• Food Science and Preservation
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.278-283
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the mortality rate, weight gain, and protein, lipid cholesterol, and total amino acid contents in processed-sulfur-diet chicken meat. Also investigated were the antioxidant activity and glutathione content of blood plasma. The mortality of the processed-sulfur-diet chickens was relatively reduced, and their weight increased compared to the normal-diet chickens. Although the glutathione content decreased in the processed-sulfur-diet chicken blood plasma, the antioxidant activity increased compared with the normal-diet chickens. Also, there was no difference in the total cholesterol contents of the blood, but the level of HDL cholesterol increased while that of LDL cholesterol decreased. Furthermore, there were no changes in the total amino acid and protein contents, but the fat content was significantly reduced. As no toxicity was found in the DT 40 cells in the MTT assay, it can be concluded that dietary sulfur in chicken feed can improve the quality of poultry products.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.197-201
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• 2004

In order to recycle animal by-products from food processing as food seasonings, pig bone (PB), chicken bone (CB) and tuna dark flesh (TDF) were studied. PB and CB extract prepared by hot water extraction for 18 h were hydrolyzed with protease and lipase. The DHs of PB and CB extract were increased to 70% and 80%, respectively, when Flavourzyme was treated after pancreatic enzyme treatment. When TDF was hydrolyzed with Alcalase and Flavourzyme, dry matter yield and total protein yield were around 22% and 9%, respectively. Also the free ammo acid content in hydrolysate reached up to 27% of total solid. The sensory properties of three hydrolysates containing 1% NaCl were, in order of their overall acceptance, TDF, PB and CB. Therefore, tuna dark flesh turned out to be the suitable animal by-product as raw material for seasoning ingredient.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.1743-1749
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• 2010

A research group demonstrated that the 37 kDA protein of Edwardsiella tarda, a causing causative agent of edwardsiellosis in fish, exhibited high antigenicity in Japanese flounder. The research group also showed that the N-terminus amino acid sequences of the 37 kDa protein were mapped to the N-terminus of GAPDH (glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase). Using degenerated primer sets based on the known N-terminus sequence, the corresponding E. tarda DNA was amplified and cloned. The nucleotide sequences of the cloned gene revealed high homology with a bacterial gene for GAPDH, as we was expected. The amino acid sequence of E. tarda GAPDH (etGAPDH) revealed a <70% similarity with GAPDH proteins in other Enterobacteriaceae. With the application of artificial protein overexpression system in Escherichia coli, the recombinant etGAPDH (rGAPDH) was produced and purified. In this study, Using the purified rGAPDH, the etGAPDH specific polyclonal antibody has been was generated using the purified rGAPDHin this study. The immunoblotting analyses demonstrated that the location of the GAPDH protein is located with the association of is associated with the envelops of E. tarda. The rGAPDH was administrated into Japanese flounder via IP route for evaluation of the protective ability. Although the specific antibody titer against etGAPDH was increased about 3-fold after 4 weeks post-vaccination, the survival rates of vaccinated Japanese flounder and the control group with wild type E. tarda was were 12.5% and 0%, respectively. Our results indicated that rGAPDH is immunoreactive antigen but that it will not generate protective immunity in Japanese flounder.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.247-252
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• 2002

To prepare the edible film based on fish protein, the optimal conditions for extracting soluble protein from Alaska pollack ( Theragra chalcogramma) and mackerel (Scomber japonious) muscle were defined. The effects of protein concentration, pH and temperature of protein solution on the physical properties of films were also investigated, Contents of moisture, crude protein, crude lipid and ash in Alaska pollack muscle were 79.6, 18.2, 0.6 and $1.2\%$, respectively. Contents of moisture, crude protein, crude lipid and ash in mackerel muscle were 69,1, 20.1, 9,5 and $1.3\%$, respectively. Both soluble protein contents extracted from Alaska pollack and mackerel were the highest at pH 12.0, and then un 2.0, 11.0. But they were extracted a little at neutral range. forward the recovery yield of protein by controlling isoelectric point was the highest at pH 4.8 ($79.8\%$) for Alaska pollack and at pH 5.0 ($64.1\%$) for mackerel, For the preparation of protein films from both Alaska pollack and mackerel, the most effective conditions of film forming solution were achieved, after supplied fish protein 4 g (glycerol 1,6 g) in 100 mL of distilled water, by adjusted to pH 10.0 and then heated at $90^{\circ}C$.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.547-552
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• 1988

Aminoacylase immobilized on chitosan was applied for optical resolution of DL-amino acids. Optimun pH's for hydrolysis of N-ac DL Met, N-ac DL Try and N-ac DL Phe by immobilized aminoacylase were 8.0, 7.0, and 7.5, respectively. The pH stability of immobilized aminoacylase was less than that of soluble enzyme, while there was no difference in thermostability between immibilized and soluble enzymes. The reaction rate of immobilized enzyme was maximum, when concentrations of N-ac DL Met, N-ac DL Try and N-ac DL Phe were 0.05, 0.03 and 0.05M, respectively. Continuous resolution of M/20 N-ac DL amino acids with immobilized aminoacylase packed in a column resulted in 100% hydrolysis upto space velocity $2.0\;at\;45^{\circ}C$, and the half-life of the column at space velocity 5.0 was about 25 days. The yield of L-Met, L-Try and L-Phe recovered from 2 liter of column effluent were 57%, 52% and 52%, respectively.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.67-73
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• 2002

The cellular responses of soil-borne bacterium, Pseudomonas sp. HK-6 to explosive 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) were examined. Two stress shock proteins (SSPs), approximately 70-kDa DnaK and a 60-kDa GroEL were found in HK-6 cells in response to TNT. Analyses of SDS-PAGE and Western blot using anti-DnaK and GroEL revealed that SSPs were induced in HK-6 cells exposed to 0.5 M of TNT far 6-12 hrs. The maximum induction of proteins was achieved at 8-hr incubation point after HK-6 cells'exposure to TNT. Similar SSPs were found to be induced in HK-6 cells by heat shock (shift of temperature, from $30^{\circ}C$ to $42^{\circ}C$) or cold shock (shift of temperature,$30^{\circ}C$ to $4^{\circ}C$).2D-PAGE of soluble protein tractions from the culture of Pseudomonas sp. HX-6 exposed to TNT demonstrated that approximately 450 spots were observed on the silver stained gels ranging from pH 3 to pH 10. Among them, 12 spots significantly induced and expressed in response to TNT were selected and analyzed. Approximately 60-kDa protein, which was assumed highly expressed on the gel, was used for amino acid sequencing. N-terminal microsequencing with in-gel digestion showed that N-terminal sequence of the TNT-induced protein, <$^1XXAKDVKFGDSARKKML^17$, shared extensive similarity with $^1XXAKDVKFGDSARKKML^17$, N-terminal sequence of (P48216) GroEL of Pseudomonas putida.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.144-150
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• 2006

The exploitation of metagenome, the access to the natural extant of enormous potential resources, is the way for elucidating the functions of organism in environmental communities, for genomic analyses of uncultured microorganism, and also for the recovery of entirely novel natural products from microbial communities. The major breakthrough in metagenomics is opened by the construction of libraries with total DNAs directly isolated from environmental samples and screening of these libraries by activity and sequence-based approaches. Screening with activity-based approach is presumed as a plausible route for finding new catabolic genes under designed conditions without any prior sequence information. The main limitation of these approaches, however, is the very low positive hits in a single round of screening because transcription, translation and appropriate folding are not always possible in E. coli, a typical surrogate host. Thus, to obtain information about these obstacles, we studied the genetic organization of individual URF's(unidentified open reading frame from metagenome sequenced and deposited in GenBank), especially on the expression factors such as codon usage, promoter region and ribosome binding site(rbs), based on DNA sequence analyses using bioinformatics tools. And then we also investigated the above-mentioned properties for 4100 ORFs(Open Reading Frames) of E. coli K-12 generally used as a host cell for the screening of noble genes from metagenome. Finally, we analyzed the differences between the properties of URFs of metagenome and ORFs of E. coli. Information derived from these comparative metagenomic analyses can provide some specific features or environmental blueprint available to screen a novel biocatalyst efficiently.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.29-34
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• 1970

In order to prepare digested Protein source for the Weanling Food from soybean, an attempt was made to decompose steamed soybean protein to amino acids and peptides by protease and cellulase produced from Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus sojae. In this paper, the optimum condition for digestion of soybean protein were studied and also investigated the effects of decolorization of it. As the results, followings were obtained; 1. As steaming conditions, a treatment under 15 lb of pressure and 10 minutes of heating shows most effective. 2. The optimum pH of Asp, sojae enzyme for the digestion of soybean protein is 6.0, while that of Asp. niger enzyme is 4.4. In successievly-decomposing with Asp. sojae and Asp. niger, it shows the most effective on ratio of water-soluble-nitrogen to total nitrogen and amino-nitrogen to total nitrogen than any other separate treatments. 3. The suitable amount of the enzyme solution to that of the soybean substrate paste, in volume, is 1 : 2. 4. Digestion ratio of soybean protein indicates the gradual and steady effects of increasing time of digestion, but 8 hour-digestion regarding to putrefaction was suitable. 5. The most effective decolorization was successively passed on culumns of active carbon and anion exchanger (Dowex 2-x-8) at room temperature. In separate treatments, the effective order of decolorization was as follows; (Dowex 2-x-8)>Active carborn>Amberite IR-120 6. The powder type of the soy protein source obtained by concentration below $60^{\circ}C$ contains 12.51% of moisture, 66.31% of protein, 4.25% of fat, 12.75% of carbohydrate, 4.18% of ash.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.345-356
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• 1996

Properties of enzymatic hydrolysates from ascidian tunic were assessed on supernatant ratio, solid yields and solid concentration. The concentartion of solid and yields in the extracts were increased as the enzyme concentration raised from $100\;{\mu}l\;to\;1000{\mu}l$ during the extraction period. The optima concentration and reaction time of each enzyme on digestion were $400\;{\mu}l$ 60 minutes, through treated with Duncan's multiple test. The percent of yields of solid, protein and carotenoids for 60 minutes extraction at $400\;{\mu}l$ were $32.32\%,\;1.34\%\;and\;74.60\;mg\%$, respectively, in Viscozyme systems. The extracts were composed with many kinds of carbohydrates such as arabinose, ribose, xylose, galactose, glucose, N-acetyl-D-galactosamine, and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine. Aspartic and glutamic arid were noted as predominant amino acids in all parts. Amino acid profiles of various ascidian tunic part were similiar to each other, but most of essential amino acids content of inter coat was higher than that of root and tunic (body). About sixty six fatty acids components were observed, and their distribution among neutral and polar lipids was compared. The main fatty acids were found to be 14:0, 16:0, 16:1n7, 18:0, 18:1n9, 18:1n7, 18:2n6, 20:5n3, and 22:6n3.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Postharvest Science and Technology of Agricultural Products Conference
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• 1999.04a
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• pp.29-52
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• 1999

본 연구는 강원도 고랭지에서 자생되는 산채류를 이용하여 총질소함량을 기준으로 소맥대신 이들 산채류를 일정비율로 대체하여 더덕 및 산채혼합 간장을 제조하여 그 특성을 조사하였으며 또한, 감마선조사 또는 블랜칭처리가 참나물 즙액의 선도유지연장에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 제조된 간장의 총 질소함량은 일반적으로 산채 대체량의 증가에 따라 증가하였다. 숙성 4개월 후의 무기질 함량에 있어 더덕 20% 대체간장은 Ca, K 함량이 각각 1.3배, 1.5배의 증가율을 나타내었으며, 산채 혼합 10% 대체간장도 Ca 함량이 1.5배 증가하였다. 대체량 별로 아미노산 함량 변화를 살펴보면 더덕간장 10% 대체군의 경우 threonine과 aspartic acid가, 산채 혼합 10% 대체군은 tyrosine과 arginine이 높은 증가율을 나타내었다. Rec assay system을 이용한 항돌연변이 시험에서, 더덕간장은 10%와 20% 대체군이, 산채혼합 간장은 7%와 10% 대체군이 다른 시료에 비해 높은 항돌연변이성을 나타내었다. 관능검사 결과, 전체적 기호도에 있어 더덕간장은 7% 대체군, 산채혼합 간장은 5% 대체군이 가장 우수하였다. 미생물의 생육변화는 감마선 조사를 하였을 때 두처리구 모두 0.5 kGy 조사에서도 무처리구에 비하여 현저한 생육감소를 나타내었으며 감마선 처리된 녹즙을 저온에서 저장하였을 때는 미생물의 생육억제효과가 높았으나 상온에서는 감마선 효과가 매우 감소함을 나타내었다. 색도변화는 블랜칭한 녹즙이 블랜칭하지 않은 녹즙보다 색깔이 훨씬 선명하고 맑은 녹색을 띄었으며 시간이 경과함에 따라 감마선 조사구가 시간이 경과함에 따라 무처리구에 비하여 L값, a값 및 b값이 훨씬 적게 변화함을 나타내었다. 비타민 C의 변화는 블랜칭 처리한 녹즙의 비타민 C의 함량변화는 블랜칭 처리를 하지않은 녹즙보다 적었으며 감마선 처리구와 거의 차이가 없었으며 온도가 낮을수록 두 처리구 모두 비타민 C의 손실율이 적게 나타났다. 감마선을 조사하였을 때 블랜칭하지않은 녹즙에서는 무처리구와 비교하여 볼 때 밝기, 풀냄새, 쓴맛, 신선감 및 수용성에서 차이가 없었으며 블랜칭한 녹즙에서는 무처리구가 감마선처리구에 비하여 풀냄새와 쓴맛이 증가하였고 신선감과 수용성이 감소되었다.