• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.31-36
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• 1988

An adaptive on-line optimization method has been applied to test the ability to maximize the cellular productivity of a continuous methylotroph culture system which was simulated by a variable yield Monod-type model. Optimum dilution rate and productivity were successively obtained and maintained at all times by the algorithm that utilizes steepest descent technique as optimization method and recursive least-square method with forgetting factor as dynamic model identification.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.167-171
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• 1995

A bacterial strain C-02 using methanol as a carbon source was isolated from Gumi Industrial Estate and selected based on its rapid growth and capability of poly-$\beta$-hydroxybutyrate accumulation. Characteristics of strain C-02 showed that it belongs to the Methylococcaceae family, Type II subgroup. Strain C-02 could incorporate valerate into the PHB chain to form 3-hydroxybutyrate and 3-hydroxyvalerate (P(3HB-co-3HV)). Among various nutrient limitation tests, the nitrogen limitation test resulted in the highest content of P(3HB-co-3HV) per dry cell weight, 50$%$. Under the nitrogen limited condition, the average molecular weight of P(3HB-co-3HV) obtained was determined to be approximately $2.8\times 10^5$ daltons.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.71-75
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• 1996

Trimethylamine, dimethylamine, methylamine 등의 아민류를 분해할 수 있는 미생물을 TMA를 성장기질로 사용한 농화배양으로부터 분리하였다. 분리된 균은 Methylobacterium sp. T32에 속하는 균으로 동정되었다. 이 균은 메탄올, 메틸아민류를 분해할 수 있으나, 다탄소화합물중에서는 malate, succinate, betaine과 같이 극히 제한된 종류의 유기화합물만을 분해할 수 있는 restricted facultative methylotroph였다. 이 균을 분변토에 고정하여 biofilter를 제작하였을 때 TAM gas를 SV $30h^{-1}$, 농도 120ppm를 연속적으로 분해했다.

• 미생물과산업
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.59-63
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• 1992

값이 저렴한 메탈올로부터 새로운 고점도성 생물고분자인 다당류의 생산과 활용은 산업적으로도 매우 흥미있는 분야이다. 본고에서는 최근 본 연구실에서 개발한 메탄올 자화세균(facultative methylotroph)인 Methylobacterium organophilum이 생산하는 신규의 고점성 다당류인 메틸란(methylan)의 생산 및 그 특성과 응용에 관하여 고찰하고자 한다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.65-70
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• 1979

SCP생산을 위하여 토양과 하수로부터 methanol을 탄소원 및 에너지원으로 이용하는 세균을 분리하여 이중 생육이 우수한 균주를 선별하였고, 이의 형태적 생리적 특성을 조사하여 동정하였다. 그리고 탄소원, 질소원, 금속이온, 생육인자 등이 생육에 미치는 영향을 조사하여 영양조건을 최적화한 결과를 다음과 같이 얻었다. 1) 우량균주로 선별한 균주는 탄소원으로서 methanol 이외의 다른 유기화합물에서는 생육이 되지않는 obligate methylotrophs로서 형태적 생리적 특성을 근거로 Methylomonas methanolica로 동정되었다. 2) 최적영양조건은 초기 methanol 농도 0.8% (v/v), 질소원은 (NH$_4$)$_2$ SO$_4$ 0.6%, 금속이온은 MgSO$_4$.7H$_2$ 0.1%이었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.391-396
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• 1997

Two series of carbon sources, linear primary $C_1$~$C_9$ alcohols and linear $C_2$~$C_{10}$ monocarboxylic acids were tested for PHA synthesis in Paracoccus denitrificans. The results showed that the growth-associated synthesis of PHA could be referred only to the carbon sources with odd number of carbon except methanol. For all carbon sources with even number of carbon, nitrogen limitation was required to induce PHA synthesis in P. denitrificans. Poly(3-hydroxyvalerate)[P(3HV)] homopolymer was synthesized from $C_5$, $C_7$, and $C_9$ while growing in the presence of nitrogen, but the nitrogen depletion in the later growth period incorporated 3-hydroxybutyrate(3HB) unit into the polymer chain. The optimum C/N ratio for P(3HV) homopolymer production was found to be 10 when the strain was grown on 10 ml/l of valeric acid for 96 h. P. denitrificans synthesized P(3HB-co-3HV) copolymers from n-hexanoic and n-octanoic acid. The microstructural characterics of the P(3HB-co-3HV) copolymer from n-propanol was investigated using $^13C$-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, showing a structural heterogeneity.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제28권10호
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• pp.1706-1715
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• 2018

Several non-methylotrophic bacteria have been reported to improve the growth and activity of methanotrophs; however, their interactions remain to be elucidated. We investigated the interaction between Methylocystis sp. M6 and Microbacterium sp. NM2. A batch co-culture experiment showed that NM2 markedly increased the biomass and methane removal of M6. qPCR analysis revealed that NM2 enhanced both the growth and methane-monooxygenase gene expression of M6. A fed-batch experiment showed that co-culture was more efficient in removing methane than M6 alone (28.4 vs. $18.8{\mu}mol{\cdot}l^{-1}{\cdot}d^{-1}$), although the biomass levels were similar. A starvation experiment for 21 days showed that M6 population remained stable while NM2 population decreased by 66% in co-culture, but the results were opposite in pure cultures, indicating that M6 may cross-feed growth substrates from NM2. These results indicate that M6 apparently had no negative effect on NM2 when M6 actively proliferated with methane. Interestingly, a batch experiment involving a dialysis membrane indicates that physical proximity between NM2 and M6 is required for such biomass and methane removal enhancement. Collectively, the observed interaction is beneficial to the methanotroph but adversely affects the non-methylotroph; moreover, it requires physical proximity, suggesting a tight association between methanotrophs and non-methylotrophs in natural environments.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.179-183
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• 1993

A restricted facultatively methanol-oxidizing bacterium, Methylovorus sp. strain SS1, was isolate dfrom soil samples from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, through methanol-enrichment culture technique. The isolate was nonmotile Gram-negative rod and did not have complex internal membrane system. The colonies were small, pale-yellow, and raised convex with entire margin. The cell did not produce any spores and capsular materials. The cell was obligately aerobic and exhibited catalase, but no oxidase, activity. Plasmid, carotenoid pigment, and poly-.betha.-hydroxybutyric acid were not found. The guanine plus cytosine content of the DNA was 55%. The isolate was found to grow only on methanol methylamine, or glucose. Growth factors were not required. Cells growing on methanol was found to produce extracellular polysaccharides containing glucose, lactose, and fructose. Growth was optimal (t$_{d}$= 1.7) with 0.5%(v/v) methanol at 40.deg.C and pH 6.5. No Growth was observed at over 60.deg.C. Cell-free extracts of the methanol grown cells exhibited the phenazine methosulfate-linked methanol dehydrogenase activity Methanol was found to be assimilate dthrough the ribulose monophosphate pathway.y.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.577-581
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• 1993

The amino acid threonine was produced from glycine and ethanol in a reaction mixture using cell free extract of the methylotrophic bacterium isolated from soil and identified as mellthylo-bacterium sp. KJ29. Although the isolate could grow on carbon source other than methanol, only the cell free extract from the cells grown on methanol produced threonine. Methanol dehydrogenase (MDH) activity was present only in the cells grown on methanol when compared to the cells grown on heterotrophic substrates.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.58-65
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• 2007

중금속으로 오염된 토양을 정화하기 위한 rhizoremediation 기법에서 식물이 중금속을 흡수하고 이동시키는 효율을 증가시키기 위하여 토양 미생물 특히, 근권세균의 역할이 중요하다. 이를 위하여 본 연구에서는 정유공장 주변의 유류 및 중금속으로 장기간 오염된 토양에서 서식하는 4가지 식물의 근권토양으로부터 Methylobacterium sp. SY-NiR1 균주를 분리하였다. 분리한 Methylobacterium sp. SY-NiR1는 분홍색 콜로니 형성, 막대모양 및 $\alpha-proteobacteria$에 속하는 특성으로 보아 pink-pigmented facultative methylotroph인 것으로 사료된다. 이 균주는 식물성호르몬인 indole acetic acid(IAA) 생산능을 가지고 있으며, 카드뮴, 크롬, 구리, 납, 니켈 그리고 아연 등과 같은 다양한 중금속에 대하여 내성을 가지고 있었으며, $EC_{50}$을 기준으로 한 SY-NiR1의 중금속에 대한 내성은 Zn > Ni > Cu > Pb > Cd > Cr 순이다. 따라서 본 연구에서 분리한 Methylobacterium sp. SY-NiR1 균주는 중금속으로 오염된 토양에서 식물의 발아, 생장 및 발달을 도와 식물의 중금속 흡수를 증가시켜 rhizorememdiation 효율을 증가시킬 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.