RedCorn, Raymond M., M.S.E., Purdue University, December 2014. Identifying Conditions to Optimize Lactic Acid Production from Food Waste. Major Professor: Abigail Engelberth. There is an increased demand for lactic acid for the production of biopolymers and to aid nutrient removal in wastewater treatment. Food waste offers a source of soluble sugars to produce lactic acid, which does not increa...

Scrapie can be transmitted by novel infectious pathogens termed prions. No evidence for a scrapie-specific nucleic acid has been detected to date. To investigate amounts, types and sizes of nucleic acid molecules associated with prions in purified preparations, aliquots were deproteinized, and the nucleic acids analysed by PAGE and silver staining. Digestion with nucleases and exposure to Zn2+ ...

Two trials were conducted to evaluate the influence of malic acid supplementation on ruminal fermentation. In Trial 1, six Holstein steers (300 kg) with ruminal cannulas were used in a crossover design experiment to study the influence of malic acid (MA) on ruminal metabolism during glucose-induced lactic acidosis. Treatments consisted of a 77% steam-flaked barley-based finishing diet supplemen...

Specific regions of the polypeptide sequence of pancreatic ribonuclease have been altered by chemical modification and by limited proteolytic digestion in attempts to implicate specific covalent portions of the molecule in the structure and stabilization of the active center. Digestion of the native molecule with trypsin at elevated temperatures has been shown to remove portions of the chain wi...

Fermentation of grain in the rumen and the digestion of starch in the small intestine are influenced by both animal and grain characteristics. Two assays were established to determine the importance of grain characteristics on fermentation and enzyme digestion. To simulate microbial fermentation in the rumen finely milled samples of grain were incubated in rumen fluid and the end products of fe...

When added to the serum-free medium in which 17.5-day rat yolk sacs were incubated, formaldehyde-denatured 125I-labelled bovine serum albumin was rapidly degraded. More than 80% of the radiolabelled digestion products appearing in the incubation medium consisted of [125I]iodo-L-tyrosine; larger digestion products were found only in association with the yolk-sac tissue. In the early stages of an...

Background The crystallinity of cellulose is a principal factor limiting the efficient hydrolysis of biomass to fermentable sugars or direct catalytic conversion to biofuel components. We evaluated the impact of TFA-induced gelatinization of crystalline cellulose on enhancement of enzymatic digestion and catalytic conversion to biofuel substrates. Results Low-temperature swelling of cotton li...

Specific regions of the polypeptide sequence of pancreatic ribonuclease have been altered by chemical modification and by limited proteolytic digestion in attempts to implicate specific covalent portions of the molecule in the structure and stabilization of the active center. Digestion of the native molecule with trypsin at elevated temperatures has been shown to remove portions of the chain wi...

Extracts of Acanthamoeba castellanii (Neff) contain alpha- and beta-glucosidase, beta-galactosidase, beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase, amylase, and peptidase. All of these activities are optimal between pH 3 and 4. These extracts also were found to clarify suspensions of cell walls from nine different gram-positive bacteria, including Micrococcus lysodeikticus. The pH optimum for the lytic activity...