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Nutrient Removal and Biofuel Production in High Rate Algal Pond Using Real Municipal Wastewater

  • Kim, Byung-Hyuk;Kang, Zion;Ramanan, Rishiram;Choi, Jong-Eun;Cho, Dae-Hyun;Oh, Hee-Mock;Kim, Hee-Sik
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.24 no.8
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    • pp.1123-1132
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    • 2014

  • This study evaluated the growth and nutrient removal ability of an indigenous algal consortium on real untreated municipal wastewater in a high rate algal pond (HRAP). The HRAP was operated semicontinuously under different hydraulic retention times (HRT: 2, 4, 6, and 8 days). The average removal efficiencies of chemical oxygen demand, and total nitrogen and phosphate of real municipal wastewater were maintained at $85.44{\pm}5.10%$, $92.74{\pm}5.82%$, and $82.85{\pm}8.63%$, respectively, in 2 day HRT. Algae dominated the consortium and showed high settling efficiency (99%), and biomass and lipid productivity of $0.50{\pm}0.03g/l/day$ and $0.103{\pm}0.0083g/l/day$ (2day HRT), respectively. Fatty acid methyl ester analysis revealed a predominance of palmitate (C16:0), palmitoleate (C16:1), linoleate (C18:2), and linolenate (C18:3). Microalgal diversity analyses determined the presence of Chlorella, Scenedesmus, and Stigeoclonium as the dominant microalgae. The algal consortium provides significant value not only in terms of energy savings and nutrient removal but also because of its bioenergy potential as indicated by the lipid content (20-23%) and FAME profiling.

  • https://doi.org/10.4014/jmb.1312.12057 인용 PDF KSCI KPUBS

Functional Analysis of the Stress-Inducible Soybean Calmodulin Isoform-4 (GmCaM-4) Promoter in Transgenic Tobacco Plants

  • Park, Hyeong Cheol;Kim, Man Lyang;Kang, Yun Hwan;Jeong, Jae Cheol;Cheong, Mi Sun;Choi, Wonkyun;Lee, Sang Yeol;Cho, Moo Je;Kim, Min Chul;Chung, Woo Sik;Yun, Dae-Jin
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.475-480
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    • 2009

  • The transcription of soybean (Glycine max) calmodulin isoform-4 (GmCaM-4) is dramatically induced within 0.5 h of exposure to pathogen or NaCl. Core cis-acting elements that regulate the expression of the GmCaM-4 gene in response to pathogen and salt stress were previously identified, between -1,207 and -1,128 bp, and between -858 and -728 bp, in the GmCaM-4 promoter. Here, we characterized the properties of the DNA-binding complexes that form at the two core cis-acting elements of the GmCaM-4 promoter in pathogen-treated nuclear extracts. We generated GUS reporter constructs harboring various deletions of approximately 1.3-kb GmCaM-4 promoter, and analyzed GUS expression in tobacco plants transformed with these constructs. The GUS expression analysis suggested that the two previously identified core regions are involved in inducing GmCaM-4 expression in the heterologous system. Finally, a transient expression assay of Arabidopsis protoplasts showed that the GmCaM-4 promoter produced greater levels of GUS activity than did the CaMV35S promoter after pathogen or NaCl treatments, suggesting that the GmCaM-4 promoter may be useful in the production of conditional gene expression systems.

  • https://doi.org/10.1007/s10059-009-0063-6 인용 KSCI