• 환경생물
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.184-191
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• 2004

To investigate bacteria with algalytic activities against Anabaena cylindrica when water blooming occurs and to study enzyme profiles associated with alga-lytic activity, various bacterial strains were isolated from surface waters and sediments in eutrophic lakes or reservoirs in Korea. Among 178 isolates, only nine isolates exhibited lytic abilities against A cylindrica on the agar plates, and then the isolate AK-13 was selected as the strongest in lysing the cyanobacterium A. cytindrica. The strain AK-13 was characterized and identified as Sinorhizobium sp. based on fatty acid methyl ether profiles and 16S rDNA sequence. According to the results of the enzyme assays, in the strain An-13 of Sinorhizobium sp., alginase, amylase, proteinase (caseinase and gelatinase), carboxymethyl-cellulase (CMCase), laminarinase, and lipase was produced, namely CMCase, laminarinase and protease were highly active. None of glycosidase was produced. Therefore, enzyme systems of Sinorhizobium sp. AK-13 were very complex to degrade cell walls of A. cylindrica. The peptidoglycans of A. cylindrica mat be hydrolyzed and metabolized to a range of easily utilizable monosaccharides or other low molecular weight organic substances by Sinorhizobium sp. AK-13.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.382-390
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• 2006

Various microorganisms were isolated from the surface waters and sediments of eutrophic lakes and reservoirs in Korea to enable an investigation of bacteria having algal lytic activities against Anabaena flos-aquae when water blooming occurs and to study enzyme profiles of algal lytic bacteria. Two bacterial strains, AFK-07 and AFK-13, were cultured, characterized and identified as Acinetobacter johnsonii and Sinorhizobium sp., respectively. The A. johnsonii AFK-07 exhibited a high level of degradatory activities against A. flos-aquae, and produced alginase, caseinase, lipase, fucodian hydrolase, and laminarinase. Moreover, many kinds of glycosidase, such as ${\beta}-galactosidase,\;{\beta}-glucosidase,\;{\beta}-glucosaminidase,\;and\; {\beta}-xylosidase$, which hydrolyzed ${\beta}-O-glycosidic$ bonds, were found in cell-free extracts of A. johnsonii AFK-07. Other glycosidases such as ${\alpha}-galactosidase,\;{\alpha}-N-Ac-galactosidase,\;{\alpha}-mannosidase,\; and\;{\alpha}-L-fucosidase$, which cleave ${\alpha}-O-glycosidic$ bonds, were not identified in AFK-07. In the Sinorhizobium sp. AFK-13, the enzymes alginase, amylase, proteinase (caseinase and gelatinase), carboxymethyl-cellulase (CMCase), laminarinase, and lipase were notable. No glycosidase was produced in the AFK-13 strain. Therefore, the enzyme system of A. johnsonii AFK-07 had a more complex mechanism in place to degrade the cyanobacteria cell walls than did the enzyme system of Sinorhizobium sp. AFK-13. The polysaccharides or the peptidoglycans of A. flos-aquae may be hydrolyzed and metabolized to a range of easily utilized monosaccharides or other low molecular weight organic substances by strain AFK-07 of. A. johnsonii, while the products of polysaccharide degradation or peptidoglycans were more likely to be utilized by Sinorhizobium sp. AFK-13. These bacterial interactions may offer an alternative effective approach to controlling the water choking effects of summer blooms affecting our lakes and reservoirs.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.12-26
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• 2002

근류형성에 의한 생물학적 질소고정기능을 갖는 여러종의 근류균을 대상으로 분자생물학적 계통 분류의 기초자료를 얻기 위하여 Azorhizobium, Bradyrhizobium, Mesorhizobium, Rhizobium, Sinorhizobium 속의 33 균주에 대한 ITS 영역의 염기서열을 이용한 계통 분류가 이루어 졌다. 이들 균주중 대부분의 균주는 한 종류의 ITS 영역을 가지는 반면, 일부균주는 2개의 서로 다른 ITS 염기서열을 가지는 것으로 나타났다. 실험에 이용된 모든 균주들간의 ITS 영역의 염기서열 상동성은 28 - 95%로 매우 변이폭가 컸으며, 이들 염기서열의 계통 분석에 의하면 4가지 그룹으로 구분되었다. Sinorhizobium 속의 모든 균주 및 Rhizobium giardinii 는 그룹 I으로 구분되었다 그룹 II는 R. giardinii를 제외한 모든 Rhizibium 속의 균주를 포함하고 있으며, 계통수의 topology는 매우 불안정한 것으로 나타났다. 특히, R. radiobacter와 R. rubi는 계통분류학적 위치가 불명확한 것으로 나타났다. Bradyrhizobium 속의 균주는 Azorhizobium caulinodans 와 함께 그룹 III로 구분되었고, 그룹 IV는 Mesorhizobium 속의 균주로 이루어 ㅈ다. 특히, Mesorhizobium 속균주의 ITS 영역의 염기서열 상동성이 높게 나타났다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.2091-2094
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• 2012

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.316-324
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• 2004

Sinorhizobium sp. strain MUS10 forms nitrogen-fixing stem nodules on Sesbania rostrata, a tropical green manure crop. In this study, the ultrastructural events associated with the formation of stem nodules were investigated. Sinorhizobium sp. strain MUS10 entered the host tissue through cracks created by the emerging adventitious root primordia and multiplied within the intercellular spaces. During early phases of infection, host cells adjacent to invading bacteria revealed cellular damage that is typical of hypersensitive reactions, while the cells at the inner cortex exhibited meristematic activity. Infection threads were numerous in S-day-old nodules and often were associated with the host cell wall. In several cases, more than one infection thread was found in individual cells. The junction at which the host cell walls converged was often enlarged due to fusion of intracellular branches of infection threads resulting in large infection pockets. The infection threads were made up of a homogeneous, amorphous matrix that enclosed the bacteria. Several finger-like projections were seen radiating from these enlarged infection threads and were delineated from the host cytoplasm by the plasma membrane. As in Azorhizobium caulinodans induced root nodules, the release of Sinorhizobia from the infection threads into the plant cells appears to be mediated by 'infection droplets'. A 15-day­old Sesbania stem nodule revealed typical ultrastructure features of a determinate nodule, containing several bacterioids within symbiosomes.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.1613-1621
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• 2006

Isolation and identification of algal lytic bacteria were carried out. Nine strains of algal lytic bacteria were isolated by the double-layer method using Anabaena flos-aquae as a sole nutrient. The isolate, AFK-13, showing the highest algal lytic activity was identified as Sinorhizobium kostiense based on the l6S rDNA sequence. The algal lytic experiments of the culture supernatants of AFK-13 demonstrated that the bacterial cell growth reached a maximum at 36-h culture, but the supernatant of 72-h culture exhibited the highest activity. Components among the extracellular products in the crude enzyme of the supernatant from S. kostiense AFK-13 culture were responsible for degradation of cell walls of Anabaena flos-aquae. Algal lytic assay tests of the culture supernatants suggest that the main substances for algal lytic activity could be proteinaceous. The activity of glucosidase was observed highly by polysaccharolytic analysis using the crude enzyme from S. kostiense AFK-13, whereas activities of galactosidase, mannosidase, rhamnosidase, and arabinosidase were also detected in low levels. The molecular weights (MW) of ${\alpha}-\;and\;{\beta}$-glucosidases were estimated to be approximately 50-100 kDa by the ultrafiltration method.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.745-752
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• 2007

A $\beta$-glucosidase from the algal lytic bacterium Sinorhizobium kostiense AFK-13, grown in complex media containing cellobiose, was purified to homogeneity by successive ammonium sulfate precipitation, and anion-exchange and gel-filtration chromatographies. The enzyme was shown to be a monomeric protein with an apparent molecular mass of 52 kDa and isoelectric point of approximately 5.4. It was optimally active at pH 6.0 and $40^{\circ}C$ and possessed a specific activity of 260.4 U/mg of protein against $4-nitrophenyl-\beta-D-glucopyranoside$(pNPG). A temperature-stability analysis demonstrated that the enzyme was unstable at $50^{\circ}C$ and above. The enzyme did not require divalent cations for activity, and its activity was significantly suppressed by $Hg^{+2}\;and\;Ag^+$, whereas sodium dodecyl sulfate(SDS) and Triton X-100 moderately inhibited the enzyme to under 70% of its initial activity. In an algal lytic activity analysis, the growth of cyanobacteria, such as Anabaena flos-aquae, A. cylindrica, A. macrospora, Oscillatoria sancta, and Microcystis aeruginosa, was strongly inhibited by a treatment of 20 ppm/disc or 30 ppm/disc concentration of the enzyme.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.153-159
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• 2013

Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021 (KCTC 2353) 유전체로부터 mannitol dehydrogenase (SmMDH)로 추정되는 유전자를 클로닝하고, 대장균에서 대량 발현하였다. 이 유전자는 494개의 아미노산(약 54 kDa)을 암호화하는 1,485 bp의 염기로 구성되며, 기존에 보고된 long-chain dehydrogenase/reductase 계열 MDH 효소들과 약 35-55%의 아미노산 서열상동성을 나타내었다. 재조합 SmMDH의 최적 반응온도는 $40^{\circ}C$이며, pH 7.0의 조건에서 최대의 D-fructose 환원활성, 그리고 pH 9.0에서 최대의 D-mannitol 산화활성을 보였다. 특히, 이 효소는 $NAD^+/NADH$ 조효소의 존재 하에서 산화 환원 활성을 나타내며, $NAD^+/NADPH$는 조효소로 이용하지 못하였다. 결론적으로 SmMDH는 전형적인 $NAD^+/NADH$-의존형 mannitol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.67)임을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.933-938
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• 2006

Decaprenyl diphosphate synthase (DPS) is the key enzyme for the production of coenzyme $Q_{10}$ ($CoQ_{10}$). A dps gene from Sinorhizobium meliioti KCCM 11232 (IFO 14782) was isolated by PCR and then cloned in Escherichia coli. DNA sequencing analysis revealed an open reading frame of 1,017 bp encoding a 338-amino-acid protein. The protein was identical at the 98% level to the putative octaprenyl diphosphate synthase (IspB) of S. meliloti 1021. The deduced amino acid sequence included the DDxxD domains conserved in the majority of the prenyl diphosphate synthases. Heterologous expression in E. coli BL21 (DE3) was carried out, and the $CoQ_{10}$ produced was then analyzed by HPLC. E. coli BL21 (DE3) harboring the dps gene from S. melioti produced CoQ$_{10}$ in addition to endogenous coenzyme Q$_8$ (CoQ$_8$), whereas wild-type E. coli BL21 (DE3) host did not have the ability of producing CoQ$_{10}$. The results suggest that the putative dps from S. meliloti KCTC 2353 encoded the DPS.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.288-294
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• 1997

콩 재배시(栽培時) 조속생육형(早速生育型)인 Sinorhizobium fredii의 접종제(接種劑) 이용가능성(利用可能性)을 검토코자 TAL 1781 등 9종의 S. fredii를 우리나라 재배콩 11품종(品種)에 접종시험(接種試驗)한 결과는 다음과 같았다. 시험(試驗)된 S. fredii는 모두가 광교에서 근류형성력(根瘤形成力)을 보였으나 단엽콩에서는 근류(根瘤)를 형성하지 못하였다. S. fredii TAL 1781과 TAL 1840, TAL 1899의 콩 건물생산량(乾物生産量)은 B. Japonicum YCK 213 및 USDA 110에 비해서 평균 53% 수준(水準)이었으며, S. fredii 균주(菌株) 중에서는 TAL 1781이 가장 우수하였다. 그리고 S. fredii는 B. japonicum USDA 110과 혼합접종(混合接種)했을 때 보다 YCK 213과 혼합접종(混合接種)했을 때에 더 많은 건물생산력(乾物生産力)을 보였다. S. fredii의 B. japonicum 대비(對比) 근류점유율(根瘤占有率)은 B. japonicum YCK 213과 혼합접종(混合接種)했을 때(8.3~26.7%) 보다 B. japonicum USDA 110과 혼합접종(混合接種)했을 때(10.0~30.0%) 더 높았다. 그러므로 S. fredii는 콩 건물생산력(乾物生産力) 및 근류형성(根瘤形成) 경합력(競合力) 면에서 B. japonicum보다 불량한 접종반응(接種反應)을 보여 콩의 근류균접종제(根瘤菌接種劑)로서의 실용성(實用性)이 낮음을 알 수 있었다.