• KSBB Journal
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.9-14
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• 1991

We studied the production and excretion of alpha-interferon in recombinant Escherichia coli harboring plasmid pIF-III-B, which carries alpha-interferon gene under the control of lipoprotein and lacUV5 promoter, and lac operator. Basically, the effects of concentrations of ampicillin and an inducer, IPTG, for the expression of the cloned gene, on the productions of alpha-interferon and plasmid stability were studied. The highest production of alpha-interferon was observed at 50 mg/1 of ampicillin concentration and 0.5 mM of IPTG. The plasmid pIF-III-B was maintained very stably in medium with ampicillin but segregated rapidly in medium without ampicillin. Also, the plasmid was segregated more rapidly in medium with an inducer higher than 0.5 mM.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.206-211
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• 2001

Klyyveromyces marxianus exoinulinase를 Saccharomyces cerevisiae에서 구성적으로 과발현 생산하기 위해, 구성적 promoter인 GAPDH, ADH1, PGK 및 ENOI promoters 하류에 exoinulinase 유전자 (INUI)의 ORF를 in frame으로 연결한 각각의 plasmi에 YIGP, pADHI,-INU, pPGK-INU 및 pENO-INU 를 구축하였다. 이들 각 plasmid를함유한 형질전환주 4종을 포도당 농도 5% 배지에서 회분배양한 결과 균체증식은 promoter에 따라 큰 차이를 보이지 않았지만 exoinulinase 발현수준과 plasmid 안정성은 사용한 promoter 에 크게 좌우되었다. 즉 exoinulinase 발현수준은 GAPDH PGK ADH1 ENO1 promoter 각각 1.70, 1.67 1.29, 0.80 unit/ml 였으며 plasmid 안정성은 GAPDH promoter 계의 55%를 제외하고 모두 80%이상으로 높게 나타났다. 이상의 plasmid 안정성과 exoinulinae 발현수준을 고려하여 ADH1 및 PGK 발현계를 선정하여 유가배양하였다 Yeast extract와 포도당을 간헐적으로 공급한 유가배양 결과, 두 발현계에서 약 30 g-DCW/1의 균체농도를 얻었지만, ADHI promoter 계에서는 3.70 unit/ml 의 최대 exoinulinase 활성과 96%의 plasmid 안정성을 보여TRh 반면에 PGK promoter 계는 각각 2.70 unit/ml/와 80%를 나타내었다. 따라서 plasmid 안정성과 긴 배양시간을 고려할 때 비선택적 영양배지를 사용하는 고농도세포 유가배양에서 ADH1 promoter가 exoinulinase 의 구성적 과발현, 생산에 더 적합할 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제27권9호
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• pp.1711-1715
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• 2017

In this study, we characterized the $bla_{NDM-5}$-bearing plasmid in a Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate that had lost the plasmid during serial passage. We determined the complete sequences of the plasmid pCC1410-2, which was extracted from a K. pneumoniae ST709 isolate collected at a Korean hospital from which two NDM-5-producing K. pneumoniae isolates were subsequently isolated. As a result, the pCC1410-2 plasmid had a backbone structure that was similar to those of two plasmids previously reported from the same hospital, but lacked some antibiotic resistance genes ($bla_{TEM-1}$, rmtB, mphR(A), mrx(A), and mph(A)). A 9-bp repeating unit encoding three amino acids (Gln-Gln-Pro) was inserted in TraD in pCC1410-2. Thus, the pCC1410-2 plasmid might be transferred from the previously identified carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae, but some delections and inversions might have occurred during the process. We compared the transfer frequency and stability of the plasmids. The relative frequency of conjugative transfer and stability in the host were significantly lower in pCC1410-2 than in previously reported $bla_{NDM-5}$-bearing plasmids in Korea. A low transfer frequency and instability in the host may cause underestimation of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in the clinical setting and in surveillance studies.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.328-333
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• 1987

고효율 에타놀 생성 균주인 Zymomonas mobilis의 plasmid vector가 숙주세포 내에서 안정하게 유지되는지의 여부를 회분 및 연속배양 방법을 통하여 조사하였다. Z. mobilis 숙주세포는 전이된 plasmid의 크기와 배지의 조성에 따라 증식속도에 영향을 받음을 알 수 있었고 작은 크기의 plasmid를 비 선택성 (non-selective) 배지에서 배양한 경우 더 빠른 성장을 보였다. 또한 사용한 4종류의 plasmid vector 모두 숙주세포 내에서 30세대 이상에 걸쳐 93% 이상의 높은 안정성을 나타내면서 독립적으로 증식함이 확인되었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.256-260
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• 1993

DNA subfragments, sopA, sopB and sopC which help to maintain the stability of an ori C plasmid, were derived from a mini-F plasmid DNA (EcoRI restriction fragment f5) after digestion with restriction endonuclease, and cloned in the vector plasmid pBR322. The recombinant plasmids obtained were introduced into E. coli KY7231 and E. coli CSR603 strains, and proteins specified by the mini-F fragments were analysed by SDS-PAGE. Two proteins encoded by the F fragments were detected, and their molecular weights were 41,000 and 37,000 daltons. Fluorography after one and two dimensional gel electrophoresis of the lysates showed that these two proteins had been overproduced in the cells which were allowed to incorporate radioactive amino acid after plasmid amplification by chloramphenicol treatment. The isoelectric points of sopA and sopB proteins were 6.6 and 7.0, respectively.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.370-372
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• 1995

A Phaffia rhodozyma chromosomal fragment (approximately 3.8 kb) capable of functioning as an origin for the replication of a kanamycin resistance ($Km^r$) plasmid in S. cerevisiae was isolated by the use of origin search plasmid, pHN134. In S. cerevisiae, transformation frequencies using the plasmid pHN134 containing an autonomously replicating sequence of P. rhodozyma was 450-580 CFU/$\mu g$ DNA. The stability of the recombinant plasmid were 16-19$\%$.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.89-93
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• 1990

재조합 pBR322-trp$^+$ 플라스미드의 숙주내 안정적 유지를 목적으로 tRNA phe 의 구조유전자인 pheW$^+$ 유전자를 pBR322-trp$^+$의 플라스미드에 도입시키고, 숙주세포로는 트립토판 생산을 위한 정상숙주 LC901의 phenylalanyl tRNA synthetase 온도감수성 변이체인 LC901-pheS-ts를 구성하여 이 온도감수성 숙주의 제한온도 (restrictive temperature)에서 재조합 trp$^+$ 플라스미드의 안정적 유지와 trp$^+$ 유전자가 미치는 효과를 조사하였다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.164-169
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• 1995

An endogenous cryptic plasmid, pBL1, which has been used to construct plasmid vectors for coryneform bacteria producing amino acids, was eliminated from Brevibacterium lactofermentum. The pBL1 was partially digested with Sau3AI and the resulting DNA fragments were subcloned into a suicide vector pEM1 which contains a kanamycin-resistant (km$^{r}$) gene. KM$^{r}$ B. lactofermentum transconjugants were obtained by conjugal transfer of the pEM1 derivatives containing pBL1 DNA fragments from Escherichia coli into B. lactofermentum. A km$^{r}$ transconjugant was analyzed to contain a plasmid pEB14, which occurred in vivo by homologous recombination between pBL1 and the conjugal-transferred plasmid. The pEB14 including the pEM1-derived km$^{r}$ gene was found to be lost concomitantly with km$^{r}$ phenotype, resulting in the construction of a pBL1-free strain of B lactofermentum. Based on transformation efficiencies and plasmid stability, the resultant pBL1- free strain is more useful than wild strain as a host cell for genetic manipulation. It could be concluded that foreign plasmid DNAs are efficiently isolated and analyzed from the pBL1-free strain because of the absence of endogenous pBL1 plasmid.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.321-326
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• 2000

To examine the feasibility of the long-term production of the human granulocyte colony stimulating factor (hG-CSF) using the $_{L}-arabinose$ promoter system of Escherichia coli, flask relay culture and cyclic fed-batch culture were performed. In the flask relay culture, it was found that the pismid was maintained stably up to about 170 generations in an uninduced condition, whereby the cells could also maintain the capability of expressing hG-CSF expression were maintained stably up to at least 100 generations. In contrast, in the cyclid fed-batch culture, segregational plasmid instability was observed within about 4 generations after induction, even though the cell growth and hG-CSF production reached their maximum balues, 78.0 g/l of dry cell weight and 7.0 g/l of hG-CSF, respectively. It would appear that, when compared to the flask relay culture, the high-cell density and high-level expression of hG-CSF in the cyclic fed-batch cultrure led to the segregational plasmid instability; in other words, a severe metabolic burden existe on the cells due to the high-level expression of hG-CSF. Accordingly, based on these long-term cultures, the segregational and structural plasmid instability was observed and a strategy to overcome such problems could be designed.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.129-134
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• 1992

Segregational instability of a recombinant plasmid, pDML6, encoding extracellular $\beta$-lactamase in Streptomyces lividans PD6 was characterized by growth kinetic analysis. The quantitative determination of the plasmid harbored in the mycelia was evaluated with mycelia fragmented mechanically, and also with colonies regenerated from protoplasts. Conditions for the formation of protoplasts and regeneration of protoplasts were established. The maximal specific growth rates of the host strain and the plasmid-harboring strain in a chemically defined medium without selection pressure were the same. The probability of plasmid loss from the harbouring cells was higher at higher growth rates. Mathematical models for the prediction of cell growth, substrate uptake, and accumulation of the cloned gene product were developed.