• 공업화학전망
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.28-35
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• 2016

천연가스, 셰일가스 및 바이오가스의 주성분인 메탄은 지구온난화 가스로, 감축대상인 동시에 차세대 탄소 자원으로 주목을 받고 있다. 기존의 화학적 메탄전환방법은 대규모 설비투자가 요구되는 규모의 경제가 적용되어 소규모 한계 가스전에는 활용이 어렵다. 이러한 문제점을 극복하기 위하여 최근에 생물학적 전환법이 대안으로 고려되고 있다. 메탄자화균은 메탄산화효소(methane monooxygenase)를 이용하여 상온 상압에서 메탄을 탄소원으로 사용하여 생장할 수 있다. 따라서 메탄자화균의 메탄 대사경로를 기반으로 대사공학을 활용하면 메탄으로부터의 다양한 종류의 고부가가치 산물 생산이 가능하다. 본고에서는 메탄자화균을 이용한 메탄의 바이오전환 기술의 현황 및 전망에 대하여 논의하였다.

• 한국축산시설환경학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.183-188
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• 2004

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.1883-1886
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• 2014

• 식품기술
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.177-189
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• 2010

• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.197-205
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• 2015

This study was conducted to investigate the bioconversion of ginsenosides as well as anti-inflammatory activities of fresh ginseng Kkakdugi during fermentation. Fresh ginseng Kkakdugi reached proper ripeness, pH 4.30, and acidity 1.69% at $15^{\circ}C$ after 10 days. Lactic acid bacteria grew until reaching $1.10{\times}10^9CFU/mL$ after 20 days of fermentation, and ${\beta}$-glucosidase activity increased from 1.154 to 1.885 units/g. The bioconversion of ginsenosides was confirmed based on increased content of Rg3, an aglycone, from 0.13 to 0.17 mg/g during fermentation through HPLC. Fresh ginseng Kkakdugi did not display cytotoxicity up to the concentrations of $80{\mu}g/mL$, regardless of ripening period. Nitrite production and expression of inflammation-related proteins, iNOS and COX-2, decreased in a dose-dependent manner regardless of ripening period. From these results, fresh ginseng Kkakdugi showed the bioconversion of ginsenosides to aglycone during the lactic acid fermentation as well as an anti-inflammatory effect through the reduction of NO production and iNOS and COX-2 expression.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.95-104
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• 2018

Biosurfactants or microbial surfactants are surface-active biomolecules that are produced by a variety of microorganisms. Biodegradability and low toxicity have led to the intensification of scientific studies on a wide range of industrial applications for biosurfactants in the field of environmental bioremediation as well as the petroleum industry and enhanced oil recovery. However, the major issues in biosurfactant production are high production cost and low yield. Improving the bioindustrial production processes relies on many strategies, such as the use of cheap raw materials, the optimization of medium-culture conditions, and selecting hyperproducing strains. The present work aims to obtain a mutant with higher biosurfactant production through applying mutagenesis on Bacillus subtilis SPB1 using a combination of UV irradiation and nitrous acid treatment. Following mutagenesis and screening on blood agar and subsequent formation of halos, the mutated strains were examined for emulsifying activity of their culture broth. A mutant designated B. subtilis M2 was selected as it produced biosurfactant at twice higher concentration than the parent strain. The potential of this biosurfactant for industrial uses was shown by studying its stability to environmental stresses such as pH and temperature and its applicability in the oil recovery process. It was practically stable at high temperature and at a wide range of pH, and it recovered above 90% of motor oil adsorbed to a sand sample.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.545-550
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• 1998

재생가능한 대체원료로서 가치있는 탄소 4개의 디카르복실산인 숙신산은 현재 석유화학공정에 의해 상업적으로 생산되고 있으나, 최근 생물화학공정에 의한 숙신산 대량생산 공정개발을 위한 연구가 집중되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 전자공여체로 포도당과 전자수용체로서 푸마르산을 이용하여 숙신산으로의 생물전환을 연구하였다. 먼저 고수율로 푸마르산을 숙신산으로 생물전환하는 통성박테리아 Enterococus sp. RKY1 KCTC 8890P를 분리하여 그 특성을 조사하였다. 초기 푸마르산 농도 40, 70, 100g/L으로 회분식 배양한 결과 푸마르산의 농도가 증가함에 따라 숙신산 생성량이 증가하였다. 초기 푸마르산 농도 70 g/L에서 평균비생산속도, 평균부피생산속도및 몰수율은각각 0.64 g/g.h, 4.87 g/L.h, 96.5%이었고 최대 숙신산 농도는 초기 푸마르산 농도 100 g/L에서 발효 20시간에 89%의 몰 수율로 88.9 g/L가 얻어졌다.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.357-361
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• 2005

The bioconversion of linoleic acid (LA) to conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) was investigated to examine LA-adaptation of Bifidobacterium breve KCTC 3461 to additions of 1 to 5 mg/mL of LA overtime. To induce LA-adaptation, B. breve KCTC 3461 was treated with LA, according to three schemes. For LA-adapted B. breve the maximum concentration of CLA, $300\~350{\mu}g/mL$, was obtained in cys-MRS medium containing 1 mg/mL of LA. The CLA production significantly increased with increasing LA concentration, from 1 to 4 mg/mL, but the conversion of LA to CLA gradually decreased. The CLA production capability of B. breve, and its tolerance, improved significantly with LA-adaptation. The addition of LA (1 mg/mL) into the culture broth after 24 h of cultivation in a 100-mL media bottle was most effective at promoting CLA production. In a 2.5-L stirred-tank bioreactor, the observed conversion and productivity of $56.6\%\;and\;35.4{\mu}gmL^{-1}h^{-1}$, respectively, by LA-adapted B. breve were approximately 6.6 and 9.8 times higher than those of LA-unadapted B. breve.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.439-447
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• 2018

The aromatic compound p-hydroxybenzoate (PHBA) is an important material with multiple applications, including as a building block of liquid crystal polymers in chemical industries. The cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes are beneficial monooxygenases for the synthesis of chemicals, and CYP53A15 from fungus Cochliobolus lunatus is capable of executing the hydroxylation from benzoate to PHBA. Here, we constructed a system for the bioconversion of benzoate to PHBA in Escherichia coli cells coexpressing CYP53A15 and human NADPH-P450 oxidoreductase (CPR) genes as a redox partner. For suitable coexpression of CYP53A15 and CPR, we originally constructed five plasmids in which we replaced the N-terminal transmembrane region of CYP53A15 with a portion of the N-terminus of various mammalian P450s. PHBA productivity was the greatest when CYP53A15 expression was induced at $20^{\circ}C$ in $2{\times}YT$ medium in host E. coli strain ${\Delta}gcvR$ transformed with an N-terminal transmembrane region of rabbit CYP2C3. By optimizing each reaction condition (reaction temperature, substrate concentration, reaction time, and E. coli cell concentration), we achieved 90% whole-cell conversion of benzoate. Our data demonstrate that the described novel E. coli bioconversion system is a more efficient tool for PHBA production from benzoate than the previously described yeast system.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.187-192
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• 1988

Cholesterol로부터 미생물전환 방법에 의한 4-androstene-3,17-dione(AD)의 생성에 대해 연구를 수행했다. 발효액중에 cholesterol의 용해도를 증가시키기 위해 ethanol을 용매로 사용하였는데, ethanol 농도가 2%(v/v)까지는 세균성장이 크게 저해되지 않았다. 미생물전환은 pH를 7.0으로 조절하고, 초기대수 증식기에 cholesterol을 첨가했을 때 효율적으로 AD가 생성되었다. AD 생성을 높이기 위해 cholesterol 첨가방법을 여러 가지로 변환시켰다. 즉, 최종 cholesterol 농도를 0.1% 하여 ethanol에 녹여 간헐적으로 첨가했을 때 가장 높은 수율을 얻었다. Cholesterol을 세번(전체 3g/$\ell$) 첨가했을 때 최종 전환수율이 65%에 도달한 반면, 같은 양의 cholesterol (3g/$\ell$)을 한번에 넣었을 때 40%의 생성수율을 얻었다.