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Revision as of 11:04, 26 August 2015
ENGINEERING NUTRITION TO INCREASE COLONIC BUTYRATE
THE PROJECT
Colon cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death with 30,000 new cases diagnosed every year in England and Wales and a registered cause of death in half that number.
Recent studies have suggested that high dietary intake of resistant starch may reduce colon cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. Resistant starches escape digestion in the small intestine and are fermented by microbiota in the colon. A small proportion of these colonic bacteria produce short chain fatty acids including butyrate, which can activate apoptosis in colon cancer cells.
Our project is focused on increasing the amount of butyrate in the colon.
THE SCIENCE
We are taking two approaches to improve butyrate levels in the colon.
In the first we aim to produce modified starches that might be consumed as a prebiotic. We will test the capability of various putative transferases to transfer acyl and butyryl groups to the alpha 1,4 carbohydrates produced in bacteria and plants. This will involve modelling carbohydrate molecules to find optimal branching and solubility states.
The second approach is to transfer the butyrate biosynthetic pathway to culturable bacterial species with the long-term aim of producing a probiotic.
MODELLING
Under Construction......
PROJECT TIMELINE
We kept a log of everything we did in and out of the labs so that you can follow our progress every step of the way.
Our project takes two approaches to prevent colon cancer - a Probiotic and a Prebiotic.
You can read the steps we took on our project timeline.
RESULTS
Under Construction......
