• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.206-210
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• 2001

Starch is an abundant resource in plant biomass, and it should be hydrolyzed enzymatically into fermentable sugars for ethanol fermentation. A genetic recombinant yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae GA-7458, was constructed by integrating the structural gene of both $\alpha$-amylase from Bacillus stearothermophilus and the gene (STA1) encoding glucoamylase from S. diastaticus into the chromosome of S. cerevisiae SH7458. The recombinant yeast showed active enzymatic activities of $\alpha$-amylase and glucoamylase. The productivity of ethanol fermentation from the pH-controlled batch culture (pH 5.5) was 2.6 times greater than that of the pH-uncontrolled batch culture. Moreover, in a fed-batch culture, more ethanol was produced (13.2 g/L), and the production yield was 0.38 with 2% of corn starch. Importantly, the integrated plasmids were fully maintained during ethanol fermentation.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.52-54
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• 1984

Ethanol fermentation from the chemically gelatinized starchy material was examined. The critical concentration of sodium hydroxide solution for gelatinization was dependent on the species of starch; 0.4M for potato and 0.6M for tapioca at room temperature. For alcohol fermention the starchy material was gelatinized by addition of sodium hydroxide solution, neutralized by sulfuric acid, and then yeast was added. The amount of $CO_2$ evolved during ethanol fermentation indicates that non-fermentable material was not produced from the starch by chemical gelatinization. In ethanol fermentation of potato and tapioca starch no significant difference was observed between the thermal and the chemical gelatinization.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.545-551
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• 2008

When cultivated aerobically, Aspergillus niger hyphae produced extracellular glucoamylase, which catalyzes the saccharification of unliquified potato starch into glucose, but not when grown under anaerobic conditions. The $K_m\;and\;V_{max}$ of the extracellular glucoamylase were 652.3 mg/l of starch and 253.3 mg/l/min of glucose, respectively. In mixed culture of A. niger and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, oxygen had a negative influence on the alcohol fermentation of yeast, but activated fungal growth. Therefore, oxygen is a critical factor for ethanol production in the mixed culture, and its generation through electrolysis of water in an electrochemical bioreactor needs to be optimized for ethanol production from starch by coculture of fungal hyphae and yeast cells. By applying pulsed electric fields (PEF) into the electrochemical bioreactor, ethanol production from starch improved significantly: Ethanol produced from 50 g/l potato starch by a mixed culture of A. niger and S. cerevisiae was about 5 g/l in a conventional bioreactor, but was 9 g/l in 5 volts of PEF and about 19 g/l in 4 volts of PEF for 5 days.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.198-203
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• 1984

열에 의한 호화전분을 사용하는 에탄올 발효공정에서 증자과정을 생략하기 위한 방법으로 알칼리호화 및 생전분으로 부터 직접 발효시키는 가능성을 여러가지 전분종류에 따라 검토하였다. 5.4% NaOH를 사용하여 전분을 호화시키고 $H_{2}SO_4$와 $KH_{2}PO_4$용액을 사용하여 중화시켰다. 이어상법에 따라 에탄올 발효를 시킨 결과 $CO_2$발생속도에 있어서는 화학적 호화방법에 비해 약간 떨어지나 최종 에탄올함량은 동일하였다. 한편 생전분에 당화효소와 효모를 첨가하고 동시 당화, 발효시켰을때 쌀의 생전분은 가열호화시킨 전분과 $CO_2$생성속도 및 최종 에탄올함량이 거의 비슷하였다. 옥수수, 보리, 타피오카 및 고구마등의 생전분은 초기의 $CO_2$생성속도가 늦었고 발효종료에 걸리는 시간은 길었으나 최종 에탄올함량은 종류에 따라 비슷하거나 약간 떨어졌다. 감자생전분은 분해, 발효시 초기의 $CO_2$발생속도와 발효율이 현저히 낮았다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 1994

A yeast strain secreting glucoamylase was transformed with an expression vector (pMS12) containing the promoter of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase I gene ADC1, mouse salivary $\alpha$-amylase cDNA, and a segment of yeast $21\mu m$ plasmid. The transformed strain could produce ethanol from starch (4%, w/v) through a direct one-step process with the conversion efficiency of 93.2%, during 5 days of fermentation, while the original, untransformed strain exhibited a conversion efficiency of 38.1% under the same condition. When the regulatory site of the ADC1 promoter region was removed, the production of ethanol increased to 29~37% in the presence of exogenous 3%(v/v) ethanol in the fermentation medium.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.309-314
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• 1995

Samples were collected from a commercial ethanol production plant to enumerate the bacterial contamination in each step of a starch based ethanol production process. Though the slurry of raw material used in the process carried bacteria with various colony morphology in the order of $10^4$ per ml, only the colonies of white and circular form survived and propagated through the processes to the order of $10^8$ per ml at the end of fermentation. Almost all of the bacterial isolates from the fermentation broth were lactic acid bacteria. Heterofermentative Lactobacillus fermentum and L. salivarius, and a facultatively heterofermentative L. casei were major bacteria of an ethanol fermentation. In a batch fermentation L. fermentum was more detrimental than L. casei to ethanol fermentation. In a cell-recycled fermentation, ethanol productivity of 5.72 g $I^{-1} h^{-1}$ was obtained when the culture was contaminated by L. fermentum, whilst that of the pure culture was 9.00 g $1^{-1} h^{-1}$. Similar effects were observed in a cell-recycled ethanol fermentation inoculated by fermentation broth collected from an industrial plant, which showed a bacterial contamination at the level of 10$^8$ cells per ml.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.405-410
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• 2002

생전분 분해효소를 이용한 타피오카의 당화 및 알콜 병행복발효에 적합한 조건을 조사하였다. 그 결과 가수량 250% (v/w), 효소제 사용량 0.5%(w/w)를 사용하여 96시간 발효하였을 때 알콜 함량이 가장 높았다. 알콜발효 96시간째에 알콜함량 및 환원당은 11.7% 및 306mg%으로 각각 나타났다. pH 변화는 발효초기 pH 6.2에서 발효 후 pH 4.2 범위로 감소하였으며, 총산은 발효초기 0.11에서 0.43가지 증가하였으나 큰 변화는 없었다. 알콜성분은 ethanol, methanol, iso-propanol, n-proylalcohol, iso-butylalcohol 및 iso-amylalcohol이 분석되었으며 그외에 acetaldehyde가 확인되었다. 생전분분해효소제를 이용한 타피오카의 알콜발효 조건은 가수량250%, 효소제 0.5%로 설정할 수 있었다. 그러나 전반적인 발효수율은 증자방법에 비하여 낮게 나타났다.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.329-334
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• 1990

In an attempt to develop a novel process for ethanol production from starch, a simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) process using Zymomonas mobilis and amyloglucosidase (AMG) was studied in continuous modes. Compared with a conventional cylindrical column type of fermentor, the tapered column type of fermentor was found to be superior in terms of reactor performance for ethanol fermentation. The tapered columm fermentor packed with coimmobilized Z. mobilis and AMG alleviated the problems which were associated with CO2 evolution and provided a significantly better flow pattern for both liquid and gas phases in the fermentor without channelling. However, the fluidized bed type of tapered column fermentor using flocculent strain of Z. mobiles and immobilized AMG showed lower productivity (5.2g/1/h) than that of packed bed type of tapered column fermentor(9.2g/l/h).

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.231-237
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• 1988

Tapioca 전분으로부터 ethanol을 생산하기 위한 여러 방법을 비교한 결과 extrudate를 이용하는 것이 460.5ι/ton의 alcohol 수율을 보여 가장 효과적이었다. Rhizopus sp. glucoamylase로 69시간 반응시켰을 때 extrudate로부터는 108.7mg/$m\ell$, 생 tapioca chip에서는 43.8mg/$m\ell$의 환원당이 생성되어 생전분보다 extrudate에 대한 glucoamylase의 분해력과 분해속도가 월등함을 알 수 있었다. Extrudate를 이용한 alcohol 발효를 수행한 결과 발효 초기에 alcohol 농도가 높아져 세균 오염방지 및 발효시간을 단축시키는 효과를 얻을 수 있었으나 extrusion 온도가 alcohol 발효에 미치는 영향은 크지 않았다. Glucoamylase가 생tapioca 보다는 extrudate에 더 용이하게 작용할 수 있는 것은 전분입자의 구조적 차이 때문임을 전자현미경으로 확인하였으며 extrudate와 생전분에 대한 분해력은 Rhizopus sp. glucoamylase 가 Aspergillus usamii glucoamylase보다 높았다.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.258-264
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• 1985

부채전분원에서 분리, 동정한 Aspergillus niger를 사용하여 koji를 조제하고 생전분 당화와 에탄을 발호의 조건을 검토한 결과는 다음과 같다. (1) Koji(효소제)는 4일간 배양한 경우에 가장 높은 활성을 가졌고 생전분 당화의 최적pH는 3.3. 최적온도는 $40{\sim}50^{\circ}C$ 이었다. (2) 전분별에 따른 당화는 옥수수전분. 고구마전분. 감자전분의 순위였다. (3) 알코올 발효시 전분의 최초 담금농도는 $20{\sim}30%$이었다. (4) 전분원료중 쌀, 고구마, 옥수수에서 무증자전분의 알코올 발효가 가능함을 보였으나, 증자한 전분들 보다 발효종료일은 약 $1{\sim}2$일 지체되었다. (5) 무증자에 의한 전분의 당파와 동시 알코올 발효에서 $30^{\circ}C$. pH3.3, 100rpm 왕복진탕 발효시 최적발효일은 5일, 쌀, 고구마, 옥수수전분에서 최종 에탄올수율은 약95%이었다.