Fermentation of Plant Cell Wall Derived Polysaccharides and Their Corresponding Oligosaccharides by Intestinal Bacteria

• Published in: Journal of agricultural and food chemistry Vol. 48; no. 5; pp. 1644 - 1652
• Main Authors: Van Laere, Katrien M. J, Hartemink, Ralf, Bosveld, Margaret, Schols, Henk A, Voragen, Alphons G. J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: WASHINGTON American Chemical Society 01.05.2000; Amer Chemical Soc
• Subjects: Agriculture; Agriculture, Multidisciplinary; Bacteria - metabolism; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; Biological and medical sciences; Carbohydrate Sequence; Cell Wall - metabolism; CELL WALLS; Chemistry; Chemistry, Applied; CLOSTRIDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTACION; FERMENTATION; FLORA MICROBIANA; FLORE MICROBIENNE; Food Chemistry; Food Chemistry Group; Food industries; Food Microbiology; Food Microbiology Laboratory; Food Science & Technology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; IN VITRO; INTESTIN; INTESTINES; Intestines - microbiology; INTESTINOS; KLEBSIELLA; Laboratorium Levensmiddelenmicrobiologie; Leerstoelgroep Levensmiddelenchemie; Levensmiddelenchemie; Levensmiddelenmicrobiologie; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; MICROBIAL FLORA; Molecular Sequence Data; OLIGOSACARIDOS; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PARED CELULAR; PAROI CELLULAIRE; Physical Sciences; Plants - metabolism; POLISACARIDOS; POLYHOLOSIDE; POLYSACCHARIDES; Polysaccharides - chemistry; Polysaccharides - metabolism; Research and development. New food products, dietetic foods and beverages; Science & Technology; VLAG; PECTINS; oligosaccharides; HAIRY RAMIFIED REGIONS; FOODS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; FRUCTO-OLIGOSACCHARIDES; intestinal bacteria; ARABINOXYLAN; CHEMISTRY; prebiotics; DEGRADATION; FRUCTOOLIGOSACCHARIDE; TECHNOLOGY; plant cell wall; Ose; Digestive system; Oligosaccharide; Gut; Microflora; Fermentation; Cell wall; Prebiotics; Health food; Plant origin; Bacteria; Polysaccharide; Digestibility
• ISSN: 0021-8561; 1520-5118
• DOI: 10.1021/jf990519i

New types of nondigestible oligosaccharides were produced from plant cell wall polysaccharides, and the fermentation of these oligosaccharides and their parental polysaccharides by relevant individual intestinal species of bacteria was studied. Oligosaccharides were produced from soy arabinogalactan, sugar beet arabinan, wheat flour arabinoxylan, polygalacturonan, and rhamnogalacturonan fraction from apple. All of the tested substrates were fermented to some extent by one or more of the individual species of bacteria tested. Bacteroides spp. are able to utilize plant cell wall derived oligosaccharides besides their reported activity toward plant polysaccharides. Bifidobacterium spp. are also able to utilize the rather complex plant cell wall derived oligosaccharides in addition to the bifidogenic fructooligosaccharides. Clostridium spp., Klebsiella spp., and Escherichia coli fermented some of the selected substrates in vitro. These studies do not allow prediction of the fermentation in vivo but give valuable information on the fermentative capability of the tested intestinal strains. Keywords: Oligosaccharides; intestinal bacteria; plant cell wall; prebiotics