鸡粪中氨基酸含量测定与开发利用

本文对蛋鸡饲料与鸡粪进行了１３次１６种氨基酸含量的测定分析,氨基酸含量稳定,鸡粪中氨基酸含量比常用的部分饲料中氨基酸含量高。鸡对饲料中蛋白质的利用率仅为２９％;大部分蛋白质仍在鸡粪中,从分析结果看,１００克鸡粪中含有各种氨基酸１０．４５克。鸡粪取材广泛,价格低廉,氨基酸便于提取,有广阔的开发利用前景。     

墨西哥食用昆虫的营养成分

墨西哥国立自治大学（UNAM）以胡列塔·拉姆斯·E．（JulietaRamosE．）女博士为首的食用昆虫研究课题组,自60年代以来,一直致力于食用昆虫的研究,特别是在营养成分分析方面,已引起世界注目。到目前为止,他们对100多种民间食用昆虫的3大营养要素,即能值、蛋白质、脂肪以及矿物质、粗纤维、游离氮素,蛋白质中的氨基酸组分等进行了测定和分析,结果表明,许多昆虫种类不仅蛋白质含量高于鸡、鱼、蛋和猪肉等高等动物的蛋白质含量,而且蛋白质中的氨基酸组分分布比例非常合理,接近于联合国粮农组织（FAO）制订的蛋白质中氨基酸比例…     

三种食物喂养的黑水虻幼虫营养测定与比较

黑水虻幼虫在国内外被普遍用于处理有机废弃物,得到的黑水虻幼虫由于富含蛋白质又可用于畜禽养殖,或用于提取油脂、蛋白及甲壳素等物质.本文利用云南省昆明市宜良县汤池镇当地较多的有机废弃物(豆腐渣、鸡粪及发酵鸡粪)饲养黑水虻幼虫,15d后,对三种幼虫进行营养测定,并比较不同食物饲养幼虫营养成分的差异,可根据测定结果对不同用途幼虫选择较合适的饲养物质.结果表明豆腐渣饲养幼虫的蛋白(52.3％)、油脂(22.6％)及氨基酸(36.80％)含量均高于两种鸡粪饲养的幼虫(蛋白含量为46.9％及45.9％、油脂为5.13％及4.30％、氨基酸为23.51％及28.48％),灰分(9.89％)含量低于这两种鸡粪饲养的幼虫(23.2％及19.6％);两种鸡粪饲养的黑水虻幼虫中锌、铜及铅等部分金属元素含量较高.三种食物饲养的黑水虻幼虫营养成分存在一定差异,其中豆腐渣饲养的黑水虻幼虫营养较为丰富,且重金属含量较低,更适合用于畜禽养殖.     

鸡二价金属转运蛋白1 cDNA的克隆与序列分析

鸡二价金属转运蛋白1（divalent metal transporter 1, DMT1）在动物胃肠道锰吸收过程中起重要作用.根据哺乳动物Dmt1同源蛋白氨基酸序列的保守性设计引物,应用3′RACE(rapid amplification of cDNA ends)技术,扩增并克隆获得鸡小肠Dmt1 cDNA 3′端1 289bp和1 092bp的2种片段,发现其3′端翻译区和非翻译区存在差异. 根据鸡Dmt1 cDNA 3′端片段的测序结果设计引物,扩增获得1个与3′端片段部分重叠的鸡Dmt1 cDNA 5′端907 bp片段,并对其进行了克隆测序. 根据鸡小肠Dmt1 3′RACE片段和5′RACE片段序列信息进行拼接,从而获得鸡小肠Dmt1 cDNA全序列信息.结果表明,鸡小肠Dmt1 cDNA有2种形式,1种全长为1 972个核苷酸,其中5′非翻译区为104个核苷酸,编码区1 695个核苷酸,3′非翻译区为173个核苷酸,编码1个含564个氨基酸残基的蛋白质;另1种形式为1 775个核苷酸,其中5′非翻译区为104个核苷酸,编码区1 593个核苷酸,3′非翻译区为78个核苷酸,编码1个含530个氨基酸残基的蛋白质.据鸡Dmt1 cDNA推测出的2种形式蛋白质的氨基酸序列与人、大鼠和小鼠的Dmt1蛋白具有高度同源性,它们的同源性分别为82%、82%、80%,和 84%、84%、83%. 对推测氨基酸序列进行疏水性和跨膜区分析表明,Dmt1蛋白为1种跨膜整合蛋白,具有膜转运蛋白糖基化位点和底物结合位点的保守序列.     

厌氧消化残留液中游离氨基酸含量的测定

采用ＧＣ－９Ａ气相色谱仪进行三种不同原料厌氧消化残留液中游离氨基酸的测定。实验结果表明,鸡粪厌氧消化残留液中游离氨基酸种类最多,且含量较其他两种残留液高,鸡粪残留液更适于再利用。     

高温蛋白质降解菌的筛选及其在鸡粪发酵中的应用

目的:本研究通过对高温蛋白质降解菌的富集培养、筛选与分离,旨在为鸡粪资源的合理利用,生产高质量的有机肥料奠定基础。方法:通过在高温条件下对高效降解蛋白质的高温菌种进行富集培养、纯化与分离。结果:分离得到24株高温高效降解蛋白质菌株,经鉴定其分别属于短短芽孢杆菌属(Brevibacillus spp.)、嗜热芽孢杆菌属(Bacillus spp.)、假黄单孢菌(Pseudoxanthomonas spp.)等8种菌属。将制备的复合菌液接种于鸡粪中发现,实验组升温速率明显快于对照组,在发酵后16 h左右到达高温阶段,比空白组提前将近8 h,且加入耐高温蛋白质降解菌的FJ3组,高温期比空白组延长24 h左右,持续时间长达56 h;发酵过程pH值比空白组下降较快,pH值最低到5.5左右;物料的含水率从65%降至20%左右,N、P、K等营养元素所占比例有所增加,且发酵产物质地松散、柔软,带有较浓的酸香味。结论:实验表明添加外源高温降解蛋白质菌株,能够减少鸡粪发酵产生的恶臭,活化养分,提高堆肥效果,对鸡粪便的处理有重要意义。     

鸡含锰超氧化物歧化酶cDNA克隆及序列分析

 为弄清鸡含锰超氧化物歧化酶 (manganese containingsuperoxidedismutase ,MnSOD)的cDNA序列 ,以开展动物锰营养学的深入研究 ,根据已知鸡MnSOD的N端氨基酸序列设计简并引物 ,应用 3′RACE(rapidamplificationofcDNAends)技术 ,扩增克隆了鸡心肌MnSOD 990bp的 3′cDNA片段 .再根据 3′RACE片段测序结果设计引物进行 5′RACE ,结果获取了一个与 3′RACE片段相互重叠的鸡心肌MnSOD 52 1bp的 5′RACE片段 ,并对其进行了克隆测序 .最后根据 3′RACE片段和 5′RACE片段序列信息进行拼接 ,从而获取鸡MnSODcDNA的全序列信息 .研究结果表明 :鸡MnSODcDNA全长为 110 8个核苷酸 ,其中 5′非翻译区 2 5个核苷酸 ,编码区 675个核苷酸 ,3′非翻译区 4 0 8个核苷酸 ,编码一个长 2 2 4个氨基酸残基的蛋白质前体 .其中信号肽长 2 6个氨基酸残基 ,成熟肽长 198个氨基酸残基 ,分子量为 2 2kD .与人、大鼠、线虫、果蝇等真核生物MnSOD氨基酸序列的同源性分别为82 4 %、84 .7%、62 .4 %、59.3% .     

厌氧消化消化残留液中游离氨基酸含量的测定

采用ＧＣ－９Ａ气相色谱仪进行三种不同原料厌氧消化残留液中游离氨基酸珠测定。实验结果表明,鸡粪厌氧消化残留液中游离氨基酸种类最多,且含量较其他两种残留液高,鸡粪残留液更适于再利用。     

鸡胚蛋孵化期间氨基酸含量的测定

鸡胚蛋在孵化期间 ,其蛋白质、总氨基酸、游离氨基酸从孵化开始逐渐增加 ,1 0d～ 1 9d稳定在一个较高的水平 ,比未孵化的鲜鸡蛋提高 1 %以上 ,胎水氨基酸从第 7d开始形成 ,以后含量稳定在 2 .6～ 2 .6 3g/kg,这些氨基酸组成符合各种人群营养需要。     

微生物菌剂在鸡粪有机肥料堆制发酵中的应用

降解鸡粪的微生物菌剂是由蛋白分解菌、纤维分解菌、酵母菌、光合细菌、乳酸菌等多种有益微生物组成。这些菌群在生长中产生的代谢物质相互利用,而不发生拮抗现象。在鸡粪堆制发酵过程中微生物菌群以辅料为载体与鸡粪组成了复杂而稳定的微生态系统,能够快速、环保地发酵鸡粪并增加肥效。介绍了微生物菌剂在鸡粪堆肥中的作用、机理、发酵工艺及研究现状。     

The primary structure of chicken ribosomal protein L37a.

The amino acid sequence of chicken ribosomal protein L37a was deduced from the nucleotide sequence of a recombinant cDNA and its genomic DNA. Chicken ribosomal protein L37a has 92 amino acids and a molecular mass of 10,247 Da including the initiator methionine. The protein contains a typical Cys2Cys2 zinc finger motif, which may be involved in protein-RNA interaction.     

Comparison of Chicken Manure and Urea Fertilizers as Potential Soil Amendments for Enhanced Phytoextraction of Heavy Metals

Cadmium (Cd) solubilization in soil and uptake by Mucuna pruriens var. pruriens and Sphenostylis stenocarpa was studied in response to the chicken manure and urea fertilizers application types. In this study, 0.8 g each of the amendments was applied to petroleum-contaminated soil in a pot experiment. Results indicate that the chicken manure application at 14 days before planting gave significantly higher shoot dry matter than its urea counterpart under conditions of Cd stress. Chicken manure application resulted in less Cd solubilization as compared with urea fertilizer dosing. The chicken manure application also significantly increased the shoot Cd accumulation despite its lesser effect on Cd solubilization; thus, it is expected to minimize the risk of groundwater contamination. Chicken manure amended treatment showed greater Cd tolerance for the two species investigated and S. stenocarpa did not support Cd phytoextraction. Although the amendments gave marked reduction in Cd phtotoxicity, those of the urea fertilizer gave only rapid, but short, growth support.     

Purification and partial characterization of ceruloplasmin from chicken serum

The preparation and properties of ceruloplasmin from chicken serum are described. Ethanol-CHCl3 was used to precipitate the crude protein, followed by adsorption and elution from DEAE-Sephadex. Further treatment with Sephadex G-200 and CM-Sephadex yielded an intensely blue protein judged 1572-fold purer than starting serum. epsilon-Aminocaproic acid (0.02 M) was present in all buffers and starting sera. Chicken ceruloplasmin appears to be a single polypeptide, apparent Mr 124,000, with an A610/A280 ratio of 0.07 and an absorption maximum at 602 nm. Hexose, hexosamine, and sialic acid accounted for 7.2% of the weight; copper represented 0.20%, which suggested four or five copper atoms per molecule. Chicken ceruloplasmin catalyzed the azide-sensitive oxidation of p-phenylenediamine (PPD) and N,N'-dimethyl-p-phenylenediamine (DPD), and showed ferroxidase activity similar to that of human ceruloplasmin. Its amino acid composition, although similar in many residues to human ceruloplasmin, was decidedly lower in methionine and tyrosine. The chicken protein had one-third the sialic acid content of human ceruloplasmin and showed immunochemical nonidentity with human ceruloplasmin.     

Molecular cloning, expression and evolutionary analysis of the avian tyrosine kinase JAK1

The Janus protein tyrosine kinases (JAK) constitute a protein family that plays a pivotal role in signalling of a large number of cytokine receptors. The cDNA of the chicken homologue of JAK1 was cloned and its nucleotide sequence determined. Chicken JAK1 protein comprises 1150 amino acids as deduced from its cDNA sequence with a calculated molecular mass of 133 kDa. The overall structure of JAK proteins exemplified by the JAK homology domains JH1–JH7 is also preserved in chicken JAK1. Additionally, phylogenetic analysis demonstrates that chicken JAK1 is more closely related to mammalian JAK1 than to those of fish, exhibiting 80%, 79% and 63% identity in amino acid sequence to human, mouse and zebrafish JAK1, respectively. JAK1 proteins were found to be most conserved in the kinase (JH1) and pseudokinase (JH2) domains. This data is supported by Southern hybridization studies of ZOO blots. Chicken JAK1 shows a ubiquitous expression pattern and is transcribed as a 5.5 kb mRNA in various tissues and cell types. JAK1 expression was particularly high in lymphoid cells.     

Chicken glucagon: sequence and potency in receptor assay

Glucagon is a 29 amino acid peptide that is generally highly conserved. Among mammalian glucagons the only one that has been shown to differ significantly is that of the guinea pig which differs from the others in 5 of the 9 COOH-terminus amino acids. The amino acid content and partial sequencing of chicken glucagon had been reported earlier. This report describes the purification and complete amino acid sequencing of chicken glucagon and demonstrates that it differs from the usual mammalian glucagon by the replacement of asparagine at position 28 with serine. Chicken glucagon is indistinguishable from porcine glucagon in the rat liver receptor assay system.     

Effective bioconversion of farmed chicken products by black soldier fly larvae at commercially relevant growth temperatures

Global population growth and an increasing demand for meat has driven the intensification of livestock production. On poultry farms, the accumulation of waste such as faeces, carcasses and unsellable eggs creates environmental and health hazards that need to be mitigated. The larvae of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens; BSFL) offer a potential solution to the problems of waste management on poultry farms. BSFL consume large quantities of organic waste and convert it into larval biomass, which can then be processed for use as livestock feeds or biofuels. This makes BSFL an ideal candidate for value-added waste management on chicken farms. Here, we examined the development and nutrient profile of BSFL given five different diet treatments: poultry feed (control), chicken meat, chicken egg, chicken manure and a mixture of equal parts chicken meat, egg and manure. Chicken meat, egg and mixed diets were all found to be suitable feedstocks for BSFL, but the manure-only treatment was associated with a high failure rate of larval development. Mixing manure with other poultry waste streams ameliorated the negative impacts of manure on BSFL. Larvae reared on chicken meat, egg and the mixed diet had equal or higher mean crude protein (CP) (39.9%, 33.8% and 31.5%, respectively) and crude lipid (CL) contents (30.1%, 29.00% and 28.7%, respectively), compared with BSFL reared exclusively on chicken feed (CP: 30.9%, CL: 23.8%), demonstrating the suitability of these waste-stream diets for the potential animal feed quality of the BSFL. We discuss how BSFL bioconversion could be implemented to address environment management issues on poultry farms.     

Sciatin Is a Transferrin-Like Polypeptide

Abstract: Sciatin, an acidic glycoprotein from chicken sciatic nerve, has myotrophic effects on avian skeletal muscle cells in culture. As sciatin was found to have certain structural similarities to transferrin, we further investigated the physicochemical characteristics of sciatin in order to determine the relationship between these two proteins. Sciatin was found to be strikingly similar to ovotransferrin in amino acid composition. In addition, amino acid sequence analysis revealed that sciatin and ovotransferrin had identical amino-terminal sequences for at least the first 20 amino acid residues. Chicken ovotransferrin, but not human serum transferrin, cross-reacted with rabbit antisciatin antibodies upon rocket immunoelectrophoresis and double immunodiffusion in agar. In addition, in the presence of bicarbonate, sciatin bound approximately 2 mol ferrous iron/mol protein. Using the purification procedure developed for sciatin, we purified a protein from chicken serum that cross-reacted with antisciatin serum, migrated at a position identical to that of sciatin or ovotransferrin on two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, had an amino composition very similar to ovotransferrin and sciatin, and had myotrophic effects on cultured muscle cells. From these data, we conclude that sciatin is a growth-promoting polypeptide closely related in structure to transferrin.     

The MHC class II-associated chicken invariant chain shares functional properties with its mammalian homologs

The nucleotide sequence of chicken invariant chain (Ii) was determined, and the amino acid sequence similarity with human Ii is 61%. Certain regions important for the biological function of human Ii are highly conserved between chicken and mammals. The cytoplasmic tail of chicken Ii fused to the plasma membrane reporter molecule neuraminidase relocated the protein to endosomes. Moreover, like the mammalian orthologs, the cytoplasmic tail was found to contain two independent leucine-based endosomal sorting signals. Chicken Ii was found to interact with human Ii and crosslinking studies also indicate that chicken Ii assembles as a trimer. The chicken Ii can furthermore bind the human MHC class II (HLA-DR1). Many of the functional properties between the chicken Ii and its mammalian orthologs are thus maintained in spite of their sequence differences.     

Chicken chromosomal protein HMG-14 and HMG-17 cDNA clones: isolation, characterization and sequence comparison

A cDNA clone coding for the chicken high-mobility group 14 (HMG-14) mRNA has been isolated from a chicken-liver cDNA library by screening with two synthetic oligodeoxynucleotide pools whose sequences were derived from the partial amino acid sequence of the HMG-14 protein. A chicken HMG-17 cDNA clone was also isolated in a similar fashion. Comparison of the two chicken HMG cDNA clones to the corresponding human cDNA sequences shows that chicken and human HMG-14 mRNAs and polypeptides are considerably less similar than are the corresponding HMG-17 sequences. In fact, the chicken HMG-14 is almost as similar to the chicken HMG-17 in amino acid sequence as it is to mammalian HMG-14 polypeptides. HMG-14 and HMG-17 mRNAs seem to contain a conserved sequence element in their 3'-untranslated regions whose function is at present unknown. The chicken HMG-14 and HMG-17 genes, in contrast to their mammalian counterparts, appear to exist as single-copy sequences in the chicken genome, although there appear to exist one or more additional sequences which partially hybridize to HMG-14 cDNA. Chicken HMG-14 mRNA, about 950 nucleotides in length, was detected in chicken liver RNA but was below our detection limits in reticulocyte RNA.