• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.683-686
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• 1999

Four mutants of Acetobacter xylinum BRC5 defective in gluconic acid production were isolated from UV-irradiated cells. The gluconic acid-negative mutants did not show glucose oxidase activity. The mutants were also defective in cellulose production. A randomly selected mutant grown in the Hestrin-Schramm medium (pH 6.0) supplemented with gluconic acid, however, was found to synthesize cellulose. The mutant grown in Hestrin-Schramm medium whose pH was adjusted to 5.0 with HC1 and contained no gluconic acid also produced cellulose. Wild-type cells grown under the same condition synthesized cellulose more rapidly than those grown in the pH 6.0 medium.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.41-45
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• 1999

Microbial cellulose has many potential applications due to its excellent physical properties. The production of cellulose from Acetobacter xylinum in submerged culture is, however, beset with numerous problems. The most difficult one has been the appearance of negative mutants under shaking culture conditions, which is deficient of cellulose producing ability. Thus genetic instability of Acetobacter xylinum under shaking culture condition made developing a stable mutant major research interest in recent years. To find a proper type of bioreactor for the production of microbial cellulose, several production systems were developed. Using a reactor system with planar type impeller with bottoms sparging system, it was possible to produce 5 g/L microbial cellulose without generating cellulose minus mutants, which is comparable to that of static culture system.

• 환경생물
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.321-325
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• 2011

셀룰로오스는 지구상에서 가장 풍부하게 존재하는 재생 가능한 천연 다당류로서 glucose의 ${\beta}$-1,4 결합에 의하여 이루어진 물질이자 고등식물의 주요 구성성분으로서 현재 제지, 펼프 및 방적산업을 비롯한 다양한 분야에서 사용되고 있다. 셀룰로오스의 소비가 급증함에 따라 그 원료로 사용되는 목재에 대한 수요도 갈수록 높아지고 있으나 원료공급과 환경문제로 인하여 제지 대체물질에 대한 연구가 절실한 형편이다(Sutherland 1998). 따라서 본 연구에서는 정치 및 교반배양에서도 생산할 수 있는 능력이 있음이 확인된 $Acetobacter$ sp. A9를 사용하여 교반배양 할 때 셀룰로오스를 생산하지 않는 돌연변이체($Cel^-$)가 생성됨으로써 셀룰로오스 생산량이 대폭 감소하는 현상이 일어나는 문제점을 해결 할 수 있는 돌연변이주를 선별하여 대량생산의 가능성을 검토하였고, 교반 배양에서도 안정한 변이주의 선별을 위해 자외선 조사와 화학제를 처리하여 변이주 8개를 선별하여 여러 가지 특성을 조사하였다. 이 변이주들의 셀룰로오스 생산량과 acetan, gluconic acid 생산량을 야생주인 $Acetobacter$ sp. A9과 비교한 결과, Couso (1982, 1987)와 Iannion (1988), Ridout (1994)가 설명한 acetan 생산이 셀룰로오스 합성과 밀접한 관계를 갖고 있는 결과와는 달리 본 연구에서는 acetan 생산과 셀룰로오스 합성과는 관계가 없었고, 셀룰로오스 생산량이 많은 변이주 M6의 경우, 셀룰로오스를 생성하지 않는 변이주 M28보다 gluconic acid 생산량이 훨씬 작은 것으로 보아 셀룰로오스 합성에 gluconic acid가 셀룰로오스 생산에 영향을 미치는 것이라고 사료된다.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.383-388
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• 2004

The conversion of a cellulose-producing cell ($Cel^+$) from Gluconacetobacter hansenii PJK (KCTC 10505 BP) to a non-cellulose-producing cell ($Cel^-$) was investigated by measuring the colony forming unit (CFU). This was achieved in a shaking flask with three slanted baffles, which exerted a strong shear stress. The addition of organic acid, such as glutamic acid and acetic acid, induced the conversion of microbial cells from a wild type to $Cel^-$ mutants in a flask culture. The supplementation of $1\%$ ethanol to the medium containing an organic acid depressed the con-version of the microbial cells to $Cel^-$ mutants in a conventional flask without slanted baffles. The addition of ethanol to the medium containing an organic acid; however, accelerated the conversion of microbial cells in the flask with slanted baffles. The $Cel^+$ cells from the agitated culture were not easily converted into $Cel^-$ mutants on the additions of organic acid and ethanol to a flask without Slanted baffles, but some portion of the $Cel^+$ cells were converted to $Cel^-$ mutants in a flask with slanted baffles. The conversion ratio of $Cel^+$ cells to $Cel^-$ mutants was strongly re-lated to the production of bacterial cellulose independently from the cell growth.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.802-810
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• 2007

Fibrobacter succinogenes, a Gram-negative, anaerobic ruminal bacterium is a major fibre digesting species in the rumen. It intensively degrades plant cell walls by an erosion type of mechanism, burrowing its way through the complex matrix of cellulose and hemicellulose with the release of digestible and undigested cell wall fragments. The enzymes involved in this process include a combination of glucanases, xylanases, arabinofuranosidase(s) and esterases. The genome of the bacterium has been sequenced and this has revealed in excess of 100 putative glycosyl hydrolase, pectate lyase and carbohydrate esterase genes, which is greater than the numbers reported present in other major cellulolytic organisms for which genomes have been sequenced. Modelling of the amino acid sequences of two glycanases, CedA and EGB, by reference to crystallized homologs has enabled prediction of the major features of their tertiary structures. Two dimensional gel electrophoresis in conjunction with mass spectroscopy has permitted the documentation of proteins over expressed in F. succinogenes grown on cellulose, and analysis of the cell surfaces of mutant strains unable to bind to cellulose has enabled the identification of candidate proteins with roles in adhesion to the plant cell wall substrate, the precursor to cellulose biodegradation.