• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.323-328
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• 1997

The recombinant Escherichia coli BL21(DE3)pLysE : pTCGT1 was grown to overproduce Bacillus macerans cyclodextrin glucanotransferase (CGTase) able to synthesize ${\alpha}$-cyclodextrin (CD) with a selectivity of 67%. A number of batch fermentations were performed to test the possibility of using lactose as an inducer of the E. coli T7 promoter system. A mixture of isopropyl ${\beta}$-D-thiogalactoside (IPTG) and lactose (1 : 1) gave a maximum CGTase activity of 2.4 U/ml, which was higher than the value obtained with induction by IPTG alone. Fed-batch fermentations involving a glucose-controlled growth period followed by a gene-expression phase with mixtures of IPTG and lactose were employed to achieve high cell density and thereby increase total CGTase activity. Optimized fed-batch fermentation using the modified inducer (IPTG : lactose=1 : 3) and 100 g/l yeast extract solution in the gene-expression phase resulted in a maximum CGTase activity of 62.9 U/ml and a final cell mass of 53.5 g/l, corresponding to a 31-fold increase in CGTase activity and a 29-fold increase in cell mass compared with the control batch fermentation.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.225-229
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• 1998

Formation of a L-Ascorbic Acid 2-O-$\alpha$-glucoside(AA-2G) is a chemically stable dervative of asocrbate that shows a vitamin C acitivity in vitro as well as in vivo. We studied whether ascorbic acid(AA) and AA-2G are formed in baechu kimchi during fermentation at 4 $^{\circ}C$ or 18$^{\circ}C$. To determine the formation of AA and AA-2G during fermentation of kimchi, wheat flour (as a carbhydrate source) added baechu kimchi (WBK) and control baechu kimchi(CBK) were prepared and fermented at 4 $^{\circ}C$ or 18 $^{\circ}C$. A substance like AA-2G was detected by HPLC from WBK fermented at 18 $^{\circ}C$ for 26 days in fall season and confirmed later to be the AA-2G showing distinctive characteristics of heat stability and resistance to ascrobate oxidase catalase. However, none of the kimchi formed AA-2G when the kimchi were fermented under a different temperature condition such as 4 $^{\circ}C$ instead of 18 $^{\circ}C$ or a different season such as summer instead of fall even if they were fermented at 18 $^{\circ}C$. The pH of kimchi was decreased rapidly during the first 3 days. and then decreased slowly after 4 days when the kimchi were fermented at 18 $^{\circ}C$. However, there were slight changes of pH in both CBK and WBK feremented at 4$^{\circ}C$ for 30 $^{\circ}C$ days. Therefore, the AA-2G -forming activity in kimchi seems to be correlated with the formentation temperature, the microorganisms involved in kimchi fermentation and a suitable glycosyl donor for AA as provided by wheat flour in this study.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.497-503
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• 1998

GTase와 CDase를 함께 분비$\cdot$생산하는 B. stearother-mophilus KJl6 균주의 CDase를 ammonium sulfate 침전, DBAE-cellulose, Sephadex G-100 column chromatogra-phy, 및 FPLC로 수율 7%, 비활성 12.4 units/mg, 정제도 87.6배로 정제된 CDase를 얻었으며 SDS-PAGE 상 단일 band를 확인하였다. 정제된 CDase의 분자량은 약 68,000 dalton 이었고 활성 최적 pH와 온도는 6.0와 55$^{\circ}C$였다. pH 안정성은 5.5~8.5의 범위에서 비교적 안정하였으며, 온도 안정성은 5$0^{\circ}C$에서 2시간까지는 안정하였고, 7$0^{\circ}C$에서 1시간 전처리하여도 80% 이상의 잔존활성을 나타내었다. 효소 활성은 $Cu^{+2}$와 $Hg^{+2}$와 같은 금속이온과 p-chlorome-rcuribenzoate, N-bromosuccinimide, mercaptoethanol, dithiothreitol에 의해서 효소활성이 강하게 저해되었다. 기질에 대한 반응 특이성은 $\gamma$ -CD를 가장 잘 분해하였으며, 그 외에 soluble starch나 amylose, amylopectin 등의 기질도 잘 분해하나 이들의 분해속도는 $\gamma$-CD에 비해서는 늦었다. 이들 기질의 최종 분해산물은 maltose였으며, maltose는 거의 분해되지 않았다.