• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.400-405
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• 1998

본 연구는 B. lactofermentum에서 ddh유전자의 증폭이 lysine 생성량에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위하여, 먼저 E. coli-B. lactofermentum shuttle vector pEB1 및 pEB2를 제조하였으며, 제조된 shuttle vector에 ddh 유전자를 ligation하여 재조합 plasmid pRK1 및 pRK2를 구축하였다. B. lactofermentum에서 ddh 유전자를 증폭시키기 위하여 재조합 plasmld를 B. lactofermentum으로 도입하여 DDH 활성을 측정한 결과 대조균보다 7배 정도 증가하였다. 또한 lysine 생성량의 비교 분석에서는 재조합 plasmid를 함유한 균주의 경우 48시간 이후부터 control 균주보다 lysine 생성량이 증가하기 시작하여 72시간 때에는 최대치를 나타내었으며 그 이후는 오히려 감소하였다. 최대치를 나타낸 72시간 때의 lysine 생성량은 대조균주가 4.30∼4.38 g/l를 나타내었으며 pRK1 및 pRK2를 함유한 균주는 각각 5.34 g/l 및 5.07 g/l이었다. 이상의 결과로 미루어 볼 때 ddh유전자의 증폭에 의한 B. lactofermentum의 lysine 생성량은 대조균주에 비하여 18∼20% 정도 증가하였다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.126-133
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 정치 배양법으로 고농도의 초산을 생산할 수 있고 에탄올 내성이 우수한 균주를 확보하고자 농가형 발효식초에서 초산균을 분리 및 선발하였고, 이들 초산균의 형태적 특징을 조사한 바, 분리균 CV1은 그람 음성으로 운동성이 없는 간균으로 나타났다. 분리균의 chemotaxonomy를 분석한 결과, meso-DAP이며, 대표 퀴논은 Q₁₀이고, G+C mol 함량은 61.0 mol %로 나타났으며 16S rDNA 유전자의 염기서열을 분석한 결과, Gluconacetobacter saccharivorans로 동정되어 Glu. saccharivorans CV1로 명명하였다. CV1 초산균의 최적 성장조건은 30℃, pH 3.0 이상으로 판단되었고 에탄올 농도에 따른 초산 생성능은 10% 에탄올 농도에서 9.3%, 9% 에탄올 농도에서는 8.4% 적정산도를 나타내어 고농도 에탄올 조건에서도 높은 산 생성능을 나타내는 우수한 균주로 판단되었다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.149-154
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• 1991

Escherichia coli/Corynebacterium glutamicum shuttle vectors, pECCG1 and pECCG2 were constructed by joining a 3.00 kb cryptic plasmid pCB 1 from C. glutamicum and a 3.94 kb plasmid pACYC 177 from E. coli. By trimming unessential parts and introducing mulitiple cloning site into the plasmid pECCG 1, a plasmid pECCG122(5.1kb) was constructed. All the shuttle vectors were stably maintained in C. glutamicum up to about 40 generations irrespective of kanamycin addition in the medium. Threonine operon (homoserine dehydrogenase/homoserine kinase) and dapA gene (dihydrodipicolinate synthetase) of C. glutamicum were cloned into the plasmid pECCG122, and the resultant plasmids were designated pTN31 and pDHDP19, respectively. They were used to study the effect of cloned foreign gene on the stability of the plasmid pECCG122. Plasmids pTN31 and pDHDP19 were segregated rapidly from C. glutamicum when cultured in the medium without kanamycin. In medium with $50\mu${\g/ml} of kanamycin, their segregation rates were much slower than those in medium without kanamycin, but the danamycin addition didn't guarantee the complete maintenance of the plasmids in C. glutamicum.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제28권10호
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• pp.1589-1603
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• 2018

Twenty analogs of $[Orn^6,D-Ala^9]{\alpha}-factor$ were synthesized and assayed for their biological activities: seven analogs of $[Orn^6,X^9]{\alpha}-factor$, seven analogs of $[X^6,D-Ala^9]{\alpha}-factor$, five analogs of $[X^5,X^6,D-Ala^9]{\alpha}-factor$, and native ${\alpha}-factor$ (X = amino acids). Their biological activities (halo, gene induction, and affinity) were measured using S. cerevisiae Y7925 and LM102 and compared with those of native ${\alpha}-factor$ (100%). G protein-coupled receptor was expressed in strain LM102 containing pESC-LEU-STE2 vector. $[Dap^6,D-Ala^9]{\alpha}-factor$ with weak halo activity (10%) showed the highest receptor affinity (> 230%) and the highest gene induction activity (167%). $[Arg^6,D-Ala^9]{\alpha}-factor$ showed the highest halo activity (2,000%). The number of active binding sites per cell (about 20,000 for strain LM102) was determined using a newly-designed fluorescence-based detector, $[Arg^6,D-Ala^9]{\alpha}-factor-Edan$, with high sensitivity (12,500-fold higher than the absorption-based detector $[Orn^6]{\alpha}-factor-[Cys]_3$).

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제44권7호
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• pp.517-528
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• 2021

A recent genetic study with Brucella abortus revealed the secretion activator gene A (SagA) as an autolysin component creating pores in the peptidoglycan (PGN) layer for the type IV secretion system (T4SS) and peptidoglycan hydrolase inhibitor A (PhiA) as an inhibitor of SagA. In this study, we determined the crystal structures of both SagA and PhiA. Notably, the SagA structure contained a PGN fragment in a space between the N- and C-terminal domains, showing the substrate-dependent hinge motion of the domains. The purified SagA fully hydrolyzed the meso-diaminopimelic acid (DAP)-type PGN, showing a higher activity than hen egg-white lysozyme. The PhiA protein exhibiting tetrameric assembly failed to inhibit SagA activity in our experiments. Our findings provide implications for the molecular basis of the SagA-PhiA system of B. abortus. The development of inhibitors of SagA would further contribute to controlling brucellosis by attenuating the function of T4SS, the major virulence factor of Brucella.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.1316-1323
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• 2007

In order to induce high levels of protein secretion, we have constructed a recombinant plasmid, designated pBP244, into which was incorporated key components of the type-II See-dependent secretion system, including LepB (signal peptidase), SecA (ATPase), and SecB (chaperone). The biological activities of the LepB, SecA, and SecB components expressed from genes harbored by pBP244 appeared to play their normal roles. In order to evaluate the protein secretion, a pspA (Streptococcus $\underline{p}neumoniae\;\underline{s}urface\;\underline{p}rotein\;\underline{A}$) gene was cloned into pBP244, resulting in pBP438. S. typhimurium harboring pBP438 grown until the stationary phase, secreted a higher level of PspA into the culture supernatants than did the strain harboring pYA3494. The strain harboring pBP438 secreted a supernatant amount 1.71-fold, a periplasmic space amount 1.47-fold, and an outer membrane amount 1.49-fold higher than that of pYA3494. S. typhimurium ${\chi}8554$ kept the $Asd^+$ plasmid pBP244 and pBP438 for 60 generations in LB broth harboring DAP, thereby indicating that pBP244 and pBP438 were quite stable in the Salmonella strain.