AIM: To develop a Brown Norway (BN) rat model to determine the potential allergenicity of novel proteins in genetically modified food.METHODS: The allergenicity of different proteins were compared, including ovalbumin...AIM: To develop a Brown Norway (BN) rat model to determine the potential allergenicity of novel proteins in genetically modified food.METHODS: The allergenicity of different proteins were compared, including ovalbumin (OVA), a potent respiratory and food allergen, bovine serum albumin (BSA), a protein that is considered to have a lesser allergenic potential,and potato acid phosphatase (PAP), a non-allergenic protein when administered to BN rats via different routes of exposure (intraperitoneally or by gavage). IgG and IgE antibody responses were determined by ELISA and PCA,respectively. An immunoassay kit was used to determine the plasma histamine level. In addition, possible systemic effect of allergens was investigated by monitoring blood pressure.RESULTS: OVA provoked very vigorous protein-specific IgG and IgE responses, low grade protein-specific IgG and IgE responses were elicited by BSA, while by neither route did PAP elicit anything. In either routes of exposure,plasma histamine level in BN rats sensitized with OVA was higher than that of BSA or PAP. In addition, an oral challenge with BSA and PAP did not induce any effect on blood pressure, while a temporary drop in systolic blood pressure in few animals of each routes of exposure was found by an oral challenge with OVA.CONCLUSION: BN rat model might be a useful and predictive animal model to study the potential allergenicity of novel food proteins.展开更多
Recently,nanoencapsulation was introduced as an efficient and promising approach for the protection,delivery,and site-specific liberation of the nutraceuticals and bioactive ingredients.Food proteins are attractive ma...Recently,nanoencapsulation was introduced as an efficient and promising approach for the protection,delivery,and site-specific liberation of the nutraceuticals and bioactive ingredients.Food proteins are attractive materials for developing nanocarriers to protect and deliver bioactives due to their unique functional and biological properties.Food proteins extracted from animals and plants have the ability to form different nanostructures including nanoparticles,hollow particles,nanogels,nanofibrillar aggregates,electrospun nanofibers,nanotubular structures,and nanocomplexes.These nanostructured food proteins have been widely used as nanocarriers for the biologically active compounds and drugs.The release of bioactive compounds from nanocarriers depends mainly on pH as well as swelling and the degradation behavior of nanostructure in the simulated physiological conditions.This review presents the applications of the nanostructured food proteins for the encapsulation of bioactive compounds.The major techniques for the fabrication of nanocarriers are described.The encapsulation,protection,and release of bioactive compounds in different nanostructured food proteins were also discussed.展开更多
Plastein reaction is considered a reversal of the usual protein hydrolysis by proteinase, which was applied to prepare a higher-molecular, protein-like substance. It can improve biological value and functional propert...Plastein reaction is considered a reversal of the usual protein hydrolysis by proteinase, which was applied to prepare a higher-molecular, protein-like substance. It can improve biological value and functional properties of food proteins, meliorate flavor of protein hydrolysates and, especially, provide a way to synthesize new sources of proteins. Although the mechanism（s） of the plastein reaction is not clarified, it will have great values in food industry with the development of technologies in enzymology and microbiology.展开更多
Acylation has been shown to be an effective toolfor improving surface functional properties of plant proteins.Soy bean protein has been extensively modified throughchemical and enzvmatic treatments.Their effectiveness...Acylation has been shown to be an effective toolfor improving surface functional properties of plant proteins.Soy bean protein has been extensively modified throughchemical and enzvmatic treatments.Their effectiveness lies intheir high nutritional value and low cost,which promotetheir use as ingredients for the formulation of food products.This paper reports a complete review of chemical modificationof various proteins from plant and animal sources,The nutri-tive and toxicological aspects through in vitro and in vivotests are also described.展开更多
Animal protein foods are undoubtedly among the most concentrated source of essential amino acids (AA) for the human diet. However, their high prices and diseases associated to their excessive consumption have fomented...Animal protein foods are undoubtedly among the most concentrated source of essential amino acids (AA) for the human diet. However, their high prices and diseases associated to their excessive consumption have fomented the consumption of other alternative sources of animal proteins such as those from marine or aquatic species. Sonora is a well recognized producer of animal foods in Mexico, both terrestrial and aquatic. In this study, the protein quality evaluation of these animal food sources, highly produced and consumed in Sonora, is proposed, using in-vitro methodologies. Four different species, from each aquatic and terrestrial origin, were selected. Samples of lean muscle were used in all cases. Various in-vitro methodologies for protein quality evaluation were selected, alternatives to the animal bioassays: % digestibility, Total amino acid analyses (HPLC), PDCAAS, computerized PER calculations (C-PER and DC-PER) and total collagen contents. % in-vitro digestibility presented significant differences among samples from terrestrial species, but muscle from aquatic species did not showed significant differences. All sources of proteins, both aquatic and terrestrial proved to be rich sources of essential amino acids. PDCAAS was unable to establish significant differences in protein quality among sources of protein from different origin. Both methods C-PER and DC-PER were more exact in their results and were able to detect significant differences among samples of different origin. An important finding was the great difference in the total collagen content between aquatic and terrestrial sources of proteins, where terrestrial muscle proteins had almost 10-time more collagen than aquatic protein sources. However, these collagen contents did not seem to have a significant influence in the protein quality of these animal proteins. These muscle proteins, from both aquatic and terrestrial species, confirmed to have a high protein quality and some of the in-vitro methodologies used in this study represent a valuable alternative to the animal bioassays.展开更多
Whey protein products provided ideal ingredients for nutritional food applications.Whey proteins are known to have high nutritional quality due to their high content of essential amino acids,high digestibility and bio...Whey protein products provided ideal ingredients for nutritional food applications.Whey proteins are known to have high nutritional quality due to their high content of essential amino acids,high digestibility and biological value.Research in the past decades has shown that many of the whey protein fractions and peptides derived from them possess various biological activities.The technology developments in the last decade,such as those in the areas of protein fractionation technologies have made industrial scale production of fractionated whey protein products commercially feasible.The development in hydrolysis technology and the peptide analytical capability allowed production of whey protein hydrolysates with designed bioactivity and functionalities.People are continuously finding new biological activities of the various whey protein fractions or their hydrolysis products.Significant amount of research has also been carried out to study the clinical benefits of some of the whey protein fractions and whey protein derived peptides.Examples of these studies will be reviewed and discussed.展开更多
Finger millet(Eleusine coracana(L.)Gaertn.)is a drought resistant crop with potentially tremendous but under-explored source of nutraceutical properties as compared to other regularly consumed cereals in the era of dr...Finger millet(Eleusine coracana(L.)Gaertn.)is a drought resistant crop with potentially tremendous but under-explored source of nutraceutical properties as compared to other regularly consumed cereals in the era of drawback of nutritional security,these characteristics must be harnessed to develop finger millet as a novel functional food.Under-nutrition caused by inadequate diets,and other factors that influence nutritional status,is the underlying factor in 45%child deaths.In Kenya only 25%of young children are fed adequately diverse diets.The main objective of this study was to prepare baby food formulas using finger millets with pigeon peas as protein source and to analyze their nutritional profiles.Two finger millets varieties(i)Snapping Green Early,low altitude and medium altitude varieties and(ii)U-15)were studied to determine effects of environment on nutrient profiles.This study showed that Snapping Green Early had better nutrient profiles(12.13%protein and is high in Ca,Mg,Fe,Zn and P)than U-15(11.69%protein and lower nutrients(Ca,Mg,Fe,Zn and P)),and hence was selected for use in the malting process as best variety.As expected,the pigeon peas had the highest protein value(21%).The samples malted for 72 h resulted in reduction of tannin concentration from 0.091%to 0.03%and the amount of nutrients(Ca,Mg,Fe and Zn)doubled and in fact the protein profile increased by 8.31%.The appropriate ratio for the formulation of the baby food was 70:30.The composting resulted in 18.5%increase in protein.展开更多
本研究利用天然皂皮皂苷(Quillaja saponin,QS)与大豆分离蛋白(soybean protein isolate,SPI)稳定乳液凝胶的协同效应构建高蛋白、减脂的植物基蛋黄酱(plant-based mayonnaise,PM)。利用静态光散射、激光共聚焦、低形变流变学和质构特...本研究利用天然皂皮皂苷(Quillaja saponin,QS)与大豆分离蛋白(soybean protein isolate,SPI)稳定乳液凝胶的协同效应构建高蛋白、减脂的植物基蛋黄酱(plant-based mayonnaise,PM)。利用静态光散射、激光共聚焦、低形变流变学和质构特性对比分析PM与两种市售蛋黄酱在外观、乳滴粒径大小与分布、硬度、涂抹性、热稳定性和冻融稳定性等方面的特性。结果表明,以10%SPI和0.18%QS或10%SPI、0.18%QS和1%SPI凝胶颗粒(soy protein isolate gel particles,SGPs)为蛋白配料可构建出与商品蛋黄酱在外观、涂抹状态、质构以及流变特性上相媲美的高蛋白减脂PM(10%蛋白质与50%脂肪、11%蛋白质与40%脂肪,以质量分数计)。在该体系中,QS不仅赋予了高蛋白乳化制品黏度稀化的质构调节性,还赋予了SPI基乳液凝胶优越的热稳定性和冻融稳定性。本研究可为“高蛋白”“减脂”PM的开发与应用提供理论与技术指导。展开更多
基金Supported by the State 863 Projects, No. 2001AA212291 and 2002AA212041 and the State 973 Project, No. 001CB109007
文摘AIM: To develop a Brown Norway (BN) rat model to determine the potential allergenicity of novel proteins in genetically modified food.METHODS: The allergenicity of different proteins were compared, including ovalbumin (OVA), a potent respiratory and food allergen, bovine serum albumin (BSA), a protein that is considered to have a lesser allergenic potential,and potato acid phosphatase (PAP), a non-allergenic protein when administered to BN rats via different routes of exposure (intraperitoneally or by gavage). IgG and IgE antibody responses were determined by ELISA and PCA,respectively. An immunoassay kit was used to determine the plasma histamine level. In addition, possible systemic effect of allergens was investigated by monitoring blood pressure.RESULTS: OVA provoked very vigorous protein-specific IgG and IgE responses, low grade protein-specific IgG and IgE responses were elicited by BSA, while by neither route did PAP elicit anything. In either routes of exposure,plasma histamine level in BN rats sensitized with OVA was higher than that of BSA or PAP. In addition, an oral challenge with BSA and PAP did not induce any effect on blood pressure, while a temporary drop in systolic blood pressure in few animals of each routes of exposure was found by an oral challenge with OVA.CONCLUSION: BN rat model might be a useful and predictive animal model to study the potential allergenicity of novel food proteins.
基金The support of University of Tehran and Iran National Science Foundation(INSF)is acknowledged.
文摘Recently,nanoencapsulation was introduced as an efficient and promising approach for the protection,delivery,and site-specific liberation of the nutraceuticals and bioactive ingredients.Food proteins are attractive materials for developing nanocarriers to protect and deliver bioactives due to their unique functional and biological properties.Food proteins extracted from animals and plants have the ability to form different nanostructures including nanoparticles,hollow particles,nanogels,nanofibrillar aggregates,electrospun nanofibers,nanotubular structures,and nanocomplexes.These nanostructured food proteins have been widely used as nanocarriers for the biologically active compounds and drugs.The release of bioactive compounds from nanocarriers depends mainly on pH as well as swelling and the degradation behavior of nanostructure in the simulated physiological conditions.This review presents the applications of the nanostructured food proteins for the encapsulation of bioactive compounds.The major techniques for the fabrication of nanocarriers are described.The encapsulation,protection,and release of bioactive compounds in different nanostructured food proteins were also discussed.
文摘Plastein reaction is considered a reversal of the usual protein hydrolysis by proteinase, which was applied to prepare a higher-molecular, protein-like substance. It can improve biological value and functional properties of food proteins, meliorate flavor of protein hydrolysates and, especially, provide a way to synthesize new sources of proteins. Although the mechanism（s） of the plastein reaction is not clarified, it will have great values in food industry with the development of technologies in enzymology and microbiology.
文摘Acylation has been shown to be an effective toolfor improving surface functional properties of plant proteins.Soy bean protein has been extensively modified throughchemical and enzvmatic treatments.Their effectiveness lies intheir high nutritional value and low cost,which promotetheir use as ingredients for the formulation of food products.This paper reports a complete review of chemical modificationof various proteins from plant and animal sources,The nutri-tive and toxicological aspects through in vitro and in vivotests are also described.
文摘Animal protein foods are undoubtedly among the most concentrated source of essential amino acids (AA) for the human diet. However, their high prices and diseases associated to their excessive consumption have fomented the consumption of other alternative sources of animal proteins such as those from marine or aquatic species. Sonora is a well recognized producer of animal foods in Mexico, both terrestrial and aquatic. In this study, the protein quality evaluation of these animal food sources, highly produced and consumed in Sonora, is proposed, using in-vitro methodologies. Four different species, from each aquatic and terrestrial origin, were selected. Samples of lean muscle were used in all cases. Various in-vitro methodologies for protein quality evaluation were selected, alternatives to the animal bioassays: % digestibility, Total amino acid analyses (HPLC), PDCAAS, computerized PER calculations (C-PER and DC-PER) and total collagen contents. % in-vitro digestibility presented significant differences among samples from terrestrial species, but muscle from aquatic species did not showed significant differences. All sources of proteins, both aquatic and terrestrial proved to be rich sources of essential amino acids. PDCAAS was unable to establish significant differences in protein quality among sources of protein from different origin. Both methods C-PER and DC-PER were more exact in their results and were able to detect significant differences among samples of different origin. An important finding was the great difference in the total collagen content between aquatic and terrestrial sources of proteins, where terrestrial muscle proteins had almost 10-time more collagen than aquatic protein sources. However, these collagen contents did not seem to have a significant influence in the protein quality of these animal proteins. These muscle proteins, from both aquatic and terrestrial species, confirmed to have a high protein quality and some of the in-vitro methodologies used in this study represent a valuable alternative to the animal bioassays.
文摘Whey protein products provided ideal ingredients for nutritional food applications.Whey proteins are known to have high nutritional quality due to their high content of essential amino acids,high digestibility and biological value.Research in the past decades has shown that many of the whey protein fractions and peptides derived from them possess various biological activities.The technology developments in the last decade,such as those in the areas of protein fractionation technologies have made industrial scale production of fractionated whey protein products commercially feasible.The development in hydrolysis technology and the peptide analytical capability allowed production of whey protein hydrolysates with designed bioactivity and functionalities.People are continuously finding new biological activities of the various whey protein fractions or their hydrolysis products.Significant amount of research has also been carried out to study the clinical benefits of some of the whey protein fractions and whey protein derived peptides.Examples of these studies will be reviewed and discussed.
基金Special thanks go to Dr.Anne Osano for allowing the first author to be part of this research experience,and the National Science Foundation(NSF)for funding this research opportunity.
文摘Finger millet(Eleusine coracana(L.)Gaertn.)is a drought resistant crop with potentially tremendous but under-explored source of nutraceutical properties as compared to other regularly consumed cereals in the era of drawback of nutritional security,these characteristics must be harnessed to develop finger millet as a novel functional food.Under-nutrition caused by inadequate diets,and other factors that influence nutritional status,is the underlying factor in 45%child deaths.In Kenya only 25%of young children are fed adequately diverse diets.The main objective of this study was to prepare baby food formulas using finger millets with pigeon peas as protein source and to analyze their nutritional profiles.Two finger millets varieties(i)Snapping Green Early,low altitude and medium altitude varieties and(ii)U-15)were studied to determine effects of environment on nutrient profiles.This study showed that Snapping Green Early had better nutrient profiles(12.13%protein and is high in Ca,Mg,Fe,Zn and P)than U-15(11.69%protein and lower nutrients(Ca,Mg,Fe,Zn and P)),and hence was selected for use in the malting process as best variety.As expected,the pigeon peas had the highest protein value(21%).The samples malted for 72 h resulted in reduction of tannin concentration from 0.091%to 0.03%and the amount of nutrients(Ca,Mg,Fe and Zn)doubled and in fact the protein profile increased by 8.31%.The appropriate ratio for the formulation of the baby food was 70:30.The composting resulted in 18.5%increase in protein.
文摘本研究利用天然皂皮皂苷(Quillaja saponin,QS)与大豆分离蛋白(soybean protein isolate,SPI)稳定乳液凝胶的协同效应构建高蛋白、减脂的植物基蛋黄酱(plant-based mayonnaise,PM)。利用静态光散射、激光共聚焦、低形变流变学和质构特性对比分析PM与两种市售蛋黄酱在外观、乳滴粒径大小与分布、硬度、涂抹性、热稳定性和冻融稳定性等方面的特性。结果表明,以10%SPI和0.18%QS或10%SPI、0.18%QS和1%SPI凝胶颗粒(soy protein isolate gel particles,SGPs)为蛋白配料可构建出与商品蛋黄酱在外观、涂抹状态、质构以及流变特性上相媲美的高蛋白减脂PM(10%蛋白质与50%脂肪、11%蛋白质与40%脂肪,以质量分数计)。在该体系中,QS不仅赋予了高蛋白乳化制品黏度稀化的质构调节性,还赋予了SPI基乳液凝胶优越的热稳定性和冻融稳定性。本研究可为“高蛋白”“减脂”PM的开发与应用提供理论与技术指导。
