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ArticleScientific reports2022

Unusual free oligosaccharides in human bovine and caprine milk.

Wei-Chien Weng, Hung-En Liao, Shih-Pei Huang, Shang-Ting Tsai, Hsu-Chen Hsu, Chia Yen Liew, Veeranjaneyulu Gannedi, Shang-Cheng Hung, Chi-Kung Ni

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Wei-Chien WengInstitute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.
Hung-En LiaoInstitute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.
Shih-Pei HuangInstitute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.
Shang-Ting TsaiInstitute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.
Hsu-Chen HsuInstitute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.
Chia Yen LiewInstitute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.
Veeranjaneyulu GannediGenomic Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
Shang-Cheng HungGenomic Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
Chi-Kung NiInstitute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan. ckni@po.iams.sinica.edu.tw.
Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica · TWGenomics Research Center, Academia Sinica · TWInstitute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica · TWNational Tsing Hua University · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Free oligosaccharides are abundant macronutrients in milk and involved in prebiotic functions and antiadhesive binding of viruses and pathogenic bacteria to colonocytes. Despite the importance of these oligosaccharides, structural determination of oligosaccharides is challenging, and milk oligosaccharide biosynthetic pathways remain unclear. Oligosaccharide structures are conventionally determined using a combination of chemical reactions, exoglycosidase digestion, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry. Most reported free oligosaccharides are highly abundant and have lactose at the reducing end, and current oligosaccharide biosynthetic pathways in human milk are proposed based on these oligosaccharides. In this study, a new mass spectrometry technique, which can identify linkages, anomericities, and stereoisomers, was applied to determine the structures of free oligosaccharides in human, bovine, and caprine milk. Oligosaccharides that do not follow the current biosynthetic pathways and are not synthesized by any discovered enzymes were found, indicating the existence of undiscovered biosynthetic pathways and enzymes.

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GoatsMilkAnimalsCattleHumansLactoseMilk, HumanOligosaccharidesPrebioticsLactoseOligosaccharidesPrebiotics

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