Abstract
Recent years have seen an explosion in the number of complete or almost complete genomic sequences of lactic acid bacteria and other food-grade bacteria that are used in functional foods to increase the health of the consumer. These have been instrumental in the development of functional, comparative and other post-genomics approaches that provide the possibility to detect, unravel and understand their functionality in the human intestinal tract. In conjunction with other high-throughput approaches, these advances can be exploited in the functional food innovation cycle for developing new or designed probiotic and other bacterial products that impact gut health.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 86-93 |
| Journal | Current Opinion in Biotechnology |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |
Keywords
- human gastrointestinal-tract
- signature-tagged mutagenesis
- vivo expression technology
- escherichia-coli k-12
- listeria-monocytogenes
- lactococcus-lactis
- stress resistance
- in-vivo
- propionibacterium-freudenreichii
- lactobacillus-reuteri