• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.101-111
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• 2017

The task of improving a fungal strain is highly time-consuming due to the requirement of a large number of flasks in order to obtain a library with enough diversity. In addition, fermentations (particularly those for fungal cells) are typically performed in high-volume (100-250 ml) shake-flasks. In this study, for large and rapid screening of itaconic acid (IA) high-yielding mutants of Aspergillus terreus, a miniaturized culture method was developed using 12-well and 24-well microtiter plates (MTPs, working volume = 1-2 ml). These miniaturized MTP fermentations were successful, only when highly filamentous forms were induced in the growth cultures. Under these conditions, loose-pelleted morphologies of optimum sizes (less than 0.5 mm in diameter) were casually induced in the MTP production cultures, which turned out to be the prerequisite for the active IA biosynthesis by the mutated strains in the miniaturized fermentations. Another crucial factor for successful MTP fermentation was to supply an optimal amount of dissolved oxygen into the fermentation broth through increasing the agitation speed (240 rpm) and reducing the working volume (1 ml) of each 24-well microtiter plate. Notably, almost identical fermentation physiologies resulted in the 250 ml shake-flasks, as well as in the 12-well and 24-well MTP cultures conducted under the respective optimum conditions, as expressed in terms of the distribution of IA productivity of each mutant. These results reveal that MTP cultures could be considered as viable alternatives for the labor-intensive shake-flask fermentations even for filamentous fungal cells, leading to the rapid development of IA high-yield mutant strains.

• 농약과학회지
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.41-46
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• 2001

분지아미노산 생합성 과정에 관여하는 첫 번째 효소인 acetolactate synthase (ALS)를 대상으로 수행할 수 있도록 고효율 검색방법(High Throughput Screening, HTS)을 개발하였고, 이를 이용하여 식물특이적 효소 저해제로 알려진 107개의 기존 화합물 중에서 새로운 ALS 저해 화합물을 선발하였다. 기존의 방법과 비교할 경우 한사람이 1회 수행한다고 하면 8 배 효율이지만 연속적으로 수행한다고 할 경우 1/10 이하의 양, 동일한 재료의 적용, 측정 결과의 계산, enzyme kinetics 등을 감안하면 최소 100 배 이상의 효과를 얻을 수 있다. 새로운 ALS 저해제로 탐색된 화학물질은, ammooxyacetic acid, azelaic acid, citric acid, cyanuric fluoride, glyoxylic acid, itaconic acid, malonic acid, niclosamid, oxalic acid, 2-oxoglutaric acid, suramin 등이었다. 앞으로 이들을 기본 구조로 하여 신규 ALS 저해 제초제의 개발을 위한 유도체의 합성에 이용되었으면 한다.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2005

The World Health Organization(WHO, 1998) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA, 1992) recommended $2{\mu}\;guranium/{\ell}$ in drinking water as a guideline. The Korea Institute for Environmental Research recently reported that the radioactive pollution in ground water was almost negligible In Korea$(1999\~2002)$. Cs were cast into beads(2mm in wet form) and treated with hexamethylene diisocyanate for stability in acidic aqueous solution through cross-linking of the beads surfaces. The removal study was carried out in a static batch system and a flow system. In the static system, a certain amount of sample water was confined in a vessel and beads(dry weight 0.5g) were packed into it in order to adsorb uranium for a certain period of time. Afterwards the remaining uranium in water vessel was determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The effective pH range was 4 to 8. The smaller the size of beads, the better the removal efficiency. Furthemore, the lower the flow rates, the higher the removal efficiency. The results showed that chitosan beads can be effectively used for the removal of uranium contained in water.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.12-17
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• 1994

6개월 숙성된 재래식 고추장과 시판 중인 공장산 고추장의 이화학적 특성을 비교하였다. 공시된 고추장은 순창지역의 찹쌀고추장 18종, 보은지역의 10종의 보리고추장, 사천 지역의 밀 고추장 17종 및 공장산 고추장 10종이었다. 재래식 고추장의 유리당 함량은 대체로 공장산 고추장의 1/4 수준이었으며 주요 유리당은 glucose로 나타났고 이밖에 fructose, maltose sucrose가 검출되었다. 유리아미노산의 총량을 비교해 보면 공장산이 1,089mg으로 가장 높았고 그 다음이 사천, 순창, 보은 고추장 순으로 각각 554, 498, 266mg이었다. 각 고추장에서 가장 많이 함유되어 있는 유리아미노산은 순창 고추장에서는 serine, 보은 및 사천고추장에서는 aspartic acid, 공장산 고추장에서는 glutamic acid로 나타났다. 재래식 고추장에서 발견되는 휘발성 유기산으로는 acetic aicd, propionic acid, butyric acid 및 3-methyl butanoic acid가 검출되었으나, 공장산 고추장에서는 이 중 3-methyl butanoic acid가 검출되지 않았다. 함량면에서 aceticacid가 가장 많은 유기산으로 나타났으며 재래식 고추장에서 함량상 중요한 비휘발성 유기산은 lartic, oxalic, succinic acid이며 공장산 고추장에서는 이외에 itaconic, malic, malonic, pyroglutamic acid가 미량 검출되었다.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.489-496
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• 2006

분자 구조 중 $\pi$ 결합을 갖고 있는 카복시산과 폴리에틸렌글리콜 메틸에테르 메타크릴레이트(PMEM)를 자유 라디칼 반응에 의해 그라프트 공중합된 폴리카복실레이트(PC)계 고유동화제를 합성했고, FT-IR, $^{13}C-NMR$, 그리고 GPC를 활용하여 합성된 PC의 화학 구조 및 분자량을 조사했다. 4종의 카복시산(메타크릴산, 아크릴산, 무수말레인산, 그리고 이타콘산)과 [카복시산]/[PMEM]의 몰비를 변수로 시멘트페이스트에 적용한 결과, [카복시산]/[PMEM]의 몰비가 높을수록 시멘트 입자 상에 흡착량과 시멘트페이스트 유동성은 증가했다. 흡착량은 메타크릴산을 적용한 PC가 가장 높았고, 유동성은 아크릴산을 구조에 적용했을 때 가장 우수했다. 그러나 무수말레인산과 이타콘산을 주쇄로 사용한 경우 흡착 및 유동 특성이 좋지 않았다.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.249-256
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• 2020

Superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) can absorb and retain ten to thousand times their dry mass of water because of their three-dimensional hydrophilic structures. Conventional SAPs are mainly composed of poly(acrylic acid sodium salt) derived from petrochemicals. The present work is aimed at limiting the use of the petrochemical component by replacing it with a biomass-based material. First, the core-SAP was prepared via the terpolymerization of itaconic acid, vinylsulfonic acid, and cellulose, and the optimum conditions in terms of material input ratio were determined. Following this, the core-SAP was surface-crosslinked by esterification with butane diol to improve its liquid permeability and absorbency under load (AUL). The liquid permeability was measured according to the amount of 0.9 wt.% NaCl solution passing between the swollen SAP particles under a given pressure, and the AUL was estimated from the weight of this solution absorbed under 0.3 psi pressure.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.75-79
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• 2009

In this study, we polymerized new materials for soft contact lens using HEMA (2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) which is the based-monomer of soft contact lens, EGDMA (ethylene glycol dimethacrylate) as cross linkage agent, and the new additives of monoester or di-ester derived from itaconic acid commercially produced by the fermentation of Asp. itaconicus. New polymer materials for soft contact lens were synthesized with the mixture of HEMA and mono- or diester at different ratios and presented to a good water content and oxygen transmissibility (Dk/L) values. In case of polymerization with HEMA and mono-ester (15%), the water content and oxygen transmissibility of contact lens were found to be good values at 57.6% and 28.5 Dk respectively. The mixture of HEMA and mono-ester is more excellent than HEMA/di-ester in the water content and oxygen transmissibility. The toxicity of new contact lens materials were confirmed in the fibroblast L-929 cell line using a agar overlay test and a growth inhibition test with the extract solution of contact lens.

• 폴리머
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.602-607
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• 2001

이중 측쇄 이타코네이트 단위를 가지는 새로운 겔 전해질로 이용하기 위하여 bis(2-methoxyethyl)itaconate (bis(ME)I)를 itaconic acid와 2-methoxyethanol과 에스테르화 반응에 의하여 합성하였다. AN과 bis(ME)I의 공중합체들은 라디칼 중합에 의하여 AN/bis(ME)I = 9/1 ~ 1/1 조성을 가지는 것을 합성하였다. 최적의 기계적 성질과 이온전도도는 AN/bis(ME)I = 5/1 과 6/1 (25 ~ 35 wt%), LiClO$_4$(15 wt%) 그리고 가소제 (EC/PC=1/1) (40 ~ 50 wt%)에서 보여주었다. 가소화 겔 이온전도체는 질기고 안정된 기계적 성질을 보여주었으며 이온전도도는 8.12 ${\times}$ 10$_{-4}$ ~ 1.87 ${\times}$ 10$_{-3}$S/cm을 보여주었다. 최대 이온전도성을 보여주는 이온전도체는 전형적인 PEO를 중심으로 한 이온전도성 고분자보다 10배 이상 높은 이온전도성을 보여주었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.306-315
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• 2017

Metabolic engineering with a high-yielding mutant, A. terreus AN37, was performed to enhance the production of itaconic acid (IA). Reportedly, the gene cluster for IA biosynthesis is composed of four genes: reg (regulator), mtt (mitochondrial transporter), cad (cis-aconitate decarboxylase), and mfs (membrane transporter). By overexpressing each gene of the IA gene cluster in A. terreus AN37 transformed by the restriction enzyme-mediated integration method, several transformants showing high productivity of IA were successfully obtained. One of the AN37/cad transformants could produce a very high amount of IA (75 g/l) in shake-flask cultivations, showing an average of 5% higher IA titer compared with the high-yielding control strain. Notably, in the case of the mfs transformants, a maximal increase of 18.3% in IA production was observed relative to the control strain under the identical fermentation conditions. Meanwhile, the overexpression of reg and mtt genes showed no significant improvements in IA production. In summary, the overexpressed cis-aconitate decarboxylase (CAD) and putative membrane transporter (MFS) appeared to have positive influences on the enhanced IA productivity of the respective transformant. The maximal increases of 13.6~18.3% in IA productivity of the transformed strains should be noted, since the parallel mother strain used in this study is indeed a very high-performance mutant that has been obtained through intensive rational screening programs in our laboratory.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.13-20
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• 1990

Yu Ja cheong(Citron product) one of the traditional drinks was processed by a modified method to improve the quality,. Sugar(38%) and sorbitol(12%) were added as partially substi-tuted sugar and experimented about quality stability during storage at 20$\pm$2$^{\circ}C$ comparing with conventional 50% sugar added product. Chemical compositions of the acidity 40. 46mg% total Vitamin and 28.5mg% amino-N and pH was 3.7 During the storage pH reducing sugar and amino-N contents increased slightly while total acididty decreased slightly and reduced vitamin C occupied most part of total vitamin C after proessing was converted to oxidized vitamin C greatly at 70 days of storage. While L a and b values deceased in between modified one and conventional product. e value increased continually during storage {{{{ {C }_{16 { }:_{ } 0 } }}}} {{{{ {C }_{18 { }:_{ }0 } }}}} {{{{ {C}_{18 { }:_{ }1 } }}}} and {{{{ {C }_{18 { }:_{ }2 } }}}} contnts in fatty acid and citric acid itaconic acid malic acid and succinic acid in organic acid were the major componets in both products. Judging from the results of experiments during storage the quality of the modified product was compared quite well with that of vonventional one during storage.