The lack of digestibility of certain gluten proteins is essential in the development of celiac disease (CD). Gluten proteins are remarkably resistant to luminal and brush-border proteolysis owing to their high proline and glutamine content. Consequently, large fragments remain intact after digestion exerting toxic effects. Intestinal brush-border membrane vesicles (BBMV) have been described as ...

DNA methylation is a highly characterized epigenetic modification of the human genome that is critical for normal cell processes, including tissue regulation, genetic expression development, genomic imprinting, X-chromosome inactivation, and DNA repair. DNA methylation in humans occurs almost exclusively at the C5 position of CpG dinucleotides in genomic promoter regions. Alterations in DNA met...

Fast and effective protein digestion is a vital process for mass spectrometry (MS) based protein analysis. This study introduces a porous polymer membrane enzyme reactor (PPMER) coupled to nanoflow liquid chromatography-tandem MS (nLC-ESI-MS/MS) for on-line digestion and analysis of proteins. Poly (styrene-co-maleic anhydride) (PS-co-MAn) was fabricated by the breath figure method to make a por...

Enzyme activity plays an essential role in many physiological processes and diseases such as pulmonary emphysema. While the lung is constantly exposed to cyclic stretching, the effects of stretch on the mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix (ECM) during digestion have not been determined. We measured the mechanical and failure properties of elastin-rich ECM sheets loaded with static...

An appropriate in vitro starch digestion model is necessary to comparatively evaluate the digestibility of starch samples and to help predict the in vivo glycemic responses of starchy foods. In the present study, the effect of trypsin and chymotrypsin on in vitro digestion of rice starch was studies for the first time. Inclusion of the trypsin and chymotrypsin in the digestion protocols, to mor...

Three cheese samples containing L. casei formulated with milk fat (C1), shortening oil (SH1), and cocoa butter substitute (SU1) other three acidophilus (C2), (SH2), (SU2) were prepared. Cheese evaluated for their chemical composition, pH, viable counts of during storage 30 days before after in vitro digestion. pH values gradually decreased over time (milk fat-based had the highest values). Resu...

An evaluation was made of different digestion methods for the determination of arsenic and antimony in table salt samples prior to hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometric analysis. Microwave acid digestion, classical wet digestion, dry ashing, and fusion were applied to the decomposition of salt samples and optimum conditions were investigated. Samples were decomposed by changing hea...

17 18 During the last 50 years human anisakiasis has been rising while parasites have increased their prevalence at 19 determined fisheries becoming an emergent major public health problem. Although artificial enzymatic digestion 20 procedure by CODEX (STAN 244-2004: Standard for salted Atlantic herring and salted sprat) is the recommended 21 protocol for anisakids inspection, no international ...