• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.792-796
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• 1993

The synthesis alcohol-oxidase[EC 1.1.3.13] was investigated in the yeasts, Candida boidinii CBS 8106 and C. boidinii CBS 2428, during growth on different carbon sources. Alcohol-oxidase was undetectable in all strains submitted to the test in the mineral salts medium containing 1.0% glucose, but its production was rapidly increased when the carbon source was changed glucose to 1.0% methanol after 24hrs of incubation. When cells were grown on the various carbon sources (glucose, xylose, lactose, glycerol, galactose, saccharose, sorbose, lactic acid or acetic acid), the alcohol-oxidase activity was undetected. These carbon sources together with methanol yielded far better synthesis of alcohol-oxidase than in the case of carbon sources alone. Alcohol-oxidase was active towards alcohol of shorter alkyl-chain length than C5 and unsaturated alcohols. Its affinity for these alcohols decreased with the increasing length of the alkyl-chain. The apparent Km values for the methanol of Candida boidinii CBS 8106 and C. boidinii CBS 2428 were 1.96 and 1.21, respestively.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.757-761
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• 1995

The relationship between the molecular structure of rice starch and the texture of cooked rice was investigated using hot-water soluble rice starch. The structure of hot-water soluble starch bound amylose which was composed of small molecular weight and amylopectin which was composed of chain length of $\overline{DP}\;10{\sim}20$, and the average composition of amylose : amylopectin was 7 : 3. The molecular weight of amylose was the smaller and super long chain of amylopectin was the fewer, the extractable ratio of hot-water soluble rice starch was the higher. And hot-water solubility of rice starch be responsible for molecular structure of starch. On the texture of cooked rice, the extractable ratio of hot-water soluble rice starch was the higher, the hardness was the lower and the adhesiveness was the higher. The results suggest that the molecular structure of rice starch could be responsible for the texture of cooked rice.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.181-187
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• 1995

The cells of Vibrio vulnificus can be induced to the viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state by natural environmental parameters. The V. vulnificus cells in the VBNC state can not be recovered by ordinary laboratory techniques. This nonculturability could often hamper development of effective processing strategies to minimize the number of V. vulnificus in seafoods. Even with V. vulnificus cells in a culturable state, the length of time required to identify the bacteria in contaminated food by phenotyphic characterization may prevent appropriate in-time responses by public health agencies to infections of the bacteria. In the present study, we used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to develop a rapid and direct detection method for V. vulnificus in small octopus (Octopus variabilis) which is consumed as a raw food in Korea. The region targeted was a 704-base pair (bp) portion of the hemolysin gene, vvhA, of V. vulnificus. The primers designed for PCR amplification were specific for all V. vulnificus sp. tested. Several methods were examined to extract total DNA directly from V. vulnificus seeded into the octopus homogenate and the guanidine isothiocyanate (CITC) method appeared to be most effective. From the octopus homogenate seeded by V. vulnificus at an initial level of $10^2$ CFU/ml of the homogenate and then incubated for 12 h, the targeted sequence was successfully amplified by PCR and the 704-bp DNA fragment was observed by gel electrophoresis. The total completion of this assay requires less than one day.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.80-85
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• 1989

The structural properties of covered and naked barley starches and those components were investigated. ${\beta}-amylosis\;limit(%)$ of covered and naked barley starches were 58.6 and 56.3%, respectively and those of their amyloses and amylopectins were 87.0, 77.7, 57.6 and 52.0%, respectively. The ratios of outer chain length ${\overline{OCL}}$ and inner chain length${\overline{ICL}}$ for amylopectins of covered and naked barley were about 2.2:1 and 2.0:1, respectively. The elution curves by Sephadex G-75 after debranching starches with pullulanase were similar patterns for two starches and yielded two peaks consisting of amylose component${\overline{dp}}>55$ and bimodal amylopectin components of ${\overline{dp}_(35-45)$ and ${\overline{dp}}(10-20)$ hydrolysates. Also, hydrolysis products by sequential hydrolysis with pullulanase and ${\beta}-amylase$ contained 0.03-0.5% non-hydrolyzed peak components of ${\overline{dp}}>55$. The elution profiles of ${\beta}-amylase$ hydrolysates yielded two peaks consisting of the inner components${\overline{dp}}>55$ and the outer chain components of amylopectin${\overline{dp}}>10$ regardless of samples. However, ${\overline{dp}}$ distributions of ${\overline{dp}>55}$ hydrolysates exhibited the significant differences due to the varieties.

• Animal Bioscience
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.743-750
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• 2021

Objective: The objectives of this study were to explore the expression patterns of myosin heavy chain (MyHC) genes of different skeletal muscles from Chinese cattle, and to investigate the relationship between myofiber characteristics and meat quality of M. longissimus lumborum (LL), M. psoas major (PM), and M. semimembranosus (SM) from Chinese Luxi and Qinchuan cattle. Methods: Three major muscles including LL, PM, and SM from Chinese Luxi cattle and Chinese Qinchuan cattle were used in this study. The myofiber characteristics were measured by histochemical analysis. The MyHC isoforms expression was evaluated by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Quality traits including pH value, meat color, cooking loss, Warner-Bratzler shear force (WBSF) and sarcomere length were determined at day 5 postmortem. Results: PM muscle had higher pH value, a* value, sarcomere length and lower WBSF value compared to LL and SM muscles (p<0.05). Numbers of type I myofiber and the relative expression of MyHC I mRNA in PM muscle were higher than those of LL and SM muscles (p<0.05). Myofiber diameter of PM muscle was lower than that of LL and SM muscles, regardless of myofiber types (p<0.05). Conclusion: According to the stepwise linear regression analyses, tenderness was influenced by myofiber characteristics in all three examined muscles. Tenderness of beef muscles from Qinchuan and Luxi cattle could be improved by increasing numbers of type I myofiber.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.568-573
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• 1992

Molecular structural properties of Japonica and Tongil type waxy rice starches were compared. The general properties including water-binding capacity, swelling power at $80^{\circ}C$, intrinsic viscosity, leach loss at $98^{\circ}C$ and ${\beta}-amylolysis$ limit were similar but the chain length was slightly different between the two starches. Similar elution profiles on Sephadex G-50 were obtained when the starches were treated with ${\beta}-amylase$. The pullulanase treated starches however showed different elution patterns each other. The ${\beta}-amylolysis$ of acid-treated (2 days) starches linearly increased as hydrolysis time prolonged. When the acid-treated starches were hydrolyzed with ${\beta}-amylase$ or pullulanase, the elution profiles on Sepharose CL-2B were considerably different from those of native starches.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.53 no.5
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• pp.514-520
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• 2021

This study identified and quantified the sugar-related metabolites and analyzed the structural features of starch in kimchi added with various concentrations of glutinous rice paste during fermentation. The pH values and total bacterial counts indicated that the fermentation of kimchi with 10% glutinous rice paste progressed more quickly than that of kimchi with other rice paste concentrations. The addition of glutinous rice pastes to kimchi resulted in increased glucose and decreased fructose contents during fermentation compared to the control kimchi. Maltose content increased significantly with increasing glutinous rice paste concentrations. The average chain length distribution of starch in kimchi decreased with increasing proportions of short chains as fermentation progressed. However, the average chain length distribution of starch increased with increasing glutinous rice paste concentration in kimchi. Our results confirmed that the sugar-related metabolites and starch structural changes were highly influenced by the added starch paste concentration.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.255-260
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• 1996

증편반죽의 발효에 따른 해면상의 조직(망상구조)형성능의 mechanism을 조사하기 위하여 반죽의 구성성분의 경시적 물성 및 효소(diastase 및 protease) 활성의 변화, 구성 전분 분획의 glucose chain length 변화 및 1% SDS에 의해서 용출되는 단백질 분획의 변화에 대해서 검토하였다. 발효가 진행됨에 따라 증편반죽의 pH는 감소한 반면 점성 및 부피는 발효경과 10시간가지 증가하다가 그 이후로는 약간 감소하는 경향을 보였다. 발효의 진행과 더불어 diastase의 활성은 증가하였으며, 쌀전분 분획 중 amylose의 함량은 약간 감소하였다. 그리고 전분분자의 $\alpha-1,6-glucoside$ 결합을 isoamylase(debranching enzyme)로 가수분해시킨 후 Sephadex G-75를 이용한 chromatogram 분석에 의하면 쌀가루 전분 분획과 증편반죽 전분 분획의 glucose chain length 분포는 거의 유사하지만 발효가 진행됨에 따라 중합도가 낮은 부분이 우선적으로 diastase의 작용을 받은 것이라고 생각되어진다. 한편, 발효가 진행된에 따라 protease의 활성은 증가하고 있었음에도 불구하고 증편반죽의 당에 의한 단백질 분획의 고분자화가 Suprose CL-12 column chromatogram 상에서 관찰되었는데, 이것은 아마도 발효과정 중 증편반죽에 공존하는 미생물들의 발효산물인 당질(gum질)을 매개로 한 단백질 분자의 회합에 의한 결과라고 생각되어진다. 따라서 이러한 결과를 미루어 볼 때 증편반죽의 망상구조 형성능은 발효과정 중 일어나는 당과 단백질간의 상호작용에 의한 결과라 생각되어진다.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.26-31
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• 1991

The physicochemical properties of starches from dry(Suwon 147) and moist type(Hwangmi) sweet potato were investigated and molecular structural properties of their amylopectins were also studied by gel chromatography. Suwon 147 starch bad lower swelling power and higher gelatinization temperature than Hwangmi starch. $\beta-Amylolysis\;limit(%)$ of Suwon 147 and Hwangmi amylopectin were 57.6% and 57.0%, respectively. Average unit chain length of amylopectins were 24.8 glucose units for Suwon 147 and 21.9 for Hwangmi. The elution profiles by Sephadex G-50 after debranched amylopectins of the two starches were similar but DPs of each peak were different.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.268-276
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• 2023

Alkyl butyrate with fruity flavor is known as an important additive in the food industry. We synthesized various alkyl butyrates from various fatty alcohol and butyric acid using immobilized Rhodococcus cutinase (Rcut). Esterification reaction was performed in a non-aqueous system including heptane, isooctane, hexane, and cyclohexane. As a result of performing the alkyl butyrate synthesis reaction using alcohols of various chain lengths, it was found that the preference for the alcohol substrate had the following order: C6 > C4 > C8 > C10 > C2. Through molecular docking analysis, it was found that the greater the hydrophobicity of alcohol, the higher the accessibility to the active site of the enzyme. However, since the number of torsions increased as the chain length increased, it became difficult for the hydroxyl oxygen of the alcohol to access the ^γO of serine at the enzyme active site. These molecular docking results were consistent with substrate preference results of the Rcut enzyme. The Rcut maintained the synthesis efficiency at least for 5 days in isooctane solvent. We synthesized as much as 452 mM butyl butyrate by adding 100 mM substrate daily for 5 days and performing the reaction. These results show that Rcut is an efficient enzyme for producing alkyl butyrate used in the food industry.