295 resultados para Starter
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Desertomycin A is an aminopolyol polyketide containing a macrolactone ring. We have proposed that desertomycin A and similar compounds (marginolactones) are formed by polyketide synthases primed not with gamma-aminobutanoyl-CoA but with 4-guanidinylbutanoyl-CoA, to avoid facile cyclization of the starter unit. This hypothesis requires that there be a final-stage de-amidination of the corresponding guanidino-substituted natural product, but no enzyme for such a process has been described. We have now identified candidate amidinohydrolase genes within the desertomycin and primycin clusters. Deletion of the putative desertomycin amidinohydrolase gene dstH in Streptomyces macronensis led to the accumulation of desertomycin B, the guanidino form of the antibiotic. Also, purified DstH efficiently catalyzed the in vitro conversion of desertomycin B into the A form. Hence this amidinohydrolase furnishes the missing link in this proposed naturally evolved example of protective-group chemistry.
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The present work shows a contribution to the studies of development and solid sinterization of a metallic matrix composite MMC that has as starter materials 316L stainless steel atomized with water, and two different Tantalum Carbide TaC powders, with averages crystallite sizes of 13.78 nm and 40.66 nm. Aiming the metallic matrix s density and hardness increase was added different nanometric sizes of TaC by dispersion. The 316L stainless steel is an alloy largely used because it s high resistance to corrosion property. Although, its application is limited by the low wear resistance, consequence of its low hardness. Besides this, it shows low sinterability and it cannot be hardened by thermal treatments traditional methods because of the austenitic structure, face centered cubic, stabilized mainly in nickel presence. Steel samples added with TaC 3% wt (each sample with different type of carbide), following a mechanical milling route using conventional mill for 24 hours. Each one of the resulted samples, as well as the pure steel sample, were compacted at 700 MPa, room temperature, without any addictive, uniaxial tension, using a 5 mm diameter cylindrical mold, and quantity calculated to obtain compacted final average height of 5 mm. Subsequently, were sintered in vacuum atmosphere, temperature of 1290ºC, heating rate of 20ºC/min, using different soaking times of 30 and 60 min and cooled at room temperature. The sintered samples were submitted to density and micro-hardness analysis. The TaC reforced samples showed higher density values and an expressive hardness increase. The complementary analysis in optical microscope, scanning electronic microscope and X ray diffractometer, showed that the TaC, processed form, contributed with the hardness increase, by densification, itself hardness and grains growth control at the metallic matrix, segregating itself to the grain boarders
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Consumer interest in health-promoting food products is a major driving force for the increasing global demand of functional (probiotic) dairy foods. Yogurt is considered the ideal medium for delivery of beneficial functional ingredients. Gamma-amino-butyric acid has potential as a bioactive ingredient in functional foods due to its health-promoting properties as an anti-stress, anti-hypertensive, and anti-diabetic agent. Here, we report the use of a novel Streptococcus thermophilus strain, isolated from the digestive tract of fish, for production of yogurt naturally enriched with 2 mg/ml of gamma-amino-butyric acid (200 mg in a standard yogurt volume of 100 ml), a dose in the same range as that provided by some commercially available gamma-amino-butyric acid supplements. The biotechnological suitability of this strain for industrial production of yogurt was demonstrated by comparison with the reference yogurt inoculated with the commercial CH1 starter (Chr. Hansen) widely used in the dairy industry. Both yogurts showed comparable pH curves [ΔpH/Δt = 0.31-0.33 h-1], viscosity [0.49 Pa-s], water holding capacity [72–73%], and chemical composition [moisture (87–88%), protein (5.05–5.65%), fat (0.12–0.15%), sugar (4.8–5.8%), and ash (0.74–1.2%)]. Gamma-amino-butyric acid was not detected in the control yogurt. In conclusion, the S. thermophilus APC151 strain reported here provides a natural means for fortification of yogurt with gamma-amino-butyric acid.
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Dry fermented sausages are highly appreciated food specialties, mainly in Portugal and other southern European countries. Therefore, all research efforts aiming at improving the food quality and safety of traditional dry sausages are of interest, since they are likely to result in products with higher added value and quality standards most suited to the requirements and concerns of the modern consumers. Among those efforts, it may be highlighted the studies involving innovative processing parameters and technologies to overcome practical problems gathered in the meat industry, which are mostly associated with food quality and safety. Additionally, characterization of traditional dry sausages and rationalization of their processing are essential for further achievement of any official certification. Thus, this article attempts to point out some research lines of highest interest in meat science (and particularly to the broad variety of regional dry fermented sausages), towards to the valorisation of technological, nutritional and commercial features. In addition, it is here emphasized the importance for the continuous improvement of the quality and safety of meat products as a way to respond to the current concerns regarding its consumption and the general advices in reducing its daily intake.
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Health issues such as cardiovascular disease are often due to dietary habits. Thus, meat industry needs to reduce salt in their products. However, production of low-salt content dry-cured not affected. The current study evaluated the effect of salt reduction from 6% to 3% in two Portuguese traditional blood dry-cured sausages. Physicochemical and microbiological parameters, biogenic amines content, fatty acids profile, texture profile analyses and sensory panel evaluations were considered. Differences due to salt reduction were noticeable in a faint increase in water activity, which slightly favoured microbial growth, with the highest yeasts numbers found in 6% salt sausages. Total biogenic amines content ranged from 224.72 to 1302.81 mg kg-1 dry matter, with higher amounts, particularly of cadaverine, histamine and tyramine, in low-salt products. Still, histamine significant differences were observed due to salt content. However, texture profile analysis revealed that low-salt products showed lower resilience and cohesiveness, even though no textural changes were observed by the panellists. Nevertheless, low-salt sausages were clearly preferred. Still, taking the safety of these traditional meat products into account, the results obtained for pH, aw and biogenic amines, have shown that a reduction in salt content should be accompanied by complementary safety measures, such as the use of starter cultures to minimise microbiological and chemical risks.
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Lactobacillus sakei è una specie altamente specializzata nella colonizzazione di prodotti a base di carne. Possiede un genoma relativamente ridotto nel quale, ad esempio, mancano le informazioni per la sintesi di 18 aminoacidi su 20, per i quali risulta dunque auxotrofo. La carne è quindi un substrato ottimale poiché tali aminoacidi sono facilmente disponibili. Una delle caratteristiche più interessanti di Lb. sakei, ed il motivo per cui viene largamente impiegato come coltura starter nell’industria dei salumi, è la sua capacità di permanere attivo e dominante per lungo tempo, anche quando le fonti principali di zuccheri sono esaurite. Inoltre tale microorganismo non è in grado di produrre sostanze dannose, come ad esempio le ammine biogene, ma bensì produce sostanze con attività antimicrobica: le batteriocine (sakacina). Questo elaborato ha costituito il primo tassello di un lavoro più ampio di selezione di ceppi di Lb. sakei da destinare all’utilizzo come colture starter. Sono state valutate alcune caratteristiche tecnologiche di ceppi di Lb. sakei, isolati da prodotti ottenuti tramite fermentazioni spontanee, e le loro performance sono state confrontate con ceppi di collezione e con un ceppo utilizzato a livello commerciale. In particolare si sono studiate le cinetiche di fermentazione a temperature diverse, variabili da 5°C a 40°C, e a differenti concentrazione di NaCl, da 0 a 8%. Per quanto riguarda la temperatura, tutti i ceppi sono stati in grado di sviluppare tra 5°C e 35°C, ma nessuno è riuscito a 40°C. I risultati hanno evidenziato una notevole variabilità delle performance fermentative tra 15 e 20°C. Per quanto riguarda la presenza di sale, tutti i ceppi sono cresciuti a tutte le concentrazioni di NaCl, anche a quella più elevata (8%), seppur con cinetiche diverse. Questi diversi pattern fermentativi, associati con altre caratteristiche che verranno valutate in futuro, determineranno i criteri di scelta per nuovi starter.
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Over the past 30 years, unhealthy diets and lifestyles have increased the incidence of noncommunicable diseases and are culprits of diffusion on world’s population of syndromes as obesity or other metabolic disorders, reaching pandemic proportions. In order to comply with such scenario, the food industry has tackled these challenges with different approaches, as the reformulation of foods, fortification of foods, substitution of ingredients and supplements with healthier ingredients, reduced animal protein, reduced fats and improved fibres applications. Although the technological quality of these emerging food products is known, the impact they have on the gut microbiota of consumers remains unclear. In the present PhD thesis, the recipient work was conducted to study different foods with the substitution of the industrial and market components to that of novel green oriented and sustainable ingredients. So far, this thesis included eight representative case studies of the most common substitutions/additions/fortifications in dairy, meat, and vegetable products. The products studied were: (i) a set of breads fortified with polyphenol-rich olive fiber, to replace synthetic antioxidant and preservatives, (ii) a set of Gluten-free breads fortified with algae powder, to fortify the protein content of standard GF products, (iii) different formulations of salami where nitrates were replaced by ascorbic acid and vegetal extract antioxidants and nitrate-reducers starter cultures, (iv) chocolate fiber plus D-Limonene food supplement, as a novel prebiotic formula, (v) hemp seed bran and its alkalase hydrolysate, to introduce as a supplement, (vi) milk with and without lactose, to evaluate the different impact on human colonic microbiota of healthy or lactose-intolerants, (vii) lactose-free whey fermented and/or with probiotics added, to be introduced as an alternative beverage, exploring its impact on human colonic microbiota from healthy or lactose-intolerants, and (viii) antibiotics, to assess whether maternal amoxicillin affects the colon microbiota of piglets.
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The development of new “green” and sustainable approaches to reduce food wastes, guaranteeing food quality, microbiological safety and the environmental sustainability, is of great interest for food industry. This PhD thesis, as part of the European project BioProMedFood (PRIMA–Section2 Programme), was focused on two strategies: the use of natural antimicrobials and the application of microbial strains isolated from spontaneously fermented products. The first part concerned the valorisation of microbial biodiversity of 15 Mediterranean spontaneously fermented sausages, through the isolation of autochthonous lactic acid bacteria (LAB) strains, mainly Latilactobacillus sakei, that were characterised regarding their safety and technological aspects. The most promising strains were tested as bio-protective cultures in fresh sausages, showing promising anti-listerial activity, or as starter cultures in fermented sausages. The second part of the research was focused on the use of natural compounds (phenolic extracts and essential oils from Juniperus oxycedrus needles and Rubus fruticosus leaves) with antimicrobial potential. They were tested in vitro against List. monocytogenes and Enterococcus faecium, showing differences in relation to species and type of extracts, but they hint at important possibilities for applications in specific foods. Concluding, this PhD thesis highlighted the great potential of traditional meat products as an isolation source of new strains with industrial importance. Moreover, the antimicrobial potential of compounds obtained from plant matrices opened promising perspectives to exploit them as “green” strategies to increase fresh food safety. The last topic of research, carry out in collaboration with Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences (University of Granada), investigated the effect of LAB fermentation on avocado leaves by-products, focusing on the bio-availability of phenolic compounds in the plant extracts, caused by microbial metabolism.
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Il presente lavoro di tesi ha avuto lo scopo di valutare l’effetto della deplezione dietetica della lisina, in concomitanza o meno della supplementazione di due diverse tipologie di integratori alimentari, sui principali tratti qualitativi e sulle proprietà tecnologiche della carne di petto di pollo. Pertanto, 1620 polli maschi sono stati allevati e suddivisi in 4 gruppi sperimentali in funzione dei trattamenti dietetici che prevedevano la deplezione del contenuto di lisina nella dieta con l’aggiunta o meno di 2 diversi tipi di integratori nella fase starter. Al termine della prova (50gg), 12 muscoli pettorali/gruppo sono stati destinati all’analisi del pH, colore, drip e cooking loss e sforzo di taglio. I risultati ottenuti hanno evidenziato che la deplezione della lisina insieme all’aggiunta dell’integratore 2 (contenente un precursore della creatina) ha determinato una significativa modificazione del colore della carne in termini di luminosità e indice di rosso (a*) e un aumento del cooking loss rispetto al gruppo di controllo. Tuttavia, le modificazioni ottenute sono di lieve entità e non determinano un eventuale peggioramento qualitativo della carne. Infatti, la deplezione della lisina non ha fatto rilevare alcuna modificazione significativa nei confronti dei parametri qualitativi e tecnologici presi in esame. Considerata la limitata disponibilità di studi presenti in letteratura riguardo la restrizione dietetica della quota di lisina, questo studio suggerisce come la sua deplezione nel primo periodo di vita dell’animale possa rappresentare una strategia efficace per ridurre i costi di alimentazione e migliorare la sostenibilità del sistema di produzione senza influenzare negativamente la qualità della carne. Infatti, è noto che la riduzione della concentrazione di alcuni componenti della dieta possa determinare una minore escrezione di azoto e fosforo, migliorando così la sostenibilità ambientale del sistema produttivo.
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Il lavoro svolto in questa tesi era finalizzato allo studio di 14 ceppi di Companilactobacillus alimentarius isolati da salami spagnoli con un duplice obiettivo: da una parte aumentare la conoscenza relativa a questa specie, le cui informazioni in letteratura sono ancora scarse, dall’altra valutarne i caratteri di sicurezza e le performance tecnologiche per selezionare ceppi da utilizzare eventualmente come colture starter e/o bioprotettive in salumi fermentati o altri prodotti alimentari. I ceppi sono stati prima testati per la loro capacità di produrre ammine biogene, con circa la metà dei ceppi in grado di produrre tiramina, mentre solo 4 accumulavano istamina e due putrescina. Dai dati relativi all’antibiotico resistenza è emerso che la metà dei ceppi erano sensibili agli 8 antibiotici testati. È stata valutata poi la capacità dei ceppi di crescere a diverse temperature (10, 20 e 30°C) e a diverse concentrazioni di NaCl (0, 2,5, 5%). I risultati hanno mostrato un andamento variabile: un solo ceppo non era in grado di crescere a 10°C, mentre a 30°C i ceppi si dividevano in due gruppi, ed i ceppi caratterizzati da maggiori velocità di sviluppo a questa temperatura erano anche quelli dotati delle migliori performance a 20 e 10°C. Mentre per la capacità di crescere a diverse concentrazioni di sale, la variabilità era più evidente alla più alta concentrazione di NaCl (5%). Infine, è stata valutata la capacità di produrre molecole che potessero avere un impatto sul profilo sensoriale del prodotto, tra cui i composti derivanti dall’acido piruvico (acetoino, diacetile, 2-butanone), acido acetico, etanolo, benzeneacetaldeide e benzaldeide, ed anche in questo caso i ceppi hanno mostrato attitudini diverse all’accumulo di questi metaboliti. Sulla base dei dati ottenuti in questo lavoro sperimentale, 2 ceppi tra i 14 testati sono stati scelti per future sperimentazioni, dapprima in vitro e poi in sistemi reali, per valutare il loro potenziale come nuove colture starter.