• BMB Reports
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.91-95
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• 2012

Glutamate dehydrogenase from axenic bacterial cultures of a new microorganism, called GWE1, isolated from the interior of a sterilization drying oven, was purified by anion-exchange and molecular-exclusion liquid chromatography. The apparent molecular mass of the native enzyme was 250.5 kDa and was shown to be an hexamer with similar subunits of molecular mass 40.5 kDa. For glutamate oxidation, the enzyme showed an optimal pH and temperature of 8.0 and $70^{\circ}C$, respectively. In contrast to other glutamate dehydrogenases isolated from bacteria, the enzyme isolated in this study can use both $NAD^+$ and $NADP^+$ as electron acceptors, displaying more affinity for $NADP^+$ than for $NAD^+$. No activity was detected with NADH or NADPH, 2-oxoglutarate and ammonia. The enzyme was exceptionally thermostable, maintaining more than 70% of activity after incubating at $100^{\circ}C$ for more than five hours suggesting being one of the most thermoestable enzymes reported in the family of dehydrogenases.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.278-283
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• 2013

A gram-positive, rod-shaped, spore-forming, motile thermophilic bacterium was isolated from a sterilization oven. The microorganism GWE1, formally named Geobacillus wiegelii identified as a member of the genus Geobacillus. GWE1 grew under aerobic conditions of between $60-80^{\circ}C$ (optimum $670^{\circ}C$), in a pH range of 3.0-8.0 (optimum $pH^{70^{\circ}C}$ 5.8), and between 0 and 2 M NaCl (optimum 0.3 M). The membrane polar lipids were dominated by branched saturated fatty acids, which included as the major constituents; iso-15:0 (13.3%), 16:1(${\omega}7$) (12.8%), 16:0 (28.5%), iso-17:0 (13.5%) and anteiso-17:0 (12.3%). The DNA G+C content was 47.2 mol% (determined by HPLC). The 16S rRNA gene sequence of GWE1 showed a high similarity with Geobacillus caldoxylosilyticus (97%). However, the level of DNA-DNA relatedness was only 58%. These data suggest that GWE1 is probably a novel specie of the genus Geobacillus.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.101-106
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• 1973

microwave oven의 배지 처리에의 이용에 고나한 실험에서 다음 결론을 얻었다. 1)배지 융해에 이용함으로써 시간을 단축하고, 푸로판 불꽃 사용시의 실내 공기 오염을 막을 수 있었다, 2)혐기성 배지에서의 공기 저게는 wire barsket에 넣은 시험관을 물이 든 beaker에서 가열하므로써 끓어 넘는것을 막을 수 있었다. 3)배지 중의 E.coli 살균효과는 불꽃처리의 경우와 비슷하였으며 고압멸균을 대치할 수는 없을 것으로 판단되었다, 저자들의 실험실에서는 매일 5~6종의 배지를 만들기 위해 융해하며, 혐기성 세균동정을 위해 40~50개의 반유동 배지에서 공기를 제거하는바 이를 위해 지난 수개월간 microwave oven을 이용하고 있고 편리함을 경험하고 있다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.148-152
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• 1980

The microwave of 2450 MHz, generated by a household cooking oven, was evaluated for its applicability to melt various rehydrated media and to remove dissolved oxygen from tubed media for anaerobic culture. The effect on the sterilization of E. coli in selective media was also evaluated. The following results were obtained. 10 The microwave oven was useful in saving time for melting media and in eliminating heat and combustion gas from the laboratory, which were inevitable by-products in the conventional flame method. 2) Dissolved oxygen could be removed without boiling over by exposing the tubes of anaerobic culture medium after putting them in a wire basket in a beaker with water. 30 The count of E. coli during the melting of MacConkey and EMB agar were similar to those treated with open flame. The microwave treatment was not considered a possible mean to replace autoclaving even in these selective media.