The passage of lactic acid bacteria from silage into rumen fluid, in vitro studies

Inoculated silages sometimes improve cattle performance, possibly because of probiotic effects of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) silage inoculants. The cause of improved animal performance following feeding with inoculated silage is unclear. One issue in studying this phenomenon is to find out whether LAB pass from silage into the rumen fluid and survive in it. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether LAB from inoculated and uninoculated silages pass into the rumen fluid in vitro. Wheat and corn silages, uninoculated or inoculated with 1 of 10 commercial silage inoculant LAB, were prepared in glass jars. After ensiling, a 2.5-g silage sample was added to 25 mL of heat-sterilized or strained rumen fluid together with 5 g/L glucose, and incubated for 48 h at 39 degrees C. Analysis of the incubated rumen fluid included pH measurement, enumeration of LAB, and determination of lactic acid and volatile fatty acids (VFA). The pH of the rumen fluid decreased during incubation; both heat-sterilized and strained rumen fluid contained large numbers of LAB. The heat-sterilized rumen fluid contained lactic acid in addition to VFA, whereas the strained rumen fluid contained only VFA. The results indicate that LAB pass from silage samples into the rumen fluid in vitro and survive there. Their interactions with rumen microorganisms should be studied further to understand how some silage inoculant LAB exhibit probiotic effects in dairy cattle.     

Feeding barley grain steeped in lactic acid modulates rumen fermentation patterns and increases milk fat content in dairy cows

The objectives of the present in vivo and in situ trials were to evaluate whether feeding barley grain steeped in lactic acid (LA) would affect rumen fermentation patterns, in situ dry matter (DM) degradation kinetics, and milk production and composition in lactating dairy cows. The in vivo trial involved 8 rumen-fistulated Holstein cows fed once daily a total mixed ration containing rolled barley grain (27% in DM) steeped for 48 h in an equal quantity of tap water (CTR) or in 0.5% LA (TRT) in a 2 × 2 crossover design. The in situ trials consisted of incubation of untreated rolled barley grain in cows fed CTR or TRT diets and of incubation of 3 different substrates including CTR or barley grain steeped in 0.5% or 1.0% LA (TRT1 and TRT2, respectively) up to 72 h in the rumen. Results of the in vivo trial indicated that cows fed the TRT diet had greater rumen pH during most intensive fermentation phases at 10 and 12 h post-feeding. The latter effect was associated with a shorter duration in which rumen pH was below 5.8 for cows fed the TRT diet (2.4 h) compared with CTR diet (3.9 h). Furthermore, cows fed the TRT diet had lower concentrations of volatile fatty acids at 2 and 4 h post-feeding. In addition, concentrations of preprandial volatile fatty acids were lower in the rumen fluid of cows fed the TRT diet. Results also showed that molar proportion of acetate was lower, whereas propionate tended to increase by feeding cows the TRT diet. Cows fed the TRT diet demonstrated greater rumen in situ lag time of substrate DM degradation and a tendency to lower the fractional degradation rate. Other in situ results indicated a quadratic effect of LA on the effective rumen degradability of substrates whereby the latter variable was decreased from CTR to TRT1 but increased for TRT2 substrate. Although the diet did not affect actual milk yield, fat-corrected milk, percentages of milk protein, and lactose and concentration of milk urea nitrogen, cows fed the TRT diet increased milk fat content and tended to increase fat:protein ratio in the milk. In conclusion, results demonstrated that treatment of barley grain with LA lowered the risk of subacute rumen acidosis and maintained high milk fat content in late-lactating Holstein cows fed diets based on barley grain.     

乳酸大蒜的腌制

用食品生物技术思想设计了一个规模生产乳玻大蒜腌制的方法，并在重要环节做了试验，获得优质新型乳酸糖蒜。     

A model to assess lactic acid bacteria aminopeptidase activities in Parmigiano Reggiano cheese during ripening

The aim of this work was to investigate in which phases of ripening of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese lactic acid bacteria aminopeptidases present in cheese extract could be involved in release of free amino acids and to better understand the behavior of these enzymes in physical-chemical conditions that are far from their optimum. In particular, we evaluated 6 different substrates to reproduce broad-specificity aminopeptidase N, broad-specificity aminopeptidase C, glutamyl aminopeptidase A, peptidase with high specificity for leucine and alanine, proline iminopeptidase, and X-prolyl dipeptidyl aminopeptidase activities releasing different N-terminal amino acids. The effects of pH, NaCl concentration, and temperature on the enzyme activities of amino acid β-naphthylamide (βNA)-substrates were determined by modulating the variables in 19 different runs of an experimental design, which allowed the building of mathematical models able to assess the effect on aminopeptidases activities over a range of values, obtained with bibliographic data, covering different environmental conditions in different zones of the cheese wheel at different aging times. The aminopeptidases tested in this work were present in cell-free Parmigiano Reggiano cheese extract after a 17-mo ripening and were active when tested in model system. The modeling approach shows that to highlight the individual and interactive effects of chemical-physical variables on enzyme activities, it is helpful to determine the true potential of an amino-peptidase in cheese. Our results evidenced that the 6 different lactic acid bacteria peptidases participate in cheese proteolysis and are induced or inhibited by the cheese production parameters that, in turn, depend on the cheese dimension. Generally, temperature and pH exerted the more relevant effects on the enzymatic activities, and in many cases, a relevant interactive effect of these variables was observed. Increasing salt concentration slowed down broad-specificity amino-peptidase C, glutamyl aminopeptidase A, proline iminopeptidase, and peptidase with high specificity for leucine and alanine. Interestingly, this variable did not affect broad-specificity aminopeptidase N and positively affected X-prolyl dipeptidyl aminopeptidase. The models elaborated varying pH, temperatures, and salt concentration and were a useful, low cost, and fast tool to understand the role of the main peptidases in the different phases of cheese ripening in relation to the major environmental factors influencing enzyme activity.     

金属离子对啤酒酵母发酵中生成乳酸的影响

通过对不同啤酒酵母发酵中Na+、K+、Ca2+、Mg2+浓度梯度添加实验,采用高效液相相色谱法对乳酸生成的影响进行了分析。实验结果表明:与空白发酵液相比,在不同菌种作用下随着添加金属离子浓度梯度,乳酸生成表现出较明显的变化趋势性,分析结果对于啤酒生产具有一定的指导意义。     

向日葵籽乳酸饮料的研制

以向日葵为籽原料，磨浆后经乳酸发酵制取乳酸饮料，并通过对其制造过程的研究以及感观和风味的探讨，最终确定了向日葵籽乳酸饮料的最佳工艺和配方。     

高效液相色谱法检测贝类中的乳酸和琥珀酸

研究探讨利用高效液相色谱测定贝类中乳酸和琥珀酸的样品处理方法和测定方法,结果显示:与乙醇沉淀法、国标法相比,流动相提取法更适合作为样品的提取方法,在检测条件中,流动相为pH2.5的2.0%NH4H2PO4,流速在1.0mL/min,波长为205nm为最优条件。此方法具有较好的线性、较高的准确度和精密度,加标实验回收率为94.0%～99.9%,相对标准偏差为0.09%～0.14%。也测定了两种贝类中乳酸和琥珀酸的含量。     

Carbohydrate, peptide and lipid metabolism of lactic acid bacteria in sourdough

The metabolic pathways of lactic acid bacteria that influence bread quality are coupled to the central carbon flux by the availability of cofactors influencing the cellular and environmental redox potential. Homo- and heterofermentative metabolism differ fundamentally with respect to the requirement for regeneration of reduced cofactors, NADH or NADPH. The utilization of co-substrates such as oxygen or fructose as electron acceptors by obligate heterofermentative lactobacilli is coupled to an increased production of acetate in dough. Recently, several oxidoreductases involved in cofactor regeneration were characterized and glutathione and short-chain aldehydes derived from lipid oxidation were identified as substrates for cofactor regeneration by Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis. Based on the different metabolic requirements for cofactor regeneration, homo- and heterofermentative lactobacilli exert divergent effects on redox-reactions in sourdough that influence bread quality beyond the formation of acetate. Proteolysis, followed by peptide or amino acid metabolism by LAB is one of the key routes of flavour formation in bread flavour, and enables the strain-specific formation of antifungal metabolites. Peptide metabolism as well as the metabolism of cysteine, arginine, and phenylalanine in Lactobacillus plantarum, L. sanfranciscensis, and Lactobacillus pontis is increasingly understood and these insights provide new opportunities for the directed application of sourdough LAB for improved bread quality.     

A mechanistic model of small intestinal starch digestion and glucose uptake in the cow

The high contribution of postruminal starch digestion (up to 50%) to total-tract starch digestion on energy-dense, starch-rich diets demands that limitations to small intestinal starch digestion be identified. A mechanistic model of the small intestine was described and evaluated with regard to its ability to simulate observations from abomasal carbohydrate infusions in the dairy cow. The 7 state variables represent starch, oligosaccharide, glucose, and pancreatic amylase in the intestinal lumen, oligosaccharide and glucose in the unstirred water layer at the intestinal wall, and intracellular glucose of the enterocyte. Enzymatic hydrolysis of starch was modeled as a 2-stage process involving the activity of pancreatic amylase in the lumen and of oligosaccharidase at the brush border of the enterocyte confined within the unstirred water layer. The Na⁺-dependent glucose transport into the enterocyte was represented along with a facilitative glucose transporter 2 transport system on the basolateral membrane. The small intestine is subdivided into 3 main sections, representing the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum for parameterization. Further subsections are defined between which continual digesta flow is represented. The model predicted nonstructural carbohydrate disappearance in the small intestine for cattle unadapted to duodenal infusion with a coefficient of determination of 0.92 and a root mean square prediction error of 25.4%. Simulation of glucose disappearance for mature Holstein heifers adapted to various levels of duodenal glucose infusion yielded a coefficient of determination of 0.81 and a root mean square prediction error of 38.6%. Analysis of model behavior identified limitations to the efficiency of small intestinal starch digestion with high levels of duodenal starch flow. Limitations to individual processes, particularly starch digestion in the proximal section of the intestine, can create asynchrony between starch hydrolysis and glucose uptake capacity.     

基因工程改良乳酸菌发酵剂品质的研究进展

综述了近5年来利用基因工程技术改良乳酸菌发酵剂蛋白质水解能力、产生双乙酰能力、合成胞外多糖能力、抗杂菌病源菌污染能力4个方面研究的最新进展，并简要介绍了基因食品可能存在的不安全问题及解决方法。     

瘤胃内共轭亚油酸(CLA)的形成

对瘤胃内共轭亚油酸（CLA）的形成机制、参与氢化的微生物及影响氢化的因素进行了综述，并对如何提高牛乳中CLA含量进行简要概述。     

直接乳酸发酵工艺研究进展

对以淀粉质为原料进行直接乳酸发酵的国内外研究现状进行了综述.介绍了利用米根霉等真菌和解淀粉乳酸细菌进行直接乳酸发酵.以及通过添加降解酶进行同步糖化发酵的三种直接乳酸发酵工艺.指出通过筛选和构建更加高效的具有解淀粉活性的乳酸细菌和真菌,同时通过获得耐受更高温度的乳酸菌来提高同步糖化发酵的温度,进而使直接乳酸发酵工艺更加高效.     

酸奶中乳酸菌稳定性的研究

以酸奶中乳酸菌为研究对象,研究在酸奶的加工贮藏过程中温度、pH值等环境因素对乳酸菌稳定性的影响.研究发现,酸奶加工过程中可加入1%的食盐和5%的海藻糖,并且可适当提高脂类和蛋白质的含量,在酸奶装罐前应将其pH值调至4.0左右,将成品贮藏在2℃～7℃环境下,以求最大限度的保持酸奶中活乳酸菌的数目.     

Production of pyroglutamic acid by thermophilic lactic acid bacteria in hard-cooked mini-cheeses

Pyroglutamic acid is present in high amounts (0.5g/ 100g) in many cheese varieties-and particularly in extensively ripened Italian cheeses such as Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano. An in vivo model system for cooked mini-cheese production and ripening acceleration was set up to demonstrate the ability of thermophilic lactic acid bacteria, used as a starter, to produce pyroglutamic acid (pGlu). In mini-cheeses stored at 38 and 30 degrees C for up to 45 d, all starters tested produced different amounts of pGlu. In descending order of pGlu production, the bacteria analyzed were: Lactobacillus helveticus, Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus, Streptococcus thermophilus, and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis. Evidence for the presence of glutamine to pGlu cyclase activity in lactic acid bacteria was provided. Cell lysates obtained from cultures of L. helveticus, L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus, L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis, and S. thermophilus showed the ability to cyclize glutamine to pGlu, resulting in processing yields from 1.4 to 30.3%, depending on the subspecies. Formation of pGlu from free glutamine appeared to be similar to that observed using a glutamine-glutamine dipeptide substrate. Under the experimental conditions applied, pGlu aminopeptidase activity was only detected in L. helveticus. Thus, pGlu formation in long-ripened cooked cheese may depend on the activity of thermophilic lactic acid bacteria.     

乳酸菌饮料稳定性的影响因素

乳酸菌饮料常常不能保持均匀的稳定状态，易分层和沉淀。如何解决饮料中蛋白质的稳定性是许多食品工作者以及生产厂家亟待解决的问题。就影响乳酸菌饮料稳定性的因素及防止措施等加以论述。     

薏米乳酸饮料的研究

以薏米为发酵主原料，强化锌、钙等成分，应用保加利亚乳杆菌和嗜热链球菌发酵，生产新型保健饮料。发酵控制温度为38～40℃，发酵时间为22～25h。结果表明，所得产品不仅保留了薏米的原有营养成分和天然芳香，而且柔和适口。     

乳酸菌的生物拮抗作用

论述了乳酸菌的生物拮抗作用,包括对致病菌和乳酸菌之间的拮抗。并简要论述了产生拮抗作用的可能因素或机理,为乳酸菌进一步开发提供一种理论依据。     

乳酸菌在发酵香肠中的应用研究

筛选出适宜发酵肉制品使用的乳酸菌发酵剂,确定了其在发酵香肠中应用的最佳工艺条件,并对应用结果进行了分析讨论。