Proteins royal jelly

Chen, L. C. and Chen, S. Y. (1995). Changes in protein components and storage stability of royal jelly under various conditions. Food Chem. 54,195-200. 

Simiith, J. (2001). Some properties of the main protein of honeybee (Apis mellifera) royal jelly. Apidologie 32, 69-80. 

Royal jelly. Nutritional paste prepared by nurse bees tom head gland secretions and honey stomach contents for rearing queen bee larvae. R. j. contains ca. 24% water, 31% protein, 15% carbohydrates, 15% ether-soluble components as well as 2% ash, and further trace elements such as iron, manganese, nickel, cobalt, etc., and various vitamins. Although synthetically prepared R. j. keeps the larvae alive it does not result in the development of a queen bee. R. j. differs from the breeding nutrition of worker bees by having higher concentrations of neopterin, biopterin, and... 

Fujiwara S, imai J, Fujiwara M, Yaeshima T, Kawashima T, Kobayashi K. A potent antibacterial protein in royal jelly. Purification and determination of the primary structure of tayal-isin. J Biol Chem 1990 265 11333-11337. 

In the meantime, Professor K. Abe at the University of Tokyo organized the International Life Science Institute (ILSI) Japan-endowed chair Functional Food Genomics (with Professor Y. Nakai in charge) which aims to explore a new dimension of food science in the form of academia-industry consortium (Nakai etal. 2010). This laboratory has publicized DNA microarray data on soy protein isolate (Tachibana et al. 2005), cocoa as a whole (Matsui et al. 2005), sesamin (Tsuruoka et al. 2005), apple polyphenol (Ohta et al. 2006), grape seed (Sano et al. 2007), royal jelly as a whole (Narita et al. 2006), fructo-oligosaccharide (Fukasawa et al. 2007), vinegar as a whole (Nakano et al. 2004), tomato (Aizawa et al. 2009), and others. What may be extremely interesting would be the data on inhaled linalool as an aroma that reduces a kind of... 

Royal jelly exhibited a transient vasodilating effect on dog femoral artery, which was due to its acetylcholine constituent. Peptides present in royal jelly were found to possess antihypertensive effect when orally administered in hypertensive rats for 28 days. A similar effect was observed in rats administered a royal jelly protein hydrolysate, and the antihypertensive effect was attributed to the inhibition of ACE. " ... 

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