Alcaligenes eutrophus 균주의 성장과 Poly-Beta-hydroxybutyrate 합성에 미치는 포도당과 암모늄농도의 영향

The biodegradation of Aroclor 1242 was investigated by the mixed cultivation of the natural bacterial isolates and a genetically engineered microorganism (GEM). The natural strain of MS-1003 degraded the Aroclor 1242 through the ortho-cleavage pathway, while the other strains through the meta-cleavage pathway. When the MS-1003 strain was additionally inoculated into the 1 day culture of the DJ-26 strain and then cultivated for 2 days, the Aroclor was degraded up to 86% and resulted in increase of the meta-cleavage product. But in the MS-1003 culture inoculated with the DJ-26, degradation of the Aroclor was limited to the level of each pure culture. By the mixed cultivation of the DJ-26 strain together with the DJ-12 or its GEM strain of DF-10, which degrades the Aroclor through the meta-cleavage pathway, degradation of the Aroclor as well as production of the meta-cleavage compound were lower than those of each pure culture. The degradation of Aroclor 1242 by the GEM strain was not improved over the parental strain. Therefore, a form of cometaboiism of Aroclor 1242 was found in the mixed culture of the DJ-26 and MS-1003 strains which degrade the Aroclor through the different metabolic pathway, but in the mixed culture of the DJ-26 and DJ-12 strains degrading Aroclor 1242 through the same pathway, a kind of competetion for the substrate was observed.

생분해성 고분자로서 중요한 poly-$\beta$-hydroxybutyrate(PHB)의 생합성에 있어서 포도당과 암모늄농도의 영향을 규명하기 위하여 Alcaligenes eutrophus를 회분식으로 배양하였다. PHB는 질소원이 고갈되면서 생성되었고 건조세포무게의 약 80까지 축적되었다. 초기 포도당농도가 높을수록 세포성장과 PHB 합성은 억제되었지만 최종 세포농도와 건조세포무게에 대한 PHB 축적비는 증가하였다. 초기 암모늄농도가 낮을수록 최종 세포와 PHB 농도가 낮았지만 건조세포무게에 대한 PHB 축적비는 증가하였다. 배양도중 산소공급을 중단했을 때 세포성장과 PHB 합성이 중단되었다.