• KSBB Journal
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.80-87
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• 2002

유기물 제거뿐만 아니라 안정적으로 질소와 인의 동시 제거를 위한 순환식 생물막 반응기를 제작, 운전하여 최적의 운전 인자를 도출하고, 질소 제거의 텃 번째 단계인 질산화 및 뒤이은 탈질에 관여하는 미생물들의 군집 구조 분석을 수행하였다. 유기물 제거와 질소와 인의 동시 제거를 위한 순환식 생물막 반응기는 143일 동안 운전되었다. 이 결과 $COD_{cr},\;BOD_5$, SS의 경우 각각 88, 88, 97%의 평균 제거효율을 보였다 이 기간 중 질산화율은 약 96% 정도로 유입 ${{NH_4}^{+}}_{-}N$의 대부분이 제거됨을 보였다. 하지만 탈질율은 평균 45% 정도로 나타났다. 반응기로 유입되는 총 인의 경우 약 44%가 제거되었다. 질소제거의 첫 번째 단계인 질산화가 일어나는 호기성 반응조 내 질산화 미생물의 경우 FISH 관찰 결과, 주요 암모니아 산화균 및 아질산 산화균으로는 Nitrosomonas spp.와 Nitrospira sap.가 관찰되었다. 또한 탈질 반응이 일어나는 준혐기성 반응조에서는 Rhodobacter, Rhodovulum, Roseebacter 그리고 Paracoccus 속에 속하는 탈질 미생물들이 전체 미생물의 약 10~20% 정도를 차지하며 분포하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.1032-1041
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• 2010

The comparative influence of two nanoparticles [viz., superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPION) and nanobarium titanate (NBT)] upon the in vitro and in situ low-density polyethylene (LDPE) biodegradation efficiency of a potential polymer-degrading microbial consortium was studied. Supplementation of 0.01% concentration (w/v) of the nanoparticles in minimal broth significantly increased the bacterial growth, along with early onset of the exponential phase. Under in vitro conditions, ${\lambda}$-max shifts were quicker with nanoparticles and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) illustrated significant changes in CH/$CH_2$ vibrations, along with introduction of hydroxyl residues in the polymer backbone. Moreover, simultaneous thermogravimetric-differential thermogravimetry-differential thermal analysis (TG-DTG-DTA) reported multiple-step decomposition of LDPE degraded in the presence of nanoparticles. These findings were supported by scanning electron micrographs (SEM), which revealed greater dissolution of the film surface in the presence of nanoparticles. Furthermore, progressive degradation of the film was greatly enhanced when it was incubated under soil conditions for 3 months with the nanoparticles. The study highlights the significance of bacteria-nanoparticle interactions, which can dramatically influence key metabolic processes like biodegradation. The authors also propose the exploration of nanoparticles to influence various other microbial processes for commercial viabilities.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.1765-1773
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• 2013

The cathode reaction is one of the most seriously limiting factors in a microbial fuel cell (MFC). The critical dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration of a platinum-loaded graphite electrode was reported as 2.2 mg/l, about 10-fold higher than an aerobic bacterium. A series of MFCs were run with the cathode compartment inoculated with activated sludge (biotic) or not (abiotic) on platinum-loaded or bare graphite electrodes. At the beginning of the operation, the current values from MFCs with a biocathode and abiotic cathode were $2.3{\pm}0.1$ and $2.6{\pm}0.2mA$, respectively, at the air-saturated water supply in the cathode. The current from MFCs with an abiotic cathode did not change, but that of MFCs with a biotic cathode increased to 3.0 mA after 8 weeks. The coulomb efficiency was 59.6% in the MFCs with a biotic cathode, much higher than the value of 15.6% of the abiotic cathode. When the DO supply was reduced, the current from MFCs with an abiotic cathode decreased more sharply than in those with a biotic cathode. When the respiratory inhibitor azide was added to the catholyte, the current decreased in MFCs with a biotic cathode but did not change in MFCs with an abiotic cathode. The power density was higher in MFCs with a biotic cathode ($430W/m^3$ cathode compartment) than the abiotic cathode MFC ($257W/m^3$ cathode compartment). Electron microscopic observation revealed nanowire structures in biofilms that developed on both the anode and on the biocathode. These results show that an electron-consuming bacterial consortium can be used as a cathode catalyst to improve the cathode reaction.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• 제18권E2호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2002

The objective of this study was to investigate the biodegradation of ethylene in an activated carbon biofilter inoculated with immobilized microbial consortium. The biofilter performance was monitored in terms of ethylene removal efficiency and carbon dioxide production. The biofilter was capable of achieving ethylene removal efficiency as much as 100% at a residence time of 14 min and an inlet concentration of 290 ppm. Under the same conditions, carbon dioxide with a concentration of up to 546 ppm was produced. Its was found that carbon dioxide was produced at a rate of 87 mg day$\^$-1/, which corresponded to a volume of 0.05 L day$\^$-1/. During operation with an inlet ethylene of 290 ppm, the maximum elimination capacity of the biofilter was 34 g of C$_2$H$_4$m$\^$-3/ day$\^$-1/. The biofilter could provide an attractive treatment technology for removing ethylene, an extremely volatile and slowly adsorbed compound.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제53권3호
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• pp.233-233
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• 2017

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.1772-1781
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• 2007

Activated sludge was sequentially adapted to benzene, toluene, and o-xylene (BTX) to study the effects on the change of microbial community. Sludge adapted to BTX separately degraded each by various rates in the following order; toluene>o-xylene>benzene. Degradation rates were increased after exposure to repeated spikes of substrates. Eleven different kinds of sludge were prepared by the combination of BTX sequential adaptations. Clustering analyses (Jaccard, Dice, Pearson, and cosine product coefficient and dimensional analysis of MDS and PCA for DGGE patterns) revealed that acclimated sludge had different features from nonacclimated sludge and could be grouped together according to their prior treatment. Benzene- and xylene-adapted sludge communities showed similar profiles. The sludge profile was affected from the point of the final adaptation substrate regardless of the adaptation sequence followed. In the sludge adapted to 50 ppm toluene, Nitrosomonas sp. and bacterium were dominant, but these bands were not dominant in benzene and benzene after toluene adaptations. Instead, Flexibacter sp. was dominant in these cultures. Dechloromonas sp. was dominant in the culture adapted to 50 ppm benzene. Thauera sp. was the main band in the sludge adapted to 50 ppm xylene, but became vaguer as the xylene concentration was increased. Rather, Flexibacter sp. dominated in the sludge adapted to 100 ppm xylene, although not in the culture adapted to 250 ppm xylene. Two bacterial species dominated in the sludge adapted to 250 ppm xylene, and they also existed in the sludge adapted to 250 ppm xylene after toluene and benzene.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.185-199
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• 2017

메탄은 자연적인 발생원과 인위적인 발생원에 의해 배출되며 지구온난화를 야기하는 대표적인 온실가스이다. 메탄을 탄소원과 에너지원으로 이용하는 메탄산화세균은 메탄의 생물학적 산화에 중요한 역할을 한다. 메탄산화세균의 서식지는 매우 다양하며 메탄산화반응의 핵심 효소인 methane monooxygenases (MMOs)는 메탄뿐 아니라 다른 기질을 산화할 수 있는 기질특이성을 가지고 있다. 이러한 메탄산화세균의 특성으로 인해 생물학적 메탄 저감 기술과 생물정화기술 분야에서 메탄산화세균의 활용에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 총설 논문에서는 메탄산화세균의 종류, MMOs의 특성과 메탄산화세균의 고농도 배양 기술에 관한 최근 정보를 정리하였다. 또한 메탄산화세균을 이용한 생물학적 메탄 저감 관련 실험실 규모와 매립지 현장에서의 기술 개발 현황 및 적용 결과를 소개하였다. 이러한 생물학적 메탄 저감 시스템에서 메탄산화세균의 군집 거동 특성도 고찰하였다. 마지막으로, 메탄산화세균을 활용한 생물공학기술의 혁신을 위해 필요한 과제로 대사활성이 우수하거나 신규 대사능력을 가진 메탄산화세균의 지속적인 탐색 연구, 고농도 세포 대량배양기술 개발 및 미생물 컨소시움(메탄산화세균과 비메탄산화세균의 컨소시움) 디자인 및 관리 기술 등이 필요함을 제안하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.216-222
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• 2004

In a previous paper, the ogdH gene that encodes 2-oxoglutarat dehydrogenase was isolated from Salmonella typhimurium. The catalytic N-terminal region in the enzyme was found to be very specific for the Salmonella species. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to detect S. typhimurium in food sources using primers designed for OGDH-l and OGDH-2 which were based on the salmonella-specific region of the ogdH gene. A simple polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection method was developed to detect low numbers of S. typhimurium in a chicken meat microbial consortium. Using the ogdH-specific primers under stringent amplification conditions and for gene probe analysis, fewer than 100 colony-forming units (CFUs) were detectable when pure cultures were employed. When the PCR assay was run on S. typhimurium-contaminated meat contents, only the positive meat samples containing as few as 200 CFUs reacted to the assay. The method employed for sample processing is simple and it was determined to provide a sensitive means of detecting trace amounts of S. typhimurium-specific sequences in the presence of mixed meat microbial populations. When compared with six representative intestinal gram-negative bacterial strains in foods, including Vibrio parahaemolyticus, V. vulnificus, Enterobacter cloacae, E. coli O157:H7, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Proteus sp., S. typhimurium had a unique and distinct PCR product (796 bp). In conclusion, the two OGDH primers were found to be rapid and sensitive detectors of Salmonella spp for the PCR method.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.511-520
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• 2016

The most energy-demanding step of wastewater treatment is the aeration-dependent elimination of organic carbon. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) offer an alternative strategy in which carbon elimination is conducted by anaerobic microorganisms that transport respiratory electrons originating from carbon oxidation to an anode. Hence, chemical energy is directly transformed into electrical energy. In this study, the use and stability of barcode-containing exoelectrogenic model biofilms under non-axenic wastewater treatment conditions are described. Genomic barcodes were integrated in Shewanella oneidensis, Geobacter sulfurreducens, and G. metallireducens. These barcodes are unique for each strain and allow distinction between those cells and naturally occurring wild types as well as quantification of the amount of cells in a biofilm via multiplex qPCR. MFCs were pre-incubated with these three strains, and after 6 days the anodes were transferred into MFCs containing synthetic wastewater with 1% wastewater sludge. Over time, the system stabilized and the coulomb efficiency was constant. Overall, the initial synthetic biofilm community represented half of the anodic population at the end of the experimental timeline. The part of the community that contained a barcode was dominated by G. sulfurreducens cells (61.5%), while S. oneidensis and G. metallireducens cells comprised 10.5% and 17.9%, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to describe the stability of a synthetic exoelectrogenic consortium under non-axenic conditions. The observed stability offers new possibilities for the application of synthetic biofilms and synthetically engineered organisms fed with non-sterile waste streams.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.369-378
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• 2018

본 연구는 순환여과양식시스템(RAS)에 있어서 복합프로바이오틱스의 적용이 넙치의 성장과 병저항성에 미치는 영향과 이 프로바이오틱스를 RAS에 생물증강처리 시 미생물군집 구조 및 수질에 미치는 영향을 평가하고자 실시하였다. RAS 내에서 80미의 넙치치어($25.7{\pm}7.6g$; $15.2{\pm}1.7cm$)에 프로바이오틱스 CES-AQ1를 첨가하여 사료를 제조하여(CES 사료; $1{\times}10^9\;CFU/kg$) 8주일 동안 급이하였다. 이 경우 넙치의 증체율, 비성장속도, 사료효율, 및 단백질 전환효율은 비유수식 양식시스템에 있어서 CON, PI 및 OTC 사료를 처리한 경우에 비해 1.5~2.5배 정도 높게 나타났다. 1주일간 병원균 저항성 시험에 있어서 비유수식에서 항생제함유 사료(OTC)를 급이한 경우와 RAS에서 CES 사료를 처리한 경우간에는 별 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 따라서 이 CES 프로바이오틱스를 RAS에서 넙치를 양식하는데 있어서 항생제 대용으로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 판단되었다. RAS의 생물여과막에서는 가장 높은 미생물다양성이 나타났으며 암모니아의 산화 및 탈질능을 가진 미생물이 관찰되었고, 병원미생물의 성장억제도 관찰되었다. 더구나 RAS 운전 19일 경과 시 암모니아가 0.5 mg/L이하의 농도로 감소하여 양호한 RAS 수질의 유지에 있어서 프로바이오틱스 처리가 효과가 있음이 밝혀졌다. 사료에 프로바이오틱스(CES-AQ1)를 첨가하여 넙치 장내 미생물이 안정화되고 또한 이 프로바이오틱스를 RAS 양식수에도 처리하여 RAS를 운전할 경우 건강한 넙치의 양식과 양호한 수질을 유지할 수 있어서 경제적이고 환경친화적인 넙치양식이 가능할 것으로 판단되었다.