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以马铃薯为辅料的黄酒发酵条件优化 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：2
采用响应面方法对以马铃薯为辅料的黄酒发酵条件进行了优化。通过单因素试验、正交试验及中心组合试验优化得到以马铃薯为辅料酿造黄酒的最佳发酵条件为：酵母添加量0.114%(原料量的0.114%)、主发酵温度28℃、麦曲添加量14.0%(原料量的14.0%)、料水比1∶0.7、每100 g原料添加425μL糖化酶、发酵初始pH值4.0。在优化得到的发酵条件下酿造得到的以马铃薯为辅料的成品黄酒，其酒精度、酸度、色、香、味等各项理化指标和感官指标均符合国家黄酒标准GB/T 13662-2000，成品酒的感官品质得到了改善，且所含游离氨基酸含量为7063.4 mg/L，是普通黄酒游离氨基酸含量的1.2～2.5倍。 相似文献
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普洱茶发酵阶段色泽的变化及其与品质的关系 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1
为阐明普洱茶不同发酵阶段色泽变化及其与普洱茶品质的关系,研究了恒温恒湿与恒温非恒湿条件下,接种外源优势菌（酿酒酵母）与未接种外源优势菌的云南普洱茶在不同发酵阶段的感官品质、汤色的定量分析及茶色素含量的变化。结果表明：明度指数L及明度指数差ΔL与感官指标汤色的评分呈正相关;色品指数a、b及色差值Δa、Δb与汤色感官评分、滋味评分和品质总评分均呈正相关;不同发酵阶段样的ΔL、Δb的值逐渐减小,而Δa的值逐渐增大,这与其茶红素和茶黄素的值逐渐减小和茶褐素的值不断增大是一致的。普洱茶发酵阶段色泽的量化分析可作为普洱茶品质评价的重要指标,在自动化恒温恒湿条件下发酵普洱茶,有利于实现普洱茶清洁化加工和提高普洱茶品质的稳定性。 相似文献
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为了研究非酿酒酵母胞外酶促进葡萄酒发酵产香的效果,该文在爱格丽葡萄汁酒精发酵12 h后,分别添加优选胶红酵母(Rhodotorula mucilaginosa,RM)胞外酶液,优选发酵毕赤酵母(Pichia fermentans,PF)胞外酶液和商业糖苷酶制剂(almondβ-glucosidase,AG)(10 mU/mL),以不添加酶制剂的酿酒酵母纯发酵为对照,发酵过程中每24 h取样,采用HS-SPME-GC/MS(headspace solid-phase microextraction-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry)监测挥发性成分的生成变化。葡萄酒含糖量低于2 g/L时终止发酵,低温满罐密封储存,次年4月,进行葡萄酒香气仪器和感官量化分析。胞外酶液共测得6种风味酶活性,其中RM酶液中的β-D-葡萄糖苷酶、α-L-鼠李糖苷酶、β-D-木糖苷酶活性均显著(P<0.05)高于PF中的,而α-L-阿拉伯糖苷酶和酯酶在PF酶液中活性更高(P<0.05)。发酵过程中,胞外酶处理显著促进了(P<0.05)品种香气和发酵香气物质的生成,其中RM酶液显著提高了萜烯类物质和苯乙基类化合物含量,其作用效果分别比商业酶处理高41.7%和31.8%,PF酶液显著促进了发酵香气化合物的生成,尤其是脂肪酸乙酯含量约为对照的2倍。酒样感官分析结果显示,两株酵母的胞外酶处理表现出各自增香酿造的优势,其中RM酶液促进温带酸果类香气的效果突出,PF酶液显著提升了柑橘类香气。研究结果为酵母风味酶应用于葡萄酒的增香酿造提供了理论和实践指导。 相似文献
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试验以一种酿酒葡萄为原料,利用顶空固相微萃取/气相色谱-质谱联用技术(HS-SPME/GC-MS)检测了不同可同化氮含量(200、300、400 mg/L)、酵母多糖(150、250、350 mg/L)、发酵温度(14、18、22℃)、初始pH值(3.3、3.5、3.7)和SO2添加量(40、70、100 mg/L)处理发酵酒样中的挥发性香气化合物,探讨了复合酿造因子对贵人香干白葡萄酒主要香气物质含量的影响关系。结果表明,300 mg/L的可同化氮有利于高级醇、酯类、单萜化合物的积累;酵母多糖添加量为250 mg/L时,单萜化合物质量分数达到最大值(198.54μg/L);发酵温度从14℃升高到22℃时,高级醇含量显著升高,酯类和单萜含量显著降低;提高葡萄汁初始pH有利于单萜化合物的积累,不利于高级醇、酯类的生成;添加70 mg/L的SO2时,单萜化合物质量分数最高(181.73μg/L)。正交试验极差分析表明,发酵温度和SO2添加量对高级醇含量影响较大;发酵温度与可同化氮对酯类香气物质含量的影响较大,酵母多糖和pH值对单萜类香气物质含量影响较大。各处理组间的聚类分析可知,可同化氮和酵母多糖对主要香气化合物的影响关联度较高、葡萄汁初始pH值和SO2添加量关联度较高。较低的发酵温度有利于酒样中香叶醇、异戊醇、苯乙醇、辛酸乙酯的生成,添加中等浓度的可同化氮和酵母多糖可促进乙酸异戊酯、乙酸己酯和己酸乙酯的合成,较高的初始pH值有利于芳樟醇、香茅醇和香叶醇的积累。综合分析,发酵温度18℃、初始pH值3.5、70 mg/L SO2、300 mg/L可同化氮、250 mg/L酵母多糖酿造贵人香干白葡萄酒,可有效促进酒样中主要香气化合物的合成释放。 相似文献
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单宁酶处理提高茶梗儿茶素含量及茶梗提取液生物活性 总被引：3，自引：2，他引：1
为综合利用茶叶加工副产物茶叶梗,试验设计利用固态发酵得到的单宁酶处理茶梗,比较不同处理条件下的茶梗提取液中儿茶素组成的差异及还原力、DPPH和OH自由基清除率、胰α-淀粉酶和胰脂肪酶抑制活性变化,探讨单宁酶处理提高茶梗提取物中儿茶素含量和生物活性可行性。研究发现：在50℃条件下,利用2 U/mL单宁酶溶液作用于茶梗粉末60 min,茶梗提取液中酯型儿茶素（EGCG、ECG、GCG）基本被水解生成非酯型儿茶素（EGC、EC、GC）和没食子酸（GA）,从而减少单宁-蛋白质聚合物和茶乳的形成量;此外,经单宁酶处理的茶梗提取液抗氧化活性与对照比较明显增强,表现为OH和DPPH自由基清除率IC50分别降低了74%和26%;酶解茶梗提取液质量浓度为5 000 mg/L时,胰α-淀粉酶和胰脂肪酶抑制率分别提高了89%和107%。研究结果表明单宁酶可高效水解茶梗提取液中酯型儿茶素,提高茶梗提取液的抗氧化活性以及体外抑制胰α-淀粉酶和胰脂肪酶活性。 相似文献
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不同工艺制法对茶叶风味品质化学轮廓的影响 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
为探明不同工艺制法对茶叶风味品质化学轮廓的影响,本研究对福建4种茶类(绿茶、白茶、红茶和乌龙茶)及其鲜叶原料中的主要滋味和香气品质成分进行了检测分析和可视化模式识别。结果表明,基于茶叶主要滋味品质成分的主成分分析(PCA)可将全部供试茶样划分成3种类群:Ⅰ型:绿茶、白茶和一芽二、三叶鲜叶样;Ⅱ型:乌龙茶和中、小开面2~4叶鲜叶样;Ⅲ型:红茶。采用偏最小二乘增强判别分析(PLS-EDA)可进一步放大不同类群茶样的组间差异,乌龙茶及其鲜叶原料有较高含量的水溶性碳水化合物(WSCs),而红茶中多酚类(TPs)和表没食子基儿茶素没食子酸酯(EGCG)含量相对较低;(茶多酚×游离氨基酸)含量二维散点视图可作为茶叶分类识别的一种重要判别工具。4种茶类以乌龙茶的香型种类最为丰富,绿茶与鲜叶原料的香气组成化学模式较为接近,白茶与红茶香气组成在种类和数量上存在一定的相似特征。2,6-二叔丁基对甲苯酚、苯乙腈、4-乙基苯甲酸-2-苯基乙酯类似物、反式-橙花叔醇、α-法呢烯、吲哚等可视为乌龙茶有别于其他3种茶类(绿茶、白茶和红茶)的主要特征香气成分。本研究结果为茶叶化学分类及其工艺品质的目标控制提供了参考依据。 相似文献
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红茶与绿茶感官品质与其化学组分的相关性 总被引：6，自引：2，他引：4
对茶叶感官审评分属性与其化学组分的相关性进行探讨,该文以不同等级、产地红茶和绿茶为代表,利用传统感官审评方法鉴定茶叶品质（外形、香气、汤色、滋味和叶底）,并对各品质指标进行相关性分析,筛选出对茶叶品质影响最重要的品质指标,即滋味。在利用尺度评价法对茶叶滋味品质的10个分属性（浓度、厚度、甘度、鲜度、醇度、涩度、嫩度、陈味、纯正度、火工度）进行更为细致的评定和对茶叶中主要呈味物质—茶多酚、咖啡碱、茶氨酸进行定量分析的基础上,对不同等级、不同产地茶叶的滋味分属性进行差异分析,并对化学组分与滋味分属性进行相关性分析,结果表明,各种茶样之间的产地和等级间差异主要是鲜度和涩度,而与之相关的组分主要是茶氨酸和咖啡碱,茶多酚的影响还有待进一步考察。该研究实现了茶叶感官品质的定量分析,提高了感官审评结果的客观性和确定性,为茶叶原产地保护和分等分级提供核心技术和标准支撑。 相似文献
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酵母对冷冻面团发酵特性及馒头品质的影响 总被引：3，自引：2，他引：1
为了找出使冷冻面团和馒头综合品质较稳定的酵母产品,采用动态流变仪和F3发酵仪对低糖型国光高活性干酵母(1#)、英联马利苹果即发高活性干酵母(2#)、品一高活性干酵母(3#)、高糖型马利即发高活性干酵母(4#)、高糖型丹宝利即发高活性干酵母(5#)和耐高糖安琪高活性干酵母(6#)冷冻面团冻藏35 d过程中的流变学特性和发酵特性进行研究,并对由此面团制作馒头的质构、色泽、比容和感官品质进行分析。结果表明:不同市售酵母冷冻面团在不同冻藏时间下的流变学特性和发酵特性不同。不同酵母冷冻面团制作馒头后硬度、弹性、回复性、咀嚼性、亮度、红度、黄度、比容和感官品质分别差异显著,不同冻藏时间下同种酵母冷冻面团馒头的质构、色泽、比容和感官品质也分别差异显著。6种酵母在冻藏35 d内,1#和2#酵母冷冻面团的发酵活力始终较大,6#酵母冷冻面团的发酵特性参数始终最稳定;1#、5#和6#酵母冷冻面团的弹性模量与黏性模量较大,其中面团流变学特性最稳定的是5#;1#和6#酵母冷冻面团制作馒头的感官品质较好的同时,比容较高,色泽品质较好,质构品质也较好。因此整个冻藏期间,使冷冻面团和馒头综合品质较好较稳定的是1#,其次是6#。研究结果为冷冻面团馒头工业化生产中酵母的选择提供参考。 相似文献
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不同茶树品种(系)的绿茶滋味分析及评价模型构建 总被引：1，自引：3，他引：1
为客观准确地评价不同茶树品种(系)绿茶的滋味品质,该研究系统分析了25个茶树品种(系)绿茶的主要滋味成分含量及其Dot值,利用主成分分析法对不同茶树品种(系)绿茶滋味品质进行综合评价并建立滋味品质评价模型。结果表明:儿茶素、咖啡碱是不同茶树品种(系)绿茶苦涩味强度差异的主要原因,其中表没食子儿茶素没食子酸酯(Epigallocatechingallate,EGCG)是所测样品中涩味的主要贡献物质,EGCG和咖啡碱为所测样品中苦味的主要贡献物质。氨基酸是不同茶树品种(系)绿茶鲜味、甜味差异主要因素,谷氨酸是所测样品中鲜味的主要贡献物质。主成分分析表明:前5个主成分的累计方差贡献率为79.018%,并以前5个主成分的线性回归方程和贡献率构建了滋味品质评价模型,模型评价结果与感官审评结果较为相似,存在极显著相关性(P0.01),相关系数为0.791;利用模型中各主成分的得分,能够较好的区分所测样品的苦、涩、鲜、爽等滋味特征。因此,该研究所建模型能够较好的评价所测样品的滋味品质及其主要滋味特征的差异,为各茶树品种(系)的推广应用提供理论依据,也为不同茶树品种(系)绿茶滋味品质的科学评价提供新的思路和方法。 相似文献
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An isocratic HPLC procedure was developed for the simultaneous determination of caffeine and six catechins in tea samples. When 31 commercial teas extracted by boiling water or 75% ethanol were analyzed by HPLC, the levels of (-)-epigallocatechin 3-gallate (EGCG), and total catechins in teas were in the order green tea (old leaves) > green tea (young leaves) and oolong tea > black tea and pu-erh tea. Tea samples extracted by 75% ethanol could yield higher levels of EGCG and total catechins. The contents of caffeine and catechins also have been measured in fresh tea leaves from the Tea Experiment Station in Wen-Shan or Taitung; the old tea leaves contain less caffeine but more EGCG and total catechins than young ones. To compare caffeine and catechins in the same tea but manufactured by different fermentation processes, the level of caffeine in different manufactured teas was in the order black tea > oolong tea > green tea > fresh tea leaf, but the levels of EGCG and total catechins were in the order green tea > oolong tea > fresh tea leaf > black tea. In addition, six commercial tea extracts were used to test the biological functions including hydroxyl radical scavenging, nitric oxide suppressing, and apoptotic effects. The pu-erh tea extracts protected the plasmid DNA from damage by the Fenton reaction as well as the control at a concentration of 100 microg/mL. The nitric oxide suppressing effect of tea extracts was in the order pu-erh tea >/= black tea > green tea > oolong tea. The induction of apoptosis by tea extract has been demonstrated by DNA fragmentation ladder and flow cytometry. It appeared that the ability of tea extracts to induce HL-60 cells apoptosis was in the order green tea > oolong > black tea > pu-erh tea. All tea extracts extracted by 75% ethanol have stronger biological functions than those extracted by boiling water. 相似文献
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Tea enhances insulin activity 总被引：9，自引：0，他引：9
The most widely known health benefits of tea relate to the polyphenols as the principal active ingredients in protection against oxidative damage and in antibacterial, antiviral, anticarcinogenic, and antimutagenic activities, but polyphenols in tea may also increase insulin activity. The objective of this study was to determine the insulin-enhancing properties of tea and its components. Tea, as normally consumed, was shown to increase insulin activity >15-fold in vitro in an epididymal fat cell assay. Black, green, and oolong teas but not herbal teas, which are not teas in the traditional sense because they do not contain leaves of Camellia senensis, were all shown to increase insulin activity. High-performance liquid chromatography fractionation of tea extracts utilizing a Waters SymmetryPrep C18 column showed that the majority of the insulin-potentiating activity for green and oolong teas was due to epigallocatechin gallate. For black tea, the activity was present in several regions of the chromatogram corresponding to, in addition to epigallocatechin gallate, tannins, theaflavins, and other undefined compounds. Several known compounds found in tea were shown to enhance insulin with the greatest activity due to epigallocatechin gallate followed by epicatechin gallate, tannins, and theaflavins. Caffeine, catechin, and epicatechin displayed insignificant insulin-enhancing activities. Addition of lemon to the tea did not affect the insulin-potentiating activity. Addition of 5 g of 2% milk per cup decreased the insulin-potentiating activity one-third, and addition of 50 g of milk per cup decreased the insulin-potentiating activity approximately 90%. Nondairy creamers and soy milk also decreased the insulin-enhancing activity. These data demonstrate that tea contains in vitro insulin-enhancing activity and the predominant active ingredient is epigallocatechin gallate. 相似文献
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(-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), a major polyphenol of green tea, undergoes substantial biotransformation to species that includes the methylated compounds. Recent studies have demonstrated that the methylated EGCG has many biological activities. In this study, we have investigated the composition of the three O-methylated EGCG derivatives, (-)-epigallocatechin-3-O-(3-O-methyl)gallate (3' '-Me-EGCG), (-)-epigallocatechin-3-O-(4-O-methyl)gallate (4' '-Me-EGCG) and (-)-4'-methyl epigallocatechin-3-O-(4-O-methyl)gallate (4',4' '-di-Me-EGCG) in tea leaves which were picked from various species and at various seasons, ages of leaves, locations, and fermentation levels. Higher levels of 3' '-Me-EGCG and 4' '-Me-EGCG were detected in Chinshin-Kanzai (a species of Camellia sinensis) cultivated in the mountain area of Sansia, Taipei County, Taiwan. Also, these O-methylated EGCG levels were found to be higher in autumn and winter than in spring and summer. The young leaves were found to be richer in the O-methylated compounds than old leaves and the amount of O-methylated EGCG was higher in unfermented longjin green tea than in semifermented oolong tea. However, the fermented black tea and puerh tea did not contain these compounds. 4',4' '-diMe-EGCG could not be detected in either fresh tea leaves or commercial tea leaves. We also found that 3' '-Me-EGCG has a higher inhibitory effect on the nitric oxide generation and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression as compared with EGCG, while 4' '-Me-EGCG and 4',4' '-di-Me-EGCG were less effective. 相似文献
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Jöbstl E Howse JR Fairclough JP Williamson MP 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2006,54(12):4077-4081
Interaction of the tea polyphenol epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) with beta-casein in milk affects the taste of tea and also affects the stability of the tea and the antioxidant ability of the EGCG. In addition, interaction of polyphenols with the chemically similar salivary proline-rich proteins is largely responsible for the astringency of tea and red wine. With the use of single molecule force microscopy, we demonstrate that the interaction of EGCG with a single casein molecule is multivalent and leads to reduction in the persistence length of casein as calculated using the wormlike chain model and a reduction in its radius of gyration. The extra force required to stretch casein in the presence of EGCG is largely entropic, suggesting that multivalent hydrophobic interactions cause a compaction of the casein micelle. 相似文献
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Lee VS Dou J Chen RJ Lin RS Lee MR Tzen JT 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2008,56(17):7950-7956
Old oolong tea, tasting superior and empirically considered beneficial for human health, is prepared by long-term storage accompanied with periodic drying for refinement. Analyzing infusions of three old and one newly prepared oolong teas showed that significant lower (-)-epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) but higher gallic acid contents were detected in the old teas compared to the new one. The possibility of releasing gallic acid from EGCG in old tea preparation was supported by an in vitro observation of gallic acid degraded from EGCG under heating conditions mimicking the drying process. Moreover, three minor flavonols, myricetin, quercetin, and kaempferol, that were undetectable in the new tea occurred in all of the three old teas. Converting the new oolong tea into an old one by periodic drying revealed the same characteristic observation, i.e., massive accumulation of gallic acid presumably released from EGCG and unique occurrence of flavonols putatively decomposed from flavonol glycosides. 相似文献
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Wang Y Li Q Wang Q Li Y Ling J Liu L Chen X Bi K 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2012,60(1):256-260
A simple and reliable method of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was developed for the quality control of oolong tea (the dry leaves of Camellia sinensis ): the quality control included the HPLC fingerprint and the quantitative determination of seven bioactive compounds chemicals, namely, (-)-gallocatechin, (-)-epigallocatechin, (-)-epigallocatechin gallate, caffeine, (-)-epicatechin, gallocatechin gallate, and (-)-epicatechin gallate. The developed analyses of the chemicals excelled in quantifying the chemicals in oolong tea. The chemical fingerprint of oolong tea was established using the raw materials of three main production sites in China, that is, Fujian (southern and northern parts), Taiwan, and Guangdong. The fingerprints from different cultivated sources were analyzed by hierarchical cluster analysis, similarity analysis, principal component analysis (PCA), analysis of variance (ANOVA), and discriminant analysis. The results indicated that the combination of chromatographic fingerprint and quantification analysEs could be used for the quality assessment of oolong tea and its derived products. 相似文献
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Degradation of green tea catechins in tea drinks 总被引：9，自引：0，他引：9
Green tea cateachins (GTC). namely (-) epicatechin (EC), (-) epicatechin gallate (ECG), (-) epigallocatechin (EGC), and (-) epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), have been studied extensively for their wide-ranging biological activities. The goal of the present study was to examine the stability of GTC as a mixture under various processing conditions. The stability study demonstrated that GTC was stable in water at room temperature. When it was brewed at 98 degrees C for 7 h, longjing GTC degraded by 20%. When longjing GTC and pure EGCG were autoclaved at 120 degrees C for 20 min, the epimerization of EGCG to (-) gallocatechin gallate (GCG) was observed. The relatively high amount of GCG found in some tea drinks was most likely the epimerization product of EGCG during autoclaving. If other ingredients were absent, the GTC in aqueous solutions was pH-sensitive: the lower the pH, the more stable the GTC during storage. When it was added into commercially available soft drinks or sucrose solutions containing citric acid and ascorbic acid, longjing GTC exhibited varying stability irrespective of low pH value. This suggested that other ingredients used in production of tea drinks might interact with GTC and affect its stability. When canned and bottled tea drinks are produced, stored, and transported, the degradation of GTC must be taken into consideration. 相似文献
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Moon YH Lee JH Ahn JS Nam SH Oh DK Park DH Chung HJ Kang S Day DF Kim D 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2006,54(4):1230-1237
In this study, three epigallocatechin gallate glycosides were synthesized by the acceptor reaction of a glucansucrase produced by Leuconostoc mesenteroides B-1299CB with epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and sucrose. Each of these glycosides was then purified, and the structures were assigned as follows: epigallocatechin gallate 7-O-alpha-D-glucopyranoside (EGCG-G1); epigallocatechin gallate 4'-O-alpha-D-glucopyranoside (EGCG-G1'); and epigallocatechin gallate 7,4'-O-alpha-D-glucopyranoside (EGCG-G2). One of these compounds (EGCG-G1) was a novel compound. The EGCG glycosides exhibited similar or slower antioxidant effects, depending on their structures (EGCG > or = EGCG-G1 > EGCG-G1' > EGCG-G2), and also manifested a higher degree of browning resistance than was previously noted in EGCG. Also, EGCG-G1, EGCG-G1', and EGCG-G2 were 49, 55, and 114 times as water soluble, respectively, as EGCG. 相似文献
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Protection against nitric oxide toxicity by tea 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Paquay JB Haenen GR Stender G Wiseman SA Tijburg LB Bast A 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2000,48(11):5768-5772
It is found that green tea and black tea are able to protect against nitric oxide (NO(*)) toxicity in several ways. Both green tea and black tea scavenge NO(*) and peroxynitrite, inhibit the excessive production of NO(*) by the inducible form of nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), and suppress the LPS-mediated induction of iNOS. The NO(*) scavenging activity of tea was less than that of red wine. The high activity found in the polyphenol fraction of black tea (BTP) could not be explained by the mixed theaflavin fraction (MTF) or catechins [epicatechin, epigallocatechin, epicatechin gallate, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG)], which were tested separately. Synergistic effects between the compounds, or the presence of a potent, unidentified NO(*) scavenger, may explain the high activity of BTP. The peroxynitrite scavenging of tea was comparable to that of red wine. The main activity was found in the polyphenol fraction. MTF and the catechins were found to be potent peroxynitrite scavengers. Tea and tea components were effective inhibitors of iNOS. Of the tea components tested, only MTF had an activity higher than that of the tea powders. The polyphenol fractions of tea were much more active than the tea powders in suppressing the induction of iNOS. On the basis of its abundance and activity, EGCG was the most active inhibitor. The protective effect of tea on NO(*) toxicity is discussed in relation to the beneficial effect of flavonoid intake on the occurrence of cardiovascular heart disease. 相似文献
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Epidemiological and animal studies have found that green tea is associated with lower plasma cholesterol. This study aimed to further elucidate how green tea modulates cholesterol metabolism. When HepG2 cells were incubated with the main green tea constituents, the catechins, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) was the only catechin to increase LDL receptor binding activity (3-fold) and protein (2.5-fold) above controls. EGCG increased the conversion of sterol regulatory element binding protein-1 (SREBP-1) to its active form (+56%) and lowered the cellular cholesterol concentration (-28%). At 50 microM, EGCG significantly lowered cellular cholesterol synthesis, explaining the reduction in cellular cholesterol. At 200 microM EGCG, cholesterol synthesis was significantly increased even though cellular cholesterol was lower, but there was a significant increase seen in medium cholesterol. This indicates that, at 200 microM, EGCG increases cellular cholesterol efflux. This study provides mechanisms by which green tea modulates cholesterol metabolism and indicates that EGCG might be its active constituent. 相似文献