• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.11-17
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• 1996

Photosynthetic bacteria, strains KN 1-1, KN 2-1 and KN 2-3 were isolated from nature, and were studied for swine wastewater treatment. Growth of those photosynthetic bacteria were increased to 2~3 fold in organic-acid added medium(sodium acetate 1g, sodium propionate 1g and sodium butyrate 1g in Lascelles basal medium $1{\ell}$) than cultivation in Lascelles basal medium, and amount of bacteriochlorophyll a were increased to 1.5~2 fold. Chemical Oxygen Demand(COD) in swine wastewater using photosynthetic bacteria, strains KN 1-1, KN 2-1 and KN 2-3 were reduced 80%, 89% and 75%, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Applied Microbiology Conference
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• 1976.10a
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• pp.186.1-186
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• 1976

광합성 세균의 특징중의 하나로서 색소를 함유하고 있는데 이들 색소는 Bacteriochlorophyll과 carotenoids 색소에 유래하는 것이다. Carotenoid의 생체내에서 많은 기능 가운데 주된 기능은 광산화의 Protector로서 뿐만 아니라 광합성시의 방사에너지의 보조흡수체 임이 밝혀지고 있다.(중략)

• Journal of Photoscience
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.370-372
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• 2002

In order to investigate effect of the carotenoids (Car) on aggregation of Bacterochlorophyll (BChl) in chlorosome, we studied the spectral difference in aggregates of BChl e formed in the absence and presence of a few kinds of Car in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) -water solution. The absorption spectra of aggregates made of only BChl e and those made of a mixture of BChl e and Car were almost the same. However, the kinetics and circular dichroism (CD) spectra of aggregate of these were markedly different by kind of Car. Specifically, the rate of aggregation for a mixture of BChl e and isorenietene that contains phenyl as end groupe was faster than that for only BChl e. CD spectra of aggregates made of a mixture of BChl e and isorenietene dramatically changed compared to that made of only BChl e. We propose that BChl might form several kinds of rod-like supramolecular structures to in the presence of some kind of Car in chlorosome.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.469-477
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• 2008

The aerobic photosynthetic bacterium, which produces bacterial carotenoids was isolated and identified from coastal marine environments. This bacterium was identified by 16S rDNA sequencing and designated as Erythrobacter longus SY-46. E. longus SY-46 was Gram negative and rod shape, and the optimal culture conditions were $25^{\circ}C$, pH 7.0, and 3.0% NaCl concentration, respectively. The carbon and nitrogen sources required for the optimal growth were lactose and tryptone, respectively. Fatty acid compositions of E. longus SY-46 were $C_{18:1}$(78.32%), v-linolenic acid($C_{18:3n9.12.15c}:3.83%$), margaric acid($C_{17:0}$: 3.38%), palmitic acid($C_{16:0}$: 3.07%), and docosahexaenoic acid($C_{22:6n3}$: 2.21%). In addition, E. longus SY-46 showed the characteristic absorption peaks of bacterial carotenoids(in the region of 450 to 480 nm) and bacteriochlorophyll(770 to 772 nm). Major carotenoids of E. longus SY-46 were polyhydroxylated xanthophylls such as fucoxanthin and zeaxanthin.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.28-32
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• 1992

Phototrophic bacteria T-20 investigated in the present report was isolated from Thailand oil, Cells of the bacterium were rod-shaped. measured $0.6{\sim}0.7{\mu}m$ wide, and $2.3{\mu}m$ long. A color of cell suspension was red, and the long wavelength absorption maxima of the bacteriochlorophyll measured in 870nm. Substrates utilized as carbon sources: citrate, aspirate, glutamate, and fructose: unique for this strain is the liquefaction of gelatine, Ubiquinone Q-8 was also found. Rhodocyclus gelatinosus, which was reported in Bergey's Manual of Systematics Bacteriology, was corresponded to T-20.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.409-411
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• 2003

A species of facultative photo-organotrophic, purple, non-sulfur bacterium was isolated from the west coast and the south coast 47 area of Korea at 2001 September. Separated 13 samples of changes with red color under $28{\sim}32\;^{\circ}C$, 3000 lux, anaerobe conditions for 7 days cultivated in Basal medium. For a pure isolation from 13 samples it used agar-shake tube method (0.4 % agar) and it separated 5 strains through 13-repetition test. The RAPD(Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA)-PCR result of strains (EGH-9, EGH-13, EGH-23, EGH-24, EGH-30) that EGH-24 and EGH-30 was same strain. For wastewater biodegradation test that 4 isolation strains cultivated in synthesis wastewater in 7 days. EGH-24 was high 63000 mg/L (CODcr) to 43400 mg/L (CODcr). EGH-24 was selected with efficient wast water treated strain. Based on the results obtained from morphology, nutrient requirements, major bacteriochlorophyll content, 165-rDNA phylogenetic analysis, this strain may be identified as a new strain of the genus Rhodobacter and named Rhodobacter sp. EGH-24.

• Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1999.08a
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• pp.55-67
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• 1999

A puc -deleted cell of Rhodobacter sphaeroides grows with a doubling time longer than 160 h under the light-limiting photoheterotrophic ( 3 Watts [W]/㎡) conditions due to an absence of the peripheral light-harvesting B800-850 complex. A spontaneous fast-growing mutant, R.sphaeroides SK101 was ioslate dto have∼40-h doubling at 3 Watts/㎡, while the growth of the mutant was not distinguished from its parental strain during both aerobic and light-saturating photoheterotrphic (10W/㎡) growth. The B875 complex of SK101 under the light-limiting conditions was elevated by 20 to 30% compared with that of the puc -deleted cell, reflecting parallel increase of bacteriochlorophyll and carotenoid contents of the mutant. The formation of B875 complex of SK101 under the anaerobic dark conditions with dimethylsulfoxide was the same as that of the puc-deleted cell. suggesting that the mutation of SK101 result in the altered control of B875 complex formation by light. When puc is restored in SK101 , it is not B875 complex but B800-850 complex which formation is elevated. The mutation of SK101 affected the bchF transcription most drastically to show two to tenfold increase during both aerobic and photoheterotrophic growth. The mutated phenotype of SK101 was complemented with pW2, which contains approximately 100-kb HNA of the photosynthetic gene clusters. The complementing DNA was narrowed down to a 1.1-kb DNA containing orfQ and pufKBA . The mutation of SK101 appeared to be exerted through the mutation of the orfQ gene encoding a putative bacteriochlorophyll -mobilizing protein.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.495-500
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• 1992

Photosynthetic bacteria which can utilize ferulate as a sole carbon source for their metabolic activities were isolated from soils by liquid enrichment culture technique. The strain P-1 was selected by the highest capability of degrading ferulate in aerobic and anaerobic conditions. The strain P-1 was rod-shaped with its motility, strained gram negatively and could not utilize sulfur compounds. This strain has the bacteriochlorophyll a group I carotenoid and membrane structures like lamellae. As the results of physiological, morphological and cultural charactderistics, the isolate was identified as Rhodopseudomonas plaustris, one of the purple nonsulfer bacteria. The strain P-1 utilized 2mM/day in aerobic condition and 0.86 mM/day in anaerobic condition.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.89-95
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• 1998

Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides K7 and E15-1 produced hydrogen from glucose rapidly for the first 24 hrs of culture under the anaerobic and photosynthetic conditions and then ceased the hydrogen production because of the accumulation of organic acids such as acetic acid and formic acid in the culture broth, decreasing the pH to 4.2-4.5. Only 43% and 73% of glucose in the culture were consumed even after 6 days of incubation by R. sphaeroides K7 and E15-1, respectively. The hydrogen production and glucose consumption, however, were substantially increased when the pH of the culture was adjusted to 6.8-7.0: Hydrogen production continues even after 10 days of culture and glucose was consumed completely after 2.5 and 4.5 days by R. sphaeroides K7 and E15-1, respectively, Furthermore, the bacteriochlorophyll contents in R. sphaeroides K7 and E15-1 were increased by 44 and 9 folds and the cell concentrations by 10 and 2.5 folds, respectively, after 7 days of culture. R. sphaeroides K7 and E15-1 also produced hydrogen from acetic, lactic, butyric and malic acids under the anaerobic and photosynthetic conditions even though the amounts of hydrogen produced were lower than that from glucose. The results of this experiment indicate that under the anaerobic and synthetic conditions R. sphaeroides K7 and E15-1 might use the NADH oxidation mediated by ferredoxin and hydrogenase to evolve hydrogen from glucose for the first 24 hrs and then the organic acids produced were used as electron donners for the production of hydrogen in the nitrogen-limited condition.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.350-352
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• 2002

We examined the bacteriochlorophyill/bacteriopheophytin ratios in several species of purple bacteria containing only LHI. The pigment ratios depended greatly on species. Further, Rhodospirillum rubrum showed wide variation when grown under different light intensity, and Rhodobium marinum showed significant variation from culture to culture even under the same light conditions. The protein ratios of a/RC and $\beta$/RC estimated by SDS-PAGE of chromatophores of Rsp. rubrum and Rbi. marinum exhibited the ratio of $\beta$/$\alpha$ > 1. These findings gave us the novel idea that there are two types of LHl; one is a C-shaped open antenna composed by $\alpha$$\beta$ units surrounding a RC, and another is a small closed ring antenna composed by $\alpha$$\beta$ units located peripherally in a variable ratio to the core complex like LH2.