K-Nearest Neighbor and Random Forest-Based Prediction of Putative Tyrosinase Inhibitory Peptides of Abalone Haliotis diversicolor

Skin pigment disorders are common cosmetic and medical problems. Many known compounds inhibit the key melanin-producing enzyme, tyrosinase, but their use is limited due to side effects. Natural-derived peptides also display tyrosinase inhibition. Abalone is a good source of peptides, and the abalone proteins have been used widely in pharmaceutical and cosmetic products, but not for melanin inhibition. This study aimed to predict putative tyrosinase inhibitory peptides (TIPs) from abalone, Haliotis diversicolor, using k-nearest neighbor (kNN) and random forest (RF) algorithms. The kNN and RF predictors were trained and tested against 133 peptides with known anti-tyrosinase properties with 97% and 99% accuracy. The kNN predictor suggested 1075 putative TIPs and six TIPs from the RF predictor. Two helical peptides were predicted by both methods and showed possible interaction with the predicted structure of mushroom tyrosinase, similar to those of the known TIPs. These two peptides had arginine and aromatic amino acids, which were common to the known TIPs, suggesting non-competitive inhibition on the tyrosinase. Therefore, the first version of the TIP predictors could suggest a reasonable number of the TIP candidates for further experiments. More experimental data will be important for improving the performance of these predictors, and they can be extended to discover more TIPs from other organisms. The confirmation of TIPs in abalone will be a new commercial opportunity for abalone farmers and industry.     

不同产地鲍鱼的FTIR谱图分析

为了寻找能够鉴别不同产地鲍鱼成分差异的新方法,利用傅里叶变换红外光谱(FTIR)测定不同产地的鲍鱼样品,对所获得的指纹图谱进行对比分析,初步探讨鲍鱼区域性之间的差别.结果表明:这3个产地鲍鱼红外吸收峰的峰数、峰位、峰形、峰强都存在一定程度的差异,为鉴别鲍鱼产地提供了一种有效的手段.     

EVALUATING ALTERNATIVE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR ABALONE

Industry participation in co‐management has become a cornerstone of assessing the blacklip abalone, Halitois rubra, fisheries of South‐Eastern Australia. Engaging industry in developing and implementing management strategies is aimed at stemming recent trends of stock depletion and reduced harvest. An alternative to the current strategy for determining harvests is under consideration. A central question is: which management strategy is most likely to maintain sufficient biomass to produce consistent harvest rates into the future? This question is addressed using a Systems Dynamics modeling approach. We evaluated the two strategies of harvest management planning under (i) unchanging environmental conditions and (ii) following a high‐mortality event. To assess the performance of each strategy, an existing abalone model was used to estimate yield and mature biomass over three decades (>5 generations). A strategy using mean length of commercial catch as a novel performance measure generally provided a better path to recovery from the high‐mortality event than the current harvest threshold strategy.     

鲍鱼中碳、氮同位素的分析

采用真空干燥法对鲍鱼样品进行预处理,通过稳定同位素比率质谱仪测定鲍鱼中碳、氮同位素的含量,测得的平均比率分别为–16.74‰,7.60‰,其相对标准偏差分别为0.02%,0.05%(n=7),表明方法的精密度良好。分析结果得知碳同位素含量主要与其所食用的食物种类有关,而氮的同位素含量不但与食物源和新陈代谢有关,也受气候、环境等方面的影响。     

气相色谱法测定鲍鱼不同组织中的多氯联苯

提出了气相色谱法测定鲍鱼不同组织(肌肉、内脏、整贝)中的多氯联苯含量的方法。样品经正己烷超声萃取,硫酸净化后,肌肉样品只需再经过弗罗里硅土固相萃取小柱净化,内脏和整贝则还需经石墨化碳黑固相萃取小柱净化。用DB-5MS毛细管色谱柱分离,电子捕获检测器检测。7种多氯联苯的质量浓度在1.25~100μg·L-1范围内与相应的峰面积呈线性关系,检出限(3S/N)在0.04~0.06μg·kg-1之间。在0.25,2.50,20.0μg·kg-1 3个浓度水平进行加标回收试验,回收率在78.0%~102%之间,测定值的相对标准偏差(n=5)在3.4%~6.9%之间。