• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.418-422
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• 1992

Mucor mucedo C-7 selected as a potent fungus for producing milk-clotting enzyme was cultured on wheat bran solid medium and the optimum culture conditions for the production of milk clotting enzyme were ot tamed as follows. Amount of water added to wheat bran was 100% to the weight of wheat bran and culture temperature and time was 3$0^{\circ}C$ and 72hrs, respectively. The production of milk-clotting enzyme was markedly increased by the addition of Macllvaine buffer solution (pH4.5) instead of water added to wheat bran solid medium and milk-clotting activity was stable for culture period.

• Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.85-91
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• 1998

Habitative microorganisms were isolated from the floated air and surface of record materials of library with ancient archives. The major ecological fungi from them were isolated and identified as Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus oryzae, Neurospora sitophile, Mucor mucedo, Mucor rouxii, Penicilliun notatum, Rhizopus delema, Rhizopus nigricans, Thamnidium elegans, and Tricoderma viridae. When the cellulase activity of fungi isolated from ancient archives and documents was analyzed, Mucor rouxii and Penicilliun notatum showed the highest avicelase and filter paper activity, to 18.089 and 2.819 units, respectively, showing destructive ability of old archives and documents. Whereas, Mucor mucedo revealed the highest CMCase activity of exoglucanase to 7.044 units.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.760-765
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• 2002

Mucor miehei KCTC 6011, which grew successfully in ginseng-steaming effluents and produced a large amount of chitosan efficiently, was selected from various fungi. Approximately 120 mg of chitosan per g-dry mycelium was maximally produced in 84 h at $25^{\circ}C$ when grown in the ginseng-steaming effluent (pH 8.0) supplemented with 0.5% yeast extract and 0.002% CuSO$_4$. Chitosan produced by Mucor miehei KCTC 6011 was identified by the IR-spectra to have deacety lated approximately 56%. Viscosity and molecular weight of the chitosan were 80 cps and $1.07\times10^3$ kDa, respectively. The chitosan at 1.5 mg/ml inhibited 73.9% of the mycelium growth of Rhizoctonia solani in 60 h.

• The Korean Journal of Mycology
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.197-207
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• 2020

In the screening of fungal diversity, two strains were collected from the soil of Yeongcheon and dissected guts from the bodies of Chinese rice grasshopper (Oxya chinensis), Chinese grasshopper (Acrida cinerea), and Far eastern devil grasshopper (Oedaleus infernalis) from Daejeon in Korea. They were identified as Umbelopsis vinacea (KNU-YC-1801B) and Mucor hiemalis f. corticola (KNU-20F7, KNU-20F8, KNU-20F9). Multigene phylogenetic analyses of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions, and large subunit (LSU) sequence data confirmed two unreported taxa along with their morphology. The results of molecular phylogeny firmly supported the detailed description and illustration for each taxon. As far as we know, both Umbelopsis vinacea and Mucor hiemalis f. corticola are the first reported taxa in Korea.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.446-451
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• 1999

The protease produced by Mucor racemosus f. racemosus PDA 103 from meju was purified by precipitating with 80% saturated ammonium sulfate, CM Sephadex C-50 ion-exchange chromatography, and secondary Sephadex G-100 gel filtration chromatography. The specific activity of the purified enzyme was 60.1unit/mg protein and the purification fold of the enzyme was 83.5. The molecular weight of the enzyme was estimated 33,746Da and the enzyme was elucidated as monomer by LC-MS and SDS-PAGE. The number of amino acids was evaluated about 330 residues.

• Mycobiology
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.310-313
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• 2016

While surveying the diversity of fungi of the order Mucorales, two isolates, EML-PUKI12-1 and EML-PUKI06-1, were obtained from the gut of soldier fly larvae inhabiting the bulrush at a pond located in the Chonnam National University Arboretum, Gwangju, Korea. The isolates were confirmed as Mucor irregularis and Mucor fragilis species, respectively, based on the morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of rDNA internal transcribed spacer region. Such mucoralean species belonging to undiscovered taxa has not previously been described in Korea.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.179-200
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• 1989

Mucor miehei rennet(MR) was added as calf rennet(CR) substitutes in the fixed amounts of mixed rennets in making Camembert cheese. The conditions in the variations of chemical composition: water-soluble nitrogen, non-caseinic nitrogen, non-proteinic nitrogen, amino nitrogen, ammoniacal nitorgen, electrophoresis, molecular fractionation, mineral distribution, texture characterisitics, free amino acids and free fatty acids, were checked up with the sensory test and the chesse yields at each ripening period. The results obtained by investigating the utility of Mucor rennet were summarized as follows: 1. CR chesse, MR cheese and the mixed-rennet chesse failed to show any significant difference in their yields of 15%. 2. The contents of protein, fat and ash in MR cheese gave lower value than CR cheese did and with progress of ripening lactose decreased rapidly after 14 days of ripening. The difference among the rate of addition of mucor rennet was not recognized. 3. The WSN contents of 5 fresh sample chesse were from 14.7% to 17.3% and WSN increased from 39.7% to 41.0% with progress of ripening. After 21 days of ripening MR chesse had more WSN than CR cheese did. In NCN and ammoniacal nitrogen MR cheese showed higher value. 4. As the ripening progressed, MR chesse showed more cystein, phenylalanine and proline than CR chesse did but it failed to show any increase in aspartic acid, threonine and glutamic acid etc. 5. In the content of free fatty acid MR chesse showed higher value than CR cheese did and with the progress of ripening fatty acids increased from 8.36 mEq to 26.36 mEq but did not show any significant difference in the cheese types by the coagulant ratio. 6. Ca contents in the sample chesse were 0.238-0.27%, Mg 0.019-0.022%, Na 0.910-1.047%, and K 0.175-0.200%. The important non-sedimentable Ca in casein remained from 61 % to 77% without regard the ripening periods and added-rennets and Mg remained from 59.1% to 92.5% in non-sedimentable and water-soluble conditions. 7. In the fractionation of protein by ultrafilteration, MW> $5{\times}10^4$ decresed from 95% at the beginning period of ripening to 45% and MW< $10^4$ increased from 0.2% to 38% and definite caseinolysis was shown in all samples. 8. All the cheese showed to different electrophoretic patterns for the added-amounts of mucor rennet in the 14 days of ripenig. In the 28 days or ripening, MR cheese kept some bands on the patterns compared with CR cheese. 9. In vitro digestibility increased from 81.48-94.81 % to 94.47-98.61% but failed to show any significant difference in the cheese types by the coagulant ratio. 10. In hardness, MR cheese showed lower value compared with CR cheese as the ripening progressed. 11. The results of the sensory test failed to show any difference in flora rind, feelings in mouth and hands, deep structure, flavor and bitterness between CR Camembert cheese and MR Camembert chesse.

• Current Research on Agriculture and Life Sciences
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• v.6
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• pp.157-162
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• 1988

In order to study of practical purpose of immobilized Mucor spp L42 milk clotting enzyme on activated succimylamino-propyl glass beads with glutaraldehyde in continuous curd coagulation, acidified milk(pH5.6, $8^{\circ}C$) was treated through reactor packed with immobilized beads, and warmed at $30^{\circ}C$ and allowed to coagulation for the determination of enzyme stability, deactivation of milk clotting ability by continuous reaction, the beads treatment conditions, and contact time of milk and beads in reactors. The results obtained were summarized as follow ; 1) After 3 month's storage, activity of immobilized Mucor spp L42 milk clotting enzyme in 0.2M phosphate buffer(pH 4.6) with 0.06% sodium azide was only 80% of initial activity. 2) Milk clotting activity of the beads was decreased by continuouse exposure on acidified skim milk. Nitrogen accumulation on the beads paralled loss of the activity in initial reaction stage. 3) After 6 hours continuous treatment of the beads at 60 sec/ml surface time, the milk-clotting activity of the beads was about 70% of initial activity. 4) Bead reactor and shaking bed reactor were more effective than column reactor on continuouse skim milk coagulation.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.449-453
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• 1990

This study was attempted to obtain the efficient milk-clotting enzyme from microorganisms as a rennet subtitute. Fungi which showed the formation ability of the milk-clotting enzyme were selected out from samples of soil hay and wastes etc. Among these isolated fungi, strain no. C-7 which had presented higher value in the ratio of milk-clotting activity to proteolytic activity was selected. The hyphae of this strain was white to gray and no septa. A single sporangiophore which stand erectly above growing hyphae was monomucor type without branching. A globose sporangium was developed at the tip of each sporangiophore. The suitable temperature and pH for the growth of no. C-7 was 20-$30^{\circ}C$ and pH 3.0-8.0 respectively. These morphological and physiological characteristics implied that strain no. C-7 was Mueor mucedo.

• Mycobiology
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.98-101
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• 2004

A fruit soft rot caused by Mucor piriformis occurred on sweet persimmon storages in Jinju, Changwon and Gimhae, Gyeongnam province, Korea, 2003. The disease infection usually started from wounding after cracking of fruits. At first, the lesions started with water soaked and rapidly softened and diseased lesion gradually expanded. Colonies on potato dextrose agar at $20^{\circ}C$ were whitish to olivaceous-buff Sporangia were globose, black and $96{\sim}153{\mu}m$ in size. Sporangiophores were $26{\sim}42{\mu}m$ in width. Sporangiospores were ellipsoid and $5.8{\sim}10.6{\times}4.3{\sim}7.6{\mu}m$ in size. Columella was obovoid, cylindrical-ellipsoidal, pyriform, subglobose and $80{\sim}125{\mu}m$ in size. Optimal temperature for mycelial growth was $20^{\circ}C$ on PDA. The causal organism was identified as M. piriformis. This is the first report of fruit soft rot on sweet persimmon caused by M. piriformis in Korea.