• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.66 no.5
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• pp.420-423
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• 2022

• Current Research on Agriculture and Life Sciences
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• v.27
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• pp.53-58
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• 2009

This experiment was conducted to determine the amount of asparagine content in soybean sprout soup as well as its effect on the regulation of blood alcohol concentration in human body. Asparagine content and alcohol concentration in blood were analyzed using the amino-acid analyzer and alcohol tester, respectively. Asparagine content in soybean sprout soup was highly significantly different among sprout soups sampled from different restaurants, although the boiling time and amount of sprout used were different among the samples. Significantly higher asparagine content was observed in soups with higher amounts of sprouts (2.81% in 500 grams of sprout) and 10 minutes after boiling with other solid ingredients in the soup. Lower concentration of alcohol in blood was recorded in persons with higher body weight. The asparagine+soybean extract (eaten immediately after drink) lowered the blood alcohol concentration significantly followed by only asparagine and control. The blood alcohol concentration after drinking become zero earlier (by 30 minutes), when asparagine+soybean extract or only asparagine was consumed as compared to control.

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.79-88
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• 2011

The sea tangle, Laminaria japonica has long been used in Korea as a folk remedy to promote health. Gamma-amino butyric acid-enriched (5.56% of dry weight) sea tangle was obtained by fermentation with Lactobacillus brevis BJ-20 (FLJ). A suppressive effect of FLJ on carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatotoxicity has been shown previously. Alcohol administration to Sprague-Dawley rats leads to hepatotoxicity, as demonstrated by heightened levels of hepatic marker enzymes as well as increases in both the number and volume of lipid droplets as fatty liver progresses. However, FLJ attenuated alcohol-induced hepatotoxicity and the accumulation of lipid droplets following ethanol administration. Additionally, FLJ increased the activities and transcript levels of major alcoholmetabolizing enzymes, such as alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase, and reduced blood concentrations of alcohol and acetaldehyde. These data suggest that FLJ protects against alcohol-induced hepatotoxicity and that FLJ could be used as an ingredient in functional foods to ameliorate the effects of excessive alcohol consumption.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.30 no.12
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• pp.2938-2942
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• 2009

New receptors 1-3 that bind stereoselectively amino alcohols and convert chirality of amino acidsvia imine bond formation were synthesized. The receptors have uryl (1), thiouryl (2) and guanidinium (3) groups all with additional phenylcarbonyl motifs, which are effective hydrogen bonding donors and play a key role in the stereoselective recognitions. The stereoselectivities were measured from the integration of $^1HNMR$ peaks. Compound 1 and 2 showed the stereoselectivities for the imine formation with amino alcohols ($K_R/K_S$) in the range of 2${\sim}$4, and compound 3 in the range of 4${\sim}$8. Chirality conversion efficienciesof 1-3 for amino acids, i.e. D/L ratio at equilibrium, are in the range of 1.5${\sim}$5.6, showing a little higher efficiency with 3. The additional phenylcarbonyl motifs in 1-3 were revealed not to contribute to significant enhancement of the selectivities.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.37-44
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• 2003

Alcohol dehydrogenases (AHDs) are enzymes responsible for the catalysis of the reversible conversion of various alcohols to their corresponding aldehydes and ketonesis. Until now cDNA sequences of ADH gene is informed exclusively from several diptean species. We describe here the cDNA sequence and mRNA expression of a putative ADH gene from the mole cricket, Gryllotalpa orientalis, and phylogenetic relationships among known insect ADHs. The G. orientalis ADH cDNA sequences comprised of 798 bp encoding 266 amino acid residues. The multiple sequence alignment of G. orientalis ADH gene and known dipteran ADHs shared 100％ identity in the nine amino acid residues that are important for the enzymatic activity in Drosophila melanogaster. Percent sequence identity ranged from 25％ to 32％ among all insect ADHs including both types of ADHs. G. orientalis ADH gene showed no clear resemblance to any dipteran species and type. Phylogenetic analysis of the deduced amino acid sequences of G. orientalis ADH gene with available dipteran ADH genes including both types of ADHs further confirmed that the G. orientalis ADH gene is not clearly assigned to either type of ADHs. Northern blot analysis revealed a stronger signal in the fat body than midgut and epidermis, indicating that the fat body possibly is a main site for the synthesis of the G. orientalis ADH protein.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.171-178
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• 1981

In order to develope the suitable processing method of new alcohol fermented milk beverage, the lactic acid bacteria and the yeast were inoculated to various level of saccharide added milk. And the change of component and alcohol concentration in beverage were analysed and tested. The results obtained were summarized as follows: 1. By skim milk media was fermented by the 5 strains of lactic acid bacteria for 24 hours, most suitable acidity was appeared in the Str. lactis fermented beverage as 0.83% and the amino nitrogen contents was not much changed as 0.2mg/ml. 2. By the skim milk was added with 5% glucose, lactose and sucrose respectively and fermented by the Str. lactis and Cruyveromyces fragilis, the acidity and amino nitrogen contents in beverage were not changed significantly, but alcohol concentration was increased from 2.5% to 3.58%. 3. By the 5% to 15% sucrose added skim milk media was fermented by Cruyveromyces fragilis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the amino nitrogen concentration was not so much changed by increasing sucrose contents. And the alcohol concentration was increased from 2.12% to 8.15% by Cruyveromyces fragilis fermentation and from 0% to 7.45% by S.accharomyces cerevisiae fermentation. 4. Sensory evaluation was better in the Cruyveromyces fragilis fermented beverage than Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermented beverage. 5. The contents of moisture, crude protein, ash and the concentrate of alcohol of Str. lactis and Cruyveromyces fragilis fermented skim milk beverage were much similar to koumis.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.23 no.9
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• pp.1285-1290
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• 2002

Various nitrobenzaldehydes were simultaneously allylated and reduced using indium in the presence of HCl in aqueous media to give compounds having both functionality of homoallylic alcohol and aromatic amine. Sequential protection of the amino gro up and oxidation of the anilinyl homoallylic alcohol provided useful precursors of heterocyclic compounds such as dihydroindolones and dihydroquinolones, which could be efficiently synthesized through intramolecular cyclization reaction.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.570-576
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• 2011

The effect of nuruks and crude amylolytic enzyme on free amino acid and volatile components of brown rice vinegar prepared by static cultures was investigated. Five groups consisted of AV (100% nuruk without crude amylolytic enzyme), BV (75% nuruk; 25% crude amylolytic enzyme), CV (50% nuruk; 50% crude amylolytic enzyme), DV (25% nuruk; 75% crude amylolytic enzyme) and EV (100% crude amylolytic enzyme without nuruk). Free amino acid content in AV vinegar (132.06 mg%) was lower than the others (184.56-191.22 mg%). Acetic acid, 3-methyl butyl acetate, acetoin and isoamyl alcohol were major volatile components as analyzed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry after headspace solid-phase microextraction. Acetic acid in AV and EV samples represented 67.56% and 55.53% of total GC peak area, respectively. E-nose provided different patterns in each case showing variation in sensory properties.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.30 no.12
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• pp.3123-3126
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• 2009

• KSBB Journal
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.323-327
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• 2011

The convenient derivatization method of chiral amino alcohols as 9-anthraldimine Schiff base derivatives for chiral resolution was developed and the liquid chromatographic enantiomer separation of chiral amino alcohols as 9-anthraldimine derivatives was investigated on several coated and covalently bonded polysaccharide-derived chiral stationary phases (CSPs). In general, the performance of Chiralcel OD-H (or Chiralcel OD) (${\alpha}$ = 1.24-2.89), the coated CSP derived from cellulose derivative was superior to the other CSPs for resolution of 9-anthraldimine derivatives of several amino alcohols. The results of enantioseparation depending on the structure of 9-anthraldimine analytes like the steric bulky group and the polar moiety etc were discussed. The analytical method was applied to measure the enantiomeric purity of commercially available chiral amino alcohols. It is expected that the convenient analytical method will be very efficient for determination of enantiomeric purity of amino alcohols as 9-anthraldimine Schiff base derivatives with strong UV absorption.