• KSBB Journal
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.400-407
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• 2013

The growth characteristics and production of color pigments by Monascus strains were investigated during liquid culture, and production of monacolin K in red mold rice was carried out by solid state fermentation. Four different Monascus ruber strains were cultured in potato dextrose yeast extract broth (PDYB) media at $25^{\circ}C$ for 15 days. The high producing strain for red pigment was not corresponded to the strain for yellow pigment. Production of red pigment was high in the strain causing the fast pH change in culture broth. Production of monacolin K in red mold rice by solid state fermentation was influenced by a combination of wet cell weight and spore density in inoculum by liquid culture. Most strains showed the high production of monacolin K in red mold rice, when submerged fermentation was carried out for 5 days as inoculum for solid state fermentation. These results suggest that submerged fermentation period of inoculum have an effect on the production of monacolin K in red mold rice by solid state fermentation, and monacolin K in red mold rice could be increased by controlling the condition of submerged fermentation for inoculum.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

The production of high-value chemicals from natural resources as an alternative for petroleum-based products is currently expanding in parallel with biorefinery. The use of lignocellulosic biomass as raw material is promising to achieve economic and environmental sustainability. Filamentous fungi, particularly Aspergillus species, are already used industrially to produce organic acid as well as many enzymes. The production of lignocellulose-degrading enzymes opens the possibility for direct fungal fermentation towards organic acids such as itaconic acid (IA) and fumaric acid (FA). These acids have wide-range applications and potentially addressable markets as platform chemicals. However, current technologies for the production of these compounds are mostly based on submerged fermentation. This work showed the capacity of two Aspergillus species (A. terreus and A. oryzae) to yield both acids by solid-state fermentation and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation. FA was optimally produced at by A. oryzae in simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (0.54 mg/g wheat bran). The yield of 0.11 mg IA/g biomass by A. oryzae is the highest reported in the literature for simultaneous solid-state fermentation without sugar supplements.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.276-283
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• 2006

The thermophilic fungus Thermoascus aurantiacus 179-5 produced large quantities of a glucosidase which preferentially hydrolyzed maltose over starch. Enzyme production was high in submerged fermentation, with a maximal activity of 30 U/ml after 336 h of fermentation. In solid-state fermentation, the activity of the enzyme was 22 U/ml at 144 h in medium containing wheat bran and 5.8 U/ml at 48 h when cassava pulp was used as the culture medium. The enzyme was specific for maltose, very slowly hydrolyzed starch, dextrins (2-7G) and the synthetic substrate (${\alpha}$-PNPG), and did not hydrolyze sucrose. These properties suggest that the enzyme is a type II ${\alpha}$-glucosidase. The optimum temperature of the enzyme was $70^{\circ}C$. In addition, the enzyme was highly thermostable (100% stability for 10 h at $60^{\circ}C$ and a half-life of 15 min at $80^{\circ}C$), and stable within a wide pH range.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.1049-1052
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• 2008

Aspergillus niger가 액체발효(SF) 와 고체발효의 시험 규모 조건에서의 셀루로오스계 효소의 생산을 비교하였다. 액체배지는 0.5% 셀루로오스가 함유된 Czapek Dox를 사용하였고, 고체 지지체로 사용한 쌀겨는 셀루로오스로 적시고 SSF 발효를 위하여 Czapek Dox 배지를 첨가하였다. CMCase, 여지 paperase 그리고 ${\beta}$-Glucosidase 의 생산을 경시적으로 측정하였다. SSF 배양에서의 3일간의 효소 생산량은 SF 에서의 7일간 배양과 같았다. 따라서 SSF 조건이 SF 배양 조건보다 많은 효소를 생산함을 알 수 있었다. SSF 조건에서 FPase, CMCase 및 ${\beta}$-glucosidase의 최대 활성은 0.40, 0.62 및 0.013 U/ml 였으나, SF 조건에서는 0.13, 0.06 및 0.0013 U/ml의 활성을 나타내었다. 결론적으로 Aspergillus niger에 의해 생산되는 셀루로오스계 효소의 생산을 위해서는 SSF 발효 조건의 선택이 유리하다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.60-65
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• 2005

본 연구의 목적은 최근 DHA와 더불어 분유첨가제 등 기능성 신소재로서 수요가 증가되고 있는 arachidonic acid (AA)를 곰팡이 Mortierella alpina ATCC 32222를 이용하여 실질적으로 값싸게 생산할 수 있는 고체발효공정을 개발하기 위한 것이다. 본 연구에서는 회분식 심부 및 고체발효연구를 통하여 균체성장과 AA 생성에 대한 패턴을 조사하였는데, 심부발효에서는 포도당과 효모추출물을 그리고 고체발효에서는 농산 부산물인 저렴한 쌀겨를 원료로 하여 실험하였다. 심부발효 및 고체발효의 속도론적 관점에서 두 공정 모두 균체성장과 AA 생성간에 전형적인 mixed-growth associated pattern이 얻어졌다. 고체발효 배지의 최적화를 위하여 carbon to nitrogen (C/N) ratio를 6.5-20 범위로 조절하여 실험해 본 결과 쌀겨에 탄소원인 포도당을 첨가해 주지 않은 경우 즉, 6.5에서 가장 좋은 결과가 얻어졌다. 또한 sodium glutamate를 쌀겨에 소량 $(0-4\%,\;w/w)$ 첨가했을 때 보고된 문헌과는 달리 균체성장은 오히려 감소되는 경향을 보였으며, 고온에서 볶은 참깨로부터 얻어진 sesame oil $(7.5\%,\;w/w)$을 첨가했을 경우 AA 생산성은 약 1.2배가 향상되었다.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.30-36
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• 2017

Physicochemical properties of Fujian Yongchun aged vinegar (FYAV) and Shanxi mature vinegar (SMV) were compared in terms of the fermentation methods applied and aging periods (3, 5, 8, and 10 years), and combined E-nose/E-tongue analyses were performed to assess their flavors. Compared with submerged fermentation-derived FYAV, solid-state fermentation-derived SMV showed higher values of pH, brix, soluble solids, total phenolic content, and antioxidant activity, but not total acidity or total organic acids. Aging period resulted in an increase in pH, total phenolic content, and antioxidant activity. Principal component analysis based on E-tongue/E-nose analyses was performed to distinguish between the vinegars produced by different fermentation methods and under aging periods. Solid-state fermentation and an aging process were considered good techniques for vinegar brewing, considering the various organic acids and high levels of total phenolics and antioxidant activity.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제25권11호
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• pp.1819-1826
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• 2015

Poly(ε-ʟ-lysine) (ε-PL) is a novel bioactive polymer secreted by filamentous bacteria. Owing to lack of a genetic system for most ε-PL-producing strains, very little research on enhancing ε-PL biosynthesis by genetic manipulation has been reported. In this study, an effective genetic system was established via intergeneric conjugal transfer for Streptomyces albulus PD-1, a famous ε-PL-producing strain. Using the established genetic system, the Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb) gene was integrated into the chromosome of S. albulus PD-1 to alleviate oxygen limitation and to enhance the biosynthesis of ε-PL in submerged fermentation. Ultimately, the production of ε-PL increased from 22.7 g/l to 34.2 g/l after fed-batch culture in a 5 L bioreactor. Determination of the oxygen uptake rate, transcriptional level of ε-PL synthetase gene, and ATP level unveiled that the expression of VHb in S. albulus PD-1 enhanced ε-PL biosynthesis by improving respiration and ATP supply. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on enhancing ε-PL production by chromosomal integration of the VHb gene in an ε-PL-producing strain, and it will open a new avenue for ε-PL production.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제29권11호
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• pp.1523-1529
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• 2016

Soybean meal (SBM), a commonly used protein source for animal feed, contains anti-nutritional factors such as trypsin inhibitor, phytate, oligosaccharides among others, which limit its utilization. Microbial fermentation using bacteria or fungi has the capability to improve nutritional value of SBM by altering the native composition. Both submerged and solid state fermentation processes can be used for this purpose. Bacterial and fungal fermentations result in degradation of various anti-nutritional factors, an increase in amount of small-sized peptides and improved content of both essential and non-essential amino acids. However, the resulting fermented products vary in levels of nutritional components as the two species used for fermentation differ in their metabolic activities. Compared to SBM, feeding non-ruminants with fermented SBM has several beneficial effects including increased average daily gain, improved growth performance, better protein digestibility, decreased immunological reactivity and undesirable morphological changes like absence of granulated pinocytotic vacuoles.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.269-278
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• 2003

Gibberellic acid (GA$_3$) is a commercially important plant growth hormone, which is gaining much more attention all over the world due to its effective use in agriculture and brewing industry. Industrially it is produced by submerged fermentation technique using Ascomycetous fungus Gibberella fujikuroi. Solid state and immobilized cell fermentation techniques had also been developed as an alternative to obtain higher yield of GA$_3$. This review summarizes the problems of GA$_3$ fermentation such as production of co-secondary metabolites along with GA$_3$, substrate inhibition and degradation of GA$_3$ to biologically inert compound gibberellenic acid, which limits the yield of GA$_3$ in the fermentation medium. These problems can be overcome by various bioprocessing strategies e.g. two - stage and fed batch cultivation processes. Further research on bioreactor operation strategies such as continuous and / or extractive fermentation with or without cell recycle / retention system need to be investigated for improvement in yield and productivity. Down stream processing for GA$_3$ isolation is also a challenge and procedures available for the same have been critically evaluated.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.587-595
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• 2019

Pharmacological research on (CHA), a marine-derived quinazolinone alkaloid with significant cytotoxic activity, is restricted by low yields and is a problem that needs to be settled urgently. In this work, the selection of additional nitrogen sources and the optimization of additional concentrations and longer fermentation times using ammonium acetate, were investigated. CHA production was optimized to 62.1 mg/l with the addition of 50 mM ammonium acetate at 120 h of the fermentation in the shaker flask. This feeding strategy significantly increased 3-deoxy-arabino-heptulosonate-7-phosphate synthase activity and transcript levels of critical genes (laeA, dahp, and trpC) in the shikimate pathway compared with the non-treatment group. In addition, the selection of the feeding rate (0.01 and $0.03g/l{\cdot}h$) was investigated in a 5-L bioreactor. As a result, CHA production was increased by 57.9 mg/l with a $0.01g/l{\cdot}h$ ammonium acetate feeding rate. This work shows that the strategy of ammonium acetate supplementation had an effective role in improving CHA production by Aspergillus fumigatus CY018. It also shows that this strategy could serve as an important example of large-scale fermentation of a marine fungus in submerged culture.