Assessing the GABA production ability of bacteria of food interest using rapid and simple colorimetric method
2024
Penland, Marine | Guédon, Eric | Chevalier, Séverine | Deutsch, Stéphanie-Marie | Science et Technologie du Lait et de l'Oeuf (STLO) ; Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Rennes Angers ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro) | Société Française de Microbiologie | https://www.alphavisa.com/sfm/2024/fr/
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. In recent years, consumer’s demand for healthy food products have increased considerably. As a result, much research is dedicated to the development of functional foods, i.e. food containing valuable bioactive compounds. Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the humanbrain and is involved in many physiological mechanisms such as anxiety management or blood pressure lowering. Supplementary GABA intake through food could thus be of interest for consumer’s health. Many microorganisms of food interest have been reported to produce GABA indicating that its contentcan be increased by microbial fermentation. Indeed, GABA production from L-glutamate is a bacterial mechanism to maintain pH homeostasis. The objective of the present work was thus to identify GABA-producing Lactic acid Bacteria and Propionic Bacteria of food interest, using a simple colorimetric methodexploiting this mechanism
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