Abstract
marine bacterium Pseudomonas sp. CHCS-2 produced the biosurfactant in the culture broth which contained 2%(w/v) arabian light crude oil and the productivity of biosurfactant was increased with the addition of glucose. The crude oil in the culture broth was degraded by this strain and carbon chain of $_nC_{12}~_nC_{22}$ was completely degradaded during the incubation for 196 h. The crude biosurfactant was purified by Amberlite XAD-7, Sepharose CL-4B and DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B column chromatography. Therefore, 0.21g/L of the purified biosurfactnat was obtained. The purified biosurfactant was a type of lipoprotein and the molecular weight was estimated as 67kDa by SDS-PAGE. The lipid composition was identified as octadecanoic acid by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. And then, the N-terminal amino acid sequence of the protein was determined as Ser-Val-lle-Asn-Thr-lle-X-Met-lle-Gly-Gln-Gln- and the sequence did not show homology to any other known lipoprotein. Therefore, the purified lopoprotein was predicted novel biosurfactant.
해양세균 Pseudomonas sp. CHCS-2는 배양과정 중에 포도당 첨가에 의해 생물유화제의생산이 증가되었으며, 196시간 배양시 원유에 포함되어 있는 paraffine계 탄화수소 중에서 $_nC_{12}~_nC_{22}$까지 범위의 carbonchain이 거의 대부분 분해됨을 알 수 있었다. chloroform : metahnol = 1 : 1(V/V)로 추출하여 얻은 8.5g/L의 crude 생물 유화제를, Amberlite XAD-7, Sepharose CL-4B, DEAE-sepharose CL-6B 수지를 사용하여 정제한 결과 최종적으로 0.21g/L의 정제된 생물유화제를 얻었다. 본 균주가 생산하는 생물유화제는 단백질과 octadecanoic acid가 결합된 분자량이 약 67kDa인 lipoprotein으로 확인되었으며, 정재된 생물유화제중 단백질성분만을 분리하여 N-말단 아미노산배열을 분석한 결과, Ser-Val-He-Asn-Thr-Asn-IIe-Thr-X-Met-Ile-Gly-Gin-Gln-의 배열을 가지는 것으로 확인되었다. 이는 기존에 보고된 lipoproten과 다른 형태의 것으로, 본 균주가 생산하는 생물유화제의 경우 구성성분, 분자량 등을 고려해 볼 때 새로운 형태의 lipoprotein 계열 생물유화제로 추정된다.