Microorganisms for Functional Food

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Editorial

08 March 2016

Editorial: Microorganisms for Functional Food

Fabio Minervini

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Maria De Angelis

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Fabio Minervini

University of Bari Aldo Moro

Maria De Angelis

University of Bari Aldo Moro

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Review

30 October 2015

Milk kefir: composition, microbial cultures, biological activities, and related products

Maria R. Prado

, 5 more and

Carlos R. Soccol

In recent years, there has been a strong focus on beneficial foods with probiotic microorganisms and functional organic substances. In this context, there is an increasing interest in the commercial use of kefir, since it can be marketed as a natural beverage that has health promoting bacteria. There are numerous commercially available kefir based-products. Kefir may act as a matrix in the effective delivery of probiotic microorganisms in different types of products. Also, the presence of kefir’s exopolysaccharides, known as kefiran, which has biological activity, certainly adds value to products. Kefiran can also be used separately in other food products and as a coating film for various food and pharmaceutical products. This article aims to update the information about kefir and its microbiological composition, biological activity of the kefir’s microflora and the importance of kefiran as a beneficial health substance.

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Selected clinical trials using Lactobacillus reuteri for H. pylori eradication treatment.

Correction

18 July 2019

Corrigendum: Commentary: Probiotic and technological properties of Lactobacillus spp. strains from the human stomach in the search for potential candidates against gastric microbial dysbiosis

Amit K. Tyagi

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Sahdeo Prasad

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Experiments on human epithelial colorectal Caco-2 cell layer. (A) Adhesion of Lactobacillus paracasei strains to the Caco-2 epithelial cell layer as observed with Giemsa staining under a light microscope. Bars, 25 μm. One Caco-2 nucleus for each layer is indicated with the letter N. LPC-S01 adhesion was specific to Caco-2 cells: no adhesion was detected on the cover glass underlying Caco-2 cells (G; top part of the panel on the left). (B) Effect of L. paracasei strains on Caco-2 cells stably transfected with an NF-κB/luciferase reporter vector, in the presence of 5 ng/ml of IL-1β. Data in the histograms are the means (± standard deviations) from two independent experiments conducted in triplicate. RLU, relative luminescence units. Asterisks indicate statistically significant differences according to two-tailed unpaired Student's t-test: ***P < 0.001; **P < 0.01; *P < 0.05.

Original Research

15 September 2015

The vaginal isolate Lactobacillus paracasei LPC-S01 (DSM 26760) is suitable for oral administration

Silvia Balzaretti

, 7 more and

Simone Guglielmetti

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26 citations

Analysis of significance in abundance of (A) Firmicutes and (B) Proteobacteria among respondents and non-respondents using two-sample Fischer’s exact test.

Original Research

08 September 2015

Geriatric Respondents and Non-Respondents to Probiotic Intervention Can be Differentiated by Inherent Gut Microbiome Composition

Suja Senan

, 9 more and

Hasmukh A. Patel

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Effects of KID7 and L. acidophilus on the serum biochemical parameters. Mice were fed either normal diet, atherogenic diet, or atherogenic diet supplemented with KID7 or L. acidophilus for 32 days. (A) T- CHO; (B) LDL-CHO; (C) HDL-CHO; (D) TG; (E) GPT; (F) GOT. NCD: normal diet; HCD: high-cholesterol diet; HCD-KID7: HCD + P. pentosaceus KID7; HCD-L.ac: HCD + L. acidophilus. Data are expressed as means ± SEM (n = 8/group). *, *** indicate significantly lower at P < 0.05 and P < 0.005, respectively, vs. the HCD group.

Original Research

04 August 2015

Preliminary probiotic and technological characterization of Pediococcus pentosaceus strain KID7 and in vivo assessment of its cholesterol-lowering activity

Karthiyaini Damodharan

, 3 more and

Joo-Won Suh

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86 citations

Rarefaction curves indicating the effect of the number of partial sequences of 16S rRNA genes that were analyzed on the number of OUT's in fecal microbiota of pigs. Rarefaction curves were calculated in QIIME with the sample depth of 7939 sequences per sample from 137 fecal samples obtained at weaning (week 0, n = 29), or at week 1 (n = 36), week 2 (n = 36), and week 3 (n = 36) after weaning.

Original Research

28 July 2015

Reutericyclin producing Lactobacillus reuteri modulates development of fecal microbiota in weanling pigs

Yan Yang

, 3 more and

Michael G. Gänzle

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40 citations

Review

14 July 2015

Probiotic-based strategies for therapeutic and prophylactic use against multiple gastrointestinal diseases

Natallia V. Varankovich

, 1 more and

Darren R. Korber

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137 citations

Different mechanisms that mediate lactate bioactive effects. Lactate luminal intestinal levels are contributed by lactate present in ingested food and also by that produced by intestinal microorganisms. The local lactate pool in the mucosal cellular environment is contributed by microbial species able to adhere to mucus/cell surface and may target epithelial cells as well as immune cells present in the lamina propria (Left). Lactate may influence cellular activities by at least three independent ways: (i) by modulating gene expression through modification of histone deacetylase activity (HDAC), (ii) by triggering different signaling pathways by GPR81, (iii) by inducing changes in metabolic pathways such as reducing glycolysis rate (Center). As a consequence of these cellular processes, different functional effects are achieved (Right).

Perspective

19 June 2015

Is lactate an undervalued functional component of fermented food products?

Graciela L. Garrote

, 1 more and

Martín Rumbo

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82 citations

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General Commentary

19 May 2015

Commentary: Probiotic and technological properties of Lactobacillus spp. strains from the human stomach in the search for potential candidates against gastric microbial dysbiosis

Amit K. Tyagi

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Sahdeo Prasad

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6 citations

Scheme of enhancing mechanisms of chemicals on microalgae. The major stimulatory mechanisms were indicted inside the cell. (I) Chemicals targeting on biosynthetic pathways of high-value product, such as JA, SA, GA, and EBR controlling the overall carotenogenesis process in H. pluvialis; (II) Chemicals inducing oxidative stress responses, including direct or indirect addition of active oxygen species and chemical triggers inducing antioxidant production; (III) Phytohormones and analogs effecting on photosynthetic efficiency, namely the light phase, including photosynthetic phosphorylation, photosynthetic rate, and chlorophylls synthesis; (IV) Phytohormones and analogs impacting CO2 fixation, namely the dark phase of photosynthesis, such as diamines and polyamines stimulating production of Calvin cycle; (V) Phytohormones and analogs encompassed acid growth theory, alternating the plasticity of cell wall thus contributing to cell elongation; (VI) Degradation of photosynthetic pigments due to large amount of ethylene caused by high concentration of auxins; (VII) Phytohormones and analogs regulating genome and protein expression, such as IM modulating DNA and protein content in C. vulgaris; (VIII) Chemicals as metabolic precursors, such as pyruvate serving as a precursor of carotenoid synthesis thus stimulating the formation of astaxanthin and NADPH (led by malic acid) acting as a precursor of fatty acid synthesis increasing DHA content.

Mini Review

17 February 2015

Chemicals to enhance microalgal growth and accumulation of high-value bioproducts

Xinheng Yu

, 1 more and

Weiwen Zhang

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145 citations

Progressive complexity of in vivo models used to support probiotic health effects.

Review

17 February 2015

Discovering probiotic microorganisms: in vitro, in vivo, genetic and omics approaches

Konstantinos Papadimitriou

, 5 more and

Effie Tsakalidou

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303 citations

Survival (plate counts versus time) of the potential probiotic strain L. pentosus TOMC-LAB4, isolated originally from table olives, in the different CIE of the TIM system compared to a non absorbable transit marker, blue dextran, used as control. Results are expressed as log10 cfu ± SDs (n = 2).

Original Research

14 October 2014

Survival of pathogenic and lactobacilli species of fermented olives during simulated human digestion

Francisco N. Arroyo-López

, 8 more and

Antonio Garrido-Fernández

6,136 views

14 citations

Dendrogram generated after cluster analysis of the digitalized rep-PCR fingerprints with primer GTG5 of 29 lactobacilli isolates obtained from fruits spontaneously fermented. Part of fruits were just packaged (F1, control) or fortified with L. pentosus TOMC-LAB2 strain (F1-F), while 1–20 is the number for the isolates obtained within each treatment. Clustering parameters: 0.5% optimization and 0.0% curve smoothing.

Original Research

03 September 2014

Fortification of table olive packing with the potential probiotic bacteria Lactobacillus pentosus TOMC-LAB2

F. Rodríguez-Gómez

, 3 more and

Francisco N. Arroyo-López

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29 citations

Schematic representation of the main effects produced by Bifidobacterium bifidum in the human gut.

Review

21 August 2014

Bifidobacterium bifidum as an example of a specialized human gut commensal

Francesca Turroni

, 4 more and

Marco Ventura

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104 citations

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Nowadays, most of Western consumers are aware that a targeted diet could be an important tool for fighting ageing and diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. Microorganisms may be exploited for setting up novel foods that, beside their nutritional value, may positively impact on consumers’ health. Some microorganisms may benefit host when ingested as viable cells carried by food and beverages. This falls in the intriguing field of probiotics, recently brought forward by the numerous probiotic claims rejected by the European Food Security Authority. This research topic is going to include manuscripts contributing to a new definition of what a probiotic microorganism is, as well as papers about novel foods as vehicles of probiotics, influence of food matrix on probiotic activities of microorganisms, and mechanisms of interaction between probiotic food and host.
Furthermore, microorganisms may function as cell factories producing biogenic compounds, which could benefit consumers’ health. Studies on exploitation of food surplus, by-products and/or waste as a base for producing biogenic compounds are of special interest for the current research topic. Manuscripts (reviews included) about the metabolic significance of a given biogenic compound in the microbial cell economy, the optimization of culture conditions for increasing the yield of a given biogenic compound, and in vitro (human cell lines) and/or in vivo activity of biogenic compounds are also welcome.

Nowadays, most of Western consumers are aware that a targeted diet could be an important tool for fighting ageing and diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. Microorganisms may be exploited for setting up novel foods that, beside their nutritional value, may positively impact on consumers’ health. Some microorganisms may benefit host when ingested as viable cells carried by food and beverages. This falls in the intriguing field of probiotics, recently brought forward by the numerous probiotic claims rejected by the European Food Security Authority. This research topic is going to include manuscripts contributing to a new definition of what a probiotic microorganism is, as well as papers about novel foods as vehicles of probiotics, influence of food matrix on probiotic activities of microorganisms, and mechanisms of interaction between probiotic food and host.
Furthermore, microorganisms may function as cell factories producing biogenic compounds, which could benefit consumers’ health. Studies on exploitation of food surplus, by-products and/or waste as a base for producing biogenic compounds are of special interest for the current research topic. Manuscripts (reviews included) about the metabolic significance of a given biogenic compound in the microbial cell economy, the optimization of culture conditions for increasing the yield of a given biogenic compound, and in vitro (human cell lines) and/or in vivo activity of biogenic compounds are also welcome.

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