Prebiotics and Probiotics Science and Technology
Dimitris Charalampopoulos, Robert A. Rastall (Eds.)
Prebiotics and ProbioticsScience and Technology
With 67 figures and 97 tables
Editors:Dimitris CharalampopoulosDepartment of Food BiosciencesUniversity of ReadingWhiteknights, [email protected]
Robert A. RastallDepartment of Food BiosciencesUniversity of ReadingWhiteknights, [email protected]
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To Elie Metchnikoff, Glenn Gibson and Marcel Roberfoid for originating
the concept of probiotics and prebiotics
Preface
With growing consumer and industrial interest in self-care and integrative medi-
cine, our understanding of the relationship between health and diet has grown
stronger. As a result, the market for functional foods, dietary supplements and
nutraceuticals is continuing to expand rapidly. Among these products, probiotics
and prebiotics have carved their own special niche because of their scientifically-
supported health promoting properties, and have been in the forefront of re-
search over the past twenty years or so. This is driven by the realisation that the
gut microbiota can play a critical role in human health. Important functions of
the gut microbiota include the inhibition of the colonisation of the gut by
potentially pathogenic microorganisms, the microbial fermentation of substrates
yielding metabolic products which can serve as sources of energy for the gut cell
wall, and the modulation of the immune system. A substantial amount of
research has shown that the human gut microbiota can be modulated using
probiotics and prebiotics leading to various beneficial effects.
The prebiotics and probiotics area is a fast evolving field that attracts
significant interest by both the academic and industrial communities. As a
result, a substantial amount of research is generated every year. The use
of post-genomics, encompassing transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics
and meta-genomics has helped greatly in making significant advances in the
field, as they provide the means to carry out in-depth studies of the mechanisms
involved and of the beneficial effects likely to be exerted to the host. The target of
many probiotics and prebiotics is the prevention and treatment of disorders
associated with the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), including infectious, traveller’s,
and antibiotic-associated diarrhoeas, Clostridium difficile infections, and consti-
pation. They have also been suggested as therapeutic agents against irritable
bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel diseases. An increasing amount of
evidence from in vitro and in vivo studies suggests that they are effective in
the prevention of atopic allergies and may have potential anti-carcinogenic
effects. In addition to the above, there has been considerable interest in
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extra-intestinal application of probiotics and prebiotics, such as in urogenital
infections and oral health, and in their applications in animals.
This book will give a detailed and up to date account of the advances in the
prebiotics and probiotics field, covering their taxonomy, the potential beneficial
effects to humans and animals, the proposed mechanisms of actions, the molec-
ular techniques used, and the challenges faced in manufacturing such products.
The book consists of thirty one chapters. It starts with an introduction into the
gastrointestinal tract ecosystem and its interaction with prebiotics and probiotics
(Chapter 1), it then describes the molecular techniques used for analysing the
complex gut ecosystem (Chapters 2 and 3), and discusses the design of human
trials for evaluating their efficacy (Chapter 4). It then moves into the area of
prebiotics and starts off by discussing the mechanisms of prebiotic impact on
health (Chapter 5); it then provides a systematic overview of established as well as
potential prebiotic oligosaccharides (Chapters 6 to 11). Each of these chapters
covers the processes used to manufacture these compounds, and critically dis-
cusses their efficacy based on published data from in vitro and in vivo studies. The
rest of the chapters in the prebiotics part cover the application of prebiotics in
animals (Chapter 12), the analysis of prebiotic oligosaccharides (Chapter 13), and
their manufacture from biomass sources (Chapter 14). The book then focuses on
probiotics and begins with a taxonomic study of probiotic microorganisms
(Chapter 15). It then discusses their interaction in the human gut (Chapter 16),
provides an overview of functional genomic studies of probiotics (Chapter 17),
discusses the challenges in their manufacture (Chapter 18) and in their addition
to foods (Chapter 19), and presents the encapsulation methodologies used
to improve probiotic delivery (Chapter 20). Subsequent chapters cover the
potential beneficial effects of probiotics focusing on antibiotic-associated and
Clostridium difficile diarrhea (Chapter 21), infectious and traveller’s diarrhea
(Chapter 22), immune modulation (Chapter 23), chronic gastrointestinal infec-
tions (Chapter 24), allergic diseases (Chapter 25), potential anti-carcinogenic
effects (Chapter 26), urogenital applications (Chapter 27), oral health
(Chapter 28), and on the development of mucosal vaccines based on lactic acid
bacteria (Chapter 29). Finally, the remaining chapters cover the applications of
probiotics in livestock animals (Chapter 30) and safety aspects of probiotics
(Chapter 31).
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The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the research
in the field of prebiotics and probiotics covering the achievements, challenges and
future needs. As such, we hope that this book will be a valuable reference to both
researchers and industrialists working in the field.
Dimitris Charalampopoulos
Bob Rastall
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Table of Contents
Volume 1
Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
1 Using Probiotics and Prebiotics to Manage the Gastrointestinal
Tract Ecosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Randal Buddington
2 Molecular Tools for Investigating the Gut Microbiota . . . . . . . . . 33
Christophe Lay
3 Post-Genomics Approaches towards Monitoring Changes
within the Microbial Ecology of the Gut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Kieran M. Tuohy . Leticia Abecia . Eddie R. Deaville . Francesca Fava .
Annett Klinder . Qing Shen
4 Designing Trials for Testing the Efficacy of Pre- Pro- and
Synbiotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Stephen Lewis . Charlotte Atkinson
5 Mechanisms of Prebiotic Impact on Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
H. Steed . S. Macfarlane
6 Fructan Prebiotics Derived from Inulin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Douwina Bosscher
7 Galacto-Oligosaccharide Prebiotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
George Tzortzis . Jelena Vulevic
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8 Prebiotic Potential of Xylo-Oligosaccharides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
H. Makelainen . M. Juntunen . O. Hasselwander
9 Resistant Starch and Starch-Derived Oligosaccharides as
Prebiotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
A. Adam-Perrot . L. Gutton . L. Sanders . S. Bouvier . C. Combe .
R. Van Den Abbeele . S. Potter . A. W. C. Einerhand
10 Oligosaccharides Derived from Sucrose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Pierre F. Monsan . Francois Ouarne
11 Prebiotic Potential of Polydextrose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Julian D. Stowell
12 Prebiotics in Companion and Livestock Animal Nutrition . . . . . 353
Kathleen A. Barry . Brittany M. Vester . George C. Fahey, Jr.
13 Analysis of Prebiotic Oligosaccharides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
M. L. Sanz . A. I. Ruiz-Matute . N. Corzo . I. Martınez-Castro
14 Manufacture of Prebiotics from Biomass Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
Patricia Gullon . Beatriz Gullon . Andres Moure . Jose Luis Alonso .
Herminia Domınguez . Juan Carlos Parajo
15 Taxonomy of Probiotic Microorganisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
Giovanna E. Felis . Franco Dellaglio . Sandra Torriani
Volume 2
Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
16 Ecological Interactions of Bacteria in the Human Gut . . . . . . . . 641
Gwen Falony . Luc De Vuyst
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17 Genomics of Probiotic Bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683
Sarah O’Flaherty . Yong Jun Goh . Todd R. Klaenhammer
18 Manufacture of Probiotic Bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727
J. A. Muller . R. P. Ross . G. F. Fitzgerald . C. Stanton
19 Some Technological Challenges in the Addition of Probiotic
Bacteria to Foods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763
Claude P. Champagne
20 Micro-Encapsulation of Probiotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807
Jean-Antoine Meiners
21 Probiotics and Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea and
Clostridium difficile Infection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827
Christina M. Surawicz
22 Probiotics for Infectious Diarrhea and Traveler’s
Diarrhea – What Do We Really Know? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847
Patricia L. Hibberd
23 Immunological Effects of Probiotics and their Significance to
Human Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901
Harsharn S. Gill . Sunita Grover . Virender K. Batish . Preet Gill
24 Probiotics and Chronic Gastrointestinal Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949
Francisco Guarner
25 Probiotics and Allergy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977
Seppo Salminen . Erika Isolauri
26 Potential Protective Effects of Probiotics and Prebiotics
Against Colorectal Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997
Philip Allsopp . Ian Rowland
27 Urogenital Applications of Probiotic Bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049
Gregor Reid
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28 Prebiotics and Probiotics and Oral Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1067
J. H. Meurman
29 Development of Mucosal Vaccines Based on Lactic Acid
Bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099
Luis G. Bermudez-Humaran . Silvia Innocentin . Francois Lefevre .
Jean-Marc Chatel . Philippe Langella
30 Application of Prebiotics and Probiotics in Livestock . . . . . . . . 1123
James W. Collins . Roberto M. La Ragione . Martin J. Woodward .
Laura E. J. Searle
31 Safety Assessment of Probiotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193
Sampo J. Lahtinen . Robert J. Boyle . Abelardo Margolles . Rafael Frias .
Miguel Gueimonde
Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1237
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Editors
Dimitris Charalampopoulos
Department of Food Biosciences
University of Reading
Whiteknights, Reading
UK
Robert Rastall
Department of Food Biosciences
University of Reading
Whiteknights, Reading
UK
List of Contributors
Leticia Abecia
Food Microbial Sciences
Department of Food Biosciences
University of Reading
Reading, UK
A. Adam-Perrot
TATE & LYLE Innovation Centre
Parc Scientific de la Haute Borne
Villeneuve d’Ascq
France
Philip Allsopp
Northern Ireland Centre for Food
and Health
Centre for Molecular Biosciences
University of Ulster
Coleraine, UK
Jose Luis Alonso
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Vigo
As Lagoas, Ourense, Spain
Charlotte Atkinson
Lecturer in Nutrition
University of Bristol and United Bristol
Healthcare, NHS Trust
Bristol, Avon, UK
Kathleen A. Barry
Department of Animal Sciences
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL, USA
Virender K. Batish
National Dairy Research Institute
Karnal (Haryana), India
Luis G. Bermudez-Humaran
Unite d’Ecologie et de
Physiologie du Systeme Digestif
INRA 0910, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Douwina Bosscher
Laboratory of Functional Food Science
and Nutrition
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Antwerp
Wilrijk, Belgium
S. Bouvier
TATE & LYLE Innovation Centre
Parc Scientific de la Haute Borne
Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Robert J. Boyle
Department of Paediatrics
Imperial College, London, UK
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Randal Buddington
Health and Sports Sciences
University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Claude P. Champagne
Food R & D Centre
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Casavant, St. Hyacinthe
QC, Canada
Jean-Marc Chatel
Unite d’Ecologie et de
Physiologie du Systeme Digestif
INRA 0910, Jouy-en-Josas, France
James W. Collins
Department of Bacterial Diseases
VLA (Veterinary Laboratories Agency)
Woodham Lane
New Haw, UK
C. Combe
TATE & LYLE Innovation Centre
Parc Scientific de la Haute Borne
Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
N. Corzo
Instituto de Fermentaciones Industriales
(C.S.I.C.) Juan de la Cierva
Madrid, Spain
Luc De Vuyst
Research Group of Industrial
Microbiology and Food Biotechnology
Department of Applied Biological
Sciences and Engineering
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan, Brussels, Belgium
Eddie R. Deaville
Food Microbial Sciences
Department of Food Biosciences
University of Reading
Reading, UK
Franco Dellaglio
Dipartimento Scientifico e Technologico
Facolta di Scienze MM. FF. NN.
Universita degli Studi di Verona
Verona, Italy
Herminia Domınguez
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Vigo
As Lagoas, Ourense, Spain
A. W. C. Einerhand
TATE & LYLE Innovation Centre
Parc Scientific de la Haute Borne
Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
George C. Fahey, Jr.
Department of Animal Sciences
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL, USA
Gwen Falony
Research Group of Industrial
Microbiology and Food Biotechnology
Department of Applied Biological
Sciences and Engineering
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan, Brussels, Belgium
Francesca Fava
Food Microbial Sciences
Department of Food Biosciences
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University of Reading
Reading, UK
Giovanna E. Felis
Dipartimento di Scienze Tecnologie
e Mercati della Vite e del Vino
Facolta di Scienze MM. FF. NN.
Universita degli Studi di Verona
Verona, Italy
G. F. Fitzgerald
Department of Microbiology
University College Cork
Cork, Co. Cork, Ireland
Rafael Frias
Central Animal Laboratory
University of Turku
Finland
Harsharn S. Gill
Primary Industries Research Victoria
Department of Primary Industries
Australia and Victoria University
Werribee, Victoria, Australia
Preet Gill
School of Medicine
Griffith University
Southport, Australia
Yong Jun Goh
Department of Food
Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences
and
Southeast Dairy Foods
Research Center
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC, USA
Sunita Grover
National Dairy Research Institute
Karnal (Haryana), India
Francisco Guarner
Digestive System Research Unit
University Hospital Vall d’Hebron
Barcelona, Spain
Miguel Gueimonde
Department of Microbiology and
Biochemistry of Dairy Products
Instituto de Productos Lacteos de
Asturias. CSIC
Asturias, Spain
Beatriz Gullon
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Vigo
As Lagoas, Ourense, Spain
Patricia Gullon
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Vigo
As Lagoas, Ourense, Spain
L. Gutton
TATE & LYLE Innovation Centre
Parc Scientific de la Haute Borne
Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
O. Hasselwander
Technology & Business Development
Danisco (UK) Limited
Redhill, UK
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Patricia L. Hibberd
Director, Center for Global Health
Research
and
Departments of Public Health and
Family Medicine,
Medicine, and Pediatrics
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA, USA
Silvia Innocentin
Unite d’Ecologie et de Physiologie du
Systeme Digestif INRA 0910
Jouy-en-Josas, France
andUnite de Virologie et Immunologie
Moleculaires
Domaine de Vilvert
INRA, UR892, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Erika Isolauri
Department of Paediatrics
University of Turku
and
Turku University Central Hospital
Finland
M. Juntunen
Danisco Finland Health & Nutrition
Kantvik, Finland
Todd R. Klaenhammer
Department of Food
Bioprocessing, and Nutrition Sciences;
and
Southeast Dairy Foods Research Center
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC, USA
Annett Klinder
Food Microbial Sciences
Department of Food Biosciences
University of Reading
Reading, UK
Roberto M. La Ragione
Dept. of Food & Environmental Safety
Veterinary Laboratories Agency (Defra)
Woodham Lane, KT15 3NB, Addlestone
Surrey, UK
Sampo J. Lahtinen
Danisco Finland Health & Nutrition
Kantvik, Finland
Philippe Langella
Unite d’Ecologie et de Physiologie du
Systeme Digestif
INRA 0910, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Christophe Lay
Department of Microbiology and
Immunology
University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand
Francois Lefevre
Unite de Virologie et Immunologie
Moleculaires
INRA, UR892, Domaine de Vilvert
Jouy-en-Josas, France
Stephen Lewis
Derriford Hospital
Plymouth, Devon, UK
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S. Macfarlane
Microbiology and Gut Biology Group
Ninewells Hospital Medical School
Dundee, UK
Abelardo Margolles
Department of Microbiology and
Biochemistry of Dairy Products
Instituto de Productos Lacteos de
Asturias. CSIC
Asturias, Spain
I. Martınez-Castro
Instituto de Quımica Organica General
(C.S.I.C.)
Juan de la Cierva Madrid, Spain
Jean-Antoine Meiners
Meiners Commodity Consultants S.A
Colombier, Switzerland
J. H. Meurman
Institute of Dentistry of Helsinki
and
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial
Disease
Helsinki University Central Hospital
Finland
H. Makelainen
Danisco Finland Health & Nutrition
Kantvik, Finland
Pierre F. Monsan
LISBP-INSA, UMR CNRS 5504
UMR INRA, Toulouse cedex, France
Andres Moure
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Vigo
As Lagoas, Ourense, Spain
J. A. Muller
Teagasc
Moorepark Food Research Centre
Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland
Sarah O’Flaherty
Department of Food
Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences;
and
Southeast Dairy Foods Research Center
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC, USA
Francois Ouarne
CRITT Bioindustries, INSA
Toulouse cedex, France
Juan Carlos Parajo
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Vigo
As Lagoas, Ourense, Spain
S. Potter
TATE & LYLE Innovation Centre
Parc Scientific de la Haute Borne
Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Gregor Reid
Canadian Research & Development
Centre for Probiotics
Lawson Health Research Institute
and
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Department of Microbiology &
Immunology
University of Western Ontario
ON, Canada
R. P. Ross
Teagasc
Moorepark Food Research Centre
Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland
Ian Rowland
Hugh Sinclair Unit for Human Nutrition
Department of Food Biosciences
University of Reading
Whiteknights, Reading, UK
A. I. Ruiz-Matute
Instituto de Quımica Organica General
(C.S.I.C.)
Juan de la Cierva Madrid, Spain
Seppo Salminen
Functional Foods Forum
University of Turku
20014 Turku, Finland
L. Sanders
TATE & LYLE Innovation Centre
Parc Scientific de la Haute Borne
Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
M. L. Sanz
Instituto de Quımica Organica General
(C.S.I.C.)
Juan de la Cierva Madrid, Spain
Laura E. J. Searle
Department of Bacterial Diseases
VLA (Veterinary Laboratories Agency)
Woodham Lane
New Haw, UK
Qing Shen
Food Microbial Sciences
Department of Food Biosciences
University of Reading
Whiteknights, Reading, UK
C. Stanton
Teagasc
Moorepark Food Research Centre
Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland
H. Steed
Microbiology and Gut Biology Group
Ninewells Hospital Medical School
Dundee, UK
Julian D. Stowell
Danisco Sweeteners
Danisco (UK) Ltd
Redhill, Surrey, UK
Christina M. Surawicz
Division of Gastroenterology
Department of Medicine
School of Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Sandra Torriani
Dipartimento di Scienze Technologie
e Mercati della Vite e del Vino
Universita degli Studi di Verona,
Verona, Italy
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Kieran M. Tuohy
Food Microbial Sciences
Department of Food Biosciences
Food Biosciences and Pharmacy
University of Reading
Reading, UK
George Tzortzis
Clasado Ltd
Wolverton Mill
Milton Keynes, UK
R. Van Den Abbeele
TATE & LYLE Innovation Centre
Parc Scientific de la Haute Borne
Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Brittany M. Vester
Department of Animal Sciences
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL, USA
Jelena Vulevic
Department of Food Biosciences
University of Reading
Whiteknights, Reading, UK
Martin J. Woodward
Department of Bacterial Diseases
VLA (Veterinary Laboratories Agency)
Woodham Lane
New Haw, UK
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