{"title":"Effect of milling and sourdough fermentation on bioactive compounds of selected multigrain blends","authors":"I. Banu, C. Neagu, I. Aprodu","doi":"10.25083/rbl/26.6/3022-3030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25083/rbl/26.6/3022-3030","url":null,"abstract":"Blends of wheat, rye and barley were used to obtain multigrain milling fractions. The multigrain flours were further subjected to fermentation, and the metabolites profile and the nutritional potential of the obtain sourdoughs were explored. Increasing the level of rye and barley in the multigrain blends resulted in increased DPPH RSA, total phenolic and folic acid contents in flours and brans. The level of panthotenic acid decreased in flours and brans, with the increase of rye and barley levels. Both spontaneous and lactic acid bacteria assisted sourdough fermentation resulted in lower levels of folic acid compared to the corresponding flours, but the concentration increased with the level of rye and barley within blends. The metabolites biosynthesized by lactic acid bacteria varied with the levels of rye and barley in the blends. Multigrain milling and sourdough fermentation are valuable tools for modulating the nutritional profile of the cereal based food products.","PeriodicalId":21566,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Biotechnological Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43072878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Păun, I. Tănase, B. Stoica, Cezar Ciubotaru, D. Păun
{"title":"Incidental Meckel’s diverticula low grade neuroendocrine tumor coexisting with synchronous sigmoidian and perianal adenocarcinoma","authors":"S. Păun, I. Tănase, B. Stoica, Cezar Ciubotaru, D. Păun","doi":"10.25083/rbl/26.6/3110-3113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25083/rbl/26.6/3110-3113","url":null,"abstract":"Although rarely, due to the high variability of the possible tissues encountered in it’s wall, the Meckel’s diverticula can represent a site for tumor development in 0,5-3,2% cases. Data in the literature shows that the most common malignancy at this level is represented by neuroendocrine tumors (NET) the observed incidence of neurendocrine tumors and other primary neoplasia, varies between 12-55%. Moreover, the gastro-intestinal tract was the second primary tumor bearer encountered.","PeriodicalId":21566,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Biotechnological Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41552080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Santa, S. Srbinovska, Srekjko Gjorgjievski, Viktorija Gruevska, Frosina Arsovska
{"title":"Aflatoxin in feedstuffs and raw milk in Republic of North Macedonia, occurrence and assessment","authors":"D. Santa, S. Srbinovska, Srekjko Gjorgjievski, Viktorija Gruevska, Frosina Arsovska","doi":"10.25083/rbl/26.6/3015-3021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25083/rbl/26.6/3015-3021","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective of this research is to estimate the situation of occurance of aflatoxins in feedstuffs and aflatoxin M1 raw cow`s milk in Republic of North Macedonia. Detected average concentrations of total aflatoxins in the examined period 2014-2017 were below legal prescribed level. Within the official monitoring programme in the country, 1718 samples of raw cow's milk have been analyzed during 2017 and 2018. Comparison of the data showed that the number of examined samples with values for aflatoxin M1 above the allowed limits, according to the regulation is in 2018 (10 samples) and 2017 (5 samples). Additionally, the calculation of exposure assessment of the human population in North Macedonia demonstrated that the exposure to AFM1 of the adult population in N. Macedonia for 2017 is 0.0563 ng/kg bw/daily, and for 2018 is 0.0824 ng/kg bw/daily. The calculated hazard index (HI) In both years, was lower than one, which means that there are no significant health risks for the consumers. It is important to have continuously low levels of aflatoxins in animal feed and nutrition, especially that the climate changes create more favorable conditions for the development of moulds of Aspergillus.","PeriodicalId":21566,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Biotechnological Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47741704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Hadia, A. Slama, A. Zoghlami, Leila Romdhane, Ahmed Houssein Abodoma, M. Fahej, L. Radhouane
{"title":"Response of morphological and biochemical traits and transcriptomic of CDPKs and P5CS Genes to phytohormones and nutrients in two bread wheat germplasms under salinity conditions","authors":"E. Hadia, A. Slama, A. Zoghlami, Leila Romdhane, Ahmed Houssein Abodoma, M. Fahej, L. Radhouane","doi":"10.25083/rbl/26.6/3054-3061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25083/rbl/26.6/3054-3061","url":null,"abstract":"Several enzymes play an important role in the biosynthesis of osmolyte in plants. The main objective of this work is to study the effects of salt stress, kinetin+potassium and giberellic acid+potassium on calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) and delta-1-pyrroline-5- carboxylate synthase (P5CS) genes expression of two bread wheat varieties. The results shodwe that, salts stress reduced the plant growth of the two wheat germplasms. Moreover, the addition of kinetin+ potassium improved the performance of morphometric parameters while the addition of giberellic acid +potassium has less effect. On the biochemical level, results indicated that salt stress increased the proline contents compared with control plants. Extra increase in proline contents was recorded by kinetin+ potassium, while the treatment of giberellic acid +potassium showed almost similar results as in salt stress only. On the molecular level, salt stress, kinetin and giberellic acid significantly increased the two genes expression of CDPKs and P5CS with more effect in presence of kinetin+ potassium.","PeriodicalId":21566,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Biotechnological Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44930918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Piyali Mondal, C. L. Patel, Rachna Sagar, Insha Zafir, J. Sonowal, K. Dev, K. Bharali, Neha Singh, B. N, Amitesh Dubey, B. Mishra, B. Mishra
{"title":"Selection of a suitable viral DNA extraction method for Sheeppox virus in cell culture","authors":"Piyali Mondal, C. L. Patel, Rachna Sagar, Insha Zafir, J. Sonowal, K. Dev, K. Bharali, Neha Singh, B. N, Amitesh Dubey, B. Mishra, B. Mishra","doi":"10.25083/rbl/26.6/3095-3101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25083/rbl/26.6/3095-3101","url":null,"abstract":"A suitable method for the extraction of nucleic acids should be efficient, sensitive, rapid and simple. Moreover, ideally, good method should yield pure nucleic acid-free from any contaminant inhibitors. Several methods have been reported for viral deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) isolation but limited information is available on quick and simple isolation of Sheeppox virus (SPPV) genomic DNA in cell culture. In this study, the healthy Vero cells and primary lamb testis cells were infected with SPPV strains such as SPPV-Jaipur, SPPV-Ranipet and SPPV-Roumanian Fanar (RF) and harvested when it exhibited clear cytopathic effect (CPE) in culture. Four different DNA extraction methods i.e., (i) Phenol/chloroform/Isoamyl alcohol method, (ii) Cell lysis buffer method, (iii) Proteinase-k method, and (iv) commercial nucleic acid extraction kit was used to extract optimum yield of viral genomic DNA from clarified culture supernatant of harvested SPPV virus. The DNA sample was characterized using the Nanodrop spectrophotometer and agarose gel electrophoresis. Significantly (p<0.05) higher yield of SPPV genomic DNA was obtained in proteinase-k method which was about 3-5 times more than other methods. Among these methods, proteinase-k protocol was found to be comparatively very effective method in terms of yield of viral genomic DNA, and was free from PCR inhibitors.","PeriodicalId":21566,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Biotechnological Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48042451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimization of Small Peptide Feed from Milk Thistle Residue by Synergistic Fermentation of Multiple Strains and Proteases","authors":"Kangtao Cai, Huayou Chen, Xinyu Heng, Lingyu Kang, J. Wu, Chenxi Lu, Xiaoyu Liang","doi":"10.25083/rbl/26.6/3102-3109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25083/rbl/26.6/3102-3109","url":null,"abstract":"In order to improve the utilization rate of the milk thistle residue, this study used the synergistic fermentation of multiple strains and proteases to increase the small peptide content of the fermented feed produced by the milk thistle residue. Taking the small peptide content of the milk thistle residue fermented feed as an indicator, the optimal fermentation process was obtained by single-factor optimization experiments and the response surface methodology. The optimal fermentation process was as follows: fermentation time of 7 days, inoculum size of 15%, inoculation ratio of aerobic strains: anaerobic strains = 1: 2, solid-state fermentation water content of 66%, fermentation temperature of 36℃, and amount of protease was 0.25% acid protease+0.25% bromelain. Under the above process, the small peptide content of the fermented feed from milk thistle residue was greatly improved to 57.86%. These results inferred that the added proteases were beneficial to the growth of fermentative microorganisms, the secretion of protease and the increase of the small peptide content.","PeriodicalId":21566,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Biotechnological Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48951124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Hassan, N. M. El-Shafey, S. Khodary, H. El-Shabrawi, A. Badr
{"title":"Expression of OsDREB2A in Transgenic Tomato Improves Drought Tolerance","authors":"N. Hassan, N. M. El-Shafey, S. Khodary, H. El-Shabrawi, A. Badr","doi":"10.25083/rbl/26.6/3145-3154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25083/rbl/26.6/3145-3154","url":null,"abstract":"Dehydration responsive element binding (DREB) are important regulatory molecules which have a crucial role in abiotic stress tolerance. The productivity of tomato, as a drought-sensitive crop, is highly restricted by drought stress. The current study aimed at introducing the OsDERB2A gene into two tomato genotypes via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system. Cotyledonary explants were pre-cultured for two days with Agrobacterium strain LBA4404 harboring pCAMBIA1301 with OsDREB2A driven by the constitutive promoter CaMV35S for transformation. Shoots were directly regenerated on MS medium containing 1 mg l-1 zeatin and 1 mg l-1 BAP, and in presence of 30 mg l-1 hygromycin as selective agent. Only eight weeks were needed to regenerate transgenic tomato using this protocol. An OD600 of 0.4 resulted in 64.3-76.9% transformation efficiency. Stable integration and expression of the OsDREB2A gene were confirmed in transgenic tomato using PCR and RT-PCR analyses, and drought tolerance of T0 transgenic lines was confirmed by leaf disc assay in 300 mM mannitol. The superior biomass, photosynthetic pigments, free soluble sugars and proline accumulation of OsDREB2A transgenic lines over wild type in response to mannitol-stress revealed their enhanced drought tolerance and indicated that the constitutive expression of OsDREB2A might modulate the expression of other drought responsive genes.","PeriodicalId":21566,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Biotechnological Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42682749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detoxification of corn stalk pretreated with calcium hydroxide for true protein accumulation","authors":"Huayou Chen, Xiaoyu Liang, Kangtao Cai, Bangguo Wu, Hongcheng Wang, Zhong Ni","doi":"10.25083/rbl/26.6/3137-3144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25083/rbl/26.6/3137-3144","url":null,"abstract":"Alkaline pretreatment is essential in lignin degradation, but the inhibitors produced in this process affect microbial growth. To overcome the impacts of the phenolic compounds, detoxification was applied to corn stalk pretreated with calcium hydroxide.The results showed that ferulic acid degradation rate can reach 85.11% by laccase at the optimal conditions. Phanerochaete chrysosporium degraded most vanillin (77.19%) and p-hydroxybenzaldehyde (63.82%) but the degradation of ferulic acid (15.34%) was relatively weak. Laccase combined with Phanerochaete chrysosporium detoxified most of the phenolic compounds including 2- methoxy-4-vinylphenol (88.46%) and salicylic acid (58.13%) that hardly decompose alone after calcium hydroxide pretreatment in this study. These results inferred that Phanerochaete chrysosporium might generate some substance during the spore germination and growth period which may cooperate with laccase to decompose the phenolic compounds. After the fermentation of detoxified corn stalk by Neurospora crassa, the true protein content was increased by 2.73 times, and 21.17% lignin was degraded.","PeriodicalId":21566,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Biotechnological Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42671701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Online Advanced Bacterial Identification Software, an Original Tool for Phenotypic Bacterial Identification","authors":"I. Sorescu, Costin Stoica","doi":"10.25083/rbl/26.6/3047-3053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25083/rbl/26.6/3047-3053","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of the study is to present and validate an original online Advanced Bacterial Identification Software, ABIS, by comparison to a commercially available, standardized identification system, API strips and apiweb™ bioMerieux software. Methods and results: presentation of ABIS online software, phenotypic bacterial identification of 16 reference strains and 123 wild isolates by ABIS and apiweb TM bioMerieux software and comparative analysis of results. Closed results were obtained (same taxa) for reference and wild strains of Enterobacteriaceae, Pasteurellaceae, Bacillaceae, Lactobacillaceae, Staphylococcaceae, Streptococcaceae, and other. Conclusions: Apiweb™ confirmed the results of ABIS, overall, average identification percent for ABIS being 91.8% and 90.4% for apiweb TM. ABIS online is a powerful tool for microbiology lab and the Encyclopedia connection provides essential information about the ecological significance, pathology and other features of the identified strains.","PeriodicalId":21566,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Biotechnological Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44075182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuan-Cheng Si, Chengcheng Ren, Bo Chen, Qing-qing Li, Weiyan Ding
{"title":"Regulation of the intestinal dysbiosis of high – fat diet obese mice via gut microbia–TLR2 / 4 pathway by electroacupuncture","authors":"Yuan-Cheng Si, Chengcheng Ren, Bo Chen, Qing-qing Li, Weiyan Ding","doi":"10.25083/rbl/26.6/3155-3165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25083/rbl/26.6/3155-3165","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: We design experimental study to explore the impacts of electroacupuncture (EA) treatment on the interaction between TLR2 / 4 pathway and gut flora in high – fat diet obese mice. Methods: Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, western blotting and 16S rRNA pyrosequencing were to study the association among groups (normal (N), model (M), electroacupuncture for 7 d (A7), 14 d (A14), 21 d (A21) and 28 d (A28) group). Results: EA reduced the relative expression of TLR2 / 4 gene and protein, and regulated the significant difference species flora in different levels, such as Firmicutes and Actinobacteria in Phylum, Coriobacteriia in Class, Coriobacteriales in Order, Atopobiaceae in Family, and Oscillibacter, Intestinimonas, Lachniclostridium and Acetatifactor in Genus. In all acupuncture groups, the analytical data of A21 group was similar to normal mice. Conclusion: These findings suggested the interaction between TLR2/ 4 pathway and gut flora could be a novel target of EA treatment against obesity.","PeriodicalId":21566,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Biotechnological Letters","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41355290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}