Agaricus bisporus grows on a substrate known as compost, which is a product of aerobic fermentation by various microorganisms. These organisms convert and degrade the straw and form lignin humus complex which is utilized later on by the population of organisms. Theses microflora play a key role in the process of composting and can be regarded as the active agents in the preparation of nutrient medium as many of them may ultimately contribute themselves to the nutrition of A. bisporus. The diversity of microflora according to growing farmhouse and fruiting body of Agaricus bisporus were investigated. The aerobic bacteria and Bacillus as longer of turning stage of compost pile were increased. And, thermophilic actinomycetes and fluorescent Pseudomonas sp. showed high density after the pasteurization stage. But Tricoderma sp. was decreased toward the end of turning stage of compost pile. Ten mushroom farms was selected to research of microflora of fruiting body of button mushroom. The microflora showed significant difference according to mushroom farms. The bacteria density was 0.4~41.6×105 cfu/ml and the fungus was 1.3~3.9×103 cfu/ml. But The microorganism density was not significant change for the storage periods. These isolates were classified into Chryseobacterium indologenes(6 strains), Pseudomonas agarici(5 strains), Sphingobacterium multivorum(2 strains), Flavobacterium anhuiense(2 strains), Microbacterium sp.(10 strains), Pseudomonas sp.(13 strains) on the basis of 16 rDNA analysis. The most dominants of these species were Chryseobacterium indologenes and Pseudomonas agarici.

Xylanase를 생산하는 호알칼리성 균주를 토양으로부터 분리하여 동정하였다. 토양으로부터 분리한 호알칼리성 균주 3000여종 중 xylanase 활성이 가장 높은 균주인 strain DK-2386 균주를 선별하였다. Gram 염색과 SEM을 통한 형태학적 특성을 관찰하였으며, Methods for General and Molecular Bacteriology와 Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, 그리고 Biochemical tests for identification of medical bacteria에 준하여 생화학적 특성을 확인한 결과 배양액의 색은 붉은 빛을 나타내었으며, Gram양성 간균, 내생포자형성, catalase 양성, oxidase 양성, 혐기성 양성, glucose로부터 gas 형성 양성, casein 가수분해 양성, starch 가수분해 양성, CMC 가수분해 양성, xylan 가수분해 양성, nitrate 환원능 양성이며 10% NaCl 농도에서도 생육하는 것을 확인하였다. 균체의 지방산 조성 분석 결과 C15:0 ISO 27.35%와 C15:0 ANTEISO 31.54%, C16:0 9.70%로 이루어져 Bacillus속으로 동정되었으며, 16S rDNA 염기서열 분석결과 B. agaradhaerens와 100%의 유사성을 갖는 것을 확인하였다. (사)한국종균협회로부터 분양받은 Bacillus agaradhaerens 40952, B. alcalophilus와 strain DK-2386 균주사이의 생화학적 특성을 비교한 결과 B. agaradhaerens와 속과 종이 같으나 미세하게 특성이 다른 균주로 판단되어 B. agaradhaerens DK-2386이라 명명하였다.

A new insect member of the STAT family of transcription factors (HcSTAT) has been cloned from the lepidopteran, Hyphantria cunea. The domain involved in DNA interaction and the SH2 domain are well conserved. The gene is transcribed at a low level during all stages of development, and transcribed in hemocyte, fat body, midgut, epidermis, and Malpighian tubule. Especially, hemocyte and Malpighian tubule showed transcriptional activation of HcSTAT upon Gram-negative and -positive bacteria challenge. Gram-negative and -positive bacteria challenge specifically results in nuclear translocation of HcSTAT protein and induction of DNA-binding activity that recognizes a STAT target site in H. cunea hemocyte. In vivo treatment with sodium orthovanadatetranslocates HcSTAT to the nucleus in hemocyte cells.

호열성 미생물을 검토하기 위하여 전국 각지로부터 토양과 두엄을 채취하여 그로부터 호열성 미생물을 분리하였다. 토양과 두엄으로부터 분리된 호열성 미생물 1250여 균주를 선별하였고, 이들을 대상으로 미생물이 생산하는 효소활성을 검토하여 호열성 전분 분해 효소를 생산하는 1주의 미생물을 확인하였다. 확인된 1주의 미생물을 strain 2719라 명명하였다. Strain 2719 균주는 형태학적으로 gram 양성 간균의 특징을 나타냈고, 균주의 표면은 매끄럽지 않았으며, 비교적 다양한 길이를 가지고 있었다. 또한 다른 gram 양성 간균들에 비해서 많은 수의 균사들이 각 균주들 사이에 복잡하게 얽혀있었다. 생화학적 특성을 확인한 결과 catalase 양성, glucose 발효, arabinose 발효, mannitol 발효, casein·gelatin·starch 가수분해의 특징을 가지고 있었으며, 이는 Bacillus sp.로 추정되었다. 생육 pH의 범위는 pH 6-pH 8 범위에서 생육이 가능했으며, 생육 온도의 범위는 50-70oC였다. 16S rDNA sequence 분석결과 Bacillus thermoglucosidasius의 16S rDNA와 99.52%가 일치하였으나, sequence의 일부분이 다른 부분이 있고, 생육 특성에서 약간의 차이를 보였다. 또한 gene bank에 등록되어 있는 균주들의 16S rDNA sequence들과 비교하여도 일치하는 균주는 확인되지 않았다. 이와 같은 실험결과에 따라 2719 균주는 기존에 발표되지는 않았으나, Bacillus thermoglucosidasius와 매우 유사한 균주로 판단되어 Bacillus thermoglucosidasius 2719로 명명하였다.

In this study the real situation of apartment house in seoul is reproduced with multi-zone modeling program CONTAM2.4. This model include disinfection system which is consist of dilution, filtration, UVGI(ultra violet germicidal irradiation). It's energy consumption was also analyzed through the linked model of CONTAM and TRNSYS according to the combination of components. The comparison of total energy consumption through energy analysis revealed that adjusting the air change rate of the UVGI air sterilizer to maintain the same indoor microbe removal capability was more advantageous in terms of energy consumption.

As Standards and Specifications of the Saengsik-classes has been established since 2005 by KFDA. The microbial Standards and Specifications of the Saengsik-classes is as follows; no detection in Escherichia coli, colony forming unit less then 1,000/g in Bacillus cereus, colony forming unit less then 100/g in Clostridium perfringens respectively. Contamination levels of Total aerobic bacteria, Escherichia coli,, Bacillus cereus and Clostridium perfringens in Saengsik-classes were monitored. Total aerobic bacteria counts in Saengsik-classes was 1×10¹~5.3×107 cfu/g, for Bacillus cereus 1×10²~9×10² cfu/g, for Clostridium perfringens 1×10¹ cfu/g. Escherichia coli, was not isolated from all Saengsik-classes. Thess results will provide information for introduction of HACCP system to ensure microbial safety of Saengsik-classes.

In this study, microbial investigation is accomplished for 554 Jeot-kal samples (102 of Jeot-kal, 448 of Seasoned Jeot-kal and 4 of Sik-khe, respectively) that corresponds with Coliform-bacteria, Escherichia coli, Aerobic live bacteria as hygienic indicator microorganisms, and Staphylococcus aureus, Vibrio parahaemolyticus as Food-borne pathogenic microorganisms. Based on the methods in Korea Food Code, reliable data are obtained as follows; in 31.9% rate of the samples, Coliform bacteria are verified in the extent of 0~20,000 CFU/g as 2.3 logCFU/g. Especially, Seasoned Jeot-kal (37.7%, 2.3 logCFU/g) are detected to 6 and 2 folds higher than those of Jeot-kal, 5.9% and 1.4 logCFU/g. Likewise, Escherichia coli is detected from 9 samples only in Seasoned Jeot-kal, that includes seasoned squid, seasoned octopus, seasoned roe of pollack, seasoned large-eyed herring and seasoned hairtail. Aerobic live bacteria are also detected in the range of 0~8.9 × 108 CFU/g. Against salinity, E. coli are detected in samples only less than 10% salinity. Concomitantly, aerobic live bacteria count is decreased to 5.5~3.6 log CFU/g upon the salinity is increased up to 25%. However, S. aureus and V. parahaemolyticus are not detected in 554 samples, presumptively referring Jeot-kal products are somehow free from such food-borne pathogens. As the results above, we deliberately consider that the sanitary control in Jeot-kal, which be necessarily fermented- as well as non-microbially inactivated should be ensured in near future and also suggest an effectual microbial standard corresponding to the Negativity in E. coli for Jeot-kal products.

The objective of this study is to offer basic scientific data to support policy decision-making for the improved control of suspended microorganism and to provide baseline data in order to improve the studies of bioaerosol in Korea. Therefore, this study collected and re-analyzed articles on suspended microorganism in various indoor environments and atmospheric environment in Korea that were published in environmental journals since 1980. The survey on the bioaerosol concentration in hospital among the public facilities have been performed abundantly. Also, the survey on the distribution of microorganism during yellow sand, pollen and fungus in atmosphere have been performed mostly. The impactional sampling method that is the sampling method of suspended microorganism have been used mostly in the survey on bioaerosol in Korea. Among the various indoor environments, the pooled average total bacteria concentration of 222.75 CFU/㎥ (95% CI：210.29 ∼ 245.22 CFU/㎥) was found in hospitals. It were lower than the guideline concentration (800 CFU/㎥) recommended by the Korean Ministry of Environment. And the pooled average concentration of bacteria and fungi in houses was 148.06 CFU/㎥(95% CI : 20.39 ∼ 275.74 CFU/㎥) and 22.66 CFU/㎥(95% C I：0 ∼ 49.73 CFU/㎥) respectively. Staphylococcus spp., Micrococcus spp., Enterococcus., Corynebacterium., Escherichia spp., and Pseudormonas spp. for bacteria and Penicillium spp., and Aspergillus spp. for fungi were showed in various indoor environments.

Ultraweak photons could be emitted from the chemical reaction without any electromagnetic radient. These chemiluminescence could be detected by highly sensible photomultiplier recently. We will introduce the principal of chemiluminescence generation reaction, and the application studies in the determination of food-borne microorganisms in field. The counts of surface contaminated microorganism in mackeral and chicken for cold storage determined by ATP-chemiluminescence method had good correlation with the counts by standard agar plate method. However, there was little correlation between 2 methods in ginseng powder whose microbial counts were lower than 10,000 CFU.

본 연구는 Aspergillus oryzae(AO) 혹은 Saccharomyces cerevisiae(SC)를 첨가하여 제조한 맥주박 위주 발효사료의 급여가 한우의 반추위내 미생물에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위해 실시하였다. 공시동물은 반추위 cannula가 장착된 한우 암소 2두를 이용하였다. 시험은 시판 배합사료 및 corn silage 급여구(대조구), 시판 배합사료 , AO 첨가 발효사료 및 com silage 급여구(TAO)와 시판 배합사료 ,

유기합성적으로 제조된 지방족 폴리에스테르의 일종인 polycaprolactone (PCL)을 27˚C와 37˚C로 온도를 달리한 활성오니토양에 66일간 매립하여 토양미생물에 의해 분해된 PCL 필름의 표면변화를 관찰하고, PCL을 분해하는 토양진균과 토양세균을 분리, 동정하였다. PCL을 탄소원과 에너지원으로 이용하는 토양진균으로는 Paecilomyces fumosoroseus KH27, Penicillium digita

Various sterilization methods were applied to the powder of ginseng for the improving hygienic quality. Ultra-violet (UV) and Infrared ray (IR) treatments could not inhibit highly growth of bacteria in ginseng powder. However, high hydrostatic pressure treatment showed high inhibition rate against bacterial growth in ginseng powder. Changes of viable cell count by the pressure showed positive relationship between growth inhibition rates and the pressures applied. When powder was treated with 2,000 kg/㎠ for 10 min at 25℃, initial viable cell count of the powder, 2.0 × 10⁴ CFU/g, was decreased to 1.0 × 10⁴ CFU/g. When it treated with 3,000, 4,000 and s,000 kg/㎠ of pressures under the same condition, viable cell counts were 8.0 × 10³, 7.0 × 10³ and 1.8 × 10³ CFU/g, respectively. Ginseng saponins of the powders were all detected when analyzed by TLC chromatography after treatment with the pressures. Therefore, it was considered that saponin of ginseng powder was stable under the condition of 5,000 kg/㎠ of pressure, even though the treatment induced coagulation of the powder.

This study was to investigate an effective biological control of forage diseases and provide a basic data and a model in improving variety of antagonistic bacteria, with growth promoting effect on forage, through cell fusion. The results obtained were sum

In this research, characteristics of nitrification and denitrification using the microorganism attached on sponge and plates were examined. The denitrification and nitrification performance were investigated under the anaerobic and aerobic condition for about 2 months. Because the basins of denitrification and nitrification were connected in series, wastewater was flowed from denitrification basin to nitrification one. The 90% of influent flowrate was returned from nitrification basin to denitrification one. Most of organic material was removed in nitrification basin, wherease the only exact amount of organics required in denitrification process was removed in denitrification one. This experiment resulted in that heterotrophic bacteria existing in aerobic basin governed the removal efficiency of organic compounds. In case the influent BOD concentration into nitrification basin was 80mg/l, it did not affect to accumulation of nitrifying bacteria, the balance of heterotrophic bacteria was proved to be an important factor in nitrification/denitrification method such as anaerobic and aerobic cycling type.

한방과 식품분야에서 널리 이용되고 있는 쑥의 특성 중 항미생물 효과에 대한 연구를 하였다. 쑥씨에서 분리한 정유를 GC, GC-MS로 분석한 결과 77종의 휘발성 물질이 동정되었고 그 중에서 가장 많이 존재하는 것은 campher(14.242%), borneol(12.812%), 1.8-cineol(6.437%), terpinen-4-ol(1.185%) 등으로 전체 정유성분의 약 35%를 차지했다. 이들 4종과 Mugwort seed extract(essential oil)를 가지고 대표적인 식품 미생물인 S. cerevisiae, L. mesenteroides, L. plantarum, A. oryzae와 B. subtilis 그리고 식품오염 정도의 지표 미생물인 E. coli 등의 생육에 미치는 항미생물 효과를 측정한 결과 terpinen-4-ol이 가장 효과가 커 1000ppm 정도로 미생물의 생육을 거의 억제시켰으나 cineol, essential oil은 효과가 그다지 크지 않은 반면에 borneol과 campher는 항미생물 효과가 미약했다.