• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2002.05b
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• pp.452-454
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• 2002

A biosurfactant-producing microorganism, .Pseudomouos sp. EL-G527 was isolated from activated sludge by enrichment culture when grown on mineral salt medium containing n-hexadecane as a carbon source. The biosurfactant from .Pseudomonar sp. EL-G527 exhibited lesser toxicity to bacterial population than synthetic surfactants and in the biodegradation test, biosurfactant was rapidly degraded and lost its activity as surface active material after 1 day incubation. In this study, the biosurfactant from Pseudomonas sp. EL-G527 was effective surface-active compound, more biodegradable and less toxic to microbial ecosystem than various synthetic surfactants.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.177-182
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• 2002

A biosurfactant-producing microorganism was isolated from activated sludge by enrichment culture when grown on a minimal salt medium containing n-hexadecane as a sole carbon source. This microorganism was identified as Pseudomonas sp. and it was named Pseudomonas sp. EL-G527. It's optimal culture condition is 2% n-hexadecane, 0.2% NH$_4$NO$_3$, 0.3% KH$_2$PO$_4$, 0.3% $K_2$HPO$_4$, 0.02% MgSO$_4$ㆍ7$H_2O$, 0.0025% CaCk$_2$ㆍ6$H_2O$, 0.0015% FeSO$_4$ㆍ7$H_2O$ in 1$\ell$ distilled water and initial pH 7.0. Cultivation was initiated with a 2% inoculum obtained from starter cultures grown in 30 $m\ell$ of the same medium in 250 $m\ell$ flask. They were cultivated at 3$0^{\circ}C$ in reciprocal shaking incubator and the highest biosurfactant production was observed after 4 days.

• Environmental Sciences Bulletin of The Korean Environmental Sciences Society
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.221-225
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• 2000

Pseudomonas sp. EL-G527 was grown to produce a biosurfactant on 2% n-hexadecane as the energy and carbon source. This biosurfactant significantly reduced the surface tension of water from 72 to 28 dyne/cm at a critical micelle concentration(CMC) of 140 mg/l at pH 2.0. As the pH value decreased, the reduction in the surface tension due to the biosurfactant increased. The surface activity of the biosurfactant was unaffected when the NaCl concentration was increased to 5% and the calcium ion concentration increased to 100 mM, plus it remained stable at 10$0^{\circ}C$ for 180 min.