• 생명과학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.493-495
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• 1999

Eicosapentaenoic (EPA, 20:5) and docosahexaenoic (DHA, 22:6) acids of gull eggs were analyzed and the results are summarized as follows: 1. EPA and DHA were 2.25% and 4.35% in the total fatty acid of gull eggs. 2. Triglyceride fractions in the fatty acids had 0.56% in EPA and 1.59% DHA. 3. Diglyceride fractions contained 1.10% EPA and 1.97% DHA. 4. Phospholipid fractions had the most abundant amounts of 4.26% EPA and 8.13% DHA.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.170-172
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• 1989

It is preyed that marine algae, Chlorella pyrenoidosa can synthesize about 3.52% of eicosapentaenoic (EPA) of dry cell weight at the light intensity of 10 W/$\m^2$ which is optimal light intensity of producing EPA at $25^{\circ}C$. An equation to predict the amounts of EPA in the culture broth is derived as an exponential form with 0.91 of the correlation factor. The behavior of cell growth follows a photo-inhibition model by showing 12 W/$\m^2$ of saturation light intensity.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.218-223
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• 2011

Eicosapentaenoic acid 생산 세균을 얻기 위해 1999~2000년 하계연구 기간 중에 남극 생물 및 침적토를 사용하여 600주의 균주를 분리하였고 TLC와 GC를 사용하여 오메가-3 고도불포화 지방산 EPA를 생산하는 미생물 7 주를 성공적으로 분리하였으며, 이중 EPA 생산이 가장 높은 L93 균주를 선발하였다. 16S rDNA의 염기서열 분석을 통하여 Shewanella 속으로 조사되었으며, 이에 분리된 균주를 Shewanella sp. L93라 명명하였다. EPA를 생산 최적 배양온도 $4^{\circ}C$이며, 초기 pH 7에서 최적 EPA 함량을 보였다. 아울러 염 농도는 50 %(w/v)에서 생산이 최대였다. EPA 최적 생산 조건을 이용하여 리터당 320 mg 생산할 수 있는 생산 시스템을 확립하였다. Urea 침전법과 HPLC을 이용하여 수율 72% 이상의 97% 순도를 가진 EPA를 정제할 수 있는 분리 정제 시스템 또한 본 연구를 통하여 확립하였다.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.109-113
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• 1999

이산화탄소를 용매로하는 초임계유체 크로마토그래퍼(SFC)방법을 이용하여 어유로부터 EPA및 DHA를 고순도로 분리정제하는 연구를 하였다. 질산은 칼럼을 이용하는 초임계 이산화탄소의 초기 압력조건 변화가 저 지방산의 용해도 및 분리도에 미치는 영향을 조사하였는데 압력이 증가될수록 저지방산의 용해도는 증가되었고, 반면에 EPA와의 분리도는 감소하는 경향을 나타내었다. EPA의 분리정제 효율을 높이기 위해 초임계 이산화탄소에 대한 단계별 밀도구매 방법을 적용하였다. 적용 결과 초기에 저지방산이 먼저 분리되었고, 계속해서 92.1%~97.8%EPA 순도를 갖는 분획들을 얻을 수 있었다. 순도가 높은 3개의 분획의 평균 순도는 95.6%이었고 회수율은 30%에 달하였다.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.246-252
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• 1991

Marine baceteria of fish interstines were screened for high eicosapentaenoic acid(EPA) productivity. An isolated bacteria, KS-90, identified and designated as Allteromonus putrefaciens KS-90. A. putrefaciens KS-90 was found to be a rich source of EPA production and it was observed on incuibation at 4~12.5$^{\circ}C$ and pH 7.0. The production of EPA reached 18mg/g of dry cell weight when A. putrefaciens KS-90 was grown in the medium containing 1.0% pepton, 0.5% yeast extract, 0.025% meat extract and 2.0% glucose in 1/2 concentration of an artificial seawater, pH for 48 hr at $25^{\circ}C$. This value accounted for 24.7% of the total fatty acid in the extractable lipids.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.129-138
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• 1994

In order to investigate of the Influence of $Mg^{2+}$, $Ca^{2+}$ on ${\alpha}$-linolenic acid converted into the eicosapentaenoic acid(EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid(DHA) forming in plasma lipid and in liver microsomes of rabbit, the animals were fed on the perila oil rich ${\alpha}$-linolenic acid or sardine oil rich EPA and DBA diet for 4 weeks were examined. In plasma, liver lipid, $Mg^{2+}$ was influenced on arachidonic acid(AA), EPA, DHA formative from ${\alpha}$-linolenic acid in perilla oil, but stearic acid was increased, $Ca^{2+}$ was Influenced on stearic acid increased and DHA was decreased. In phospholipid, $Mg^{2+}$, $Ca^{2+}$ was influenced on stearic acid increased and DHA was decreased in perilla oil.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.531-535
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• 1995

The identification of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) by Pseudomonas sp. CH-414 were investigated under the optimal culture conditions. The maximum dry cell weight and phospholipid production showed about 10 mg/ml and 0.6 mg/ml, respectively, at the 48 hr cultivation. The phospholipid form produced by Pseudomonas sp. CH-414 was elucidated as a phosphatidyt ethanolamine by thin layer chromatography. EPA was contained about 15% in the. extractable lipid, and the amount of EPA was about 83 $\mu $g/ml from the culture broth. Also myristic, palmitic, palmitoleic, stearic and oleic acids were identified with gas chromatography.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.501-508
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• 2011

Previous studies suggest that polyunsaturated fatty acids with long carbon chains such as eicosapentaenoic acid(EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid(DHA) have several health benefits. However metabolic consequences of these fatty acids themselves and their regulation of transcriptional activity involving glucose utilization are not well established. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate how EPA influx affects cellular lipid accumulation and gene expressions involving $de$ $novo$ lipogenesis in hepatocyte cultures. Compared to oleic acid treatment, EPA treatment showed remarkably decreased cellular TG conversion and accumulation, along with phospholipids at a lower extent. As expected, EPA increased mRNA expression involving fatty acid influx and lipid droplet formation, but did not affect mRNA expression involving glucose utilization. EPA increased transcriptional activity of PPAR-${\alpha}$ and glucose responsive transcription factor when transcription factor binding protein was activated. Taken together, these data suggest that EPA decreases lipid accumulation through increases of the ${\beta}$-oxidation pathway without interruption of glucose utilization.

• Nutritional Sciences
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.26-33
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• 2001

Animal and clinical studies as well as epidemiological data have provided convincing evidence that n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids can protect against atherosclerosis. However, the effects of the fatty acids on atherogenesis are contradictory. This discrepancy could derive from great susceptibility of the fatty acids to oxidation. We investigated the effect of eicosapentaenoic aced(EPA) on cellular atherogenesis via the scavenger receptor of THP-1 derived macrophages. THP-1 cells were fully differentiated into macrophages by incubating with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate for seven days. Atherogenic features of EPA were compared by subsitituting for linoleic acid (LA). Macrophages were also incubated without treatment of the fatty acids as controls. EPA (5-50 nmol/mL) was not cytotoxic and did not measurably induce cellular oxidation compared to bovine serum albumin (BSA) vehicle or identical doses of LA. EPA increased macrophage uptake and degradation of acetylated LDL(AcLDL) up to 14% and 88%, respectively. EPA increased markedly total cellular sterol synthesis and heparin-releasable lipoprotein lipase activity of macrophages, indicating that EPA may enhance accumulation of cellular cholesteryl ester and possibly facilitate formation of foam cells. These results demonstrate that EPA promotes the modified LDL-triggered atherosclerotic process by the modulation of the scavenger receptor and the activation of LPL in macrophages.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.881-887
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• 2009

Forty-four eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA)-producing microbial strains were isolated from the intestines of marine fishes. Among them, one strain showing a maximum level of EPA (4.78% of total fatty acids) was identified as Shewanella sp. BR-2 on the basis of its 168 rRNA sequence. The EPA content reached a maximum level during the mid-exponential phase of cell growth, and gradually decreased with further growth of the cells. A cosmid DNA including the EPA biosynthesis gene cluster consisting of pfaA-E was isolated from a cosmid library of genomic DNA of Shewanella sp. BR-2, named pCosEPA-BR2. An E. coli clone harboring pCosEPA-BR2 produced EPA at a maximum level of 7.5% of total fatty acids, confirming the EPA biosynthesis activity of the cloned gene cluster.