• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.195-200
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• 2008

To analyze the riverine microbial community structure, genetic fingerprints and ecological indexes such as species abundances, diversity, evenness, dominance of targeted rivers in Gyeonggi Province were acquired and evaluated using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) technique. Genetic fingerprinting technique such as T-RFLP, which is able to show the microbial community clearly unlike traditional culture-dependent techniques, was thought to be useful to analyse the riverine microbial ecosystem under various factors. Riverine ecosystem evaluation using visible organisms would give biased results with time, targeted organism and researcher. But, T-RFLP, which can exclude the subjected biases such as culture condition and identification, would be an option to understand natural ecosystem by including the microorganisms that defy culture but perform important functions.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.200-207
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• 1997

우리 나라 논 토양 환경의 생물학적 특성을 파악하기 위하여 전국 13개 농업기후지대별 63개 지점의 이앙전 무담수 논 토양의 표토를 채취하여 주요 토양 미생물의 밀도 및 다양성을 조사하였다. 농업기후지대별 전국 평균치 이상의 미생물 종류는 북부지방 보다는 남부지방일 수록 많았으며, 검정된 미생물중 지역간 차가 가장 큰 균은 형광성 Pseudomonas 속이었다. 지형간 미생물 밀도는 호기성 세균, 형광성 Pseudomonas 속과 Azotobacter 속등이 하해혼성지에서, 토성간에는 사상균이 식토에서, Bacillus 속, Azotobacter 속 그리고 탈질균은 식양토에서 유의적으로 가장 높았다. 한편 Azotobacter 속과 암모니아 산화세균의 밀도는 토양 pH가 높아 질수록 증가하였다. Bacillus 속, 형광성 Pseudomonas 속, Azotobacter속, 탈질균, 암모니아 산화균, 아질산산화균, 방선균 및 사상균등을 요인으로 한 미생물 다양성 지수의 지역간 최소 값은 0.109, 최대 값은 0.661 이었다. 지형별 다양성 지수는 하해혼성지가 0.332, 홍적대지 0.335, 하성평탄지 0.432 그리고 곡간선상지 0.447이었으며, 토성별 다양성지수는 사질 0.443, 사양질 0.427, 미사식양질 0.414, 식양질 0.405 그리고 식질토양이 0.362로 사질토양일수록 증가하는 경향이었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.447-459
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• 2010

Bacterial diversity of two distinct wastewater treatment systems, conventional activated sludge (CAS) and membrane bioreactor (MBR), of petroleum refineries were investigated through 16S rRNA gene libraries. Sequencing and phylogenetic analysis showed that the bacterial community composition of sludge samples was distinct between the two wastewater treatment systems. MBR clones belonged predominantly to Class Betaproteobacteria, represented mainly by genera Thiobacillus and Thauera, whereas CAS clones were mostly related to Class Alphaproteobacteria, represented by uncultured bacteria related to Order Parvularculales. Richness estimators ACE and Chao revealed that the diversity observed in both libraries at the species level is an underestimate of the total bacterial diversity present in the environment and further sampling would yield an increased observed diversity. Shannon and Simpson diversity indices were different between the libraries and revealed greater bacterial diversity for the MBR library, considering an evolutionary distance of 0.03. LIBSHUFF analyses revealed that MBR and CAS communities were significantly different at the 95% confidence level ($P{\leq}0.05$) for distances $0{\leq}D{\leq}0.20$. This work described, qualitatively and quantitatively, the structure of bacterial communities in industrial-scale MBR and CAS processes of the wastewater treatment system from petroleum refineries and demonstrated clearly differentiated communities responsible for the stable performance of wastewater treatment plants.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.49-59
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• 2021

BACKGROUND: Soil salinity causes reduction of crop productivity. Rhizosphere microbes have metabolic capabilities and ability to adaptation of plants to biotic and abiotic stresses. Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) could play a role as elicitors for inducing tolerance to stresses in plants by affecting resident microorganism in soil. This study was conducted to demonstrate the effect of selected strains on rhizosphere microbial community under salinity stress. METHODS AND RESULTS: The experiments were conducted in tomato plants in pots containing field soil. Bacterial suspension was inoculated into three-week-old tomato plants, one week after inoculation, and -1,000 kPa-balanced salinity stress was imposed. The physiological and biochemical attributes of plant under salt stress were monitored by evaluating pigment, malondialdehyde (MDA), proline, soil pH, electrical conductivity (EC) and ion concentrations. To demonstrate the effect of selected Bacillus strains on rhizosphere microbial community, soil microbial diversity and abundance were evaluated with Illumina MiSeq sequencing, and primer sets of 341F/805R and ITS3/ITS4 were used for bacterial and fungal communities, respectively. As a result, when the bacterial strains were inoculated and then salinity stress was imposed, the inoculation decreases the stress susceptibility including reduction in lipid peroxidation, enhanced pigmentation and proline accumulation which subsequently resulted in better plant growth. However, bacterial inoculations did not affect diversity (observed OTUs, ACE, Chao1 and Shannon) and structure (principle coordinate analysis) of microbial communities under salinity stress. Furthermore, relative abundance in microbial communities had no significant difference between bacterial treated- and untreated-soils under salinity stress. CONCLUSION: Inoculation of Bacillus strains could affect plant responses and soil pH of tomato plants under salinity stress, whereas microbial diversity and abundance had no significant difference by the bacterial treatments. These findings demonstrated that Bacillus strains could alleviate plant's salinity damages by regulating pigments, proline, and MDA contents without significant changes of microbial community in tomato plants, and can be used as effective biostimulators against salinity stress for sustainable agriculture.

• 환경생물
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.279-284
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• 1999

토양으로부터 직접 추출한 DNA를 cross hybridization하는 방법을 통해서 서로 다른 토양 환경 간에 미생물 군집의 유전형적 유사성과 상대적 다양성을 비교하였다. 그 결과 소나무삼림토양이 다른 토양에 비해 상대적 다양성이 높은 것으로 밝혀졌으며, 경작지, 나지, 초지, 신갈삼림 순으로 다양성 정도를 나타내었다. 또한 유전형적 유사성의 정도에 따른 집괴 분석 결과 소나무삼림과 경작지 토양, 신갈나무삼림과 초지 토양 그리고 나지 등 세 부류로 구분되었다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.124-127
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• 2023

Among certain animals, gut microbiomes demonstrate species-specific patterns of beta diversity. This host-specificity is a potent driver of exogenous microbial exclusion. To overcome persistent translational limitations, translational microbiome research and therapeutic development must account for host-specific patterns of microbial engraftment. This commentary seeks to highlight the important implications of host-specificity for microbial ecology, Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT), next-generation probiotics, and translational microbiota research.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.65-71
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• 1999

BIOLOG GN microplate를 이용하여 6종의 식생 토양에 따른 토양미생물 군집의 유일탄소원 이용능을 비교 분석하였다. 전체적으로 축합물, 아미노산, 카르복실산 화합물을 잘 이용하였으나, amide의 경우 낮은 이용능을 보였다. 대응분석을 통해 6종류의 식생 토양에 따른 토양미생물 군집은 크게 삼림토양, 초지-경작지토양, 비식생 토양의 3가지 그룹의 대사적 다양성의 차이를 보이는 집단으로 분류되었다. 다차원 척도법 분석을 통해 신갈나무 삼림토양의 미생물 군집은 소나무와 떡갈나무 삼림토양의 미생물 군집과는 또 다른 그룹으로 분리되었다. 이러한 식생토양형에 다른 미생물 군집의 대사 다양성의 차이로 볼 때, 식생의천이에 따라 식생에 영향을 받는 미생물 군집의 대사 다양성 또한 식생의 천이에 대응하여 변화하고 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.101-110
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• 1998

The extent of biological diversity being revealed by molecular techniques accentuates the need to develop methods to isolate and culture the large numbers of microorganisms that remain to be studied. The discovery and characterization of novel microorganisms will provide information useful in understanding microbial ecosystems and have the potential to lead to new products for the biotechnology industry. In this review, the use of innovative techniques and exploration of unusual ecosystems, that have begun to address the challenge of isolating the "uncultured" members of the microbial population, are examined.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.880-884
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• 2001

Rumen microbiology research has undergone several evolutionary steps: the isolation and nutritional characterization of readily cultivated microbes; followed by the cloning and sequence analysis of individual genes relevant to key digestive processes; through to the use of small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) sequences for a cultivation-independent examination of microbial diversity. Our knowledge of rumen microbiology has expanded as a result, but the translation of this information into productive alterations of ruminal function has been rather limited. For instance, the cloning and characterization of cellulase genes in Escherichia coli has yielded some valuable information about this complex enzyme system in ruminal bacteria. SSU rRNA analyses have also confirmed that a considerable amount of the microbial diversity in the rumen is not represented in existing culture collections. However, we still have little idea of whether the key, and potentially rate-limiting, gene products and (or) microbial interactions have been identified. Technologies allowing high throughput nucleotide and protein sequence analysis have led to the emergence of two new fields of investigation, genomics and proteomics. Both disciplines can be further subdivided into functional and comparative lines of investigation. The massive accumulation of microbial DNA and protein sequence data, including complete genome sequences, is revolutionizing the way we examine microbial physiology and diversity. We describe here some examples of our use of genomics- and proteomics-based methods, to analyze the cellulase system of Ruminococcus flavefaciens FD-1 and explore the genome of Ruminococcus albus 8. At Illinois, we are using bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) vectors to create libraries containing large (>75 kbases), contiguous segments of DNA from R. flavefaciens FD-1. Considering that every bacterium is not a candidate for whole genome sequencing, BAC libraries offer an attractive, alternative method to perform physical and functional analyses of a bacterium's genome. Our first plan is to use these BAC clones to determine whether or not cellulases and accessory genes in R. flavefaciens exist in clusters of orthologous genes (COGs). Proteomics is also being used to complement the BAC library/DNA sequencing approach. Proteins differentially expressed in response to carbon source are being identified by 2-D SDS-PAGE, followed by in-gel-digests and peptide mass mapping by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry, as well as peptide sequencing by Edman degradation. At Ohio State, we have used a combination of functional proteomics, mutational analysis and differential display RT-PCR to obtain evidence suggesting that in addition to a cellulosome-like mechanism, R. albus 8 possesses other mechanisms for adhesion to plant surfaces. Genome walking on either side of these differentially expressed transcripts has also resulted in two interesting observations: i) a relatively large number of genes with no matches in the current databases and; ii) the identification of genes with a high level of sequence identity to those identified, until now, in the archaebacteria. Genomics and proteomics will also accelerate our understanding of microbial interactions, and allow a greater degree of in situ analyses in the future. The challenge is to utilize genomics and proteomics to improve our fundamental understanding of microbial physiology, diversity and ecology, and overcome constraints to ruminal function.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.325-333
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 김치와 묵은지의 미생물 군집 구조와 이화학적 특성을 비교 분석하였다. 김치와 묵은지의 이화학적 특성 분석 결과 묵은지 시료들의 pH가 김치보다 더 낮았으며, 산도는 더 높은 것으로 나타났다. 김치와 묵은지 간의 염도에는 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났으며, 김치에서 당도가 묵은지보다 높은 것으로 나타났다. α-diversity 분석 결과 김치와 묵은지 사이에 종 추정치와 종 풍부도 지수는 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났으나, 계통발생학적 차이를 반영한 phylogenetic diversity 지수는 묵은지에서 김치보다 유의한 수준으로 높은 것으로 나타났다. 김치와 묵은지의 미생물 군집을 생물학적 분류수준에 따라 분석한 결과 두 그룹 모두 공통적으로 과(family) 수준에서 Lactobacillaceae가 가장 우점하였으나, 높은 내산성을 갖거나 김치 내에서 높은 성장 경쟁력을 갖는 것으로 알려진 Pediococcus 속과 Lactobacillus 속 유산균의 상대적인 분포가 묵은지에서 높은 것으로 나타났다. 김치와 묵은지의 전체 미생물 군집 구조에 통계학적으로 차이가 있는지 분석하기 위해 beta set-significance 분석을 수행한 결과 김치와 묵은지 두 그룹의 전체 미생물 군집구조가 통계학적으로 신뢰수준에서 매우 다른 것으로 나타났으며, 김치에서 상대적으로 높은 Weissella kandleri의 분포와 묵은지에서 상대적으로 높은 Pediococcus inopinatus의 높은 분포가 김치와 묵은지의 전체 미생물 군집 구조 차이에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.