• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.296-303
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• 2005

A strain named as HJ35 was isolated from the skin of sixty-five men and fourteen women for acne therapy, in order to find an effective antimicrobial agent against Propionibacterium acnes. Isolate HJ35 was identified as Enterococcus faecium based on 16 rDNA sequence and produced enterocin HJ35 having antimicrobial activities against most lactic acid bacteria, En­terococcus spp., Staphylococcus aureus, S. epidermidis, Clostridium perfringens, some bacilli, Mi­crococcus flavus, Listeria monocytogenes, L. ivanovii, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas fluorescens and Propionibacterium acnes, in the modified well diffusion method. Especially, enterocin HJ35 showed a bactericidal activity against Propionibacterium acnes P1. The antimicrobial activity of enterocin HJ35 was disappeared completely with the use of protease XIV. But enterocin HJ35 activity is very stable at high temperature (up to $100^{\circ}C$ for 30 min), in wide range of pH (3.0${\~}$9.0), and by treatment with organic solvents. The apparent molecular mass of enterocin HJ35 was estimated to be approximately 4${\~}$4.5 kDa on detection of its bactericidal activity after SDS-PAGE. In batch fermentation of E. faecium HJ35, enterocin HJ35 was produced at the mid­log growth phase, and its maximum production was obtained up to 2,300 AU/mL at the late stationary phase. By employing fed-batch fermentation, the enhanced production of enterocin HJ35 was achieved up to 12,800 AU/mL by feeding with 10 g/L glucose or 6 g/L lactate.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.40-49
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• 2001

The present work presents a novel approach for the dynamic quantification of respiration rates on a small scale by using lysine-producing Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 21253. Cells sampeld from batch cultures at different times were incubated ina 12-ml scale bioreactor equipped with a membrane mass spectrometer. Under dynamic conditions, gas exchange across the gas-liquid phase, specific respiration rates, and RQ values were precisely measured. For this purpose, suitable mass balances were formulated. The transport coefficients for $O_2$ and $CO_2$, crucial for calculating the respiration activity, were determined as $k_La_{O2}=9.18h^{-1}$ and $k_La_{CO2}=5.10h^{-1}$ at 400 rpm. The application of the proposed method to batch cultures of C. glutamicum ATCC 21253 revealed the maximum specific respiration rates of $q_{O2}=8.4\;mmol\;g^{-1}h^{-1}\;and\;q_{CO2}=8.7\;mmol\;g^{-1}h^{-1}$ in the middle of the exponential growth phase after 5 h of cultivation. When the cells changed from growth to lysine production due to the depletion of the essential amino acids theonine, methionine, and leucine, $q_{O2}\;and\;q_{CO2}$ decreased significantly and RQ increased. The respiration data exhibited an excellent agreement with previous cultivations of the strain [13]. This confirms the potential of the developed approach to realistically reflect the metabolic activities of cells at their point of sampling. The short-term influence of added threonine, methionine, and leucine was highest during the shift from growth to lysine production, where $q_{O2}\;and\;q_{CO2}$ increased 50% within one minute after the pulse addition of these compounds. Non-growing, yet lysine-producing cells taken from the end of the batch cultivation revealed no metabolic stimulation with the addition of threonine, methionine, and leucine.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.358-365
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• 2015

ε-Poly-L-lysine (ε-PL) is a homopolymer of L-lysine molecules connected between the epsilon amino and alpha carboxyl groups. This polymer is currently used as a natural preservative in food. Insufficient biomass is a major problem in ε-PL fermentation. Here, to improve cell growth and ε-PL productivity, various nitrogen-rich nutrients were supplemented into flask cultures after 16 h cultivation, marking the onset of ε-PL biosynthesis. Yeast extract, soybean powder, corn powder, and beef extract significantly improved cell growth. In terms of ε-PL productivity, yeast extract at 0.5% (w/v) gave the maximum yield (2.24 g/l), 115.4% higher than the control (1.04 g/l), followed by soybean powder (1.86 g/l) at 1% (w/v) and corn powder (1.72 g/l) at 1% (w/v). However, supplementation with beef extract inhibited ε-PL production. The optimal time for supplementation for all nutrients examined was at 16 h cultivation. The kinetics of yeast-extract-supplemented cultures showed enhanced cell growth and production duration. Thus, the most commonly used two-stage pH control fed-batch fermentation method was modified by omitting the pH 5.0-controlled period, and coupling the procedure with nutrient feeding in the pH 3.9-controlled phase. Using this process, by continuously feeding 0.5 g/h of yeast extract, soybean powder, or corn powder into cultures in a 30 L fermenter, the final ε-PL titer reached 28.2 g/l, 23.7 g/l, and 21.4 g/l, respectively, 91.8%, 61.2%, and 45.6% higher than that of the control (14.7 g/l). This describes a promising option for the mass production of ε-PL.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.383-390
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• 2008

Recently, the interests on economical nitrogen removal from wastewater are growing. As a method of the novel nitrogen removal technology, nitrogen removal via nitrite pathway by selective inhibition of free ammonia and free nitrous acid on nitrite oxidizing bacteria have been intensively studied. The inhibition effects of free ammonia and free nitrous acid are low when domestic wastewater is used, however, because of its relatively lower nitrogen concentration than the wastewater from industry and landfill, etc. In this study, a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) is proposed for nitrogen removal to investigate the effect of the low nitrogen concentration on nitrite accumulation. Nitrification efficiency reached almost 100% during the aerobic cycle and the maximum specific nitrification rate ($V_{max,nit}$) reached $17.8mg\;NH_4{^+}-N/g\;MLVSS{\bullet}h$. During the anoxic cycle, average denitrification efficiency reached 87% and the maximum specific denitrification rate ($V_{max,den}$) reached $9.8mg\;NO_3{^-}-N/g\;MLVSS{\bullet}h$. From the analysis the main reason of nitrite accumulation in the SBR was free nitrous acid rather than free ammonia. Nitrite accumulation increased with the decrease of organic content in the wastewater and the mechanism is not well understood yet. From the result of fluorescent in situ hybridization, the distribution of nitrite oxidizing bacteria was in equilibrium with ammonium oxidizing bacteria when nitrite accumulation did not occur.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.48-54
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• 1994

HEK 세포 배양액 중에 존재하는 scu-PA와 tc-PA의 보다 정확한 측정을 위해 fibrin plate법과 기존의 amidolytic 방법을 변형시킨 측정법을 이용했다. 1%의 저혈청 배지를 이용한 T-flask 배양에서 $1.65{\times}10^6$(viable cells/ml)의 최대 세포수에 도달하여 1670(IU/ml)의 scu-PA 생산량을 보였으며 평균 10% 미만이 변환율을 보였다. 또한 Spinner vessel에서의 회분배양시 최대 세포수가 $4.43{\times}10^6(total cells/ml)$ 와 1560(IU/ml)의 scu-PA 생산량을 나타냈으며 평균 11.4%의 변환율을 보였다. 연속배양에서는 0.449(1/day)의 비생육속도와 $3.13{\times}10^{-4}(IU/cell)$의 비생산속도를 보였으며 평균 10.18% 정도의 전환율을 보였다. 이는 회분식 및 유가식 배양 결과와 큰 차이가 없으며 배양공정에 관계없이 약 90% 이상의 회수율이 가능하다는 것을 의미한다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.525-538
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• 2020

A practical animal face classification system that classifies animals in image and video data is considered as a pivotal topic in machine learning. In this research, we are proposing a novel method of fully connected dual Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN), which extracts and analyzes image features on a large scale. With the inclusion of the state of the art Batch Normalization layer and Exponential Linear Unit (ELU) layer, our proposed DCNN has gained the capability of analyzing a large amount of dataset as well as extracting more features than before. For this research, we have built our dataset containing ten thousand animal faces of ten animal classes and a dual DCNN. The significance of our network is that it has four sets of convolutional functions that work laterally with each other. We used a relatively small amount of batch size and a large number of iteration to mitigate overfitting during the training session. We have also used image augmentation to vary the shapes of the training images for the better learning process. The results demonstrate that, with an accuracy rate of 92.0%, the proposed DCNN outruns its counterparts while causing less computing costs.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제44권7호
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• pp.668-673
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• 2017

최근 몇 년간 딥러닝(deep learning)은 음성 인식, 영상 인식, 물체 검출을 비롯한 다양한 패턴인식 분야에서 혁신적인 성능 발전을 거듭해왔다. 그에 비해 네트워크가 어떻게 작동하는지에 대한 깊은 이해는 잘 이루어지지 않고 있다. 본 논문은 효과적인 신경망 네트워크를 구성하기 위해 네트워크 파라미터들이 신경망 내부에서 어떻게 작동하고, 어떤 역할을 하고 있는지 분석하였다. Faster R-CNN 네트워크를 기반으로 하여 신경망의 과적합(overfitting)을 막는 드랍아웃(dropout) 확률과 앵커 박스 크기, 그리고 활성 함수를 변화시켜 학습한 후 그 결과를 분석하였다. 또한 드랍아웃과 배치 정규화(batch normalization) 방식을 비교해보았다. 드랍아웃 확률은 0.3일 때 가장 좋은 성능을 보였으며 앵커 박스의 크기는 최종 물체 검출 성능과 큰 관련이 없다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 드랍아웃과 배치 정규화 방식은 서로를 완전히 대체할 수는 없는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 활성화 함수는 음수 도메인의 기울기가 0.02인 leaky ReLU가 비교적 좋은 성능을 보였다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2009

Microbial oxidoreductive systems have been widely used in asymmetric syntheses of optically active alcohols. However, when reused in multi-batch reaction, the catalytic efficiency and sustainability of non-growing cells usually decreased because of continuous consumption of required cofactors during the reaction process. A novel method for NADPH regeneration in cells was proposed by using pentose metabolism in microorganisms. Addition of D-xylose, L-arabinose, or D-ribose to the reaction significantly improved the conversion efficiency of deracemization of racemic 1-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol to (S)-isomer by Candida parapsilosis cells already used once, which afforded the product with high optical purity over 97%e.e. in high yield over 85% under an increased substrate concentration of 15 g/l. Compared with reactions without xylose, xylose added to multi-batch reactions had no influence on the activity of the enzyme catalyzing the key step in deracemization, but performed a promoting effect on the recovery of the metabolic activity of the non-growing cells with its consumption in each batch. The detection of activities of xylose reductase and xylitol dehydrogenase from cell-free extract of C. parapsilosis made xylose metabolism feasible in cells, and the depression of the pentose phosphate pathway inhibitor to this reaction further indicated that xylose facilitated the NADPH-required deracemization through the pentose phosphate pathway in C. parapsilosis. moreover, by investigating the cofactor pool, the xylose addition in reaction batches giving more NADPH, compared with those without xylose, suggested that the higher catalytic efficiency and sustainability of C. parapsilosis non-growing cells had resulted from xylose metabolism recycling NADPH for the deracemization.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 소규모 처리공법으로서 질소와 인을 효율적으로 제거할 수 있으며, 관리 및 운전이 용이한 연속회분식반응조(SBR)공정의 영양염류 제거특성에 대하여 연구하였다. 특히, 질소의 탈질 및 인의 과잉섭취에 영향을 미치는, 무산소구간의 반복횟수에 따라 변화하는 용존산소, COD, 질소 및 인의 반응특성을 파악하여 SBR공정의 무산소-호기 구간반복에 따른 운전특성을 파악하고자 하였다. 이에 호기-무산소구간을 1~4회 반복하여 Run 1~4의 실험을 수행한 결과, 무산소구간의 반복횟수가 많아질수록 탈질을 위한 낮은 용존산소 유지가 어려운 것으로 나타났다. COD 제거율의 경우 운전에 상관없이 모두 91% 이상의 양호한 결과를 나타냈으나, 추가적인 무산소구간이 없을 때 효율이 약간 더 우수하였다. 질소제거에 있어서는 무산소구간이 2회 및 3회 반복되었을 때 약 68%의 높은 제거율을 나타냈으며, 배출되는 질소의 구성은 99% 이상이 $NOX^--N$ 이었다. 인 제거에 있어서는 무산소구간이 1회~3회 반복되었을 때 약 40%의 양호한 제거효율을 나타냈다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2008년도 추계 학술발표회
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• pp.1463-1474
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• 2008

In order to investigate stabilization effect and sustainability on As-contaminated farmland soils which were affected the abandoned mine site and stabilized by zerovalent iron(ZVI) and industrial by-products, batch-scale and pilot-scale tests were carried out. In batch tests, ZVI and industrial by-products(blast furnace slag, steel refining slag and oyster shell powder) were used in treatment materials to reduce the As leaching. Industrial by-products were mixed with As-contaminated soils, in the ratio of 1%, 3%, 5% and 7% on the weight base of dried soil. The results of batch-scale tests was shown that the reduction of As concentration was observed in all samples and it was expected that ZVI and steel refining slag were more effective than other treatment materials to stabilize As compounds. In pilot-scale tests, columns were filled with untreated soils and treated soils mixed with ZVI and steel refining slag in the same mixing ratio of 3%. Distilled water was discharged into the columns with the velocity of 0.3 pore volume/day. During the test, pH, EC, Eh and As concentration were measured in the regular term(1pore volume). after six months, pilot-scale tests were retested to investigate sustainability of treatment materials. As a result, It was shown that the leachate from control column was continuously released during the test period and its concentration was greater than $100ug{\cdot}L^{-1}$ which was exceeded the national regulation of water discharged to river or stream ($50ug{\cdot}L^{-1}$). On the other hand, soil treated with ZVI and steel refining slag showed that the concentrations of leachate were lower than national regulation of water discharged to river or stream. Therefore it was expected that ZVI and steel refining slag could be applied to the farmland site as the alternative treatment materials.