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http://dx.doi.org/10.7852/jses.2013.51.2.142

Reeling of recombinant flourescence cocoons through low temperature decompressed cooking  

Park, Jong-Hwa (Chungcheongbuk-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services)
Kim, Sung-Wan (National Academy of Agricultural Science, RDA)
Jeong, Young-Hun (Chungcheongbuk-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services)
Lee, Jong-Kil (Chungcheongbuk-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services)
Go, Young-Mi (Chungcheongbuk-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services)
Lee, Sang-Chan (Chungcheongbuk-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services)
Choi, Kwang-Ho (National Academy of Agricultural Science, RDA)
Kim, Seong-Ryul (National Academy of Agricultural Science, RDA)
Goo, Tae-Won (National Academy of Agricultural Science, RDA)
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Journal of Sericultural and Entomological Science / v.51, no.2, 2013 , pp. 142-146 More about this Journal
Abstract
The fluorescent proteins are generally denatured by heat treatment and thus lose their color. The normal reeling method includes processing by drying and cooking the cocoons near $100^{\circ}C$ before reeling. Therefore, the usual processing method cannot be used for making colored fluorescent silks. To develop a method that is applicable to producing transgenic silk without color loss, we develop reeling methods adequate for a recombinant fluorescence cocoons. It was found that the fluorescence cocoons keep their native color when dried at temperatures lower than $60^{\circ}C$ for 15 h. Also, a new cooking method to soften the fluorescent cocoons was developed: the cocoons were soaked in a solution of 0.2% sodium carbonate ($Na_2CO_3$)/0.1% nonionic surfactant (Triton X100) at $60^{\circ}C$ and then placed under vacuum. The repeated vacuum treatments enabled complete penetration of the solution into the cocoons, and the cocoons were thus homogenously softened and ready for reeling. In this state, the cooked cocoons can be reeled by an automated reeling machine. Our results suggest that drying and cooking of the cocoons at low temperature enables the subsequent reeling of the colored fluorescent silks by an automatic reeling machine without color loss and can produce silks that can be used for making higher value-added silk materials.
Keywords
Fluorescence cocoon; Reeling; Silkworm; Transgenesis;
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