• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.121-126
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• 2009

Korean ginseng (Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer) has been used as an important medicinal plant in the Orient for a long time. It has been claimed that ginseng has many beneficial bioactive effects on human health, such as antitumor, antistress, antiaging and enhancing immune functions. Red ginseng possibly have new ingredients converted during steaming and dry process from fresh ginseng. In this study, pharmacological efficacy and ingredient conversion of ginseng by 9 repetitive steaming and drying process were investigated measuring conversion efficiency of acidic-polysaccharide, phenolic compounds and inhibition of peroxide lipides. It was found that acidic-polysaccarides were increased by heat treatment. In addition, maltol of phenolic compounds, strong antioxidant, produced during the process of red ginseng by Maillard reaction. Acidic-polysaccarides and maltol were increased after the 1st and 3rd steaming and drying treatments, but they were decreased gradually after 5th, 7th, and 9th treatments. Antioxidant activity was increased as increasing treatment times of steaming and drying without significance. Effect of red ginseng extract on inhibition of peroxide was increased gradually until after the 7th treatment, but remarkably decreased after the 9th treatment.

• 임산에너지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2002

주요 침ㆍ활엽수 목초액의 합리적 이용을 위한 기초자료를 얻기 위하여 그 화학성분을 분석한 결과를 정리하면 다음과 같다. 침엽수 목초액에서는 리그닌과 추출성분에서 유래하는 페놀성 화합물 즉, vanillin, guaiacol, 3-methylphenol, acetoguaiacone, 1,2-benzendiol, ethylguaiacol, pyroctechol 등이 분석되었다. 탄수화물에서 유래되는 화합물로서는 2-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-cyclopenten-l-one, 3,4-dimethyl-3-hexen-2-one, 6-methyl-3-(1-methylethyl)-2-cycolhexen-1-one 등이 분석되었다. 또한 각 분획 중에서는페놀성 분획에서 많은 종류의 화합물들이 단리되었다. 활엽수 목초액에서도2-methoxyphenol, 2,6-dimethoxyphenol, 1-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-ethanone, 3-methoxy-4-hydroxybenzylalcohol, 1-(4-hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-ethanone 등이 리그닌과 추출성분으로부터 유래되는 물질들이 분획되었다. 2-Hydroxy-3-methy1-2, 4-cyclopen-1-one, methyl-4-t-butyl-2-furoate 등은 탄수화물의 분해에 의해 생성되는 주요 물질이다. 활엽수 목초액에서는 역시 중성, 페놀성, 산성 분획에서 많은 물질들이 분석되었으며, 활엽수 목초액이 침엽수 목초액보다 많은 물질들이 생성된 것을 알 수 있으며, 그 종류도 더 많이 분석되었다.

• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.392-397
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• 2007

We investigated whether ethanol extracts of the safflower seeds containing phenolic compounds were responsible for the bone-protecting effects. Crude ethanol extract (CEE) of the safflower seeds was fed for 4 weeks at the level of 1% in diet to female Sprague-Dawley rats that had been subjected to bilateral ovariectomy (OVX). The CEE effects (OVX+CEE) were evaluated by comparing results obtained from OVX, Sham, and OVX injected with $17{\beta}$-estradiol ($OVX+E_2$) groups. OVX resulted in a dramatic reduction in the trabecular bone mass of the proximal tibia (approximately 40% of the Sham group) and an increase in fat deposition in bone marrow. In $OVX+E_2$ group, the bone loss was completely prevented as well as marrow adiposity. In OVX+CEE group, approximately 80% of the bone mass was maintained compared with Sham group and fat deposition in the bone marrow was prevented. Meanwhile, the partially purified ethanol extract containing the phenolic compounds stimulated proliferation of the ROS 17/2.8 osteoblast-like cells in a dose-dependent manner, as potently as positive controls of $E_2$ and genistein. The present data demonstrate that the ethanol extracts of safflower seeds reduced bone loss caused by estrogen deficiency. The bone-protecting effect of safflower seeds seems to be mediated, at least partly, by the stimulating effect of the phenolic compounds on the growth of osteoblasts.

• Mycobiology
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.295-301
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• 2010

We evaluated the antioxidant activity and tyrosinase inhibitory effects of Pleurotus ostreatus fruiting bodies extracted with acetone, methanol, and hot water. The antioxidant activities were tested against $\beta$-carotene-linoleic acid, reducing power, 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl free radical scavenging activity, and ferrous chelating ability. Furthermore, phenolic acid and flavonoid contents were also analyzed. The methanol extract showed the strongest $\beta$-carotene-linoleic acid inhibition as compared to the other exracts. The acetone extract (8 mg/mL) showed a significantly high reducing power of 1.54 than the other extracts. The acetone extract was more effective than other extracts for scavenging on 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radicals. The strongest chelating effect (85.66%) was obtained from the acetone extract at 1.0 mg/mL. The antioxidant activities of the extracts from the P. ostreatus fruiting bodies increased with increasing concentration. A high performance liquid chromatography analysis detected seven phenolic compounds, including gallic acid, protocatechuic acid, chlorogenic acid, naringenin, hesperetin, formononetin, and biochanin-A in an acetonitrile and 0.1 N hydrochloric acid (5 : 1) solvent extract. The total phenolic compound concentration was $188{\mu}g$/g. Tyrosinase inhibition of the acetone, methanol, and hot water P. ostreatus extracts increased with increasing concentration. The results revealed that the methanol extract had good tyrosinase inhibitory ability, whereas the acetone and hot water extracts showed moderate activity at the concentrations tested. The results suggested that P. ostreatus may have potential as a natural antioxidant.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.194-198
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 수삼을 식품에 쓰이는 산화 방지제인 ascorbic acid와 citric acid로 처리하여 홍삼을 제조한 후 활성성분인 페놀화합물과 진세노사이드의 추출물내 함량 변화를 HPLC를 이용하여 살펴보았다. 분석결과 citric acid 처리 홍삼에서 esculetin과 quercetin 함량이 무처리 홍삼에 비하여 각각 3.5 배, 2.0 배 증가하였고 ginsenoside 함량 역시 citric acid 처리시의 Rg$_3$, Rd, Rh$_2$ 증가량이 ascobic acid 처리시에 비하여 높았다. 따라서 인삼추출물의 이들 특정활성성분 강화를 위하여는 citric acid 처리가 효과적인 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제33권6호통권134호
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• pp.71-78
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• 2005

임산바이오매스 자원 이용의 일환으로 율추(栗皺) 열수추출물의 디에틸에테르 가용부 및 초산에틸 가용부로부터 칼럼크로마토그래피 등을 이용하여 3종의 물질을 단리하여 화학구조를 동정한 결과, 3,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid, 3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoic acid 그리고 (+)-catechin을 확인하였다. 이들 단리화합물의 항산화활성을 DPPH 라디칼 전자공여능(EDA)으로 측정한 결과, 10 ppm에서 화합물 3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoic acid (gallic acid)와 (+)-catechin은 대조구인 ascorbic acid와 $\alpha$-tocopherol 보다 높게 나타났고, 특히 화합물 gallic acid는 ascorbic acid보다 약 21배, $\alpha$-tocopherol보다 약 6배 높게 나타났으며 화합물 catechin보다 약 2.7배 높게 나타났다.

• 원예과학기술지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.359-365
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• 2014

본 연구는 신고 배 저온 저장 중 발생하는 과피 흑변에 관여하는 주요 대사체를 untargeted GC-MS 그리고 targeted HPLC로 알아보고자 하였다. GC-MS 분석 결과 아미노산, 유기산, 당 관련 총 40개의 대사체를 정성할 수 있었고 건전과는 과피흑변과에 비해서 전반적으로 높은 대사체 함량을 보였다. 특히 serine, malic acid, succinic acid가 건전과에서 높게 나타난 반면 과피 흑변과에서는 threonine, fumaric acid, gluconic acid 함량이 높았다. 개개의 phenolic compounds 분석 결과 건전과에서 높은 phenolic compounds 함량을 보였다. 또한 항산화 능력과 깊은 관련이 있는 ascorbic acid가 과피 흑변과에서 낮게 나타났다. 이상의 결과로 보아 세포 내 비정상적인 호흡 및 에너지 대사과정, 항산화 능력 결여가 신고 배 과피 흑변에 관여하는 주요 대사 과정임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Food Science and Biotechnology
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.766-770
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• 2009

Hot water extracts of Camellia japonica flower buds were found to have the higher 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging activity than the other solvent extracts. Five phenolic compounds were isolated and purified from the ethyl acetate soluble-neutral fraction of hot water extracts by Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography and octadecyl silane-high performance liquid chromatography using the guided assay of DPPH radical scavenging. Based on mass spectrometer and nuclear magnetic resonance, the isolated compounds were identified as p-hydroxybenzaldehyde (1), vanillin (2), dehydroxysynapyl alcohol (3), 7S,7'S,8R,8'R-icariol $A_2$ (4), and (-)-epicatechin (5). Four compounds (1-4) except for 5 were newly identified in this plant. Their DPPH radical scavenging activities as 50% scavenging concentration decreased in order to 5 $(20\;{\mu}M)>{\alpha}-tocopherol$ $(29\;{\mu}M)>4$ $(67\;{\mu}M)>3$ $(72\;{\mu}M)>1=2$ ($>250\;{\mu}M$). These results indicate that the antioxidant effect of the hot water extract of C. japonica flower buds may partially due to 5 isolated phenolic compounds.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제30권9호
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• pp.1436-1442
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• 2020

Amylosucrase (ASase, E.C. 2.4.1.4) is capable of efficient glucose transfer from sucrose, acting as the sole donor molecule, to various functional acceptor compounds, such as polyphenols and flavonoids. An ASase variant from Deinococcus geothermalis, in which the 226^th alanine is replaced with asparagine (DgAS-A226N), shows increased polymerization activity due to changes in the flexibility of the loop near the active site. In this study, we further investigated how the mutation modulates the enzymatic activity of DgAS using molecular dynamics and docking simulations to evaluate interactions between the enzyme and phenolic compounds. The computational analysis revealed that the A226N mutation could induce and stabilize structural changes near the substrate-binding site to increase glucose transfer efficiency to phenolic compounds. Kinetic parameters of DgAS-A226N and WT DgAS were determined with sucrose and 4-methylumbelliferone (MU) as donor and acceptor molecules, respectively. The k_cat/K_m value of DgAS-A226N with MU (6.352 mM^-1min^-1) was significantly higher than that of DgAS (5.296 mM^-1min^-1). The enzymatic activity was tested with a small phenolic compound, hydroquinone, and there was a 1.4-fold increase in α-arbutin production. From the results of the study, it was concluded that DgAS-A226N has improved acceptor specificity toward small phenolic compounds by way of stabilizing the active conformation of these compounds.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제41권12호
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• pp.1052-1060
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• 2018

Triclosan (TCS) is a phenolic antimicrobial chemical used in consumer products and medical devices. Evidence from in vitro and in vivo animal studies has linked TCS to numerous health problems, including allergic, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative disease. Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system, we here show that short-term TCS treatment ($LC_{50}$: ~0.2 mM) significantly induced mortality in a dose-dependent manner. Notably, TCS-induced mortality was dramatically suppressed by co-treatment with non-ionic surfactants (NISs: e.g., Tween 20, Tween 80, NP-40, and Triton X-100), but not with anionic surfactants (e.g., sodium dodecyl sulfate). To identify the range of compounds susceptible to NIS inhibition, other structurally related chemical compounds were also examined. Of the compounds tested, only the toxicity of phenolic compounds (bisphenol A and benzyl 4-hydroxybenzoic acid) was significantly abrogated by NISs. Mechanistic analyses using TCS revealed that NISs appear to interfere with TCS-mediated mortality by micellar solubilization. Once internalized, the TCS-micelle complex is inefficiently exported in worms lacking PMP-3 (encoding an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter) transmembrane protein, resulting in overt toxicity. Since many EDCs and surfactants are extensively used in commercial products, findings from this study provide valuable insights to devise safer pharmaceutical and nutritional preparations.