• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.74-78
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• 2000

Vibrio, Photobacterium, Alteromonas and Xenorhabdus species are capable of emitting light, called bioluminescence. They exist in marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments. Bacterial bioluminescent reaction is that reduced riboflavin phosphates and a long-chain aldehyde are oxidized in the presence of molecular oxygen and enzyme luciferase. This experiment aims to develop the proper culture media and to optimize the storage condition for the recovery of bioluminescent activity in Photobacterium phosphoreum. The Luria broth (LB) medium was modified for cultivation of Photobacterium phophoreum, called as modified LB(mLB) medium. The mLB medium is LB fortified with 3% glycerol and 1.5% NaCl. In mLB medium. bacterial growth and bioluminescent activity are 25% higher than those in a Nutrient broth medium. When the cell stocks were stored at $-20^{\circ}C$, $-70^{\circ}C$ and LN2 for 3 months, cell growth and bioluminescent activity of culture after stored at $-20^{\circ}C$ were better than those of other treatments. The highest bioluminescent activity obtained at the late exponential phase in all treatments. When the cell stock was freeze-dried with 5% adonitol as a cryoprotectant, the recovery of cell was better than those of control and freeze-dried cell stock without addition of cryoprotectant.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Urban Environment
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.547-555
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• 2018

In addition to North America and Europe, Korea is also responding to the toxic damage caused by the production and distribution of chemicals. Methods for assessing bio-toxicity of harmful substances have been widely introduced, but it is required of quantitative and speedy information for modeling. For 6 heavy metals, as zinc, copper, chrome, cadmium, mercury and lead, bio-toxicity assessment and kinetics model were constructed using Vibrio fischeri which is widely used luminous bacteria. The degree of luminescence activity and the toxicity of heavy metals were relative limunescence unit, RLU measured as by using a photomultiplier embedded device. The toxicity was assessed by the concentration levels giving under 20% lethality and lethal concentration, $EC_{50}$. In the results, the toxicity order were followed from mercury, lead, copper, chrome, zinc and cadmium. $EC_{{50},{\infty}}$ obtained by trends of $EC_{50}$ by time follows had highly linear agreement with main parameters of bio-toxicity modelling. The average error rates of the reproduced lethality obtained from DAM and TDM model on the basis of body residue, were 10.2% for mercury, lead, copper, chrome and 20.0 for the all 6 methals.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Environmental Toocicology Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.161-161
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• 2002

최근, 무분별한 농약사용으로 인해 조리 후에도 잔류하는 농약성분의 독성이 문제시 되고 있어 인체 내로의 섭취 전에 독성 유무와 그 정도를 확인할 수 있는 방법 개발을 위한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 채소류, 곡류, 과일류 등에 빈번히 사용되는 농약성분의 독성 확인과 함께 이들 식품 내에 잔류하는 농약성분의 검출을 위한 방법을 연구하였으며, 이들의 독성 유무를 유전자 재조합된 5종의 발광성 미생물을 이용하여 확인하였다. 또한 이들 농약류가 식품 내에 잔류하여 발생하는 독성을 분석하기 위해 식품내 잔류하는 농약 성분의 추출에 필요한 효율적인 추출 용매를 제작하였으며, 농약성분의 화학적 성질에 따라 추출 방법을 두 단계로 분리하여 추출률을 향상시켰다. 뿐만 아니라, 식품류의 특성에 적합하게 식품별로 특정한 추출방법을 연구하였으며, 추출된 농약 성분의 독성 및 안정성 역시 발광성 박테리아를 이용하여 확인하여, 전체적인 추출방법의 효율을 진단하였다.

• Environmental engineer
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• s.178
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• pp.66-72
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• 2001

기존의 Microtox assay를 대체하고 국내 실정에 맞는 독성검사-조기경보장치를 개발하기 위하여 독성물질에 매우 민감하게 반응하는 새로운 세균을 수계에서 분리하여 발광유전자인 luxAB로 형질전환시켰다. 또한, luxAB유전자를 포함하는 플라스미드로 형질전환된 균주를 이용하여 여러 가지 독성물질에 대한 독성검사를 수행하였다. 민감도를 증진시킨 균주 YH9-RC를 대상으로 여러 가지 화합물에 대한 EC50 값을 측정하였을 때 기존의 Microtox

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.202-206
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• 2000

Feasibility of microbial culture media using by-product of salt fermented kanary was investigated. Gram negative strain, Escherichia coli, and Gram positive strain, Bacillus subtilis, and bioluminescent Photobacterium Phosphoreum were incubated with kanary by-Product media (KB media). Compared with LB media, KB media had enough carbon source, but lacked nitrogen source and growth factor. When 0.5% of peptone as a nitrogen source and 0.3% of yeast extract as nitrogen and growth factor source were fortified in KB media, the cell population rate was similar to LB media. Also, when 0.5% of yeast extract was fortified to KB media, it showed the same result as in LB media. The price of KB media with fortification of 0.5% peptone and 0.3% yeast extract, and 0.5% of yeast extract is only 46 and 19% of that of LB media, respectively. These results showed that kanary by-Product could be a good and cheaper bacterial culture media if small amount of nitrogen source and growth factor were added.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.154-161
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• 1998

To investigate whether the introduced genetic marker is useful to detect the survivalship and activity of the natural bacteria under the stressed conditions, one Gram-negative isolate, KP964 was transformed to the luminous phenotype by transferring luxAB gene. Under the starvation-stress this luminous bacterial culturability (determined by colony-forming-units [CFU] on agar plate) decreased rapidly below the detection limit by 37 days, while its total cell number (determined by AODC) remained almost the same as its initial inocular size. At that time period, the viable cell number was estimated to be 1400 times higher than its CFU number. The bioiuminescence (determined by relative light units [RLU]) produced under the same condition was also monitored and found to decrease more rapidly than the culturability by 5-fold. Under the other stresses, e.g., osmotic shocks, acid shock, and exposure to toxic chemicals, this bacterial strain did not show the reliable correlation between CFU and RLU. These results might not suggest the direct estimation of bioiuminescence from the stressed bacteria be an index of both the survivalship and its activity. However, when the stressed bacterial cells were incubated under the favorable condition by relieving from the existing stress, the potential bioiuminescence (the lag periods before the increase of bioiuminescence, the increase rates of bioiuminescence, and the maximal levels of bioiuminescence) was shown to be highly dependent upon the strengths of the stresses exposed to the bacterial cells. Therefore, analysis of the potential bioiuminescence from the stressed bacteria revealed good relationships with survival as well as activity.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Environmental Toocicology Conference
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• 2000.12a
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• pp.91-91
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• 2000

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Environmental Biology Conference
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• 2004.12a
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• pp.29-34
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• 2004

• The Microorganisms and Industry
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.28-39
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• 1990

Biosensor는 모든 종류에서 공히 생체물질로 이루어지는 감지 부분, transducer 그리고 전자부분으로 이루어진다. 따라서 Biosensor는 사용하는 생체물질, transducer로 그리고 측정되는 물질에 따라 분류된다. Biosensor에 이용될 수 있는 생물반응은 pH 변화, ion 생산및 소비, 기체생산및 소비, 발열, 발광, 전자전달, 질량변화 등을 들 수 있다. 이상의 반응을 유발하는 생체물질은 효소, 항체등 단백질과 세포, 조직등 다양하다. 여기에서는 transducer의 특징을 먼저 살펴보고 biosensor 각론에서 이들 생체물질의 반응 특징을 소개한다.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.117-120
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• 2000

For detecting toxicity of endocrine disruptors (EDs), rapid, sensitive, and simple methods are needed. Therefore, in this study, a new method in which the different toxic effect of EDs can be monitored using 4 different recombinant bacteria was designed and evaluated. It was found that the recombinant bacteria could monitor the toxic effect, not estrogenic effect, due to EDCs through the measurement of bioluminescence and cell growth rate, which were shown to depend upon a form of cellular toxicity, such as DNA damage, protein damage, oxidative damage, and membrane damage. In addition, it was found that the damage done by EDCs can be divided into several groups based upon the toxic mechanisms of the EDCs