배양환경이 효모 RNA 축적과 autolysis 효율에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위하여 연속배양을 실시하였다. Dilution rate의 증가에 따라 균체내의 RNA 함량은 증가하여 dilution rate=0.35 $h^{-1}$에서 14.8%를 나타내었고, 더불어 RNA productivity와 specific RNA productivity도 증가하였다. 고정된 D=0.2 $h^{-1}$에서 최적 균체량은 배양온도 $30^{circ}C$ 에서 얻어졌으나, RNA 함량은 배양온도가 낮아질수록 높은 값을 보여 $24^{circ}C$에서 12.7%로 나타났다. 한편, autolysis 효율 측면에서 균체 생육속도가 증가할수록 효모 extract의 추출율은 감소하였고, 효모 extract의 분해율은 증가하는 경향을 보였으나, 배양온도는 효모 autolysis 효율에 큰 영향을 미치지 않았다.
Continuous fermentations were performed in order to investigate the effect of culture condition on the yeast RNA accumulation and autolysis efficiency. The content of intracellular RNA increased with increasing dilution rate, showing its maximum value of 14.8% at D=0.35 $h^{-1}$. Also, both RNA productivity and specific RNA productivity tended to increase with the increase of dilution rate. The maximum biomass was obtained at $30^{circ}C$ in the fixed dilution rate of 0.2 $h^{-1}$, whereas the maximum RNA content appeared at the lowest temperature experimented. Growth rate affected significantly on the yeast autolysis efficiency such that the extraction ratio(TN/TN) increased with increasing growth rate, whereas the hydrolysis ratio(AN/TN) was reversed. On the other hand, its efficiency was little affected by cultivation temperature.
