• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.358-365
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• 2015

ε-Poly-L-lysine (ε-PL) is a homopolymer of L-lysine molecules connected between the epsilon amino and alpha carboxyl groups. This polymer is currently used as a natural preservative in food. Insufficient biomass is a major problem in ε-PL fermentation. Here, to improve cell growth and ε-PL productivity, various nitrogen-rich nutrients were supplemented into flask cultures after 16 h cultivation, marking the onset of ε-PL biosynthesis. Yeast extract, soybean powder, corn powder, and beef extract significantly improved cell growth. In terms of ε-PL productivity, yeast extract at 0.5% (w/v) gave the maximum yield (2.24 g/l), 115.4% higher than the control (1.04 g/l), followed by soybean powder (1.86 g/l) at 1% (w/v) and corn powder (1.72 g/l) at 1% (w/v). However, supplementation with beef extract inhibited ε-PL production. The optimal time for supplementation for all nutrients examined was at 16 h cultivation. The kinetics of yeast-extract-supplemented cultures showed enhanced cell growth and production duration. Thus, the most commonly used two-stage pH control fed-batch fermentation method was modified by omitting the pH 5.0-controlled period, and coupling the procedure with nutrient feeding in the pH 3.9-controlled phase. Using this process, by continuously feeding 0.5 g/h of yeast extract, soybean powder, or corn powder into cultures in a 30 L fermenter, the final ε-PL titer reached 28.2 g/l, 23.7 g/l, and 21.4 g/l, respectively, 91.8%, 61.2%, and 45.6% higher than that of the control (14.7 g/l). This describes a promising option for the mass production of ε-PL.

• 대한수학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.87-107
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• 2003

In this paper, we consider a discrete time queueing system fed by a superposition of an ON and OFF source with heavy tail ON periods and geometric OFF periods and a D-BMAP (Discrete Batch Markovian Arrival Process). We study the tail behavior of the queue length distribution and both infinite and finite buffer systems are considered. In the infinite buffer case, we show that the asymptotic tail behavior of the queue length of the system is equivalent to that of the same queueing system with the D-BMAP being replaced by a batch renewal process. In the finite buffer case (of buffer size K), we derive upper and lower bounds of the asymptotic behavior of the loss probability as $K\;\longrightarrow\;\infty$.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.51-54
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• 1998

It has been proved that co-cultivation of human neroblastoma cells and human fibroblast cells can enhance nerve cell growth and the production of BDNF in perfusion cultivation. In batch co-cultivation, maximum cell density was increased up to 1.76${\times}$106 viable cells/mL from 9${\times}$105 viable cells/mL of only neuroblastoma cell culture. The growth of neuroblastoma cells was greatly improved by culturing both nerve and fibroblast cells in a perfusion process, maintaining 1.5${\times}$106 viable cells/mL, which was much higher than that form fed-batch cultivation. The nerve cell growth was greatly enhance in both fed-batch and perfusion cultivations while the growth of fibroblast cells was not. It strongly implies that the factors secreted from human fibrobast cells and/or the environments of co-culture system can enhance both cell growth and BDNF secretion. Specific BDNF production rate was not enhanced in co-cultures; however, the production period was increased as the cell growth was lengthened in the co-culture case. Competitive growth between nerve cells and fibroblast cells was not observed in all cases, showing no changes of fibroblast cell growth and only enhancement of the neuroblastoma cell growth and overall BDNF production. It was also found that the perfusion cultivation was the most appropriate process for cultivating two cell lines simultaneously in a bioreactor.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.716-721
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• 1999

It has been known that continuous cultivation of hairy root is difficult to maintain for a long period of time compared to the microbial and callus cultures. Chemostat cultivation was successfully carried out in order to economically produce a plant-based colorant, betacyanin, from red beet hairy root for more than 85 days in a 14-1 fermentor. The result from the chemostat cultivation was compared to those of the batch and fed-batch cultivations of red beet hairy roots. It was shown that hairy root reached its steady state within 50 days of the cultivation, and then maintained for about 25-30 days in a wide range of dilution rates. Total betacyanin production from the continuous process was also calculated to be 2.65g at 0.28(l/d) of dilution rate, compared to 0.196g from fed-batch cultivation. It was found that betacyanin production was a partially growth related process, yielding 0.376 mg/g-fresh wt. cell and $1.89{\times}10^{-5}$ mg/g-fresh wt. cell/d, with 0.92 of correlation factor in a partial growth-product model. It was also shown that the cell growth required was relatively large for maintenance amount of energy at a low dilution rate. The growth of hairy root was inhibited by high light intensity in following a photo-inhibition model. The growth parameters were estimated to be 0.3(l/d), $10.56kcal/\textrm{m}^2/h$,{\;}and{\;}35.81kcal/\textrm{m}^2/h$ for the maximum specific growth rate, half saturation light intensity, and inhibition light intensity, respectively.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.1781-1789
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• 2016

Glargine insulin is a long-acting insulin analog that helps blood glucose maintenance in patients with diabetes. We constructed the pPT-GI vector to express prepeptide glargine insulin when transformed into Escherichia coli JM109. The transformed E. coli cells were cultured by fed-batch fermentation. The final dry cell mass was 18 g/l. The prepeptide glargine insulin was 38.52% of the total protein. It was expressed as an inclusion body and then refolded to recover the biological activity. To convert the prepeptide into glargine insulin, citraconylation and trypsin cleavage were performed. Using citraconylation, the yield of enzymatic conversion for glargine insulin increased by 3.2-fold compared with that without citraconylation. After the enzyme reaction, active glargine insulin was purified by two types of chromatography (ion-exchange chromatography and reverse-phase chromatography). We obtained recombinant human glargine insulin at 98.11% purity and verified that it is equal to the standard of human glargine insulin, based on High-performance liquid chromatography analysis and Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry. We thus established a production process for high-purity recombinant human glargine insulin and a method to block Arg (B31)-insulin formation. This established process for recombinant human glargine insulin may be a model process for the production of other human insulin analogs.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.610-616
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• 2002

공정이 복잡한 청주제조공정을 개선하기 위하여 일반 미분과는 물성이 전혀 다른 팽화미분을 사용하여 새로운 청주제조공정을 개발하였다. 당화액으로부터 고형분을 제거하고 28%(w/v)의 당농도에서 발효를 시작한 경우 효모의 생육이 늦어지며 발효기간이 길어지는 문제점이 발생하였다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기위하여 20%(w/v)의 당액에 zeolite를 첨가하여 발효를 시작하고, 발효 중 2회에 걸쳐 영양원을 첨가하였다. 이러한 조정으로 효모의 생존율을 증가시켰으며, 총 발효기간을 40%(percent) 감소시킬 수 있었다. 상쾌하고 깊은 맛을 갖으며, 알코올 함량이 18%(v/v)인 청주를 12일 만에 제조할 수 있었다. 발효 침전물로부터 회수한 효모를 4번까지 재사용하여 발효를 실시하였으며, 이 경우 효모의 생존율, 알코올 생성, 향기성분 등의 변화 등이 관찰되지 않아 효모의 재사용이 가능하였다. 따라서 복잡한 방법으로 제조되는 전통적인 청주제조공정을 간단하며 효율적인 방법으로 개선할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.179-183
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• 1999

A recombinant form of hirudin, a potent thrombin-specific inhibitor derived from the bloodsucking leech, was expressed as a secretory product in Saccharomyces cerevisiae under the control of GALl0 promoter and the mating factor $\alpha$pre-pro leader sequence. In an attempt to produce recombinant hirudin (r-Hir) of therapeutic purity in large quantities, the fed-batch fermentation was carried out by using this recombinant yeast, and subsequently downstream processing was developed with the preparative-scale column chromatography systems. About 234 mg/l of biologically active r-Hir was produced as a secretory product by the fed-batch fermentation strategy developed for an efficient downstream processing. Using a two-step chromatography process (an anion exchange chromatography followed by the reverse phase HPLC), the r-Hir was purified to>98% with an overall recovery yield of 84%. According to the N-terminal amino acid sequencing, the purified r-Hir was found to have the predicted N-terminal amino acid sequence. The biological activity of the purified r-Hir to inhibit thrombin was also identical to that of the commercial hirudin.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.371-377
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• 2012

The present study describes medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates (mcl-PHAs) production by the Pseudomonas Gl01 strain isolated from mixed microbial communities utilized for PHAs synthesis. A two-step fed-batch fermentation was conducted with glucose and waste rapeseed oil as the main carbon source for obtaining cell growth and mcl-PHAs accumulation, respectively. The results show that the Pseudomonas Gl01 strain is capable of growing and accumulating mcl-PHAs using a waste oily carbon source. The biomass value reached 3.0 g/l of CDW with 20% of PHAs content within 48 h of cultivation. The polymer was purified from lyophilized cells and analyzed by gas chromatography (GC). The results revealed that the monomeric composition of the obtained polyesters depended on the available substrate. When glucose was used in the growth phase, 3-hydroxyundecanoate and 3-hydroxydodecanoate were found in the polymer composition, whereas in the PHAs-accumulating stage, the Pseudomonas Gl01 strain synthesized mcl-PHAs consisting mainly of 3-hydroxyoctanoate and 3-hydroxydecanoate. The transcriptional analysis using reverse-transcription real-time PCR reaction revealed that the phaC1 gene could be transcribed simultaneously to the phaZ gene.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.263-268
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• 1989

유전자의 재조합 균주의 생산성을 향상시키기 위한 발효시스템 개발을 목적으로 regulated promoter 인 SUC2 gene 갖는 유전자 재조합 S. cerebisiae를 모델로하여 유전자 산물인 Invertase 발현에 미치는 글루코오스 농도의 영향, 발효 중 플라스미드의 불안정성, 생육특성 및 continuous fed batch system을 연구하였다. 유전자 재조합 균주는 biphasic growth 현상을 보였으며 글루코오스 농도가 0.9g/$\ell$에서 2.2g/L로 증가함에 따라 비증식 속도는 0.224 h$^{-1}$에서 0.226 h$^{-1}$로 증가했으며 숙주효모보다 낮은 값을 나타내었다. 유전자 재조합 균주의 invertase 생산은 발효조내의 글루코오스 농도에 크게 영향을 받아 글루코오스 농도가 0.25~0.4g/L로 감소될 때 invertase 생산이 시작되었으며 회분발효중 플라스미드의 분리는 글루코오스 자화기간 동안에 빈번히 일어났으나 에탄을 자화기간에는 완만해지는 경향을 보였다. 또한 통기를 해주지 않고 배지의 용존산소만으로 배양시킨 결과 통기를 한 경우에 비하여 invertase의 비활성과 총활성이 각각 1.5 및 1.3 배 증가되었다. 균체의 증식단계와 유전자의 발현단계로 구분하여 발효시키기 위하여 영양분을 함유한 글루코오스 용액을 48m1/h(0.096g 글루코오스/48L의 유량으로 12시간 연속적으로 공급하여 fed batch 배양한 결과 invertase의 비활성과 총활성이 비통기적 회분배양 보다 각각 1.74, 2.74배 증가되었다.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 2003년도 동계 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.455-460
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• 2003

발효공정에 있어 배양법으로는 회분식 배양법, 연속식 배양법과 유가식(fed-batch) 배양법이 있다. 이것은 발효 과정 중 기질과 균류 등의 추가 투입 및 추출에 따른 분류로서 특히, 유가식 배양의 경우 배양액의 농도가 너무 높거나 낮으면 에탄올의 생산이 많아지거나 효모의 성장 속도가 늦어지게 된다 유가식 공정은 항생제, 비타민, 아미노산, 효소 및 재조합 단백질 등의 생산에 주로 이용된다. (중략)