• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.27-31
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• 2000

Characteristics of ethanol production by a xylose-fermenting yeast, Pichia stipitis Y-7124, were studied. The sugar consumption rate and specific growth rate were higher in the glucose-containing medium than in the xylose-containing medium. Specific activities of xylose reductase and xylitol dehydrogenase were higher in the medium with xylose than glucose, suggesting their induction by xylose. Maximum specific growth rate and ethanol yield were achieved at 30 g xylose/L concentration without formation of by-products such as xylitol and acetic acid whereas a maximum ethanol concentration was obtained at 130 g/L xylose. Adding a respiratory inhibitor, rotenone, increased a maximum ethanol concentration by $10\%$ compared with the control experiment. In order to evaluate the pattern of ethanol inhibition on specific growth rate, a kinetic model based on Luong's equations was applied. The relationship between ethanol concentration and specific growth rate was hyperbolic for glucose and parabolic for xylose. A maximum ethanol concentration at which cells did not grow was 33.6 g/L for glucose and 44.7 g/L for xylose.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.946-949
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• 2010

The effects of two different sugars (glucose and xylose) on the expression levels and patterns of the xylose reductase (xyl1), xylitol dehydrogenase (xyl2), and xylulokinase (xyl3) genes were analyzed using Pichia stipitis. A significant increase in mRNA levels of xyl1 was observed after 6 h growth in culture conditions using xylose as a sole carbon source, but expressions of the three genes were not influenced by normal culture media with glucose. In addition, expressions of xyl2 and xyl3 were not observed during the entire culture period during which xylose was added. It also was found that the expression level of xyl1 increased as a function of the xylose concentration (40, 60, and 80 g/l) used in this study, indicating that xyl1 expression sensitively responded to xylose in the culture media. Although the induced level of xyl2 increased slightly after 48 h in the xylose-supplemented culture conditions, the expression of xyl2 was not observed in the xylitol-supplemented culture conditions. Finally, considering the expression of each gene in response to glucose or xylose, the absolute expression levels of the three genes indicate that xyl1 is induced primarily by exposure to xylose.

• 한국균학회지
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.229-235
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• 2020

곤충 장으로부터 분리되는 야생 효모들의 종 분포특성을 알아보고자 충북대학교 주변 토양에 서서식하는 반날개과 곤충장 5점의 시료들로부터 16균주의 야생 효모들을 분리, 동정하였다. 야생 효모 16균주는Aureobasidium 속 3균주, Cystofilobasidium 속 4균주, Mrakia 속 1균주, Naganishia 속 3균주, Saitozyma 속 2균주, Sampaiozyma 속 2균주와 Scheffersomyces 속 1균주를 포함한다. 이들 중 Cystofilobasidium capitatum YP53, C. capitatum YP71, C. macerans YS620, C. macerans YS622, Mrakia aquatica YP158 및 Scheffersomyces stipitis YI56균주들을 국내 미기록 효모들로 최종 선별하였다. 선별한 국내 미기록 효모들의 균학적 특성과 탄소원의 자화성 등을 조사하였다. 이들은 모두 타원형의 세포 형태를 가지고 있으며, glycerol, L-arabinose, xylitol, inositol을 탄소원으로 이용할 수없었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.108-114
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• 1993

A new strain of acidophilic, acetogenic bacterium, Acetobacter sp. strain HA was isolated by selective enrichment from the traditionally fermented rice wine vinegar in Korea. It was a gram-negative, non-motile short rod and oxidized acetate and lactate. The optimal temperature and pH for growth were $28^{\circ}C$ and 4.0, respectively. The strain HA differed from other Acetobacter species by growing well on methanol, xylitol, inositol, dulcitol, D-xylose, L-arabinose, and D-mannose as sole sources of carbon and energy. The isolated strain HA did not produce $\gamma$-pyrones from glucose and did not produce ketone bodies from glycerol. The quinone system used in this study was an ubiquinone-9 isoprene unit. The guanine-plus-cytosine content of the DNA was 50.7 mol%, and the major cellular fatty acids were $C_{18:1} and C_{16:0}$.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2005년도 생물공학의 동향(XVI)
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• pp.171-174
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• 2005

20 g/L peptone, 20 g/L dextrose, 10 g/L yeast extract에 100 mg/L zeocin을 첨가하여 동일하게 전배양 한 재조합 Pichia pastoris X-33/pBPT44를 각기 다른 탄소원이 든 배지에 배양하면서 12시간 간격으로 샘플을 채취하여 배양시간에 따른 세포성장, pH, 각 탄소원에 따른 PLC 생산량 등을 측정하였다.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.349-355
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• 2003

We developed a dietary supplement using natural herbs and nutrients for the growth and exercise performance improvement. It called 50-22 supplement containing distilled extracts of natural herbs to remove bitterness and the addition of Vitamin B1, B6, Ca and xylitol. We investigated on the effect of 10-22 supplementation on the maximal exercise performance, IGF-1 (insulin like growth factor-1) concentration and antioxidant activity in SD rat model. In result, JR-22 supplement group was better than control group about 10％ in exercise performance test and increased about 63％ of IGF-1 concentration in blood. In addition, the oxidative damage induced by exercise was reduced by JR-22 supplementation. Therefore, we suggested that 50-22 supplementation enhanced effectively exercise performance and IGF-1 concentration and reduced to oxidative stress in muscles. Also, we analysed biochemical factors in blood for the safety of JR-22 supplement. We known that there is no change of blood lactic acid, ammonia, inorganic phosphorous ion and creatine kinase activity. (Korean J Community Nutrition 8(3) : 349∼355, 2003)

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.484-486
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• 2006

Maltosyl (G2)-mannitol, produced by the transglycosylation of mannitol with maltotriose by Bacillus stearothermophilus maltogenic amylase, was not found to support lactic acid production by Streptococcus sobrinus NRRL 14555. Furthermore, the synthesis of water-insoluble glucans from maltosyl-mannitol by S. sobrinus NRRL 14555 was much lower than that from xylitol or mannitol. Consequently, these results suggest that maltosyl-mannitol could be used as a noncariogenic sugar substitute in food products.

• Mycobiology
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.74-78
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• 2004

An alkaline protease produced by Aspergillus niger C-15 was purified and characterized. The enzyme was purified 19.41-fold with a specific activity of 74150 U/mg and a recovery of 34.4% by gel filtration and ion exchange chromatography. The molecular weight of the enzyme was estimated to be 34 kDa. The optimum pH and temperature for the protease activity were pH 8.0 and $60^{\circ}C$, respectively. The enzyme activity inhibited by EDTA suggests that the preparation contains a metalloprotease. The enzyme activity of the metalloprotease was completely inhibited by 5 mM $HgCl_2$ and $FeCl_3$, while partially inhibited by $CuSO_4$, and $MnCl_2$. When polyols such as glycerol, mannitol, sorbitol and xylitol, were added to the reaction medium, most polyols tested enhanced protease activity. Especially, glycerol showed the highest effect. The alkaline metalloprotease was stable at high temperature and retained more than 90% of the initial activity at $60^{\circ}C$ and 86.4% under addition of glycerol.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.3-13
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• 1991

D-xylose 는 임산 바이오마스의 화학석 조성분 증 셀룰로오스와 리그닌 다음으로 가장 많이 존재하는 성분이다. 그럼에도 불구하고 D-glucose만큼의 연구가 진행되지 못해왔다. 단지 xylitol, furfural 및 xylonic acids탐의 몇가지 산으로 전환시켜 이용될 뿐이다. 이런 이유는 D-xylose를 공업적으로 다량 추출하는 방법과, 특히 정선 방법에 어려운 문제점이 있기 때문이다. 그러므로 본 총설에서는 D-xylose를 보다 경제적으로 분리하는 방법과 D-xylose를 에탄올로 발효시키는 과정중의 제 문제점들에 관해 기존에 발표된 논문들을 정리하고저 한다. 즉 공업적으로 D-xylose를 다량 분리시키는 방법으로서 해섬/추출 폭쇄/추출, 초산펄핑, 전기가수분해 방법들이 논의 되었으며, 분리된 D-xylose를 에탄올로 발효시킬 경우 D-xylose의 대사, 발효 조건들의 영향, 헤미셀룰로오스 가수분해물의 발효, 발효의 전망과 문제점등이 포함되었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.281-286
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• 2005

We created a new graphite-Cu(II) electrode and found that the electrode could catalyze FADH$_2$ oxidation and FAD reduction coupled to electricity production and consumption, respectively. In a fuel cell with graphite-Cu(II) anode and graphite-Fe(III) cathode, the electricity was produced by coupling to the spontaneous oxidation of FADH$_2$ Fumarate and xylose were not produced from the enzymatic oxidation of succinate and xylitol without FAD, respectively, but produced with FAD. The production of fumarate and xylose in the reactor with FAD electrochemically regenerated was maximally 2- 5 times higher than that in the reactor with FAD. By using this new electrode with catalytic function, a bioelectrocatalysts can be engineered; namely, oxidoreductase (e.g., lactate dehydrogenase) and FAD can function for biotransformation without an electron mediator and second oxidoreductase for cofactors recycling.