This study was performed with growing chicken (1 to 56 d of age) to evaluate the effects of malic acid on broiler chicken performance. Malic acid was added to the water and offered to chicken freely from first to end of experiment with constant concentration. The treatments were zero (as a control), 0.05, 0.10, and 0.15 percent of malic acid which dissolved in water and given to them in waterer...

Resistance rates are increasing among several problematic Gram-negative pathogens, a fact that has encouraged the development of new antimicrobial agents. This paper characterizes a Salmonella phage endolysin (Lys68) and demonstrates its potential antimicrobial effectiveness when combined with organic acids towards Gram-negative pathogens. Biochemical characterization reveals that Lys68 is more...

The sensory properties of fruit and vegetables are a result taste aroma caused by many volatile nonvolatile compounds. sum organic acids (malic citric acids) soluble sugars (fructose glucose), as well their balanced combination interaction, contributes to the characterization tomato flavour. ratio is key sweetness sourness tomatoes. This study aimed determine sugar acid content, several physico...

To better understand precursors of dicarboxylic acids in ambient secondary organic aerosol (SOA), we studied C4–C9 present SOA formed from the oxidation toluene, naphthalene, α-pinene, and isoprene. were analyzed by offline derivatization gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. We revealed that C4 including succinic acid, maleic fumaric malic DL-tartaric meso-tartaric acid are produced photooxida...

Malate synthesis by CO(2) fixation in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and lupin (Lupinus luteus) roots was investigated by labeling with NaH(13)CO(3) as well as with NaH(14)CO(3). The distribution of (14)C label in the malate was examined, using enzymic degradation methods (malic enzyme, pyruvate decarboxylase) and, in the case of (13)C, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. In long-term experimen...

The effects of high-fat (HF) feeding on gene expression in the small intestine were examined using obesity-resistant A/J mice and obesity-prone C57BL/6J (B6) mice. Both strains of mice were maintained on low-fat (LF; 5% fat) or HF (30% fat) diets for 2 wk. Quantitative reverse transcription-PCR analysis revealed that lipid metabolism-related genes, including carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT)...

The experiments were designed to get some information on the metabolism controlled by variation of the NADP level, which is known to change with the variation of environmental factors.The exogenous NADP added to the mitochondria prepared from Vigna sesquipedalis cotyledons was associated with and/or penetrated into the mitochondria. The combined NADP served in the operation of the mitochondrial...

The carbon isotope fractionation associated with nocturnal malic acid synthesis in Kalanchoë daigremontiana and Bryophyllum tubiflorum was calculated from the isotopic composition of carbon-4 of malic acid, after appropriate corrections. In the lowest temperature treatment (17 degrees C nights, 23 degrees C days), the isotope fractionation for both plants is -4 per thousand (that is, malate is ...

MALATE OXIDATION IN PLANT MITOCHONDRIA PROCEEDS THROUGH THE ACTIVITIES OF TWO ENZYMES: a malate dehydrogenase and a NAD(+)-dependent malic enzyme. In cauliflower, mitochondria malate oxidation via malate dehydrogenase is rotenone- and cyanide-sensitive. Addition of exogenous NAD(+) stimulates the oxidation of malate via malic enzyme and generates an electron flux that is both rotenone- and cyan...