가열산화된 유지의 산패도와 돌연변이원성과의 관련성을 알아보고자 대두유를 $180{pm}3^{circ}C$에서 48시간 동안 가열산화시키면서 0, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48시간 후의 유지시료와 여기서 분획한 산화물 및 비산화물을 대상으로 Salmonella typimurium 변이균주 중 구조이동형(frame shift) 변이균주인 TA98, TA1537과 염기치환형(base-pair substituent) 변이균주인 TA100, TA1535 및 TA102를 사용하여 Ames test를 수행한 결과는 다음과 같다. $180{pm}3^{circ}C$에서 48시간 가열산화된 대두유의 가열시간에 따른 돌연변이원성을 조사했을 때 직접법 [-S9] 및 대사활성화법 [+S9] 모두에서 돌연변이원성이 인정되지 않았다. 또한 $180{pm}3^{circ}C$에서 가열산화된 대두유를 산화물 및 비산화물로 분리하여 돌연변이원성을 조사한 결과 가열 16시간 및 24시간 후의 산화 물질에서 돌연변이 활성이 나타났다.
The mutagenicity of the thermally oxidized soybean oils was investigated. Each oil sample was taken after 0, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, and 48 hours of heating at a temperature of $180{pm}3^{circ}C$, and was used to study the changes of peroxide value(POV), acid value(AV), iodine value(IV), conjugated dienoic acid content(CDA content, %), and fatty acid composition. Another set of samples was fractionated into non-oxidized and oxidized fractions by column chromatography using silica gel. The mutagenicity of the samples taken from the thermally oxidized oils as well as the non-oxidized and oxidized fractions was investigated with the Ames test. Bacterial tester strains used in the present study were the histidine auxotrophic strains of S. typhimurium TA100, TA1535 and TA 102 for the detection of base pair, and TA98 and TA1537 for frame shift mutations. Each set of samples was dissolved in tetrahydrofuran and tested at doses ranging from 0.05 to 5 mg/plate. The oxidized fractions increased significantly the number of $His^+$ revertant colonies of TA100, TA1537 and TA102, thereby showed mutagenic activity on these strains. However none of the oil samples taken within the 48 hours oxidation period showed any mutagenic activity with and without metabolic activation.
