• The Korean Journal of Mycology
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.25-30
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• 1986

The purposes of this study were to investigate enzyme components and its physiological activities of Sarcodon aspratus (Berk.) S. Ito which grows wildly in Korea, belonging to the family Thelephoraceae. The carpophores of the fungus was extracted with cooling distilled water and salted out by ammonium sulfate. The precipitate was purified by dialysing through visking tube against distilled water and then dissolved with pH 7.8 ammonia aqua, and the extract was filterated. The fraction of filtrate was obtained as light brown powder after lyophilization and determined proteolytic activity. Protease activity of Sarcodon aspratus (Berk.) S. Ito was about two-third of that of pepsin on casein by cup method. The proteolytic potency of this enzyme was found to be 500 unit/mg. This proved the efficacy of the mushroom when it was used as a folk medicine for treating indigestion of beef.

• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.128-132
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• 2006

This study was undertaken to investigate the effect of peptic and chymotryptic hydrolyses of 7S globulin, the major allergen of soybean protein, on its allergenicity, as measured by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and to identify the allergenic hydrolyzed fragments of 7S globulin using SDS-PAGE. When 7S globulin was hydrolyzed by pepsin, the allergenicity was reduced by over 50%. However, the allergenicity of 7S globulin reduced by peptic hydrolysis was recovered in the sera from 5 out of 10 patients following sequential chymotryptic hydrolysis. Two fragments, with molecular weights 20-25 and 13-16 kDa, among the hydrolysate of 7S globulin by sequential pepsin and chymotrypsin showed reactivity with sera from 10 soybean-allergenic patients. As a result of the theoretical hydrolyses of ${\beta}$-conglycinin, which is a major protein of 7S globulin, it is suggested that the 20-25 kDa fragments were the fragments of the ${\alpha}$-subunit of ${\beta}$'-conglycinin and that the 10-16 kDa fragments were from the ${\alpha}$'-subunit.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.45-50
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• 1999

A bacteriocin-producing strain was isolated from kimchi at the early stage of kimchi fermentation. It was identified as Lactococcus lactis by morphological, cultural and physiological characteristics and partial sequence of 16S rDNA. The bacteriocin from isolate had antimicrobial activity against gram positive pathogenic bacteria, such as Listeria monocytogenes. Staphylococcus aureus and several strains of lactic acid bacteria but not to gram negative bacteria, Yersinia enterocolitica. The bacteriocin was sensitive to protease, protease ⅩⅣ, a-chymotrypsin and pepsin but not to lipase, trypsin and lysozyme. The bacteriocin activity was stable at pH 2-11 and temperature of 100 for 10 min. Thus, Listeria monocytogenes could be inhibited by Lactococcus lactis at early stage of fermentation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.308-314
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• 1994

Four Taro isolectins (I, II, III, IV) were purified by ammonium sulfate, chromatography on CM-celluose and isoelectric focusing. I and IV lectins proved homogeneous by disk polyacrylamid gel electrophoresis and densitometric patterns. But in the presence of urea, IV lectin further dissociated into two different subunits. These lectinis had different hemagglutinating activities and inhibition in their activities after mixed with pepsin particuclary, but not with carbohydrates, heating pH, urea, guanidine, trypsin, pronase and $Ca^{2+}$.

• Korean Journal of Poultry Science
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.30-34
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• 1983

An experiment was carried out to evaluate the feeding value of hydrolyzed leather meal (HLM) replacing fish meal A total of 240 day-old female chicks of Maniker strain was divided into 20 groups of 12 birds ecah. Each groups was assigned to one of the five dietary treatments (0. 1. 2, 4 and 6% HLM). The feeding trial was conducted for six weeks. Results obtained are summarized as follows: 1. The HLM used in this experiment contained 74.41% crude protein. 17.0% crude ash and 2.0% chromium. Pepsin digestibility of the protein was measured to be 85%. Amino acid contents were also determined 2. The inclusion of HLM up to 4% in broiler rations did not depress the growth rate, feed consumption and feed efficiency of experimental birds. However, these performance parameters were significantly (p＜0.05) depressed when fed 6% HLM. These results indicate that HLM in place of fish meal can be used up to 4% in tile broiler rations.

• Journal of Sasang Constitutional Medicine
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.227-243
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• 1997

The experimental study used in this paper was done to examine the clinical effects of Taeumchowetang for the gastric ulcer and the function of gastrointestinal tract using rats and mice which were administered orally the water extraction from Taeumchowetang. Then, the counter-action of the water extraction on the isolated ileum and gastric fundus, the inhibitory effects of pylorus-ligated ulcer and indomethacin-induced ulcer, the associations with gastric juice secretion, total acidity, pepsin output, the transportability in the small and large intestine, were studied with administering acetylcholine chloride and barium chloride. In addition, it was investigated whether the central nervous system related to pain control and sleeping time was influenced by Taeumchowetang. The following results have been obtained; 1. As resulting from injection of acetylcholine chloride and barium chloride into the isolated ileum of rats and mice, Taeumchowetang led to have an inhibitory effect on the muscle contraction of the ileum. Then, acetylcholine chloride was measured as lower effect than barium chloride 2. For the inhibitory effect on contraction for the gastric fundus strip in rats by either acetylcholine chloride or barium chloride, the one showed low inhibitory effect, on the other hand the other showed density-dependent effect. 3. The water extraction was given on the pylorus ligated ulcer with using two different administration groups of 1,300mg/kg and 2,600mg/kg, each result was measured as 22.9% and 36.5% for an ulcerous inhibitory effect (p<0.05). 4. According to the two administration groups, the preventive effect was tabulated 18.1% and 29.3% for indomethacin-induced ulcer (p<0.05, P<0.01). 5. For associations with gastric juice secretion, total acidity, pepsin output in the administration group 2,600mg/kg, Taeumchowetang was recognized as having an inhibitory effects related to suppressive actions involving gastric juice secretion(p<0.05), and free acidity(p<0.01), but there was no significant association with total acidity and pepsin output. 6. To know the transportability in the intestine, BaSO4 solution was used. The transportability of the small intestine in the administration group 2,600mg/kg was 22.2% which was statistically significant compared with the large intestine's transportability(P<0.01). 7. In the administration group 1,300mg/kg and 2,600mg/kg, analgesic effect with against acetic acid was measured as being 16.8% and 24.4% which was shown as statistically siginificant(p<0.01). 8. No statistically significant association between Taeumchowetang and sleeping time was found in both 1,300mg/kg and 2,600mg/kg by administering phenobarbital-Na. According to the results of this study, Taeumchowetang has agreed with the effects of literature review. Further more in this study, Taeumchowetang also has preventive effects on pylorus-ligated ulcer. Hence, Teaumchowetang can be significant effect such as both anti ulcer agent and increasing gastric activity for the patients who suffer from gastric ulcer.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.1507-1516
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• 2002

Meat and bone meal is a valuable protein and mineral source in diets of production animals and contributes to the protein, energy and mineral component of diets. The aim of the present study was to more accurately characterise the apparent ileal amino acid digestibility of meat and bone meals produced in New Zealand and evaluate routine in vitro assays used in practise to measure meat and bone meal quality. A total of 94 commercial meat and bone meals from 25 New Zealand rendering plants over a two and a half year period were analysed for proximates, gross energy, gross amino acid content (incl. hydroxyproline, hydroxylysine and lanthionine), apparent ileal amino acid digestibility, pepsin nitrogen digestibility, protein solubility and bone content. The mean crude protein content of the 94 meat and bone meal samples was 56.8% with a range of >35% units and a coefficient of variation of 9.8%. The mean crude fat and ash content were 10.0 and 28.4% respectively. These latter components showed a large range (16 and 43%, respectively) with coefficients of variation above 22%. Amino acid digestibility between samples was highly variable with lysine and sulphur amino acids digestibility ranging between 45.8-89.0 and 38.2-85.5%, respectively. Pearson correlation coefficients are presented between crude protein content and individual gross amino acids, crude protein content and individual digestible amino acid content, and pepsin N digestibility and individual digestible amino acid content. There was a significant relationship between the digestible amino acid nitrogen content and the crude protein content while pepsin nitrogen digestibility was not correlated to ileal amino acid nitrogen digestibility (r=-0.06). Meat meals with a high protein content had relatively low hydroxyproline and hydroxylysine levels something that was attributed to the levels of collagen from bone. The data indicated that lanthionine (formed upon heat treatment of cysteine with a hydroprotein) is not a good indicator of the heat treatment employed to meat and bone meals. Step-wise multiple regression equations to predict the apparent digestible content of amino acids from rapid in vitro assays are presented. The most selected variables included ash and crude fat content. In general the equations derived for the essential amino acids had a higher degrees of fit (R2) compared to the non-essential amino acids. The R2 for the essential amino acids ranged from 0.43 for histidine and 0.68 for leucine. These equations provide a means of more rapidly estimating the apparent ileal digestible amino acid content (protein quality) of meat and bone meal using standard analyses.

• YAKHAK HOEJI
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.511-519
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• 1993

The short and variabke transit of drug throught GI tracj and the inter-and intra-subject variations of the transit restrict the sustained drug absorption after oral adminstration. These restrictions may be solved by retaining the dosage forms in the stomach. Then the dosage form will act as a platform which releases the drug slowly and makes the GI absorption occur for a long time. In this study, as the platforms, PVP hydrogels were synthesized by chemical and y-irradiation method in the cylindrical test tube. The chemical method means the synthesis of the hydrogel by heating the mixed solution of N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone [monomer], acrylated albumin [crosslinking agent], 2, 2'-agobis(2-methylpropionitrile) [initiator] and proxyphylline [drug] at $65^{\circ}C$ for 5 hr. The $\gamma$-irradiation method means the synthesis of the hydrogel by irradiation with $^{60}$ Co $\gamma$-ray of the mixed solution of the monomer, acrylated albumin, and flurbiprofen [drug] at room temperature with total 0.2 Mrad for 3 hr. Our intention is to design the hydrogel tablet (diameter : 1.20 cm, thickness : 0.60 cm) which swells in the gastric fluid after oral administration to such a size that passing through the pylorus could be inhibited during the period of drug release. After releasing drug, the hydrogel should be degraded by the enzymeatic digestion in the stomach, or by hydrolysis and eventually solubilized. Thus, in votro tests were performed to examine the factors that affect swelling and drug release from the PVP hydrogels. Experimental results show that the hydrogels swell to a size larger than the diameter of the pylorus(l.3$\pm$0.7 cm) and the hydrogel prepared by the chemical method is digested by pepsin. But the hydrogel prepared by the $\gamma$-irradiation method was not digested by the pepsin and just collapsed with time. Thus, the swelling of the hydrogel synthesized by $\gamma$-irradiation was independent albumin acrylation time and pepsin concentration. But drug content and radiation dose affected the swelling and drug release kinetics of the hydrogel. Drug release from the hydrigels was prolonged up to about 24 hr. Therefore, it was concluded that by adjusting these factors, the albumin-crosslinked PVP hydrogel synthesized by $\gamma$-irradiation method is expected to be retained in the stomach for up to 60hr and be a potential platform of drugs for long-term GI absorption.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.1124-1129
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• 2005

Functional activities of low molecular weight substances purified from pepsin hydrolysates of four different seaweeds; Costaria costata, Enteromorpha prolifera, Grateloupia filicina and Porphyra tenera, were inves-tigated. Each pepsin hydrolysate of Costaria costata, Enteromorpha prolifera, and Grateloupia filicina resulted in three peptide peaks on Bio-Rad P2 gel chromatography pattern, while that of Porphyra tenera showed 2 peaks. Peak 1 of Porphyra tenera showed the highest antioxidative activity followed by peak 2 of Porphyra tenera and peak 2 of Costaria costata in order Peak 1 of Porphyra tenera showed the highest ACE inhibitory activity followed by peak 3 and peak 2 of Enteromorpha prolifera in order. Peak 1 and peak 2 of Porphyra tenera, and peak 2 of Enteromorpha prolifera showed the highest antityrosinase activity followed by peak 3 of Enteromorpha prolifera. Peak 1 of Enteromorpha prolifera showed the highest antitumor activity followed by peak 2 of Costaria costata, peak 3 of Enteromorpha prolifera, and peak 3 of Grateloupia filicina in order. Porphyra tenera showed the highest functional activities, which is thought to be due to its high protein content. Structure and amino acid sequence of low molecular weight peptide of Porphyra tenera should be analyzed in the further study.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.136-140
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• 2008

In order to utilize the silkworm larvae (Bombyx mori) protein, defatted silkworm protein was hydrolysed by four enzymes (pepsin, trypsin, neutrase and alcalase) at various hydrolysis times (6, 12, 18, 24 and 30 hr) and suspension concentrations (2, 5, 10, 15 and 20%). Protein solubility index, ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme) inhibitory activity and antioxidative activity of silkworm protein hydrolysates were investigated. The optimum condition of hydrolysis was 10% suspension concentration and 18 hr. Protein solubility index of trypsin treatment was higher than other enzyme treatments. ACE inhibitory activity and $IC_{50}$ value of antioxidative activity of neutrase treatment were 86.16% at $100\;{\mu}g/mL$ and $352.75\;{\mu}g/mL$, respectively; also, these values were higher than other enzyme treatments.