• KSBB Journal
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2003

Screening of a strain was carried out to produce an enantioselective lipase toward the precursor of ltraconazole as azole-containg compounds, which are well known as antifungal drug agents. An Acinetobacter sp. SY-01 strain which can selectively hydrolyze the racemic substrates was isolated and the racemic substrate was resolved to the S-ester in 95.6% enantiomeric excess after 74.8% hydrolysis. The optimum temperature and pH for the conversion were $50^{\circ}C$, pH 7.0. However, the temperature and pH had no effect on the enantiomeric excess. Addition of solvents decreased the conversion and slightly increased the enantiomeric excess. However, the kind of solvents had no effect on enantiomeric excess. The substrate concentration decrease enantiomeric excess and this is confirmed by the products generated from hydrolysis, and also enantiomeric excess could be increased by the removal of reaction products.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.297-300
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• 2000

Succinic acid was produced by Enterococcus faecalis RKY1 cells immobilized in hollow fiber bioreactor as an alternatively immobilized culture in bioconversion of fumaric acid to succinic acid. The feed was pumped through the shell side. As the flow rate of the feed was increased, the steady state was obtained more quickly. The steady state was reached after 24 hr cultivation in 0.25 ml/min, 12 hr in 0.5 ml/min, and 9 hr in 1.0 ml/min, respectively. The effect of medium pH on succinate production was also investigated. By changing the medium pH of 8.0, the succinic acid produced was increased about 16% than that of pH 7.0.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.275-276
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• 2013

생명현상은 다양한 단백질들 간의 상호작용으로 외부의 환경에 대처하고 생명유지를 위한 다양한 생화학반응을 수행한다. 이러한 복잡한 생명현상의 과정을 이해하기 위해서 생명과학자들은 유전자 조절네트워크, 신호전달네트워크, 대사네트워크 등 다양한 종류의 네트워크를 모델링하고 있다. 하지만 각각의 모델링방법은 각 분야별로 다양하게 존재하고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 다양한 종류의 생물학적 네트워크를 통합적으로 모델링할 수 있는 통합적 모델링 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다. 특히 신호전달 과정에 대한 블리온 모델링기법, 유전자 발현조절 및 대사과정에 대한 ODE(Ordinary Differential Equation)모델링 그리고 유전적 표현형을 분석할 수 있는 Flux 모델링을 하나의 모델링 시스템에서 설계 하였다. 또한 이 같은 다양한 종류의 모델링을 지원하기 위해서 SBML포멧을 기준으로 가시적인 모델링 시스템을 구현하였다. 특히 연구자가 모델링한 생물학적 모델이 다른 형태의 모델링기법에도 적용될 수 있도록 전환할 수 있도록 하였다. 이러한 통합적인 모델링 시스템은 향후 복잡해지는 생물학적 네트워크를 손쉽게 모델링 할 수 있는 시스템으로 활용될 것이다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.57-63
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• 2013

A combined process consisted of a biofilm reactor and a continuously stirred-tank reactor (CSTR) was investigated for highly loaded ammonium wastewater treatment via nitrite accumulation. To enhance ammonium oxidizing bacteria over nitrite oxidizing bacteria on the surface of carriers, the biofilm reactor was operated at temperature of $35^{\circ}C$ for more than three months but the influent ammonium (500 mg-N/L) was partially oxidized to nitrite (240 mg-N/L). As pH was increased from 7.5 to 8.0, nitrite accumulation was fully achieved due to the inhibition of nitrite oxidizing bacteria under high free ammonia concentration. The biofilm reactor performance was severely deteriorated at the hydraulic retention time of 12 hr, at which incomplete nitrification of ammonia was observed. Various solubilization methods were applied to sewage sludge for enhancing its biodegradability and the combined method, alkaline followed by ultrasonic, gave the highest solubilization efficiency (58%); the solubilized solution was used as the external carbon source for denitrification reaction in CSTR. FISH analysis showed that the dominant microorganisms on the carriers were ammonium oxidizing bacteria such as Nitrosomonas spp. and Nitrospirar spp. but low amounts of nitrite oxidizing bacteria as Nitrobacter spp. was also detected.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.347-354
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• 2013

This study was carried out to examine different mole ratio of $H_2/CO_2$ and EBCT using the continuous system in the lab scale throughout biological methods with accumulated hydrogenotrophic methanogen that can convert $CO_2$ to $CH_4$. The experimental-based results with various gas mixtures of mole ratio of 4:1($H_2/CO_2$) and 5:1($H_2/CO_2$), $H_2$ was converted more than 99% conversion rate. In case of $CO_2$, 4:1($H_2/CO_2$) and 5:1($H_2/CO_2$) were $74.45{\pm}0.33%$, $95.8{\pm}10.7%$, respectively, in addition, the study was confirmed that the amount of $H_2$ was more needed than stoichiometric equations, where approach methods are empirical versus theoretical frameworks, for converting total $CO_2$. As such, we have noticed that $H_2$ was used for energy source of hydrogenotrophic methanogen for maintaining life. Regarding the results of the ratio of treatment by retention time, limitation of treatment capacity showed that $H_2$(99.9%) and $CO_2$(96.23%) at EBCT 3.3 hrs indicated stable conversion ratio, as well as appeared that methane production rate and $CO_2$ fixation rate were investigated $1.15{\pm}0.02m^3{\cdot}m^{-3}{\cdot}day^{-1}$ and $2.01{\pm}0.04kg{\cdot}m^{-3}{\cdot}day^{-1}$, respectively.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.9-14
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• 1995

Continuous production of fructooligosaccharides from sucrose by a dual immobilized enzyme system of fructosyltransferase and glucose isomerase was studied in a column reactor. The optimal temperature and pH of the immobilized fructosyltransferase were $65^{\circ}C$ and 5.5, respectively. The activity of glucose isomerase was favorable as temperature and pH were increased within the ranges examined. However, both the immobilized enzymes were thermally unstable over $5^{\circ}C$, suggesting that long-term operation of the dual immobilized enzyme column should be carried out below $50^{\circ}C$. The optimum packing ratio of fructosyltransferase to glucose isomerase was found to be around 5/3. Under the optimized reaction conditions, the dual enzyme column was successfully operated for 40 days without any loss of initial enzyme activities, yielding 66% of fructooligosaccharides. Furthermore, the relative sweetness of fructooligosaccharides produced by a dual emzyme system was enhanced by 6% compared with that of fructosyltransferase alone.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.20 no.2 s.91
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• pp.123-128
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• 2005

We have addressed two important issues of immunosensing biochips, including the construction of antibody functionalized suface for efficient affinity reactions and the development of a signal registration strategy that converts biospecific reactions into highly quantifiable electrochemical and/or optical signals. The developed immunoassay reaction is an integrated version of enzyme-mediated immunoprecipitaion reaction, which is widely used in immunohistochemistry, and electrochemical signaling reaction. For the evaluation of analytical performance of fabricated immunosensing biochips, signaling for mouse IgG in antiserum was conducted. Applications of the developed strategy have been found for the evaluation of histology chemicals and for the signal amplification for array-type biochip analysis.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.40 no.11
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• pp.1501-1506
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• 2011

In this study, we optimized the reaction conditions for the bioconversion of green tea using tannase, and to evaluate its radical scavenging activities. Tea catechins such as (-)-epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) or (-)-epicatechin gallate (ECG) were hydrolyzed by tannase to produce (-)-epigallocatechin (EGC) or (-)-epicatechin (EC), respectively, and a common product, gallic acid. The bioconversion of tea catechins by tannase was increased as enzyme concentration, substrate concentration and incubation time for enzyme dose. The results indicated the optimum reaction conditions for tannase were tannase 30 U/mL (enzyme concentration) on 1% green tea (substrate concentration) for 1 hr (incubation time for enzyme). Tannase enhanced the radical-scavenging properties of green tea; the 2,2-azinobis (3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS) and 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radicals scavenging abilities were significantly (p<0.001) greater for the tannase-treated green tea extract compared to the untreated green tea extract. It is reported that ECG has the greatest antioxidant activity among the catechins in green tea, and the release of gallic acid is considered to be beneficial because of its significant antioxidant potency. The results of this study suggest that the tannase-treated green tea increases antioxidant activities under optimum reaction conditions.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.470-474
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• 1992

For the further development of thelepin analog as antibiotic agents, we undertook the synthesis of spirobenzopyranone derivative ${\underline{5}}$ as thelepin analog by oxidative phenol coupling. The spirobenzopyranone analog ${\underline{5}}$ showed high activity against Bacillus subtilis (IFO 3108) in $5\;{\mu}g/disc$.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.417-423
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• 1993

The effect of moisture content of biocatalyst on the performance of a gas phase continuous bioreactor was investigated along with study on the mass transfer limitation. The biocatalysts whose moisture contents are 46.2% and 37.2%, respectively were prepared by immobilization of alcohol oxidase on Amberlite IRA-400, following by slow dehydration method, and packed into a column. Relative production rate (RPR), acetaldehyde composition ($X_p$) and conversion (X) of biocatalysts (37.2%) are better than those of biocatalysls (46.2%), and it was considered that these are attributed to the mass transfer enhancement in the gas phase compared with the aqueous phase.