• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.39-44
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• 2010

Acidithiobacillus caldus is an acidophilic, chemolithotrophic bacterium that plays an important role in bioleaching. Gene transformation into A. caldus is difficult, and only the conjugation method was reported successful, which was a relatively sophisticated method. In this research, electrotransformation of A. caldus species was achieved for the first time using A. caldus Y-3 and plasmid pJRD215. Transformants were confirmed by colony PCR specific to the str gene on pJRD215, and the recovery of the plasmid from the presumptive transformants. Optimizations were made and the transformation efficiency was increased from 0.8 to $3.6{\times}10^4$ transformants/${\mu}g$ plasmid DNA. The developed electrotransformation method was convenient in introducing foreign genes into A. caldus.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.182-188
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• 2009

Lactobacillus 균주는 대표적인 probiotics로서 인체의 건강유지에 좋은 영향을 준다고 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 건강한 한국인 체내에서 분리하고 선별된 6개의 Lactobacillus 균주 (L. paracasei KLB58, L. fermentum MS79 and KLB282, L. plantarum KLB213, L. gasseri KLB238, and L. reuteri KLB270)를 플라스미드 pNCKH104로 electrotransformation 하였다. 최적 조건을 찾기 위해 pulse voltage, time constant, 세포벽 처리방법, 세포현탁액을 다양하게 변화시켰으며, 그 결과 각각의 균주에 대해 최적의 형질전환 조건을 결정하였다. 대체로 인체에서 분리한 Lactobacillus 균주는 전처리 없이 0.5 M sucrose buffer로 현탁하여 1.8 kV의 pulse voltage와 5 ms의 time constant로 electroporation을 수행하였을 때 약 2.5 ${\times}$ $10^3$ ${\sim}$ 5.5 ${\times}$ $10^4$ CFU/${\mu}g$ DNA의 형질전환 효율을 보였는데, 기존의 Lactobacillus 균주를 이용한 형질전환 실험들에 비해 월등히 높은 결과는 아니지만, Lactobacillus 균속 내의 다양한 종에 적용되는 공통의 조건을 찾음으로써 보다 간편한 형질전환 실험을 기대할 수 있다. 이는 앞으로 산업적, 임상적으로 중요한 Lactobacillus 균주의 형질전환을 손쉽게 하여 항균 펩타이드를 삽입한 벡터의 cell surface display발현 및 분석, 유용유전자 탐색을 위한 knock-out mutant등의 제작에 기여할 수 있으리라 본다.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.371-375
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• 1995

식물 병원성 사상균 F. oxysporum과 R. solani에 대하여 우수한 길항력을 갖는 Pseudomonas (P.) fluorescens를 작물 근권으로 부터 분리하여 생리, 생화학적 특성을 조사하였다. 이들 분리 근권길항 미생물중 한 균주인 Ps70과 plasmid pSV2-neo를 이용하여 electroporation에 의한 길항 미생물 P. fluorescens의 transformation 가능성과 최적 조건을 조사하였다. 그 결과 10% glycerol을 P. fluorescens buffer로 사용하여 2.5kV의 voltage, $200{\Omega}$의 resistance에서 최적의 electrotransformation 효과를 보였다. 또한, 이균주에 크기가 서로 다른 plasmid를 electroporation하여 transformation 효과를 비교한 결과 voltage, electroporation buffer의 조성, 그리고 resistance (time constant)가 transformation의 효과를 증진하는데 주요한 역할을 하는것으로 나타났으며, 또 다른 P. fluorescens 균주에 같은 실험을 반복한 결과 유사한 electrotransformation 효과를 보였다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.687-690
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• 1999

Bacillus stearothermophilus No. 236 isolated from the soil is a strong xylan degrader producing all the xylanolytic enzymes. However, the strain was discovered to be highly intractable to its transformation. In the present study, we have developed a reliable method for transformation of B. stearothermophilus No. 236 by a systematic examination of several factors which might have an influence on the efficiency of electrotransformation. Notably, we found that the most critical factor influencing the transformation efficiency (TE) was the incubation temperature after pulsing, with its optimum incubation of $37^{\circ}C.\; At\; 50^{\circ}C$, the optimum growth temperature of the B. stearothermophilus strain, the transformants could not be obtained at a recognizable level. The combination of field strength of 7.5 kV/cm along with pulse duration of 10 msec (resistance of $400{\Omega}\; and\; capacitance\; of\; 25{\mu}F$) was shown to be the best electrical parameters at the incubation temperature of $37^{\circ}$. A higher TE was obtained when the cells were harvested at an early-exponential phase. Twenty percent of PEG-8000 in a suspension buffer and an addition of 0.1% glycine in the growth medium resulted in about 4-fold and 3-fold increases in TE, respectively. We also found that the plasmid DNA which had been cycled through the host B. stearothermophilus cells enhanced TE by one order of magnitude higher. Under the presently described conditions, $2.5{\times}10^{5} transformants per ${\mu}g$ DNA was attained.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.77-83
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• 1999

Molecular biological techniques that recently developed, have made it possible to realize some of new attempts in the research field of rumen microbiology. Those are 1) cloning of genes from rumen microorganisms mainly in E. coli, 2) transformation of rumen bacteria and 3) ecological analysis with nonculturing methods. Most of the cloned genes are for polysaccharidase enzymes such as endoglucanase, xylanase, amylase, chitinase and others, and the cloning rendered gene structural analyses by sequencing and also characterization of the translated products through easier purification. Electrotransformation of Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens and Prevotella ruminicola have been made toward the direction for obtaining more fibrolytic, acid-tolerant, depoisoning or essential amino acids-producing rumen bacterium. These primarily required stable and efficient gene transfer systems. Some vectors, constructed from native plasmids of rumen bacteria, are now available for successful gene introduction and expression in those rumen bacterial species. Probing and PCR-based methodologies have also been developed for detecting specific bacterial species and even strains. These are much due to accumulation of rRNA gene sequences of rumen microbes in databases. Although optimized analytical conditions are essential to reliable and reproducible estimation of the targeted microbes, the methods permit long term storage of frozen samples, providing us ease in analytical work as compared with a traditional method based on culturing. Moreover, the methods seem to be promissing for obtaining taxonomic and evolutionary information on all the rumen microbes, whether they are culturable or not.