Journal Articles (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)

1992

Feddes, John J. R., Zuidhof, Martin J., Cook, H.

A single barn was sampled throughout a turkey growth cycle to investigate the size and distribution of airborne particles and to identify individual dust sources. Fecal material was found to be the main constituent of airborne dust in turkey barns. The aerodynamic properties of airborne dust and...

2009

Grant, Jason, Stothard, Paul, Moore, Stephen S., Guan, Leluo, Jin, Weiwu

Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a family of ~22 nucleotide small RNA molecules which regulate gene expression by fully or partially binding to their complementary sequences in mRNAs or promoters. A large number of miRNAs and their expression patterns have been reported in human, mouse and rat....

2023-03-30

Lin, Jieting, Xie, Jin, Luo, Lixin, Gänzle, Michael

The γ-glutamyl tripeptide glutathione (γ-Glu-Cys-Gly) is a low molecular thiol that acts as antioxidant in response to oxidative stress in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. γ-Glutamyl dipeptides including γ-Glu-Cys, γ-Glu-Glu, and γ-Glu-Gly also have kokumi activity. Glutathione is synthesized by first...

2023-03-02

Gaur, Gautam, Chen, Chen, Gänzle, Michael G.

In plants, hydroxycinnamic and hydroxybenzoic acids occur mainly as esters. This study aimed to determine the contribution of individual phenolic acid esterases in Lp. plantarum TMW1.460, which encodes for four esterases: TanA, Lp0796, Est1092 and a homolog of Lj0536 and Lj1228 that was termed...

2014-12-01

Black, Brenna A., Yan, Yalu, Galle, Sandra, Hu, Ying, Curtis, Jonathan M., Gänzle, Michael G.

This study determined whether chitin-oligosaccharides and chitosan-oligosaccharides (COS) are suitable acceptor carbohydrates for the LacLM-type β-galactosidase of Lactobacillus plantarum. Enzymatic reactions were carried out with lactose as galactosyl-donor and chitinbiose (N,N′-diacetyl...

2014

Nguyen, Trinh-Don, Ozga, Jocelyn A., Reinecke, Dennis M., Ferraro, Kiva, Ro, Dae-Kyun, Jin, Alena

Background Proanthocyanidins (PAs) accumulate in the seeds, fruits and leaves of various plant species including the seed coats of pea (Pisum sativum), an important food crop. PAs have been implicated in human health, but molecular and biochemical characterization of pea PA biosynthesis has not...

2014

Dobrinsky, John, Zhou, Chi, Dixon, Walter T., Dyck, Michael K., Stothard, Paul, Foxcroft, George R., Tsoi, Stephen, Verstegen, John

The in vitro production of early porcine embryos is of particular scientific and economic interest. In general, embryos produced from in vitro Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) manipulations, such as somatic cell chromatin transfer (CT) and parthenogenetic activation (PA), are less...

2020-06-15

Falarz, Lucas J., Xu, Yang, Caldo, Kristian Mark P., Garroway, Colin J., Singer, Stacy D., Chen, Guanqun

Triacylglycerols have important physiological roles in photosynthetic organisms, and are widely used as food, feed and industrial materials in our daily life. Phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferase (PDAT) is the pivotal enzyme catalyzing the acyl‐CoA‐independent biosynthesis of...

2020-01-01

Lin, Jieting, Luo, Xiaotong, Gänzle, Michael G., Luo, Lixin

The halophilic lactic acid bacterium Tetragenococcus halophilus has been widely used in high-salinity fermentation processes of food. Previous studies have indicated that the catabolism of arginine may contribute to the osmotic stress adaptation of T. halophilus. Unusually, in the chromosome of...

2020-01-01

Li, Qing, Gänzle, Michael G.

Extracellular glycosyl hydrolases are uncommon in lactobacilli and include amylases and fructosidases mediating starch and fructan utilization, respectively. Extracellular arabinanases have not been described in lactobacilli. This study is aimed at identifying the function of an arabinan...