Zhenjun Zhu

ORCID: 0000-0003-0807-4525
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Research Areas
  • Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Selenium in Biological Systems
  • Echinoderm biology and ecology
  • Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive Peptides
  • Fungal Biology and Applications
  • Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
  • Polysaccharides Composition and Applications
  • Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
  • Medicinal plant effects and applications
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
  • Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications
  • Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications

Jinan University
2020-2025

State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology
2023

Nanchang University
2023

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
2022

Guangdong Academy of Sciences
2021-2022

Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province
2022

University of Massachusetts Amherst
1996-2021

Dalian Polytechnic University
2018-2021

Guangxi University
2015-2020

Tiangong University
2019

Scope Sulfated polysaccharide from sea cucumber (SCSP), Stichopus japonicus , has been shown to prevent diverse diseases, but little is known about its effects on obesity and gut microbiota in mice fed a high‐fat diet (HFD). Methods results Diet‐induced obese, BALB/c are an HFD with or without SCSP depolymerized (d‐SCSP, 0.004 kcal g −1 ) for 8 weeks. The show that both d‐SCSP reduce body weight, fat liver hypertrophy, insulin resistance, serum lipid inflammatory cytokine levels HFD‐fed...

10.1002/mnfr.201800446 article EN Molecular Nutrition & Food Research 2018-09-29

Increasing attention focuses on the relationship between neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's disease (AD). The reports microbiota-gut-brain axis reveal that regulation by gut microbiota is an effective way to intervene in neuroinflammation-related AD. In this study, two novel selenium peptides (Se-Ps), VPRKL(Se)M (Se-P1) RYNA(Se)MNDYT (Se-P2), with neuroprotection effects were obtained from Se-enriched Cordyceps militaris. Se-P1 Se-P2 pre-protection led a 30 33% increase PC-12 cell viability...

10.1021/acs.jafc.1c08393 article EN Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2022-03-03

Concerns about the safety of food additives have intensified among consumers, scientists, and policymakers. Ensuring these is crucial to public health. Carrageenan (CGN), a common additive in industry, has become subject controversy, particularly regarding whether it can be degraded gastrointestinal tract, forming carrageenans (dCGNs) that may pose health risks. This study first identify Bacteroides xylanisolvens C3 as key gut bacterium involved degradation food-grade lambda-CGN (L-CGN)....

10.1021/acs.jafc.4c10159 article EN Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2025-02-07

The relationships between diet and metabolites as well element profiles in healthy centenarians are important but remain inconclusive. Therefore, to test the interesting hypothesis that there would be distinctive features of centenarians, these associated with nutrient intake; short chain fatty acids (SCFAs), total bile ammonia feces, phenol, p-cresol, uric acid, urea, creatinine urine, fingernails were determined 90 elderly people, including from Bama county (China)-a famous longevous...

10.3390/nu8090564 article EN Nutrients 2016-09-19

Pleurotus geesteranus is a promising source of bioactive compounds. However, knowledge the antioxidant behaviors P. protein hydrolysates (PGPHs) limited. In this study, PGPHs were prepared with papain, alcalase, flavourzyme, pepsin, and pancreatin, respectively. The properties cytoprotective effects against oxidative stress investigated using different chemical assays H2O2 damaged PC12 cells, results showed that exhibited superior activity. Especially, hydrolysate generated by alcalase...

10.3390/molecules25225408 article EN cc-by Molecules 2020-11-19

Kadsura coccinea fruit, a novel fruit resource, has attracted wide interest, but the physicochemical characteristics and biological activities of its polysaccharides remain unclear. This study investigated properties polysaccharide extracted from K. (KCFP) evaluated antioxidant hypolipidaemic in vitro vivo . KCFP is an amorphous, thermally stable pectin heteropolysaccharide with average molecular weight 204.6 kDa that mainly composed mannose, rhamnose, glucose, galactose, xylose, arabinose,...

10.3389/fnut.2022.903218 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Nutrition 2022-05-18

This study aimed to compare the nutritive value and obesity prevention of ordinary Cordyceps militaris (CM) selenium-enriched CM (SeCM). The results indicated that Se enrichment significantly increased total carbohydrate soluble dietary fiber content, while protein insoluble content decreased. Although fat was not affected, medium long-chain fatty acids changed. Moreover, elevated secondary metabolites belonging terpenoids alkaloids, which are linked with enhanced biosynthesis metabolites....

10.1016/j.fochx.2023.100788 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Food Chemistry X 2023-07-12

Youcha is a novel tea drink from the northeast of Guangxi.

10.1039/c7fo00089h article EN Food & Function 2017-01-01

Fucosylated chondroitin sulfate from sea cucumber Stichopus japonicus (FCSSJ) has been demonstrated with various biological activities; however, its precise structure is still controversial, and digestive behavior remains poorly understood. FCSSJ was purified, detailed elucidated mainly based on the NMR spectroscopic methods. Its main chain characterized as →4)-β-d-GlcA-(1 → 3)-β-d-GalNAc-(1→ GalNAc4S6S:GalNAc4S in a ratio of 1.5:1, three types sulfated fucosyl branches attaching C-3 GlcA,...

10.1021/acs.jafc.9b04996 article EN Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2019-08-29
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