Tianming Yao , Yunus E. Tuncil , Sajal Bhattarai , Manoj Gurung , Lars Bode , Laxmi Yeruva , Stephen R. Lindemann
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Effect of maternal miRNAs and milk oligosaccharides on regulating the growth behavior of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis
The interplay between maternal microRNAs (miRNAs) and human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) in influencing infant gut bacteria remains poorly understood. This study investigated how milk miRNAs impact the growth dynamics and gene expression of Bifidobacterium infantis cultured on HMOs and lactose as substrates (1 % w/v). The strain was cultured in vitro with either human milk miRNAs or synthetic mimics (500 ng/mL). B. infantis grew significantly faster on HMOs (plateau at 11.23 h) than lactose (12.75 h), but miRNAs showed minimal effects on growth in both substrates. Transcriptome analysis further showed limited differential gene expression upon miRNA treatments, with only 11 overexpressed genes in the HMO-miRNA group, none likely affecting metabolism. In contrast, substrate type drove expression changes in 1986 genes, involving in ABC transporters, amino acid biosynthesis, purine, and carbohydrate metabolism. This research highlighted the stronger effects of HMOs than miRNAs on B. infantis biology, despite both being abundant in milk.
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Journal of Functional Foods continues with the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review. We give authors the possibility to publish their top-quality papers in a well-established leading journal in the food and nutrition fields. The Journal will keep its rigorous criteria to screen high impact research addressing relevant scientific topics and performed by sound methodologies.
The Journal of Functional Foods aims to bring together the results of fundamental and applied research into healthy foods and biologically active food ingredients.
The Journal is centered in the specific area at the boundaries among food technology, nutrition and health welcoming papers having a good interdisciplinary approach. The Journal will cover the fields of plant bioactives; dietary fibre, probiotics; functional lipids; bioactive peptides; vitamins, minerals and botanicals and other dietary supplements. Nutritional and technological aspects related to the development of functional foods and beverages are of core interest to the journal. Experimental works dealing with food digestion, bioavailability of food bioactives and on the mechanisms by which foods and their components are able to modulate physiological parameters connected with disease prevention are of particular interest as well as those dealing with personalized nutrition and nutritional needs in pathological subjects.