Patent ID: 8828238
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: C02F,C07K,C09K,C12N,C12R,C23F

Abstract:
1. A method for inhibiting salt formation, comprising: culturing an isolated thermophilic bacterium in a culture medium; separating cultured thermophilic bacterium from the culture medium to obtain a supernatant comprising a mixture of extracellular proteins excreted by the cultured thermophilic bacterium; concentrating the supernatant comprising the mixture of extracellular proteins to 50 ppm; and contacting the concentrated supernatant comprising the mixture of extracellular proteins with a metal ion-containing solution to form a complex of the extracellular protein(s) and the metal ion(s), at a ratio of 1:1 of the supernatant to the metal ion-containing solution, wherein the isolated thermophilic bacterium is Tepidimonas fonticaldi sp. nov. internationally deposited in the Korean Collection of Type Culture (KCTC) with deposit number of KCTC 12528BP.