• Journal of Life Science
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• v.29 no.10
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• pp.1126-1135
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• 2019

From a sample of bamboo byproduct, the protease-producing yeast strain CO-1 was newly isolated. Strain CO-1 is spherical to ovoid in shape and measures $3.1-4.0{\times}3.8-4.4{\mu}m$. For the growth of strain CO-1, the optimal temperature and initial pH were $30^{\circ}C$ and 4.0, respectively. The strain was able to grow in 0.0-15.0%(w/v) NaCl and 0.0-9.0%(v/v) ethanol. Based on a phylogenetic analysis of its 18S rDNA sequences, strain CO-1 was identified as Pichia anomala. The extracellular protease produced by P. anomala CO-1 was partially purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation, which resulted in a 14.6-fold purification and a yield of 7.2%. The molecular mass of the protease was recorded as approximately 30 kDa via zymogram. The protease activity reached its maximum when 1.0%(w/v) CMC was used as the carbon source, 1.0%(w/v) yeast extract was used as the nitrogen source, and 0.3%(w/v) $MnSO_4$ was used as the mineral source. The protease revealed the highest activity at pH 7.0 and $30^{\circ}C$. This enzyme maintained more than 75% of its stability at a pH range of 4.0-10.0. After heating at $65^{\circ}C$ for 1 hr, the neutral protease registered at 60% of its original activity. The protease production coincided with growth and attained a maximal level during the post-exponential phase.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology
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• 1994.04a
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• pp.257-257
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• 1994

생쥐의 장내세균으로 부터 황산전이 반응을 촉매하는 효소인 sulfotransferase를 생산하는 균주를 분리하였으며 동정결과 Haemophilus속 균주로 확인되어 Haemophilus K-12라 명명하였다. 균의 성장과 효소활성과의 관계를 보면 균은 10시간에서 완전히 성장하였으며 효소활성도 이와 비례하였다. Haemophilus K-12의 배지조성에 따른 sulfotransferase의 생산성을 Brain Heart Infusion 배지에서의 생산성과 비교해보면 탄소원으로는 sucrose가 0.2%농도에서 584%로 가장 좋았으며 질소원으로는 yeast extract가 266%로 가장 좋았다. 공여체로 PNS를 최종농도 1mM로 하여 배지에 첨가하였을때 212%로 가장 높은 효소증가를 보였다. 2가금속이온에 의한 효소증가는 현저하지 않았으며 $Mn^{2+}$이 107%로 가장 높았고$Zn^{2+}$와 EDTA에 의해서는 저해를 받았다. 이상의 결과를 종합하여 균배양을 위한 이상적인 배지조성을 sucrose 0.2%, yeast extract 1%, $Na_2$HPO$_4$ 0.25%, NaCl 0.5%로 결정하였다. 결정된 최적배지에 균을 10L 배양하여 초음파 처리, 원심분리한 것을 70 % ammonium sulfate fractionation, DEAE-cellulose column chromatography를 2회, Hydroxyapatite column chromatography, chromatdfocusing column chromatography, Silica PAE column chromatography, Sephacryl S-300 superfine column chromatography를 행한결과 specific activity가 6.76 umoie/min/mg protein인 효소액을 얻었으며 homogeneous enzyme였다. 이렇게 해서 얻은 효소를 이용하여 수용체 기질 특이성을 측정한 결과 1-naphthol이 phenol을 100%로 하였을 때 233%로 가장 좋았으며 Eubacterium A-44 sulfotransferase의 좋은 기질이었던 p-acetaminophenol, tyramine, 9-phenanthrol은 좋은 기질이 되지 못했다. 이상의 결과로 미루어 보아Haemophilus K-12 sulfotransferase는 지금까지 보고된 bacterial sulfotrasferase와는 다른 효소로 사려되며 효소반응기전의 규명이 이루어지면 산업적 응용이 가능할것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.101-106
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• 2000

A bacterial strain BS-214 producing extracellular pectinase was isolated from soil. The isolated bacterium was identified as a strain of Bacillus so. based on the morphological, biochemical, and physiological characteristics. Cell growth and pectinase activity of Bacillus sp. BS-214 were reached to a mixium in the culture condition of pH 8.5 at 4$0^{\circ}C$. Production of pectinase by the strain was the highest when polygalacturonic acid was added to culture medium as a carbon source, and its optimal concentration was 1%. Also, yeast extract was used as the best nitrogen source for the production of pectinase by the concentration of 0.25%. Decomposition of a constituent of Edzeworthia papyrifera by the strain was observed by scanning electron microscope.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.227-234
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• 2022

Wastewater is released from leather, textile, paint, wood, or dye processing industries as well as petroleum refining industries. Wastewater from these industries contains water pollutant such as heavy metals and nitrogen compounds and has high chemical oxygen demand (COD). While there various filtering pollutants from wastewater for safe disposal, membrane-based technology is one of the most efficient methods for its high efficiency and low cost. Among various membranes, zeolite membranes gain spotlight for its cost-effectiveness and have undergone a lot of research. This review is focused on recent progress in zeolite membrane for wastewater treatment in following order: i) wastewater treatment, ii) microfiltration membrane, iii) hollow fiber membrane, and iv) ultrafiltration membrane.

• Clean Technology
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.272-276
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• 2010

Adsorption process for the removal of acetylene, especially 2-butyne, from isoprene was studied with zeolite as an adsorbent. In this work, zeolite 5A was selected to investigate the effects of various regeneration conditions by repeated adsorption experiments. The effect of regeneration temperature and desorption pressure was investigated to identity the optimum regeneration conditions. Repeated adsorption and desorption experiments were carried out for 10 cycles to confirm the efficiency of regeneration process under temperature of 423 K and desorption time of 16 h.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.218-225
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• 2017

Saeu (shrimp) jeotgal (SJ) was prepared by mixing with 25% salt with different types: purified salt (PS), solar salt aged for 1 year (SS), and bamboo salt. SJ was fermented for 22 weeks at $15^{\circ}C$. Bacilli and marine bacteria were detected throughout the entire fermentation period, and marine bacteria were present in the largest numbers. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) were detected only during the first 8-10 weeks, but yeasts appeared at the sixth week and later. Archaea were detected in low numbers only from SS-SJ during the first 8 weeks. BS- SJ showed higher pH and lower titratable acidity (TA) values than other SJs because of strong alkalinity of bamboo salt. Amino-type nitrogen (ANN) contents of SJs increased during fermentation, especially, after 2 and 6 weeks. SS-SJ showed the highest ANN content from the beginning to the end of fermentation. Ammonia-type nitrogen (AMN) contents also increased like the amino-type nitrogen during fermentation. The highest volatile basic nitrogen (VBN) was also observed in SS-SJ. Salinity was kept constant after 4 weeks. SS was better than other salts for SJ fermentation in terms of protein hydrolysis.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.50 no.3
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• pp.227-233
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• 2011

Crysochroa fulgidissima (Bidan-beole, Spanish fly) is traditionally used as a crude drug and insecticide in the East Asia and Korea, respectively. This study investigated the effect of ethanol extract of C. fulgidissima on the NO production activity. The C. fulgidissima extract was a potent inducer of NO production in CPAE cells and a stimulator of endothelial nitric oxide synthase in a dose-dependent manner. This study also evaluated the anti-inflammatory activity of this extract by determining the level of ICAM-1, VCAM-1, and prostaglandin $E_2$ from HUVEC cells. Although C. fulgidissima extract was a potent inducer of NO production in the CPAE cells, it showed weak inhibitory effects on vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) production in HUVEC cells. HPLC and GC-MS analysis of the ethanol extract of C. fulgidissima revealed the presence of cantharidin.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.229-237
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• 1975

An attempt was made to utilize the enzyme produced by Asp. oryzae as meat tenderizer. The production, purification, and various properties of proteinase produced by Asp. oryzae were investigated. Results obtained are as follow; 1. A strain which had the highest proteolytic activity was selected among 9 Aspergillus species. 2. Culture medium consisted of wheat bran 10g, 2% glucose, 0.03% urea and 0.1% $MgSO_4$ (pH 6.5). Mold was incubated at $30^{\circ}C$ for 3 days. 3. Enzyme extract from culture medium were fractionated with ammonium sulfate and purified by Sephadex G-75 column chromatography. 4. When pH of reaction mixture was controlled, maximal activity of proteinase by Asp. oryzae was obtained at pH 3, pH 6.6, $8.4{\sim}8.5$ and pH 10.0 to 10.5. Those results were interpreted to show that enzyme consists of acid proteinase, neutral proteinase and alkaline proteinase. Enzyme was stable at pH 6 to 10. 5. Opt. temperature for proteinase activity was $50^{\circ}C$, but enzyme was stable up to $40^{\circ}C$. 6. The proteinase was inhibited by $Ag^+$. It was also inhibited by EDTA. 7. When myofibrillar proteins were treated by proteinase from Asp. oryzae, ATPase activities of myofibrillar proteins changed remarkably. Accordingly, it was concluded that proteinase produced by Asp. oryzae were able to be used as meat tenderizer.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.372-377
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• 1999

Objective of this research was to draw the basic criteria of the compost maturity evaluation, by assessing the stability of chemical and physical properties of the bark and piggery manure byproduct composts during the composting. Colors of the mature composts were black and dark brown for the bark and piggery manure by-product composts, respectively. Good earthy odor was detected for both by-product composts after approximately 40 days composting, by which odors of the original raw materials were disappeared. pH and EC of the mature bark: compost were stabilized at 6.5 and 1dS/m, respectively. The respective values for the piggery compost were stabilized at 7.2 and 6dS/m. Organic matter contents were decreased with time to be stabilized at about 60% at the end of composting. During composting, total N contents of the bark and piggery composts were maintained at $1.1{\sim}1.5%$, and $1.5{\sim}2.2%$, respectively. For both fertilizers, $NH_4-N$ contents were increased at the initial stage bur. decreased after the middle stages of decomposition, resulting in the increase of $NO_3-N$ contents. Total inorganic N contents were increased with time. C/N ratios of both mature composts were stabilized at $25{\sim}27$. CEC of the bark compost was increased logarithmically with time and that of mature compost was 87cmol(+)/㎏. CEC of the piggery manure compost was hyperbolic function with rime and reached at 70cmol(+)/㎏ at the mature stage. Crude fiber analysis indicated that relative contents of lignin were increased with composting by compensating for the decreases of cellulose and hemicellulose contents.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.121-126
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• 1999

In order to degrade chitin by enzymatic hydrolysis, it is required from screening highly active deacetylase. To this end, we examined three fungal strains and it turned out that Mucor rouxii produced highly active deacetylase, this enzyme exhibited the highest enzymatic activity against colloidal chitin. The conditions for growing Mucor rouxii are as follows; the effective carbon source, nitrogen source, adequate initial pH, temperature and incubation time were $2\%$ glucose, $1.33\%$ yeast extract, $0.66\%$ pepton, 4.5, $25{\pm}2^{\circ}C$ and 48hr, respectively. The optimum pH and temperature for purified enzyme activity were 5.5 and $40^{\circ}C$, respectively. The purified enzyme was stable at pH ranging from 4.5 to 5.5. However, the enzyme activity was decreased to less than $50\%$ at pH blow 45 and above 7.5. At temperatures above $50^{\circ}C$, the enzyme activity was decreased remarkably. The enzyme was inhibited by LiC1, $HgCl_2$, and $BaCl_2$, but stimulated by $CaCl_2$ and $ZnC1_2$, The activity of purified enzyme was increased by L-cysteine and 2-mercaptoethanol, while decreased by O-phenanthroline, p-CMB, EDTA, and iodoacetate. The $K_m$ and the $V_{max}$ value of purified enzyme were $1.2\%$ and 59.5 U/mg, respectively. The deacetylation activity of purified enzyme was not detected at optimal reaction condition when chitin particle suspension was used.