토양으로 부터 diaminododecane 자화균 DAD2-2주를 분리하여 검토한 결과 Corynebacterium속으로 동정되었으며 DAD2-2주의 alkane 유도체에 대한 생육특성조사에서 putrescine dihydrochloride, dodecanethiol, dodecane. laurylamine등은 탄소원으로 이용될 수 있었으나 thioanisole, decanedithiol, dicyanooctane, 1aurylcyanide, dichlorodecane등은 이용되지 못하였다. Emulgen 25ppm을 DAD배지에 첨가하였을 경우 DAD2-2주에 의한 diaminododecane 자화가 현저하게 촉진되었으며 diaminododecane자화시 생성되는 중간생성물은 ethyl $alpha$-ketoglutarate로 동정되었다. 그러나 diaminododecane을 탄소원 뿐만 아니라 질소원으로도 이용하였을 경우에 있어서는 ethyl $alpha$-ketoglutarate와는 다른 생성물을 생성하였으며 diaminododecane 대신 glucose, putrescinc, n-dodecane을 생육기질로 이용하였을 때에도 ethyl $alpha$-ketoglutarate와는 다른 생성물을 생성하였다. 또한 resting cell을 이용하여 alkane 유도체를 co-oxidation시키는 과정에서도 ethyl $alpha$-ketoglutarate와는 상이한 생성물이 생성되었다.
A Corynebacterium sp. capable of utilizing diaminododecane (DAD) were isolated from the soil by enrichment culture. Among 9 different kinds of substituted alkanes containing CN, NH$_2$, Cl, and SH groups (monoteminally or diterminally substituted) tested as carbon source, the isolate, designated as DAD 2-2. utilized DAD, putrescine dihydrochloride, dodecanethiol, dodecane and lautylamine. Thioanisole, decanedithiol, dicyanooctane, laurylcyanide, and dichlorodecane were not utilized. When emulgen 950 was added to the medium, the growth of DAD 2-2 was greatly accelerated. Isolated DAD 2-2 grown in the medium with DAD as carbon source formed ethyl $alpha$-ketoglutarate. Metabolic product of DAD 2-2 grown in a medium without nitrogen source was different from that of grown in a medium with NH$_4$NO$_3$. When glucose, putrescine, n-dodecane and other alkane derivatives were tested in place of DAD, isolate DAD 2-2 yielded products different from those they formed with DAD suggesting specificity of DAD as a carbon source.
