蛹虫草黄色素提取工艺优化及其体外抗氧化研究

本研究为了得到蛹虫草黄色素最佳提取工艺,采用Box-Behnken方法,在单因素试验的基础上以黄色素的提取率为响应值,利用响应面设计对超声波辅助乙醇提取蛹虫草黄色素工艺进行优化,并对其体外抗氧化活性进行了研究。结果表明超声波辅助乙醇提取蛹虫草黄色素的最佳工艺条件为乙醇体积分数57.00%、液料比32.00:1、提取时间18.00min,在此条件下黄色素提取率达(1.976±0.017)mg/g。红外光谱和高效液相色谱的结果表明,该提取条件下获得的蛹虫草黄色素主要成分为cordyxanthin。蛹虫草黄色素DPPH自由基清除力IC₅₀为0.59mg/mL,在5mg/mL时,总抗氧化力高达0.587,在10mg/mL时,铁离子还原力高达1.488。     

人工蛹虫草不同菌株菌丝形态与其虫草素含量关系

对4个不同来源人工蛹虫草菌株进行平板试验,在培养条件相同情况下,观察比较其生长情况;对相同菌龄不同菌株菌丝体所含虫草素进行超声波提取。结果表明：峰面积与虫草素含量呈良好的线性关系,精密度高,其中菌株YJ11 3菌丝体虫草素含量最高,为0.505%,其次为菌株YJ11 1、YJ11 4,最低的是YJ11 2,仅0.097%;菌丝湿重依次为YJ11 3〉YJ11 1〉YJ11 4〉YJ11 2;不同蛹虫草菌株菌丝湿重与其虫草素含量呈正相关关系。     

五种虫草无性型菌株产腺苷类物质的分析

采用分光光度计法对虫草菌丝体中腺苷类组分的提取方法进行研究,采用薄层层析法和高效液相色谱法对虫草菌丝体中的腺嘌呤、腺苷、虫草菌素、N6-(2-羟乙基)腺苷等4种物质进行定性和定量分析。结果表明,虫草菌丝体中腺苷类组分的提取方法采用蒸馏水超声波提取30min效果较好,所测5种虫草菌株都能产腺苷和腺嘌呤,在蛹草拟青霉菌株中含有虫草菌素,在粉被玛利亚霉和蝉拟青霉菌株中含有N6-(2-羟乙基)腺苷,同时发现N6-(2-羟乙基)腺苷的累积与培养时间有一定关系。     

蛹虫草液体培养条件优化及有效成分含量分析

为优化蛹虫草菌的液体培养条件,对蛹虫草菌丝体进行液体摇瓶培养。以干菌丝体得率为指标,对影响发酵产量的重要因子设计正交试验,得出最佳培养条件。在最优条件下扩大培养,检测此时菌丝体中虫草素及虫草多糖含量。结果表明:蛹虫草菌丝体液体发酵的最适条件为:接种量10 % (v/v) ,发酵初始pH7 0 ,发酵温度2 7℃,发酵时间96h。扩大培养后,测得菌丝体中虫草素的含量为5 1 785mg/10 0g ,虫草精多糖含量为1 92g/10 0g。     

Optimization of fermentation medium for Cordyceps militaris high producing strain

在单因素试验初步确定高产蛹虫草菌株发酵培养基的基础上,以蛹虫草菌丝体中腺苷含量为指标,进行11因素2水平Plackett - Burman试验设计试验,结合多元一次回归模型和F检验方法,筛选出发酵培养基中影响显著的组分酵母浸粉、蔗糖和维生素B1,采用旋转中心组合设计方法对这三个组分进行进一步优化,结合多元二次回归模型和响应面分析,获得高产蛹虫草菌株的最佳培养基(g/L):蔗糖18.85、蛋白胨10、酵母浸粉18.97、KH2 PO4 3、MgSO4 3、维生素B10.235、ZnCl2 0.011、(NH4)2SO4 10.验证试验结果表明蛹虫草腺苷得率较单因素优化获得的发酵培养基提高了26.91％.     

4种虫草相关真菌菌丝体粗多糖的生物活性评价

本研究以细脚棒束孢、蛹虫草、蝉棒束孢和球孢白僵菌的菌丝体粗多糖为对象,分析4种虫草相关真菌菌丝体粗多糖含量与生物量的相关性,并进一步对其抗氧化能力和抗肿瘤活力进行评价。液体发酵结果表明,蝉棒束孢MF12、MF13和蛹虫草MF27、MF1的菌丝体粗多糖含量（>40mg/g）显著高于其他菌株,蝉棒束孢MF11、MF13和蛹虫草MF27菌丝体生物量（>12g/L）显著高于其他菌株,但相关性分析表明,4种虫草相关真菌10个菌株菌丝体的多糖含量与生物量之间没有显著相关性;抗氧化活性表明,蛹虫草MF27、MF1和球孢白僵菌MF10菌丝体粗多糖具有良好的体外抗氧化活性,其EC₅₀均小于0.9mg/mL;抗肿瘤活性表明,蛹虫草MF1、MF28、MF27和球孢白僵菌MF10菌丝体粗多糖在体外能有效抑制HepG-2细胞增殖,其IC₅₀均小于1.5mg/mL。综上,蛹虫草MF27、MF1和球孢白僵菌MF10虫草菌株具有良好的开发和应用潜力。     

锌富集对蛹虫草菌丝体内虫草素、腺苷含量的影响

为了解蛹虫草菌丝体对锌的富集特性,研究锌富集对蛹虫草菌丝体内虫草素、腺苷含量的影响,通过在液体培养基中添加不同质量浓度的锌离子(0~35 g/L),探讨其对蛹虫草菌丝生物量、菌丝体内锌积累量,以及锌的富集对菌丝体内虫草素、腺苷含量产生的影响。结果表明:在0~35 g/L锌离子的梯度范围内,蛹虫草菌丝生物量与锌质量浓度呈显著负相关,锌质量浓度35 g/L为蛹虫草菌丝生长极限浓度。锌质量浓度40.0 g/L及以上菌丝生长受到完全抑制。菌丝体内锌的积累量随锌质量浓度的增加而显著升高,锌质量浓度为35.0 g/L时锌积累量可达到193.87 mg/g(干重)。蛹虫草菌丝体内腺苷的含量随锌质量浓度的增加而降低,在锌质量浓度为5 g/L时降幅显著,腺苷含量仅为对照组的17.24%,之后腺苷含量变化趋势趋于水平。腺苷含量的降低可能是因为锌的富集干扰了蛹虫草菌丝体内初生代谢的正常进行。虫草素的含量随锌质量浓度的增加而显著降低,可能是由于其直接前体腺苷含量的降低,或是Zn离子的加入,使得某些被刺激的酶和基因通过转录因子影响了虫草素的合成。     

一株产黄色素红曲霉Monascus HB-5的生物学特性及发酵条件研究

研究了一株产黄色素的红曲霉菌株Monascus HB-5的生物学特性,并对其接种量、pH、碳源、氮源等主要发酵因素进行优化。结果表明该菌产出高浓度单一黄色素,色调为棕黄色,仅在370nm具有吸收峰。产黄色素最适发酵条件为接种量10%,pH4.6～5.7,温度30～32℃,适合的碳源为玉米粉,氮源为硝酸铵,摇瓶黄色素色价达200 U/ml。并对色素的稳定性及安全性进行了初步研究,橘霉素含量低于0.1mg/l。     

响应面法优化蛹虫草与厚朴双向液体发酵工艺

为提高蛹虫草液体发酵胞外多糖含量和菌丝体生物量,以厚朴为药性基质,对蛹虫草进行双向液体发酵。在单因素实验的基础上,应用Box-Behnken实验设计,对发酵过程关键影响因素进行优化。结果表明,在厚朴添加量5g、接种量15.5mL、发酵温度25℃的条件下发酵9d,蛹虫草双向液体发酵产物中胞外多糖含量为3.11mg/mL,菌丝体生物量为18.81mg/mL。各发酵因素中,发酵液胞外多糖含量受接种量影响最大,菌丝体生物量则主要受发酵温度影响。优化所得发酵工艺可行性高、周期短、生产过程可控,为进一步提高人工培育蛹虫草质量、增加其关键活性产物的产量提供了参考。     

蛹虫草饲料添加剂的研究现状及展望

蛹虫草饲料添加剂包括蛹虫草子实体、蛹虫草培养残基、蛹虫草及其培养残基提取物、蛹虫草菌固液发酵产物、 微生物发酵蛹虫草残基等产品。蛹虫草饲料添加剂含有粗蛋白、粗脂肪、氨基酸等营养成分,以及虫草素、腺苷、多糖等活性成分,在畜禽、反刍动物、水产品等动物养殖中的应用均获得较好的 效果。对蛹虫草子实体、蛹虫草培养残基、蛹虫草及其培养残基提取物、利用蛹虫草菌及培养残基制作发酵饲料等蛹虫草饲料添加剂在动物养殖中的研究应用进行了总结,对存在的问题及发展前景进行了探讨及展望。     

Microspectrophotometric characterization and localization of three visual pigments in the compound eye ofNotonecta glauca L. (Heteroptera)

Summary The absorption maxima ( _max) of the visual pigments in the ommatidia ofNotonecta glauca were found by measuring the difference spectra of single rhabdomeres after alternating illumination with two different adaptation wavelengths. All the peripheral rhabdomeres contain a pigment with an extinction maximum at 560 nm. This pigment is sensitive to red light up to wavelengths > 700 nm. In a given ommatidium in the dorsal region of the eye, the two central rhabdomeres both contain one of two pigments, either a pigment with an absorption maximum in the UV, at 345 nm, or — in neighboring rhabdoms — a pigment with an absorption maximum at 445 nm. In the ventral part of the eye only the pigment absorbing maximally in the UV was found in the central rhabdomeres. The spectral absorption properties of various types of screening-pigment granules were measured.     

Production of water-soluble yellow pigments via high glucose stress fermentation of Monascus ruber CGMCC 10910

Monascus pigments are secondary metabolites of Monascus species and are mainly composed of yellow pigments, orange pigments and red pigments. In this study, a larger proportion of Monascus yellow pigments could be obtained through the selection of the carbon source. Hydrophilic yellow pigments can be largely produced extracellularly by Monascus ruber CGMCC 10910 under conditions of high glucose fermentation with low oxidoreduction potential (ORP). However, keeping high glucose levels later in the culture causes translation or a reduction of yellow pigment. We presume that the mechanism behind this phenomenon may be attributed to the redox level of the culture broth and the high glucose stress reaction of M. ruber CGMCC 10910 during high glucose fermentation. These yellow pigments were produced via high glucose bio-fermentation without citrinin. Therefore, these pigments can act as natural pigments for applications as food additives.

     

Mechanism of fluorescent cocoon sex identification for silkworms Bombyx mori

By using silkworms, Bombyx mori, fluorescent cocoon sex identification (FCSI) as an experimental material, direct fluorescence spectrometry of the cocoon surface indicates that the fluorescent color of silkworm cocoons is made up of two peaks of yellow and blue-purple fluorescence emission. The fluorescent difference between male and female cocoons is attributed to the differential absorption of yellow fluorescent substances by the midgut tissue of 5th instar female silkworms. Thin layer chromatography (TLC) and fluorescent spectra indicate that blue-purple fluorescent substances are composed of at least five blue-purple fluorescent pigments, and yellow fluorescent substances are made up of at least three. UV spectra and AlCl₃ color reaction show that the three fluorescent yellow pigments are flavonoids or their glycosides. Silkworm FCSI is due to selective absorption or accumulation of the yellow fluorescent pigments by the posterior midgut cells of female 5th instar larvae. The cells of the FCSI silkworm midgut, especially the cylinder intestinal cells of the posterior midgut have a component which is a yellow fluorescent pigment-specific binding protein that may be vigorously expressed in the 5th instar larvae.     

Modification of spectral sensitivities by screening pigments in the compound eyes of twilight-active fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)

1. ERG S(lambda) were determined in dark-adapted intact preparations of 6 North American firefly species (Photinus collustrans, marginellus, pyralis, macdermotti, scintillans and Bicellonycha wickershamorum) which restrict their flashing activity to twilight hours. The curves possess narrow (1/2 bandwidth = 50-60 nm) peaks in the yellow (560-580 nm) and a shoulder in the violet (370-420 nm), with a marked attenuation (1.4-2.2 log units) of sensitivity in the green (480-530 nm) region of the spectrum (Fig. 1). Two additional species (Photuris potomaca and frontalis) which initiate flashing at twilight and continue on late into the night (twi-night) possess broad sensitivity maxima around 560 nm (Fig. 3). 2. Selective adaptation experiments isolated near-UV and yellow in P. scintillans (Fig. 2). In the dorsal frontal region of the compound eyes in P. frontalis, high sensitivity existed only in the short wavelength region (near-UV and blue) with a maximum in the blue (lambda max 435 nm) (Fig. 4). 3. The in situ MSP absorption spectrum of the screening pigments was determined in preparations of firefly retina. a) Two kinds of dark brown granules were found in the clear zone region. These granules absorb all across the spectrum with a gradual increase in optical density in the shorter wavelength region in P. pyralis (Fig. 5). b) Besides dark granules, pink-to-red colored screening pigments were present in the vicinity of the rhabdoms. The absorption spectra of these pigments determined in five species were narrow (1/2 bandwidth = 50-80 nm) with species-specific differences in their peak absorption in the green at 525 nm, 510 nm, 512 nm and 517 nm in P. scintillans, macdermotti, collustrans and pyralis, respectively (Fig. 6). A similar pigment was found in P. marginellus with a lambda max at 512 nm (Fig. 7). In all cases, transmission increased both at long and short wavelengths, but more sharply in the long wavelength region (Figs. 6 and 7). Hence each twilight-restricted species has its own unique colored screening pigment. A yellow pigment whose absorption spectrum differed from those found in genus Photinus was found in twi-night active Photuris potomaca (lambda max 461 nm) and night-active P. versicolor (lambda max 456 nm). The transmission of the Photuris pigment increased sharply only in the long wave-length region (Fig. 8).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)     

Excitation dynamics and heterogeneity of energy equilibration in the core antenna of photosystem I from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Energy equilibration in the photosystem I core antenna from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 was studied using femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy at 298 K. The photosystem I core particles were excited at 660, 693, and 710 nm with 150 fs spectrally narrow laser pulses (fwhm = 5 nm). Global analysis revealed three kinetic processes in the core antenna with lifetimes of 250-500 fs, 1.5-2.5 ps, and 20-30 ps. The first two components represent strongly excitation wavelength-dependent energy equilibration processes while the 20-30 ps phase reflects the trapping of energy by the reaction center. Excitation into the blue and red edge of the absorption band induces downhill and uphill energy flows, respectively, between different chlorophyll a spectral forms of the core. Excitation at 660 nm induces a 500 fs downhill equilibration process within the bulk of antenna while the selective excitation of long-wavelength-absorbing chlorophylls at 710 nm results in a 380 fs uphill energy transfer to the chlorophylls absorbing around 695-700 nm, presumably reaction center pigments. The 1.5-2.5 ps phases of downhill and uphill energy transfer are largely equivalent but opposite in direction, indicating energy equilibration between bulk antenna chlorophylls at 685 nm and spectral forms absorbing below 700 nm. Transient absorption spectra with excitation at 693 nm exhibit spectral evolution within approximately 2 ps of uphill energy transfer to major spectral forms at 680 nm and downhill energy transfer to red pigments at 705 nm. The 20-30 ps trapping component and P(700) photooxidation spectra derived from data on the 100 ps scale are largely excitation wavelength independent. An additional decay component of red pigments at 710 nm can be induced either by selective excitation of red pigments or by decreasing the temperature to 264 K. This component may represent one of the phases of energy transfer from inhomogeneously broadened red pigments to P(700). The data are discussed based on the available structural model of the photosystem I reaction center and its core antenna.     

玉米淀粉渣中玉米黄色素的提取及性质测定

利用玉米生产葡萄糖工艺中的淀粉渣提取的玉米黄色素 ,主要成分是一种脂溶性色素和少量的极性较大的色素 ,呈血红色 ,其稀释液呈柠檬黄色。高醇和石油醚提取色素液在 2 41nm和 2 80～ 32 7nm之间有最大吸收值 ,水提色素液在 2 13nm有最大吸收值。通过不同的方法进行了对比提取 ,并作了酸碱和热等稳定性的测定     

A light-sensitive yellow pigment from the housefly

Extraction of house-fly heads with neutral phosphate buffer yielded a dark brown solution from which a number of pigments were separated, either wholly or partially, by chromatography on a column of calcium phosphate mixed with celite. One of the pigments was light-sensitive, and had a yellow color, with a spectral absorption maximum at 437 mmicro in phosphate buffer at pH 6.5. Several consecutively eluted fractions from each chromatogram of the house-fly head extract showed the characteristic absorption curve of this pigment with no trace, spectroscopically, of the other pigments of the extract. The products of bleaching the pigment at pH 6.5 had an absorption curve showing plateaus at 440 to 460 mmicro and 350 to 360 mmicro and an inflection at about 250 mmicro. Above pH 8.0 the pigment bleached in the dark giving an absorption maximum at about 380 mmicro, and inflections at 290 mmicro and at about 250 mmicro. With 2.5 to 5 N HCl or H(2)SO(4) an absorption maximum at 470 to 475 mmicro was obtained with either the unbleached or the bleached pigment. With sulfosalicylic acid, ethanol, or heating at 100 degrees C., a part of the pigment was precipitated, leaving a light-stable yellow supernatant. This light-sensitive house-fly pigment cannot as yet be identified with any of the previously known insect pigments or with the photosensitive pigments of other animals, though these latter compounds exhibit some similarity in their spectroscopic properties.     

Retinal receptor types inAglais urticae andPieris brassicae (Lepidoptera), revealed by analysis of the electroretinogram obtained with Fourier interferometric stimulation (FIS)

Summary Electroretinograms obtained in the butterfliesAglais urticae andPieris brassicae by the procedure of Fourier interferometric stimulation (FIS) were used to construct spectral sensitivity curves. These curves, representing the combined responses of several receptor types, were approximated by summation of spectral sensitivity curves for individual pigments, and the presence of these pigments was corroborated by chromatic adaptation experiments. The results show that the retina in the compound eye ofAglais urticae contains 3 photopigments, with maximal absorption at ca. 360 nm, 460 nm and 530 nm, respectively (Fig. 5). The retina in the compound eye ofPieris brassicae has two subdivisions. In the dorsal region of the eye 3 photopigments were found, with maxima at ca. 360 nm, 450 nm and 560 nm (Fig. 8). In the medioventral region pigments with essentially the same maxima are present together with an additional, fourth long-wavelength component with effective maximal absorption at ca. 620 nm (Fig. 11). Its absorption curve is considerably narrower than would be expected for a rhodopsin with the same absorption maximum, and presumably results from the spectral combination of a photopigment and a photostable screening pigment.Abbreviations FIS Fourier interferometric stimulation - WLP White-light position - ERG Electroretinogram     

Spectral tuning of deep red cone pigments

Visual pigments are G-protein-coupled receptors that provide a critical interface between organisms and their external environment. Natural selection has generated vertebrate pigments that absorb light from the far-UV (360 nm) to the deep red (630 nm) while using a single chromophore, in either the A1 (11- cis-retinal) or A2 (11- cis-3,4-dehydroretinal) form. The fact that a single chromophore can be manipulated to have an absorption maximum across such an extended spectral region is remarkable. The mechanisms of wavelength regulation remain to be fully revealed, and one of the least well-understood mechanisms is that associated with the deep red pigments. We investigate theoretically the hypothesis that deep red cone pigments select a 6- s- trans conformation of the retinal chromophore ring geometry. This conformation is in contrast to the 6- s- cis ring geometry observed in rhodopsin and, through model chromophore studies, the vast majority of visual pigments. Nomographic spectral analysis of 294 A1 and A2 cone pigment literature absorption maxima indicates that the selection of a 6- s- trans geometry red shifts M/LWS A1 pigments by approximately 1500 cm (-1) ( approximately 50 nm) and A2 pigments by approximately 2700 cm (-1) ( approximately 100 nm). The homology models of seven cone pigments indicate that the deep red cone pigments select 6- s- trans chromophore conformations primarily via electrostatic steering. Our results reveal that the generation of a 6- s- trans conformation not only achieves a significant red shift but also provides enhanced stability of the chromophore within the deep red cone pigment binding sites.