• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.679-695
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• 2020

Evaluating amino acid requirements, specifically threonine requirements, in horses will enable better feed formulation and result in economic production, improved animal health, and reduced environmental pollution. However, the current knowledge of protein and amino acid requirements in horses is still limited. Because horses have a unique digestive system and consume a variety of feed ingredients, their protein digestibility may be affected than other species by different feed composition, and thus amino acid requirements are susceptible to vary between situations. Therefore, a careful evaluation of amino acid requirements with a proper method is needed for various conditions. This review will also provide comprehensive information that needs to be considered when designing an amino acid requirement study in horses.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 1998

A total of 120 pigs $(L\;{\times}\;LW\;{\times}\;D)$ averaged 14.16 kg of body weight were reared under six dietary treatments to evaluate the effects of amino acid supplementation on their performances. Treatments were 1) 18% CP diet (control); 2) 15% CP+0.28% Lys (B, 15L); 3) B+0.06% Met (15LM); 4) B+0.13% Thr (15LT) ; 5) B+0.06% Met+0.13% Thr (15LMT); 6) B+0.06% Met+0.13% Thr+0.05% Trp (15LMTT). Each treatment had 4 replicates with 5 pigs per replicate. The daily weight gains were statistically similar in 15LMT, 15LMTT and control groups. Threonine and methionine supplementation resulted in improved growth performance and nutrient digestibilities, while tryptophan supplementation had little beneficial effect. However, the best feed conversion was found in the control group. Dry. matter and CP digestibilities were improved in the 15LMT and 15LMTT groups. Gross energy, crude fat and phosphorus digestibilities were not affected by the treatment. Among the 15% CP groups, nitrogen digestibility showed the tendency to be increased as the more synthetic amino acids were added. Dry matter and nitrogen excretions were significantly reduced by feeding low protein, amino acid fortified diets, while phosphorus excretion was not influenced. Essential amino acids digestibility was higher in 15LT, 15LMT and 15LMTT groups and lower in the control. The 15LT group showed the best lysine digestibility, and methionine digestibilities were higher in all treated groups than control one. Threonine digestibilities higher in 15LT 15LMT, and 15LMTT than the control. The result shows that threonine and methionine should be added to the diet containing 15% CP diet, fortified with lysine to get same performance of 18% CP diet.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.721-727
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• 2007

Stability-enhanced mutants, H44, 11-94, 5A2-84, and F8, of L-threonine aldolase(L-TA) from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)(SCO1085) were isolated by an error-prone PCR followed by a high-throughput screening. Each of these mutant, had a single amino acid substitution: H177Y in the H44 mutant, A169T in the 11-94 mutant, D104N in the 5A2-84 mutant and F18I in the F8 mutant. The residual L-TA activity of the wild-type L-TA after a heat treatment for 20 min at $60^{\circ}C$ was only 10.6%. However, those in the stability-enhanced mutants were 85.7% for the H44 mutant, 58.6% for the F8 mutant, 62.1% for the 5A2-84 mutant, and 67.6% for the 11-94 mutant. Although the half-life of the wild-type L-TA at $63^{\circ}C$ was 1.3 min, those of the mutant L-TAs were longer: 14.6 min for the H44 mutant, 3.7 min for the 11-94 mutant, 5.8 min for the 5A2-84 mutant, and 5.0 min for the F8 mutant. The specific activity did not change in most of the mutants, but it was decreased by 45% in the case of mutant F8. When the aldol condensation of glycine and 3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde was studied by using whole cells of Escherichia coli containing the wild-type L-TA gene, L-threo-3,4-dihydroxyphenylserine(L-threo-DOPS) was successfully synthesized with a yield of 2.0 mg/ml after 20 repeated batch reactions for 100 h. However, the L-threo-DOPS synthesizing activity of the enzyme decreased with increased cycles of the batch reactions. Compared with the wild-type L-TA, H44 L-TA kept its L-threo-DOPS synthesizing activity almost constant during the 20 repeated batch reactions for 100 h, yielding 4.0 mg/ml of L-threo-DOPS. This result showed that H44 L-TA is more effective than the wild-type L-TA for the mass production of L-threo-DOPS.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.173-177
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• 1996

The Pneumococcus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, has an ample polysaccharide (PS) capsule that is highly antigenic and is the main virulence factor of the organism. The capsular PS is the source of PS vaccine. This investigation was undertaken to optimize the culture conditions for the production of capsular PS by type 4 pneumococcus. Among several culture media, brain heart infusion (BHI) and Casitone based medium were found to support luxuriant growth of pneumococcus type 4 at the same level. Therefore in this study, the Casitone based medium was used to study optimization of the culture condition because of BHI broth's high cost and complex nature. The phase of growth which accomodated maximum PS production was exponential phase. Concentrations of glucose greater than 0.8% did not enhance growth or PS production. Substitution of nitrogen sources with other resources or supplementation of various concentrations of metal ion (with the exception of calcium, copper, and magnesium ions) had adverse effects on growth and PS production. On the other hand, low level aeration and supplementation of 3 mg/l concentration of asparagine, phenylalanine, or threonine were beneficial for increased PS production. The synergistic effect of all the favorable conditions observed in pneumococcal growth assays provided a two-fold cumulative increase in capsular PS production.

• Animal Bioscience
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• 제34권12호
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• pp.1987-1994
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• 2021

Objective: The present study aimed to evaluate the effects of varying standardized ileal digestible lysine:threonine (SID Lys:Thr) ratio in the diet on the performance and meat quality of finishing pigs. Methods: In total 192 crossbred pigs ([Landrace×Yorkshire]×Duroc, 17 weeks old), with an initial body weight (BW) of 70.6±3.9 kg were used in an 8-wk trial. Pigs were randomly allotted to one of six dietary treatments based on their initial BW and sex (8 replications; 4 pigs per pen, 2 barrows and 2 gilts). The pigs in the 6 treatments were fed diets having different SID Lys:Thr ratios such as 1:0.65, 1:0.66, 1:0.67, 1:0.68, 1:0.69, and 1:0.70. Results: A linear increment (p<0.05) in average daily gain (ADG) and trends in reduction in feed conversion ratio (FCR) were observed during day 29 to 56 of the experiment and the apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) of dry matter tended to increase linearly (p = 0.094) at the end of the experiment (day 56) with the increase in the dietary SID Lys:Thr ratios. The backfat thickness and lean percentage increased (linear effect, p<0.05) on day 28. In addition, at day 56, a linear (p<0.05) increment in lean percentage was observed. Significant quadratic responses (p = 0.02) for pH and drip loss at day 7 (p = 0.02), a linear increase (p<0.05) in cooking loss and drip loss at day 7, and a trend in quadratic response (p = 0.07) in the lightness of meat color (L^*) were observed, whereas other meat quality indices were unaffected by varying the SID Lys:Thr ratios. Conclusion: The SID Lys:Thr ratio for maximum ADG, minimum FCR and enhanced digestibility was found to be 0.70. However, for carcass trait and meat quality, the SID Lys:Thr ratio of 0.65 was enough.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.206-210
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• 2017

Objective: A study was conducted to test six threonine (Thr) levels (0.39%, 0.44%, 0.49%, 0.54%, 0.59%, and 0.64%) to estimate the optimal dietary Thr requirements for Longyan laying ducks from 17 to 45 wk of age. Methods: Nine hundred Longyan ducks aged 17 wk were assigned randomly to the six dietary treatments, where each treatment comprised six replicate pens with 25 ducks per pen. Results: Increasing the Thr level enhanced egg production, egg weight, egg mass, and the feed conversion ratio (FCR) (linearly or quadratically; p<0.05). The Haugh unit score, yolk color, albumen height, and the weight, percentage, thickness, and breaking strength of the eggshell did not response to increases in the Thr levels, but the albumen weight and its proportion increased significantly (p<0.05), whereas the yolk weight and its proportion decreased significantly as the Thr levels increased. Conclusion: According to a regression model, the optimal Thr requirement for egg production, egg mass, and FCR in Longyan ducks is 0.57%, while 0.58% is the optimal level for egg weight from 17 to 45 wk of age.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.939-946
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• 2012

Antibiotic production with Streptomyces sindenensis MTCC 8122 was optimized under submerged fermentation conditions by artificial neural network (ANN) coupled with genetic algorithm (GA) and Nelder-Mead downhill simplex (NMDS). Feed forward back-propagation ANN was trained to establish the mathematical relationship among the medium components and length of incubation period for achieving maximum antibiotic yield. The optimization strategy involved growing the culture with varying concentrations of various medium components for different incubation periods. Under non-optimized condition, antibiotic production was found to be $95{\mu}g/ml$, which nearly doubled ($176{\mu}g/ml$) with the ANN-GA optimization. ANN-NMDS optimization was found to be more efficacious, and maximum antibiotic production ($197{\mu}g/ml$) was obtained by cultivating the cells with (g/l) fructose 2.7602, $MgSO_4$ 1.2369, $(NH_4)_2PO_4$ 0.2742, DL-threonine 3.069%, and soyabean meal 1.952%, for 9.8531 days of incubation, which was roughly 12% higher than the yield obtained by ANN coupled with GA under the same conditions.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.376-382
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• 2005

AVM $B_{1a}$는 Streptomyces avermitilis가 생합성하는 이차대사산물로, 강력한 구충효과를 갖는 polyketide 계열의 물질이다. AVM $B_{1a}$ 생합성의 전구체로 isoleucine이 사용되고 AVM의 생합성 경로가 지방산 합성과 유사하므로, 전구체를 과량생합성하고 polyketide 생합성 경로로 진행되는 탄소원의 흐름이 증가된 변이주를 선별하기 위하여 isoleucine의 아미노산 유사체 (O-methyl threonine)와 지방산 합성 저해물질 (p-fluoro phenoxy acetic acid)에 대한 저항성 변이주를 선별하고자 하였다. 모균주의 AVM $B_{1a}$ 생산성은 약 100 units/L로 매우 낮은 반면, 100 ppm의 pFAC에 대한 저항성 변이주인 PFA-1는 약 4,200 units/1의 AVM $B_{1a}$를 생산하는 것으로 관찰되었다. 이 균주를 모균주로 하여 OMT에 대한 저항성을 지속적으로 증가시킬 경우 AVM $B_{1a}$ 생산성이 2배 더 증가한 약 9,000 units/1의 생합성 능력을 보이는 고생산성 변이주를 개발할 수 있었다. 또한 주목할 만하게도 지방산 저해물질인 PFAC에 대한 변이주의 저항성을 지속적으로 증가시킴으로써 AVM $B_{1a}$ 생산성이 11,000 units/L에 이르는 고역가 변이주를 선별할 수 있었다. 한편 상기의 OMT와 pFAC를 이용한 rational screening 전략을 통해 지속적으로 선별한 변이주들에 대한 AVM $B_{1a}$의 생산성 분포를 histogram을 통해 분석해 본 결과, 초반부에 선별된 돌연변이주들은 AVM $B_{1a}$의 생합성 능력에 있어서 거의 모두가 ($95\%$ 이상) 4,000 units/1 이하의 비교적 낮은 범위에 분포하는 반면, OMT와 pFAC의 농도를 높여가며 유도된 저항성 돌연변이주들의 경우에는 이들 중에 고생산성 균주의 비율이 뚜렷하게 증가 (OMT 에서 $5,000\~7,000$ unit/l 범위에 $71\%$; pFAC에서 $6,000\~7,000$ unit/L 범위에 $47\%$) 하는 것으로 확인되었다. 이로부터 polyketide 생합성 경로와 AVM $B_{1a}$의 생합성 경로의 이해를 통해 수행된 rational screening 전략이 AVM $B_{1a}$ 고생산성 뿐만 아니라 고 안정성의 특성을 갖는 균주를 선별하는데 매우 효율적임을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국균학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 1983

진탕배양에서 느타리와 목이의 균사체(菌絲體) 생산(生産)에 대한 실험(實驗)의 결과(結果)를 요약(要約)하면 다음과 같다. 1. 균사체생산(菌絲體生産)에 양호(良好)한 탄소원(炭素源)은 P. ostreatus경우 glucose와 mannitol이었고 A. auricula-judae는 mannitol과 fructose이었다. 유기산(有機酸)중에서는 양균주(兩菌株) 모두 fumaric acid에서 제일 양호(良好)하였다. 2. 균사체생산(菌絲體生産)에 양호(良好)한 질소원(窒素源)은 P. ostreatus 경우 peptone, urea와 asparagin, DL-threonine이 었고 A. auricula-judae는 peptone, Casamino acid와 L-Serine, DL-threonine이었다. 3. 균사체생산(菌絲體生産)에 양호(良好)한 vitamin은 A. auricula-judae 경우 folic acid, thiamine이었고 A. auricula-judae는 folic acid, inositol, riboflavin이었다. 4.양균주(兩菌株)가 $MgSO_4$는 0.08%, $KH_2PO_4$ 0.2%에서 균사체생산(菌絲體生産)이 양호(良好)하였다. 5. 균사체생산(菌絲體生産)의 최적온도(最適溫度)와 pH는 P. ostreatus에서 $25{\sim}30^{\circ}C$, $pH\;5.5{\sim}6.0$이고 A. auricula-judae에서 $25{\sim}30^{\circ}C$, $pH6.0{\sim}7.0$이었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.1164-1170
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• 2005

This study was conducted to evaluate performance, breast (thigh) muscle yield, nutrient digestibility and serum biochemical parameters of broilers fed low-protein diets supplemented with various threonine to lysine ratios (Thr/Lys). Three hundred and twenty four day-old male Arbor Acres broilers were randomly allotted to six dietary treatments with six replicates per treatment and nine broilers per replicate. Six treatments included one control diet [formulated according to NRC (1994)], and five experimental diets (treatments 1-5). In treatments 1-5, the crude protein level was 2% lower than that of the NRC control diet. The Thr/Lys in treatments 1-5 was 0.65, 0.70, 0.75, 0.80 and 0.85 during the starter and grower phases and 0.70, 0.75, 0.80, 0.85 and 0.90 during the finisher phase with other nutrient levels kept consistent. The results showed that: (1) With increasing Thr/Lys, ADG of treatments 1, 3 and 4 were lower (p<0.05) than those of the NRC control diet during the starter phase; ADG of treatments 1-5 were lower (p<0.05) than those of the NRC control during the grower phase, and ADG of treatment 1 was lower (p<0.05) than that of the NRC control during the finisher phase. Average daily feed intake in treatments 1 and 4 were lower (p<0.05) than that of broilers on the NRC control diet during the grower phase. Feed/gain (F/G) of the NRC control diet was lowest (p<0.05) during the starter phase. F/G in treatments 2 and 5 were higher (p<0.05) than that of NRC during the grower phase. (2) Breast muscle proportion on d 21 increased linearly (p<0.05) in response to graded levels of Thr/Lys. (3) No differences were detected for dry matter, energy and crude protein digestibility among all seven treatments. (4) On d 21, serum triglyceride of broilers on dietary treatments 3 and 5 was higher (p<0.05) than that of broilers in control. The results indicate that the low-protein diets supplemented with an appropriate Thr/Lys could not support the same performance that was achieved by the broilers fed the NRC control diet.