytophagia, phylum Bacteroidetes.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.570-576
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• 2001

Thermophilic aerobic bacteria were applied in the degradation of industrial waste activated sludge (WAS) on a laboratory scale expreiment. The performance of digestion was estimated by measuring the reduction of total suspended solids (TSS), dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and total organic carbon (TOC). Among three strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus and three strains of Thermus species, B. stearothemophilus ATCC 31197 showed the best overall efficiency level for the degradation of industrial WAS, which was collected from a wastewater treatment plant in an oil refinery factory. Industrial WAS coul be successfully detraded in a batch digestion with ATCC 31197. The stability of the digestion process with ATCC 31197 was successfully verified by semi-continuous (fill-and-draw) digestion experiment. From the results of this study, it was shown that the thermophilic aerobic digestion process with ATCC 31197 could efficiently be applied to the degradation of industrial WAS.

• Journal of Species Research
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.207-213
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• 2017

In order to investigate the indigenous prokaryotic species diversity of the Nakdong River system in Korea, fresh water samples from Hapcheonho Lake and Jinyangho Lake were analyzed for bacterial taxonomic diversity. The isolated bacterial strains were identified based on 16S rRNA gene sequences, and those exhibiting at least 98.7% sequence similarity with known bacterial species, but never reported in Korea, were selected as unrecorded species. Eleven unrecorded bacterial species were discovered in this study. The isolates were identified as Aquabacterium citratiphilum, Clostridium ghonii, Curvibacter delicates, Deinococcus depolymerans, Eubacterium moniliforme, Flavobacterium nitrogenifigens, Kineosporia mesophila, Luteibacter jiangsuensis, Microbacterium terricola, Rhizobium larrymoorei, and Sediminicoccus rosea belonging to the phyla Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Proteobacteria and Deinococcus-Thermus. The selected isolates were further characterized for cellular and colonial morphologies, growth conditions, physiological properties, and enzymatic activities. Descriptive information of these previously unrecorded species is also provided.

• Journal of Species Research
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.161-180
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• 2018

Fourteen bacterial strains, low10-4-1, J11015, 17J27-22, 17G22-9, 17G9-4, 17Bio_15, 17gy_33, 17SD1_21, Strain8, 17Sr1_17, J21014T, H31021, 17J49-9, and 17J80-6 assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Deinococcus-Thermus, and Firmicutes were isolated from soil samples. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that strains low10-4-1, J11015, 17J27-22, 17G22-9, 17G9-4, 17Bio_15, 17gy_33, 17SD1_21, Strain8, 17Sr1_17, J21014T, H31021, 17J49-9, and 17J80-6 were most closely related to Marmoricola aurantiacus (98.9%), Calidifontibacter indicus (99.8%), Gordonia soli (98.8%), Rhodococcus globerulus (99.5%), Pseudarthrobacter siccitolerans (99.1%), Hymenobacter qilianensis (98.7%), Hymenobacter terrae (99.0%), Deinococcus yunweiensis (99.2%), Deinococcus proteolyticus (99.7%), Domibacillus indicus (99.2%), Exiguobacterium mexicanum (100.0%), Kurthia senegalensis (99.1%), Lysinibacillus composti (99.6%), and Bacillus loiseleuriae (99.3%). These fourteen species have never been reported in Korea, therefore we report them here for the first time.

• BMB Reports
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• 제45권12호
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• pp.748-753
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• 2012

A sequence of 10 amino acids at the C-terminus region of methylglyoxal synthase from Escherichia coli (EMGS) provides an arginine, which plays a crucial role in forming a salt bridge with a proximal aspartate residue in the neighboring subunit, consequently transferring the allosteric signal between subunits. In order to verify the role of arginine, the gene encoding MGS from a thermophile species, Thermus sp. GH5 (TMGS) lacking this arginine was cloned with an additional 30 bp sequence at the 3'-end and then expressed in form of a fusion TMGS with a 10 residual segment at the C-terminus ($TMGS^+$). The resulting recombinant enzyme showed a significant increase in cooperativity towards phosphate, reflected by a change in the Hill coefficient (nH) from 1.5 to 1.99. Experiments including site directed mutagenesis for Asp-10 in TMGS and $TMGS^+$, two dimentional structural survey, fluorescence and irreversible thermoinactivation were carried out to confirm this pathway.

• Journal of Species Research
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.22-26
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• 2016

Five bacterial strains designated DY37, BS333, JJ521, BM1, and DG13-2 were assigned to the genus Deinococcus were isolated from forest soil samples collected from Deogyusan, Busan, Changwon, and Seoul of South Korea. The isolates were Gram-staining negative or positive, and pale pink- or red-pigmented, short-rod shaped. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that strains DY37, BS333, JJ521, BM1, and DG13-2 were most closely related to Deinococcus aquatilis CCM $7524^T$ (with 99.0% similarity), D. ficus CC-FR2-$10^T$ (100.0%), D. grandis KS $0485^T$ (99.2%), D. roseus TDMA-$uv51^T$ (98.9%), and D. yunweiensis $YIM007^T$(100.0%), respectively. These 5 species have never been proposed in Korea; therefore 5 species of 1 genera in the family Deinococcaceae in the order Deinococcales within the class Deinococci are reported for proteobacterial species found in Korea.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.361-368
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• 2018

본 연구는 제주연안에서 채집한 옥돔(Branchiostegus japonicus)의 장내기관으로부터 장내미생물의 분리하여 다양성을 조사하였다. 1차로 1.5% BHIA, MA, TSA 및 R2A agar 배지상 순수분리한 결과, 1.5% BHIA에서 가장 많은 colony개수를 나타냈다. 호기성, 혐기배양은 평균 $1.7{\times}10^6CFU/g^{-1}$, $1.1{\times}10^5CFU/g^{-1}$로 나타났으며 총 147개의 순수 colony가 분리되었다. 16S rDNA염기서열 분석결과 58속 74종으로 나타났으며 기본균주와 95-100%의 유사도를 나타내었다. 크게 5문(Phylum)으로 나뉘었으며, 주요 계통군으로 Proteobacteria 문이 50%로 Moraxellaceae, Rhodobacteraceae, Shewanellae, Halomondaceae, Enterobacteriaceae, Vibrionaceae, Hahellaceae, Pseudomonadaceae, Erythrobacteraceae 총 9과 35속 35종으로 우점도가 제일 높게 나타났다. Actinobacteria문은 24%, Microbacteriaceae, Intrasporangiaceae, Dietziaceae, Dermabacteraceae, Dermacoccaceae, Nocardiodaceae, Brevibacteriaceae, Propionobacteriacea 총 8과 11속 17종, Frimicutes문은 16%, Bacillaceae, Staphylcoccaceae, Planococcaceae, Streptococcaceae, Paenibacillaceae, Clostridiaceae 총 6과 8속 17종, bacteroidetes문은 6%, Cyclobacteriaceae, Flavobacteriaceae 총 2과 3속 4종을, Deinococcus-thermus문은 4%로 Deinococcaceae 단일 1과 1속 1종으로 나타났다.

• 한국미생물생명공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국미생물생명공학회 2001년도 Proceedings of 2001 International Symposium
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• pp.165-168
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• 2001

Regulation of pyrimidine nucleotide synthesis has been studied extensively in enteric bacteria and Bacillus species. Varieties of control modes have been proposed for regulation of pyrimidine nucleotide biosynthetic (pyr) genes. In Bacillus caldolyticus and B. subtilis, it has been proved that pyrimidine de novo biosynthetic operon is controlled by a regulatory protein PyrR-mediated attenuation. Another Gram-positive bacteria including Enterococcus faecalis, Lactobacillus plantarum, and wctococcus lactis have been found to constitute a pyr gene cluster containing the pyrR gene. In addition, it has been proposed that the structure of the 5' leader region of the Gram-negative extreme thermophile Thermus strain Z05 pyr operon provides a novel mechanism of PyrR-dependent coupled transcription-translation attenuation. Bacterial genome sequencing projects have identified the PyrR homologues in Haemophilus influenzae, Synechocystis sp., Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, S. pyogenes, and Clostridium acetobutylicum, which are currently investigating for their physiological functions.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.66-73
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• 2011

각 지역에서 수집한 무당벌레(JK, CK, CJ)의 소화기관을 채취하여 장내세균의 밀도를 조사한 결과, 호기배양의 경우 $6.0{\times}10^4$ CFU/gut, 혐기배양 결과 $8.0{\times}10^6$ CFU/gut로 계수되었다. 호기적 조건에서 배양된 세균 집락은 총 7가지 형태로 분류되었으며, 혐기적 조건에서 배양된 집락은 총 3가지 형태로 유사한 특징을 나타내었다. 무당벌레 각 소화기관으로부터 호기성세균 34균주와 혐기성세균 82균주, 총 116균주의 장내세균을 순수분리하였다. 호기성 세균 34균주를 대상으로 16S rRNA 유전자 염기서열을 해석한 결과, ${\alpha}$-Proteobacteria (3균주), ${\gamma}$-Proteobacteria (2 균주), Firmicutes (24 균주), Actinobacteria (4 균주) 그리고 Deinococcus-Thermus (1균주) 계통군으로 분류되었다. Firmicutes 계통군의 Bacillus thuringiensis와 Staphylococcus 속의 다양한 종은 JK, CK 및 CI 무당벌레 소화기관에서 모두 공통적으로 분리되었다. 형태적으로 유사한 혐기세균의 16S rRNA-ARDRA 패턴양상을 분석하여 유사도 70%에서 비교한 결과, 17개 ARDRA group으로 분류되었다. 각 ARDRA group에 속하는 대표 혐기성세균의 16S rRNA 유전자 염기서열을 해석한 결과, 무당벌레 소화기관에서 분리된 모든 혐기성 장내세균은 ${\gamma}$-Proteobacteria 계통군에 속하는 것으로 나타났으며 Hafnia alvei, Enterobacter ludwigii, Enterobacter kobei, Pseudomonas oryzihabitans 그리고 Pseudomonas koreensis와 높은 유연관계를 갖는 것으로 확인되었다. 무당벌레 소화기관으로부터 분리된 전체 장내세균의 약 70%가 ${\gamma}$-Proteobacteria 계통군에 속하였으며, 23%가 Firmicutes 계통군으로 무당벌레 소화기관 내 주요 계통군임이 확인되었다.