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Effects of dielectric barrier discharge cold plasma on the activity, structure and conformation of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and on the activity of litchi peroxidase (POD)

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LWT-FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 141, Issue -, Pages -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2021.111078

Keywords

Dielectric barrier discharge; Litchi pericarp; Peroxidase; Horseradish peroxidase; Protein structure

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [31972205]
  2. International S&T Cooperation Projects of Guangdong Province [2020A0505100007, 2019A050519001]
  3. National Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Undergraduates [201910561123]

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In this study, cold plasma was successfully used to reduce the activity of litchi peroxidase, decreasing enzymatic browning and potentially extending the shelf life of easy-browning fruits.UV and fluorescence spectral analyses indicated changes in enzyme structures after plasma treatment.
Litchi is one kind of the precious tropical fruits, but it is easily affected by enzymatic browning resulting in great loss to farmers. In the present study, dielectric barrier discharge cold plasma was used to inactivate the litchi peroxidase (POD), one of the enzymes responsible for browning. Results indicated that after 10 min treatment, the residual activity of the POD extracted from pericarp decreased to 47.16%. The effect of cold plasma on POD structure was studied by using horseradish peroxidase (HRP) as a model enzyme. The HRP activity was decreased by about 85% after 180 s of treatment. UV and fluorescence spectral results suggested that the secondary and tertiary structures of HRP were changed through plasma treatment, hydrophobic aromatic amino acids and hemes were exposed and modified. Circular dichroism (CD) spectra indicated that after exposed to plasma for 180 s, the content of alpha-helix in HRP were decreased from 21.41% to 8.53%, and the beta-sheet content raised from 23.29% to 32.11%. The presented study concluded that cold plasma is capable of reducing the activity of litchi POD, which will provide a new thought for prolonging shelf life of easy-browning fruits.

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