• KSBB Journal
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.113-119
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• 2000

In order to produce xylitol with high yield, experiments were carried out to develope xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH) defective m mutant from Pichia stipitis and to investigate the xylit이 fermentation characteristics of mutant strain. After treatment of P s stipitis with EMS, mutant PXM-4 was selected based on the XDH activity and xylitol production capability. Among the tested c cosubstrates, galactose was selected as an adequate cosubstrate on xyl뻐I production of mutant PXM-4. With the increase of galactose concentration, xylitol production was decreased because the transport of xylose into cell was inhibited by g galactose. The optimal concentration of galactose for the production of xylitol using 20 g/L xylose was 20 g/L. Under this c condition, maximum concentration of xylitol and yield were 14.4 g/L and 97%, respectively. In order to prevent the inhibitory e effect of xylose transport by galactose, galactose was fed with low concentration and the concentration of xylitol produced w was increased up to 25 g/L. In the fermentation of corn cob hydrolyzate by mutant PXM-4, xylose was completely converted t to xylit이 with a 100% yield in 4 days culture.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.335-340
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• 2011

Glucose and xylose are the most abundant materials in nature which can be used to produce ethanol by yeast fermentation. Three combinations of cultivation with glucose and xylose were carried out; separated, co-culture, and sequential fermentation with Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pichia stipitis. In the separated fermentation, S. cerevisiae fermented glucose to produce 14.5 g/l ethanol from 29.4 g/l glucose but hardly used xylose. However, P. stipitis utilized not only glucose but also xylose to produce ethanol 11.9 g/l and 11.6 g/l from 29.4 g/l glucose and 29.0 g/l xylose, respectively. In the mixture of glucose and xylose, P. stipitis fermented both sugars, producing 21.1 g/l ethanol while S. cerevisiae fermented only glucose, producing 13.4 g/l ethanol. In the co-culture and sequential fermentation, the co-culture showed more efficient ethanol productivity with 18.6 g/l ethanol than the sequential fermentation with 12.4 g/l ethanol. To investigate the effect of nutrients in the growth of microorganisms and ethanol production, yeast nitrogen base (YNB) was used in the sequential fermentation with S. cerevisiae and P. stipitis. YNB supplemented some nutrients which S. cerevisiae used up in the broth and the culture showed increased growth rate, increased consumption of xylose, and increased ethanol productivity producing 22.5 g/l ethanol from 54.6 g/l sugar with a yield of 0.41 g/g.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.578-584
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• 2009

We investigated acid hydrolysis characteristics of yellow poplar woodmeal with concentrated sulfuric acid for high concentration of monosaccharides production. Woodmeal to 72% sulfuric acid ratio (w/w), $2^{nd}$ hydrolysis temperature and time were main variables for finding optimum reaction condition. Optimum woodmeal to 72% sulfuric acid ratio was 1 : 2.61 (w/w) and $2^{nd}$ hydrolysis temperature and time was $105^{\circ}C$ and 40 min as 44.8 g/L of glucose and 25.2 g/L of xylose in hydrolysis solution. In this acid hydrolysis solution, furfural, 5-HMF, low molecular weight phenolic compounds were identified. Furfural and 5-HMF concentration were increased as increasing $2^{nd}$ hydrolysis time. More than 40 min of $2^{nd}$ hydrolysis at $110^{\circ}C$, xylose concentration was decreased but glucose concentration was leveled out because xylose to furfural reaction was faster than xylan to xylose, but cellulose to glucose reaction was similar rate with glucose to 5-HMF at that $2^{nd}$ hydrolysis reaction condition.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.669-669
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• 2007

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.752-757
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• 1999

Studies were made of digestion of timothy (Pheleum pretense) hay, tall fescue (Festuca elatior) hay, and rice (Oryza sativa) straw in pure cultures of rumen anaerobic fungus, Neocallimastix frontails MCH3. The fungus was inoculated on ground forages (1%, w/v) in an anaerobic medium and incubated at $39^{\circ}C$. Incubation was continued for 24, 48, 72 and 96 h. The losses of dry matter, xylose and glucose of forage during incubation were determined at the end of these incubation periods. Xylose and glucose were considered to be released from xylan and cellulose, respectively. The digested xylan to digested cellulose (X/C) ratios of the substrate were calculated. Xylanase and carboxymethyl cellulose (CMCase) of culture supernatant and residual substrate was measured at the same time. The X/C ratios in the cultures on timothy hay and rice straw were greater than 0.5 in the first 24-h incubation period. The values were smaller than 0.3 in tall fesque. The ratio of xylanase activity to that of CMCase in the first 24-h incubation period correlated well with the traits in X/C ratio. However xylanase activity was still superior to CMCase in the following incubation period (48 to 96 h), although the glucose (designated as cellulose) was more intensively digested than xylose (designated as xylan). The production of these polysaccharidases appeared to correlate with substrate cell-wall sugar composition, xylose to glucose ratios, at the beginning of fast growing period.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.286-290
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• 2015

Lactic acid is a useful platform chemical for a wide range of food and industrial applications such as pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. Among 313 strains of lactic acid bacteria isolated from different traditional Korean fermented foods, eight Lactobacillus strains effectively utilized xylose as a carbon source to produce lactic acid. A lactic acid bacterium identified as Lactobacillus buchneri produced the highest amount of lactic acid from xylose under anaerobic conditions. The optimum xylose concentration and incubation temperature were 50 g/l and 37℃, respectively; under these conditions, 22.3 g/l lactic acid was produced.

• BMB Reports
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.600-603
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• 1998

A highly thermostable xylose isomerase from Thermus thermophilus has been expressed in Escherichia coli and crystallized. The purified enzyme shows its optimum temperature at $90^{\circ}C$. It has been crystallized at room temperature using polyethylene glycol 4000 as the precipitant. The crystal belongs to the orthorhombic space group $P2_12_12_1$, with unit cell parameters of a = 73.34 ${\AA}$, b = 144.05 ${\AA}$, c = 155.07 ${\AA}$. The presence of one molecule of tetrameric xylose isomerase in the asymmetric unit gives a crystal volume per protein mass ($V_m$) of 2.32 ${\AA}^3/Da$ and the solvent content of 47.0% by volume. The diffraction pattern extends to 1.9 ${\AA}$ Bragg spacing with synchrotron radiation and a set of native data has been collected to 2.3 ${\AA}$.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.316-321
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• 2009

This study was conducted to improve the fish odor of extracts obtained from salmon frame. Salmon frame extracts were prepared using four kinds of pretreated salmon frame (salmon frame soaked in soybean milk and fried salmon frame) or containing additives (cystine and xylose-added salmon frame, and methionine and xylose-added salmon frame). Among the extracts prepared in this study, extracts containing cystine and xylose had the highest volatile component intensity and odor sensory score. These suggested that the fish odor of salmon frame extracts can be reduced by adding cystine and xylose before extraction.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.56-59
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• 1989

The changes in free sugar composition were investigated with respect to the kinds of dried ginseng for extraction, the various ethanol concentrations used for ginseng extract manufacture and the conditions of heating temperature and time under which the ginseng extract was stored . The results are as follows: 1) The free sugar content of dried ginseng was 6.02-8.02% and the sucrose and maltose content in the free sugar was 70-80%. 2) The free sugar content was 13.82-26.29% in the Sanggunsam (dried ginseng of whole root) extract and it had a tendency to increase with increase in ethanol concentration. In addition, when a higher ethanol concentration was used, the sucrose content was in- creased but the maltose content was decreased. 3) The glucose, sucrose and maltose content in ginseng extract, decreased, in the order, as heating temperature and time were increased. On the other hand the opposite results were neted for xylose and fructose. Keywords Panax ginseng, ginseng extract, Sanggunsam.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.507-511
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• 1996

Medium optimization for xylitol production from xylose by Candida parapsilosis ATCC 22019 mutant was performed. Effect of various nitrogen sources on xylitol production was investigatied. Of inorganic nitrogenous compounds, ammonium sulfate was effective for xylitol production and yeast extract was the most suitable orangic nitrogen nutrient for enhancement of xylitol production. Effect of inorganic salts such as KH$_{2}$PO$_{4}$ and MgSO$_{4}$-7H$_{2}$0 on xylitol production was also studied. Optimal medium was selected as xylose of 50 g/l, yeast extract of 5 g/l, (NH4$_{4}$)$_{2}$SO$_{4}$ of 5 g/l, KH$_{2}$PO$_{4}$ of 5 g/l, MgSO$_{4}$-7H$_{2}$O of 0.2 g/l. In a fermentor by using the optimal medium, a final xylitol concentration of 37 g/l could be obtained from 50 g/l of xylose with a xylitol yield of 74% and a xylitol productivity of 0.58 g/1-hr. At 300 g/l xylose, fermentation was also carried out and then a final xylitol concentration of 242 g/l was obtained at 272 hours. It was corresponding to xylitol yield of 80.7% and xylitol productivity of 0.58 g/1-hr.