• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제66권2호
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• pp.398-411
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• 2024

Upregulation of the nutritional value of feed is the major target of various studies in the livestock industry, and dietary enzyme supplementation could aid in digesting the nondegrading nutrients of grains in feed ingredients. Dried distillers' grains with solubles (DDGS) is a byproduct of the fermentation process in the beverage industry and can be used as a large supply source of fiber in feed. Therefore, we conducted an experiment with male broiler chickens to investigate the effect of various types of enzymes on DDGS and compare the efficacy of single enzyme and multienzyme complexes on growth performance and gut environments in broiler chickens. We used 420 1-day-old broiler chickens (Ross 308), and they were allotted into 4 dietary treatments with seven replications (CON, corn-soybean meal [SBM] diet; NC, DDGS supplemented diet; SE, 0.05 % of mannanase supplemented DDGS-based diet; MC, 0.10% of multienzyme complex (mannanase and xylanase, glucanase) supplemented DDGS-based diet. The dietary exogenous enzyme in the DDGS-supplemented diet could improve growth performance as much as the growth of the control group, and digestibility of dry matter, crude protein, and gross energy were significantly increased by enzyme addition in groups of chicks fed DDGS-supplementation diet. Moreover, the populations of pathogenic bacteria, coliforms, and Bacteroidetes were significantly decreased by enzyme supplementation, which might lead to improved gut mucus-secreting cells and inflammatory cytokines in the jejunum. Collectively, dietary single enzyme and multienzyme complexes could improve gut environments, including intestinal immune responses and gut microbial population, and lead to improvement of growth performance in broiler chickens.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.616-625
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• 2005

It is likely that maltose could provide a good substrate for the bacteria in the intestine, when the pathogenic bacteria invade and colonize in human gut. For better understanding of this organism's maltose metabolism, a mutant that was not able to grow with maltose as a sole carbon source was screened from a library of mutants constructed by a random transposon mutagenesis. By a transposon-tagging method, malPQ genes encoding a maltodextrin phosphorylase and a 4-${\alpha}$-glucanotransferase, were identified and cloned from Vibrio vulnificus. The deduced amino acid sequences of malPQ from V. vulnificus were 48 to $91\%$ similar to those of MalP and MalQ reported from other Enterobacteriaceae. Functions of malPQ genes were assessed by the construction of mutants whose malPQ genes were inactivated by allelic exchanges. When maltose was used as the sole carbon source, neither malP nor malQ mutant was able to grow to a substantial level, revealing that the MalP and MalQ are the only enzymes for metabolic utilization of maltose. The malQ mutant exhibited decreased adherence toward intestinal epithelial cells in vitro, but there was no difference in the $LD_{50}s$ of the wild-type and the malQ mutant in mice. Therefore, it appears that MalQ is less important in the pathogenesis of V. vulnificus than would have been predicted by considering maltose as a most common sugar in the intestine, but not completely dispensable for virulence in mice.

• 한국해양바이오학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.48-54
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• 2007

바실러스 폴리퍼멘티쿠스 에스씨디는 활성아포를 형성하여 장까지 도달하는 특성 때문에 장기적인 장 질환 치료에 사용되어져 왔다. 뿐만 아니라 강력한 항생물질을 생산하는 장점을 가지고 있다. 현 연구는 바실러스 폴리퍼멘티쿠스 에스씨디와 콩을 함께 발효시킨 것 (BPFS)과 그것의 생균제 특성에 관하여 조사하였다. 바실러스 폴리퍼멘티쿠스 에스씨디는 와 BPFS는 병원성 그람양성 (스트렙토코커스 파라우베리스, 스트렙토코커스 이니에, 락도코커스 가르비에), 그람 음성 (플렉시박터 트렉튜오서스, 비브리오 하베이, 비브리오 불니피쿠스, 비브리오 오다리), 곰팡이 (아스파라질러스 니거, 아스파라질러스 오리자에)에 이르기까지 넓은 범위의 항균성을 가졌다. BPFS에 의한 생존율 증가와 부영양화로 인한 수질오염의 정화작용을 관찰하기 위해서 통영 앞바다 양식장에서 조피볼락을 사용해서 현장 실험을 하였다. 그 결과, 해양 병원성 유해 박테리아에 노출시키고 일반 사료만 복용시킨 군에서는 99%의 폐사율을 보였으나, BPFS를 사료와 함께 복용시킨 군에서는 먹이 유인효과에 의한 성장률의 증가와 부영양화에 의한 수질오염을 정화하는 작용이 관찰되었다. 따라서 BPFS는 양식업에서 항생물질 대체제, 사료첨가제, 부영양화에 의한 정화제로서 개발하여 산업화하기 용이한 후보물질이라고 사료된다.