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Dublin City University
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About: Dublin City University is a education organization based out in Dublin, Ireland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Machine translation. The organization has 5904 authors who have published 17178 publications receiving 389376 citations. The organization is also known as: National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin & DCU.
Topics: Context (language use), Machine translation, Laser, Irish, Population
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TL;DR: To assess strains of Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Pediococcus and Bifidobacterium for their ability to produce the health‐promoting fatty acid conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) from free linolesic acid.
Abstract: Aims: To assess strains of Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Pediococcus and Bifidobacterium for their ability to produce the health-promoting fatty acid conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) from free linoleic acid.
Methods and Results: In this study, strains of Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Pediococcus and Bifidobacterium were grown in medium containing free linoleic acid. Growth of the bacteria in linoleic acid and conversion of the linoleic acid to CLA was assessed. Of the bacteria assessed, nine strains of Bifidobacterium produced the c9, t11 CLA isomer from free linoleic acid. The t9, t11 CLA isomer was also produced by some strains, but at much lower concentrations.
Conclusions: The production of CLA by bifidobacteria exhibited considerable interspecies variation. Bifidobacterium breve and B. dentium were the most efficient CLA producers among the range of strains tested, with B. breve converting up to 65% linoleic acid to c9, t11 CLA when grown in 0·55 mg ml−1 linoleic acid. Strains also varied considerably with respect to their sensitivity to linoleic acid.
Significance and Impact of the Study: The production of CLA by probiotic bifidobacteria offers a possible mechanism for some health-enhancing properties of bifidobacteria and provides novel opportunities for the development of functional foods.
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TL;DR: Information on proteinases from trematodes, cestodes and nematode parasites is reviewed, concentrating on those worms of major medical and economical importance, and a phylogenetic analysis of the papain superfamily of cysteine proteinases is devoted.
Abstract: Many parasites have deployed proteinases to accomplish some of the tasks imposed by a parasitic life style, including tissue penetration, digestion of host tissue for nutrition and evasion of host immune responses. Information on proteinases from trematodes, cestodes and nematode parasites is reviewed, concentrating on those worms of major medical and economical importance. Their biochemical characterization is discussed, along with their putative biological roles and, where available, their associated genes. For example, proteinases expressed by the various stages of the schistosome life-cycle, in particular the well-characterized cercarial elastase which is involved in the penetration of the host skin and the variety of proteinases, such as cathepsin B (Sm31), cathepsin L1, cathepsin L2, cathepsin D, cathepsin C and legumain (Sm32), which are believed to be involved in the catabolism of host haemoglobin. The various endo- and exoproteinases of Fasciola hepatica, the causative agent of liver fluke disease, are reviewed, and recent reports of how these enzymes have been successfully employed in cocktail vaccines are discussed. The various proteinases of cestodes and of the diverse superfamilies of parasitic nematodes are detailed, with special attention being given to those parasites for which most is known, including species of Taenia, Echinococcus, Spirometra, Necator, Acylostoma and Haemonchus. By far the largest number of papers in the literature and entries to the sequence data bases dealing with proteinases of parasitic helminths report on enzymes belonging to the papain superfamily of cysteine proteinases. Accordingly, the final section of the review is devoted to a phylogenetic analysis of this superfamily using over 150 published sequences. This analysis shows that the papain superfamily can be divided into two major branches. Branch A contains the cathepin Bs, the cathepsin Cs and a novel family termed cathepsin Xs, while Branch B contains the cruzipains, cathepsin Ls, papain-like and aleurain/cathepsin H-like proteinases. The relationships of the helminth proteinases, and similar proteinases from protozoan parasites and other organisms, within these groups are discussed.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the development of a smart packaging that monitors the microbial breakdown products in the headspace of packaged fish is described, which is used to evaluate real-time freshness of fish and seafood products.
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TL;DR: In this paper, strawberries were treated with atmospheric cold plasma (ACP), generated with a 60-kV dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) pulsed at 50-Hz across a 40mm electrode gap, generated inside a sealed package containing ambient air (42% relative humidity).
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TL;DR: In this paper, a review explores the dominant approaches to assembly of polyoxometalates into supramolecular materials, both covalent and electrostatic, with particular focus on charge transfer materials and those capable of sensitized photoelectrocatalysis.
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Joseph Wang | 158 | 1282 | 98799 |
David Cameron | 154 | 1586 | 126067 |
David Taylor | 131 | 2469 | 93220 |
Gordon G. Wallace | 114 | 1267 | 69095 |
David A. Morrow | 113 | 598 | 56776 |
G. Hughes | 103 | 957 | 46632 |
David Wilson | 102 | 757 | 49388 |
Muhammad Imran | 94 | 3053 | 51728 |
Haibo Zeng | 94 | 604 | 39226 |
David Lloyd | 90 | 1017 | 37691 |
Vikas Kumar | 89 | 859 | 39185 |
Luke P. Lee | 84 | 413 | 22803 |
James Chapman | 82 | 483 | 36468 |
Muhammad Iqbal | 77 | 961 | 23821 |
Michael C. Berndt | 76 | 228 | 16897 |