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de Graaf MC, Timmers E, Bonekamp B, van Rooy G, Witteman BJ, Shewry PR, Lovegrove A, America AH, Gilissen LJ, Keszthelyi D, Brouns FJ, Jonkers DMAE. Two randomized crossover multicenter studies investigating gastrointestinal symptoms after bread consumption in individuals with noncoeliac wheat sensitivity: do wheat species and fermentation type matter? Am J Clin Nutr 2024; 119:896-907. [PMID: 38373694 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2024.02.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Revised: 02/14/2024] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/21/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Many individuals reduce their bread intake because they believe wheat causes their gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms. Different wheat species and processing methods may affect these responses. OBJECTIVES We investigated the effects of 6 different bread types (prepared from 3 wheat species and 2 fermentation conditions) on GI symptoms in individuals with self-reported noncoeliac wheat sensitivity (NCWS). METHODS Two parallel, randomized, double-blind, crossover, multicenter studies were conducted. NCWS individuals, in whom coeliac disease and wheat allergy were ruled out, received 5 slices of yeast fermented (YF) (study A, n = 20) or sourdough fermented (SF) (study B, n = 20) bread made of bread wheat, spelt, or emmer in a randomized order on 3 separate test days. Each test day was preceded by a run-in period of 3 d of a symptom-free diet and separated by a wash-out period of ≥7 d. GI symptoms were evaluated by change in symptom score (test day minus average of the 3-d run-in period) on a 0-100 mm visual analogue scale (ΔVAS), comparing medians using the Friedman test. Responders were defined as an increase in ΔVAS of ≥15 mm for overall GI symptoms, abdominal discomfort, abdominal pain, bloating, and/or flatulence. RESULTS GI symptoms did not differ significantly between breads of different grains [YF bread wheat median ΔVAS 10.4 mm (IQR 0.0-17.8 mm), spelt 4.9 mm (-7.6 to 9.4 mm), emmer 11.0 mm (0.0-21.3 mm), P = 0.267; SF bread wheat 10.5 mm (-3.1 to 31.5 mm), spelt 11.3 mm (0.0-15.3 mm), emmer 4.0 mm (-2.9 to 9.3 mm), P = 0.144]. The number of responders was also comparable for both YF (6 to wheat, 5 to spelt, and 7 to emmer, P = 0.761) and SF breads (9 to wheat, 7 to spelt, and 8 to emmer, P = 0.761). CONCLUSIONS The majority of NCWS individuals experienced some GI symptoms for ≥1 of the breads, but on a group level, no differences were found between different grains for either YF or SF breads. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRY clinicaltrials.gov, NCT04084470 (https://classic. CLINICALTRIALS gov/ct2/show/NCT04084470).
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Affiliation(s)
- Marlijne Cg de Graaf
- Department of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands; NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands; NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands; NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands; NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- Division Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Gelderse Vallei Hospital, Ede, The Netherlands; Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Business Unit Bioscience, Plant Sciences Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Plant Breeding, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands; NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
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- NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Department of Human Biology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands; NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
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de Graaf MCG, Lawton CL, Croden F, Smolinska A, Winkens B, Hesselink MAM, van Rooy G, Weegels PL, Shewry PR, Houghton LA, Witteman BJM, Keszthelyi D, Brouns FJPH, Dye L, Jonkers DMAE. The effect of expectancy versus actual gluten intake on gastrointestinal and extra-intestinal symptoms in non-coeliac gluten sensitivity: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, international, multicentre study. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol 2024; 9:110-123. [PMID: 38040019 DOI: 10.1016/s2468-1253(23)00317-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Revised: 09/07/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 12/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Many individuals without coeliac disease or wheat allergy reduce their gluten intake because they believe that gluten causes their gastrointestinal symptoms. Symptoms could be affected by negative expectancy. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the effects of expectancy versus actual gluten intake on symptoms in people with non-coeliac gluten sensitivity (NCGS). METHODS This randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, international, multicentre study was done at the University of Leeds (Leeds, UK), Maastricht University (Maastricht, the Netherlands), and Wageningen University and Research (Wageningen, the Netherlands). People aged 18-70 years with self-reported NCGS (ie, gastrointestinal symptoms within 8 h of gluten consumption) without coeliac disease and wheat allergy were recruited. Participants had to follow a gluten-free or gluten-restricted diet for at least 1 week before (and throughout) study participation and had to be asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic (overall gastrointestinal symptom score ≤30 mm on the Visual Analogue Scale [VAS]) while on the diet. Participants were randomly assigned (1:1:1:1; blocks of eight; stratified by site and gender) to one of four groups based on the expectation to consume gluten-containing (E+) or gluten-free (E-) oat bread for breakfast and lunch (two slices each) and actual intake of gluten-containing (G+) or gluten-free (G-) oat bread. Participants, investigators, and those assessing outcomes were masked to the actual gluten assignment, and participants were also masked to the expectancy part of the study. The primary outcome was overall gastrointestinal symptom score on the VAS, which was measured at and corrected for baseline (before breakfast) and hourly for 8 h, with lunch served after 4 h, and analysed per-protocol. Safety analysis included all participants incorporated in the per-protocol analysis. The study is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT05779358, and has ended. FINDINGS Between Oct 19, 2018, and Feb 14, 2022, 165 people were screened and 84 were randomly assigned to E+G+ (n=21), E+G- (n=21), E-G+ (n=20), or E-G- (n=22). One person in the E+G+ group was excluded due to not following test day instructions, leaving 83 participants in the per-protocol analysis. Median age was 27·0 years (IQR 21·0-45·0), 71 (86%) of 83 people were women, and 12 (14%) were men. Mean overall gastrointestinal symptom score was significantly higher for E+G+ (16·6 mm [95% CI 13·1 to 20·0]) than for E-G+ (6·9 mm [3·5 to 10·4]; difference 9·6 mm [95% CI 3·0 to 16·2], p=0·0010) and E-G- (7·4 mm [4·2 to 10·7]; difference 9·1 mm [2·7 to 15·6], p=0·0016), but not for E+G- (11·7 mm [8·3 to 15·1]; difference 4·9 mm [-1·7 to 11·5], p=0·28). There was no difference between E+G- and E-G+ (difference 4·7 mm [-1·8 to 11·3], p=0·33), E+G- and E-G- (difference 4·2 mm [-2·2 to 10·7], p=0·47), and E-G+ and E-G- (difference -0·5 mm [-7·0 to 5·9], p=1·0). Adverse events were reported by two participants in the E+G- group (itching jaw [n=1]; feeling lightheaded and stomach rumbling [n=1]) and one participant in the E-G+ group (vomiting). INTERPRETATION The combination of expectancy and actual gluten intake had the largest effect on gastrointestinal symptoms, reflecting a nocebo effect, although an additional effect of gluten cannot be ruled out. Our results necessitate further research into the possible involvement of the gut-brain interaction in NCGS. FUNDING Government of the Netherlands Topsector Agri & Food Top Consortium for Knowledge and Innovation, AB Mauri Global Bakery Ingredients, Baking Industry Research Trust, Borgesius-Albert Heijn, CSM Innovation Centre, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), DSM Food Specialties, Fazer, Healthgrain Forum, the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology, the International Wheat Gluten Association, Lantmännen, Mondelez International, Nederlands Bakkerij Centrum, Nutrition & Santé, Puratos, Rademaker, Sonneveld Group, and Zeelandia HJ Doeleman.
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- Marlijne C G de Graaf
- Department of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, Netherlands; NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Methodology and Statistics, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, Netherlands; NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, Netherlands; NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Food Chemistry, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands; European Bakery Innovation Centre, Sonneveld Group, Papendrecht, Netherlands
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Surgical Sciences, Leeds Institute of Medical Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands; Division of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Gelderse Vallei Hospital, Ede, Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, Netherlands; NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands; Department of Human Biology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, Netherlands; NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.
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Shewry PR, Wood AJ, Hassall KL, Pellny TK, Riche A, Hussain A, Shi Z, Mosleth EF, Charlton M, Poole M, Jones S, Newton K, Penson S, Tucker G, Griffiths S, Hawkesford MJ. Identification of traits underpinning good breadmaking performance of wheat grown with reduced nitrogen fertilisation. J Sci Food Agric 2023; 103:7664-7672. [PMID: 37458104 PMCID: PMC10952534 DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.12848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2023] [Revised: 06/13/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Nitrogen fertiliser is the major input and cost for wheat production, being required to support the development of the canopy to maximise yield and for the synthesis of the gluten proteins that are necessary for breadmaking. Consequently, current high-yielding cultivars require the use of nitrogen fertilisation levels above the yield optimum to achieve the grain protein content needed for breadmaking. This study aimed to reduce this requirement by identifying traits that allow the use of lower levels of nitrogen fertiliser to produce wheat for breadmaking. RESULTS A range of commercial wheat genotypes (cultivars) were grown in multiple field trials (six sites over 3 years) in the UK with optimal (200 kg Ha-1 ) and suboptimal (150 kg Ha-1 ) application of nitrogen. Bulked grain samples from four sites per year were milled and white flours were baked using three types of breadmaking process. This identified five cultivars that consistently exhibited good breadmaking quality when grown with the lower nitrogen application. Chemical and biochemical analyses showed that the five cultivars were characterised by exhibiting grain protein deviation (GPD) and high dough elasticity. CONCLUSIONS It is possible to develop novel types of wheat that exhibit good breadmaking quality by selecting for GPD and high dough strength. © 2023 The Authors. Journal of The Science of Food and Agriculture published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Rothamsted ResearchHertfordshireUK
- Department of BiosciencesCOMSATS University IslamabadSahiwalPakistan
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- ADM Milling LimitedCorbyUK
- Campden BRIGloucestershireUK
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Shewry PR, Joy EJM, De La Revilla LS, Hansen A, Brennan J, Lovegrove A. Increasing fibre in white flour and bread: Implications for health and processing. NUTR BULL 2023; 48:587-593. [PMID: 37904716 PMCID: PMC10947016 DOI: 10.1111/nbu.12648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Revised: 10/05/2023] [Accepted: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 11/01/2023]
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Dietary fibre is beneficial for human health, but dietary intakes are below recommended levels in most countries. Cereals are the major source of dietary fibre in Western diets, with bread providing about 20% of the daily intake in the United Kingdom. Despite the promotion of fibre-rich wholegrain products, white bread (which has a lower fibre content) remains dominant in many countries due to cultural preferences. Increasing the fibre content of white bread and other products made from white flour is therefore an attractive strategy for increasing fibre intake. This can be achieved by exploiting genetic variation in wheat without major effects on the processing quality or the consumer acceptability of products. Modelling data for food consumption in the United Kingdom shows that increasing the fibre content of white flour by 50% (from about 4% to 6% dry weight) and in wholegrain by 20% will increase total fibre intake by 1.04 g/day and 1.41 g/day in adult females and males, respectively. Furthermore, in vitro studies indicate that the increased fibre content of white bread should reduce the rate of starch digestion and glucose release in the human gastrointestinal tract.
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- Rothamsted ResearchHarpendenUK
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineLondonUK
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- Rothamsted ResearchHarpendenUK
- Aberystwyth University, PenglaisAberystwythUK
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Shewry PR, Brouns F, Dunn J, Hood J, Burridge AJ, America AHP, Gilissen L, Proos-Huijsmans ZAM, van Straaten JP, Jonkers D, Lazzeri PA, Ward JL, Lovegrove A. Comparative compositions of grain of tritordeum, durum wheat and bread wheat grown in multi-environment trials. Food Chem 2023; 423:136312. [PMID: 37182491 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2023.136312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2023] [Revised: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Three genotypes each of bread wheat, durum wheat and tritordeum were grown in randomized replicated field trials in Andalusia (Spain) for two years and wholemeal flours analysed for a range of components to identify differences in composition. The contents of all components that were determined varied widely between grain samples of the individual species and in most cases also overlapped between the three species. Nevertheless, statistically significant differences between the compositions of the three species were observed. Notably, tritordeum had significantly higher contents of protein, some minerals (magnesium and iron), total phenolics and methyl donors. Tritordeum also had higher levels of total amino acids (but not asparagine) and total sugars, including raffinose. By contrast, bread wheat and tritordeum had similar contents of the two major dietary fibre components in white flour, arabinoxylan and β-glucan, with significantly lower contents in durum wheat.
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- Peter R Shewry
- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK.
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- Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Life Sciences, University of Bristol, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
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- BU Bioscience, Plant Sciences Group, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands
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- Plant Breeding, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, PoBox 16, 6700AA Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Nederlands Bakkerij Centrum, Agro Business Park 75-83, 6708 PV Wageningen, Postbus 360, 6700 AJ Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Nederlands Bakkerij Centrum, Agro Business Park 75-83, 6708 PV Wageningen, Postbus 360, 6700 AJ Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Division of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine and School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Vivagran SL, Calle Calabria 35, SA2, 08015 Barcelona, Spain
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
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Daly M, Huang X, Nitride C, Tranquet O, Rogers A, Shewry PR, Gethings LA, Mills ENC. A chromatographic and immunoprofiling approach to optimising workflows for extraction of gluten proteins from flour. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2023; 1215:123554. [PMID: 36584432 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2022.123554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2022] [Revised: 10/12/2022] [Accepted: 11/26/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Ingestion of gluten proteins from wheat, and related prolamin proteins from barley, rye, and oats, can cause adverse reactions in individuals with coeliac disease and IgE-mediated allergies. As there is currently no cure for these conditions, patients must practice avoidance of gluten-containing foods. In order to support patients in making safe food choices, foods making a "gluten-free" claim must contain no more than 20 mg/Kg of gluten. Mass spectrometry methods have the potential to provide an alternative method for confirmatory analysis of gluten that is complementary to analysis currently undertaken by immunoassay. As part of the development of such methodology the effectiveness of two different extraction procedures was investigated using wholemeal wheat flour before and after defatting with water-saturated butan-1-ol. A single step extraction with 50 % (v/v) propan-2-ol containing 2 M urea and reducing agent (buffer 1) was compared with a two-step extraction using 60 % (v/v) aqueous ethanol (buffer 2) followed by re-extraction of the pellet using buffer 1, using either wheel mixing under ambient conditions (19 °C) or sonication at 60 °C. The procedures were compared based on total protein extraction efficiency and the composition of the extracts determined using a combination of HPLC, SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting with a panel of four gluten-specific monoclonal antibodies. Defatting generally had a detrimental effect on extraction efficiency and sonication at 60 °C only improved extraction efficiency with buffer 2. Although the single-step and two-step procedures were equally effective at extracting protein from the samples, analysis of extracts showed that the two-step method gave a more complete extraction of gluten proteins. Future studies will compare the effectiveness of these procedures when applied in the sample workflows for mass spectrometry based methods for determination of gluten in food.
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- Matthew Daly
- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; Department of Food and Nutrition, University of Helsinki, Agnes Sjöberginkatu 2, PL 66, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, Italy
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- UR1268 BIA, Rue de la Géraudière, BP 71627, 44316 Nantes, France; INRAE, Aix Marseille University, UMR1163 Biodiversité Et Biotechnologie Fongiques, (BBF), UMR1163, 13009 Marseille, France
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- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; School of Biosciences and Medicine, The University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
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Gaddameedi A, Sheraz S, Kumar A, Li K, Pellny T, Gupta R, Wan Y, Moore KL, Shewry PR. The location of iron and zinc in grain of conventional and biofortified lines of sorghum. J Cereal Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcs.2022.103531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Observations from animal and in vitro laboratory research, and anecdotal evidence, have led to the suggestion that gluten consumption stimulates weight gain by the presence of peptides expressing opioid activity. Another proposed mechanism is that gluten peptides decrease resting energy expenditure resulting in a positive energy balance. In order to induce such effects in vivo, intact food peptides must be absorbed in sufficient quantities, remain intact in the blood for sufficient time to have long‐lasting biological activity and bind to receptors involved in appetite, satiety and energy regulation. However, although peptides from food may pass from the intestine into the blood in extremely low quantities, they are generally rapidly degraded by plasma and vasculum‐bound aminopeptidases, resulting in very short half‐lives and loss of bioactivity. At present, gluten peptide sequences that influence regulators of energy metabolism have not been identified. Furthermore, data on the quantitative absorption of gluten peptides in the blood stream, their stability and lasting bioactivity are also lacking. Therefore, there is no evidence for proposed effects on driving appetite by the brain, nor on energy expenditure and weight gain. Furthermore, the level of overweight observed in various countries appears to be independent of the level of wheat consumption, and abundant observational evidence in humans shows that the levels of gluten consumption are neither related to daily calorie intake nor to BMI. This narrative review therefore discusses the proposed effects of gluten on bodyweight (BW) and putative biological mechanisms in the light of the current evidence.
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- Fred Brouns
- School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism Maastricht University Maastricht The Netherlands
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Brouns F, Geisslitz S, Guzman C, Ikeda TM, Arzani A, Latella G, Simsek S, Colomba M, Gregorini A, Zevallos V, Lullien‐Pellerin V, Jonkers D, Shewry PR. Do ancient wheats contain less gluten than modern bread wheat, in favour of better health? NUTR BULL 2022; 47:157-167. [PMID: 35915783 PMCID: PMC9322029 DOI: 10.1111/nbu.12551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Revised: 04/02/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Popular media messaging has led to increased public perception that gluten‐containing foods are bad for health. In parallel, ‘ancient grains’ have been promoted with claims that they contain less gluten. There appears to be no clear definition of ‘ancient grains’ but the term usually includes einkorn, emmer, spelt and Khorasan wheat. Gluten is present in all wheat grains and all can induce coeliac disease (CD) in genetically susceptible individuals. Analyses of ‘ancient’ and ‘modern’ wheats show that the protein content of modern bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) has decreased over time while the starch content increased. In addition, it was shown that, compared to bread wheat, ancient wheats contain more protein and gluten and greater contents of many CD‐active epitopes. Consequently, no single wheat type can be recommended as better for reducing the risks of or mitigating the severity of CD. An estimated 10% of the population of Western countries suffers from gastrointestinal symptoms that lack a clear organic cause and is often referred to as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Many of these patients consider themselves gluten sensitive, but in most cases this is not confirmed when tested in a medical setting. Instead, it may be caused by gas formation due to fermentation of fructans present in wheat or, in some patients, effects of non‐gluten proteins. A significant overlap of symptoms with those of CD, IBS and inflammatory bowel disease makes a medical diagnosis a priority. This critical narrative review examines the suggestion that ‘ancient’ wheat types are preferred for health and better tolerance.
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- Fred Brouns
- NUTRIM‐School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism Maastricht University Maastricht The Netherlands
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- Institute of Applied Biosciences Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Germany
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- ETSIAM Edificio Gregor Mendel Universidad de Córdoba Córdoba Spain
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- Western Region Agricultural Research Centre National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NAR0) Hiroshima Japan
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- College of Agriculture Isfahan University of Technology Isfahan Iran
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- Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Division University of L’Aquila L’Aquila Italy
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- NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism Maastricht University Maastricht The Netherlands
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Brouns F, Geisslitz S, Shewry PR. Is bread bad for health? J Cereal Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcs.2022.103447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Shewry PR, Lovegrove A, Wingen LU, Griffiths S. Opinion Exploiting genomics to improve the benefits of wheat: Prospects and limitations. J Cereal Sci 2022; 105:103444. [PMID: 35712025 PMCID: PMC9106566 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcs.2022.103444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Revised: 02/14/2022] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The last decade has seen an explosion in wheat genomic resources. These include genomic sequences and high-density molecular markers. Genomic resources allow the exploitation of novel genetic variation. Genomic resources are being used to improve the health benefits of wheat.
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- Peter R. Shewry
- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK
- Corresponding author.
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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Wan Y, Stewart T, Amrahli M, Evans J, Sharp P, Govindan V, Hawkesford MJ, Shewry PR. Localisation of iron and zinc in grain of biofortified wheat. J Cereal Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcs.2022.103470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Wang Y, Shewry PR, Hawkesford MJ, Qi P, Wan Y. High molecular weight glutenin subunit (HMW-GS) 1Dx5 is concentrated in small protein bodies when overexpressed in wheat starchy endosperm. J Cereal Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcs.2021.103291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Wilkinson MD, Kosik O, Halsey K, Walpole H, Evans J, Wood AJ, Ward JL, Mitchell RAC, Lovegrove A, Shewry PR. RNAi suppression of xylan synthase genes in wheat starchy endosperm. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0256350. [PMID: 34411179 PMCID: PMC8376096 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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The xylan backbone of arabinoxylan (AX), the major cell wall polysaccharide in the wheat starchy endosperm, is synthesised by xylan synthase which is a complex of three subunits encoded by the GT43_1, GT43_2 and GT47_2 genes. RNAi knock-down of either GT43_1 or all three genes (triple lines) resulted in decreased AX measured by digestion with endoxylanase (to 33 and 34.9% of the controls) and by monosaccharide analysis (to 45.9% and 47.4% of the controls) with greater effects on the amount of water-extractable AX (to 20.6 and 19.9% of the controls). Both sets of RNAi lines also had greater decreases in the amounts of substituted oligosaccharides released by digestion of AX with endoxylanase than in fragments derived only from the xylan backbone. Although the GT43_1 and triple lines had similar effects on AX they did differ in their contents of soluble sugars (increased in triple only) and on grain size (decreased in triple only). Both sets of transgenic lines had decreased grain hardness, indicating effects on cell wall mechanics. These results, and previously published studies of RNAi suppression of GT43_2 and GT47_2 and of a triple mutant of GT43_2, are consistent with the model of xylan synthase comprising three subunits one of which (GT47_2) is responsible for catalysis with the other two subunits being required for correct functioning but indicate that separate xylan synthase complexes may be responsible for the synthesis of populations of AX which differ in their structure and solubility.
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- Mark D. Wilkinson
- Plant Science Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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- Plant Science Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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- Computational and Analytical Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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- Computational and Analytical Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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- Computational and Analytical Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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- Plant Science Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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- Computational and Analytical Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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- Plant Science Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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- Plant Science Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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Sheraz S, Wan Y, Venter E, Verma SK, Xiong Q, Waites J, Connorton JM, Shewry PR, Moore KL, Balk J. Subcellular dynamics studies of iron reveal how tissue-specific distribution patterns are established in developing wheat grains. New Phytol 2021; 231:1644-1657. [PMID: 33914919 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Understanding the mechanisms of iron trafficking in plants is key to enhancing the nutritional quality of crops. Because it is difficult to image iron in transit, we currently have an incomplete picture of the route(s) of iron translocation in developing seeds and how the tissue-specific distribution is established. We have used a novel approach, combining iron-57 (57 Fe) isotope labelling and nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS), to visualize iron translocation between tissues and within cells in immature wheat grain, Triticum aestivum. This enabled us to track the main route of iron transport from maternal tissues to the embryo through the different cell types. Further evidence for this route was provided by genetically diverting iron into storage vacuoles, with confirmation provided by histological staining and transmission electron microscopy energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (TEM-EDS). Almost all iron in both control and transgenic grains was found in intracellular bodies, indicating symplastic rather than apoplastic transport. Furthermore, a new type of iron body, highly enriched in 57 Fe, was observed in aleurone cells and may represent iron being delivered to phytate globoids. Correlation of the 57 Fe enrichment profiles obtained by NanoSIMS with tissue-specific gene expression provides an updated model of iron homeostasis in cereal grains with relevance for future biofortification strategies.
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- Sadia Sheraz
- School of Materials and Photon Science Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Bioimaging facility, Department of Computational and Analytical Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ, UK
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- School of Materials and Photon Science Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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González-Thuillier I, Pellny TK, Tosi P, Mitchell RA, Haslam R, Shewry PR. Accumulation and deposition of triacylglycerols in the starchy endosperm of wheat grain. J Cereal Sci 2021; 98:103167. [PMID: 33897098 PMCID: PMC8047771 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcs.2021.103167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2020] [Revised: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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A combination of lipidomics, transcriptomics and bioimaging has been used to study triacylglycerol synthesis and deposition in the developing starchy endosperm of wheat. The content of TAG increased between 14 and 34 days after anthesis, from 50 to 115 mg/100 g dry wt and from about 35 to 175 mg/100 g dry wt in two experiments. The major fatty acids were C16 (palmitic C16:0 and palmitoleic C16:1) and C18 (stearic C18:0, oleic C18:1, linoleic C18:2 and linolenic C18:3), with unsaturated fatty acids accounting for about 75-80% of the total throughout development. Linoleic acid (C18:2) was the major component at all stages and the proportion increased during development. Transcript profiling indicated that predominant route to TAG synthesis and oil accumulation is via the Kennedy pathway and diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT) activity. Confocal microscopy of stained tissue sections showed that TAG accumulated in droplets which are associated with protein and concentrated in the starchy endosperm cells below the sub-aleurone cells. Transcripts encoding 16kd oleosins were also expressed, indicating that the oil droplets are in part stabilised by oleosin proteins.
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK
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- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Early Gate, RG6 6AR, UK
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK
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Wan Y, Wang Y, Shi Z, Rentsch D, Ward JL, Hassall K, Sparks CA, Huttly AK, Buchner P, Powers S, Shewry PR, Hawkesford MJ. Wheat amino acid transporters highly expressed in grain cells regulate amino acid accumulation in grain. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0246763. [PMID: 33606697 PMCID: PMC7894817 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 01/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Amino acids are delivered into developing wheat grains to support the accumulation of storage proteins in the starchy endosperm, and transporters play important roles in regulating this process. RNA-seq, RT-qPCR, and promoter-GUS assays showed that three amino acid transporters are differentially expressed in the endosperm transfer cells (TaAAP2), starchy endosperm cells (TaAAP13), and aleurone cells and embryo of the developing grain (TaAAP21), respectively. Yeast complementation revealed that all three transporters can transport a broad spectrum of amino acids. RNAi-mediated suppression of TaAAP13 expression in the starchy endosperm did not reduce the total nitrogen content of the whole grain, but significantly altered the composition and distribution of metabolites in the starchy endosperm, with increasing concentrations of some amino acids (notably glutamine and glycine) from the outer to inner starchy endosperm cells compared with wild type. Overexpression of TaAAP13 under the endosperm-specific HMW-GS (high molecular weight glutenin subunit) promoter significantly increased grain size, grain nitrogen concentration, and thousand grain weight, indicating that the sink strength for nitrogen transport was increased by manipulation of amino acid transporters. However, the total grain number was reduced, suggesting that source nitrogen remobilized from leaves is a limiting factor for productivity. Therefore, simultaneously increasing loading of amino acids into the phloem and delivery to the spike would be required to increase protein content while maintaining grain yield.
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- Yongfang Wan
- Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
- Triticeae Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, P. R. China
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- Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
- National Technology Innovation Center for Regional Wheat Production, Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, and Ecology and Production in Southern China, Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, P. R. China
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- University of Bern, Molecular Plant Physiology, Bern, Switzerland
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- Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Computational and Analytical Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Computational and Analytical Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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Pellny TK, Patil A, Wood AJ, Freeman J, Halsey K, Plummer A, Kosik O, Temple H, Collins JD, Dupree P, Berry S, Shewry PR, Lovegrove A, Phillips AL, Mitchell RA. Loss of TaIRX9b gene function in wheat decreases chain length and amount of arabinoxylan in grain but increases cross-linking. Plant Biotechnol J 2020; 18:2316-2327. [PMID: 32356579 PMCID: PMC7589350 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2019] [Revised: 02/24/2020] [Accepted: 04/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Wheat contains abundant xylan in cell walls of all tissues, but in endosperm, there is an unusual form of xylan substituted only by arabinose (arabinoxylan; AX) that has long chains and low levels of feruloylation, a fraction of which is extractable in water (WE-AX). WE-AX acts as soluble dietary fibre but also gives rise to viscous extracts from grain, a detrimental trait for some non-food uses of wheat. Here, we show that a glycosyl transferase family 43 wheat gene abundantly expressed in endosperm complements the Arabidopsis irx9 mutant and so name the three homoeologous genes TaIRX9b. We generated wheat lines with a constitutive knockout of TaIRX9b by stacking loss-of-function alleles for these homeologues from a mutagenized hexaploid wheat population resulting in decreases in grain extract viscosity of 50%-80%. The amount and chain length of WE-AX molecules from grain of these triple-stack lines was decreased accounting for the changes in extract viscosity. Imaging of immature wheat grain sections of triple-stacks showed abolition of immunolabelling in endosperm with LM11 antibody that recognizes epitopes in AX, but also showed apparently normal cell size and shape in all cell types, including endosperm. We identified differentially expressed genes from endosperm of triple-stacks suggesting that compensatory changes occur to maintain this endosperm cell wall integrity. Consistent with this, we observed increased ferulate dimerization and increased cross-linking of WE-AX molecules in triple-stacks. These novel wheat lines lacking functional TaIRX9b therefore provide insight into control of wheat endosperm cell walls.
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- Plant SciencesRothamsted ResearchHarpendenUK
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- Biochemistry DepartmentUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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- Biochemistry DepartmentUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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Mosleth EF, Lillehammer M, Pellny TK, Wood AJ, Riche AB, Hussain A, Griffiths S, Hawkesford MJ, Shewry PR. Genetic variation and heritability of grain protein deviation in European wheat genotypes. Field Crops Res 2020; 255:107896. [PMID: 32943810 PMCID: PMC7397848 DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2020.107896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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There is a well-established negative relationship between the yield and the concentration of protein in the mature wheat grain. However, some wheat genotypes consistently deviate from this relationship, a phenomenon known as Grain Protein Deviation (GPD). Positive GPD is therefore of considerable interest in relation to reducing the requirement for nitrogen fertilization for producing wheat for breadmaking. We have carried out two sets of field experiments on multiple sites in South East England. The first set comprised 11 field trials of 6 cultivars grown over three years (2008-2011) and the second comprised 9 field trials of 40 genotypes grown over two years (2015-2017) and 5 field trials of 30 genotypes grown in a single year (2017-2018). All trials comprised three replicate randomized plots of each genotype and nutrient regime. These studies showed strong genetic variation in GPD, which also differed in stability between genotypes, with cultivars bred in the UK generally having higher GPD and higher stability than those bred in other European countries. The heritability of GPD was estimated as 0.44, based on data from the field trials of 30 and 40 genotypes. The largest component contributing to the genetic variance was genotype (0.30), with a smaller contribution of the interaction between genotype and year/site (0.11) and a small (but statistically significant) contribution of nitrogen level. These studies suggest that selection for GPD is a viable target for breeders.
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Sahiwal Campus, Sahiwal, Punjab 57000, Pakistan
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
- Corresponding author.
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Turner AL, Michaelson LV, Shewry PR, Lovegrove A, Spencer JPE. Increased bioavailability of phenolic acids and enhanced vascular function following intake of feruloyl esterase-processed high fibre bread: A randomized, controlled, single blind, crossover human intervention trial. Clin Nutr 2020; 40:788-795. [PMID: 33077275 DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2020.07.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Revised: 07/13/2020] [Accepted: 07/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Clinical trial data have indicated an association between wholegrain consumption and a reduction in surrogate markers of cardiovascular disease. Phenolics present in wholegrain bound to arabinoxylan fibre may contribute these effects, particularly when released enzymatically from the fiber prior to ingestion. The aim of the present study was therefore to determine whether the intake of high fibre bread containing higher free ferulic acid (FA) levels (enzymatically released during processing) enhances human endothelium-dependent vascular function. METHODS A randomized, single masked, controlled, crossover, human intervention study was conducted on 19 healthy men. Individuals consumed either a high fibre flatbread with enzymatically released free FA (14.22 mg), an equivalent standard high fibre bread (2.34 mg), or a white bread control (0.48 mg) and markers of vascular function and plasma phenolic acid concentrations were measured at baseline, 2, 5 and 7 h post consumption. RESULTS Significantly increased brachial arterial dilation was observed following consumption of the high free FA ('enzyme-treated') high fibre bread verses both a white bread (2 h: p < 0.05; 5 h: p < 0.01) and a standard high fibre bread (5 h: p < 0.05). Concurrently, significant increases in plasma FA levels were observed, at 2 h (p < 0.01) after consumption of the enzyme-treated bread, relative to control treatments. Blood pressure, heart rate, DVP-SI and DVP-RI were not significantly altered following intake of any of the breads (p > 0.05). CONCLUSION Dietary intake of bread, processed enzymatically to release FA from arabinoxylan fiber during production increases the bioavailability of FA, and induces acute endothelium-dependent vasodilation. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRY NO: NCT03946293. WEBSITE: www.clinicaltrials.gov.
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- Alice L Turner
- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, UK (ALT, JPES)
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK (LVM, PRS, AL)
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK (LVM, PRS, AL).; School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, Berks, UK (PRS)
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK (LVM, PRS, AL)
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- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, UK (ALT, JPES)..
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Daly M, Bromilow SN, Nitride C, Shewry PR, Gethings LA, Mills ENC. Mapping Coeliac Toxic Motifs in the Prolamin Seed Storage Proteins of Barley, Rye, and Oats Using a Curated Sequence Database. Front Nutr 2020; 7:87. [PMID: 32766270 PMCID: PMC7379453 DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2020.00087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2019] [Accepted: 05/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Wheat gluten, and related prolamin proteins in rye, barley and oats cause the immune-mediated gluten intolerance syndrome, coeliac disease. Foods labelled as gluten-free which can be safely consumed by coeliac patients, must not contain gluten above a level of 20 mg/Kg. Current immunoassay methods for detection of gluten can give conflicting results and may underestimate levels of gluten in foods. Mass spectrometry methods have great potential as an orthogonal method, but require curated protein sequence databases to support method development. The GluPro database has been updated to include avenin-like sequences from bread wheat (n = 685; GluPro v1.1) and genes from the sequenced wheat genome (n = 699; GluPro v 1.2) and Triticum turgidum ssp durum (n = 210; GluPro v 2.1). Companion databases have been developed for prolamin sequences from barley (n = 64; GluPro v 3.0), rye (n = 41; GluPro v 4.0), and oats (n = 27; GluPro v 5.0) and combined to provide a complete cereal prolamin database, GluPro v 6.1 comprising 1,041 sequences. Analysis of the coeliac toxic motifs in the curated sequences showed that they were absent from the minor avenin-like proteins in bread and durum wheat and barley, unlike the related avenin proteins from oats. A comparison of prolamin proteins from the different cereal species also showed α- and γ-gliadins in bread and durum wheat, and the sulphur poor prolamins in all cereals had the highest density of coeliac toxic motifs. Analysis of ion-mobility mass spectrometry data for bread wheat (cvs Chinese Spring and Hereward) showed an increased number of identifications when using the GluPro v1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 databases compared to the limited number of verified sequences bread wheat sequences in reviewed UniProt. This family of databases will provide a basis for proteomic profiling of gluten proteins from all the gluten containing cereals and support identification of specific peptide markers for use in development of new methods for gluten quantitation based on coeliac toxic motifs found in all relevant cereal species.
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- Matthew Daly
- Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Crop Genetic Improvement, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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- Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Min B, Salt L, Wilde P, Kosik O, Hassall K, Przewieslik-Allen A, Burridge AJ, Poole M, Snape J, Wingen L, Haslam R, Griffiths S, Shewry PR. Genetic variation in wheat grain quality is associated with differences in the galactolipid content of flour and the gas bubble properties of dough liquor. Food Chem X 2020; 6:100093. [PMID: 32551438 PMCID: PMC7292906 DOI: 10.1016/j.fochx.2020.100093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2019] [Revised: 04/24/2020] [Accepted: 05/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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A QTL for breadmaking quality is associated with more galactolipids in flours. Dough liquor fractions from the same flours also have higher galactolipid contents. The dough liquor fractions with higher galactolipids exhibit increased elasticity. These increases indicate a mechanism of action for the quality QTL.
Lipids affect the quality of wheat flour for breadmaking. One possible mechanism is stabilization of the gas cells which are formed during dough mixing and expanded during fermentation, leading to a greater loaf volume and evenness of texture. We therefore compared the lipidomic profiles of flour and dough liquor fractions (which contain surface-active components present at the gas bubble interface) from two sets of wheat lines differing in allelic variation at a QTL for loaf volume. Analyses of fractions from three field trials showed consistent increases in the contents of galactolipids (monogalactosyl diglyceride and digalactosyl diglyceride) in flour and dough liquor of the lines with the increasing (good quality) allele. Biophysical analysis showed that this was associated with greater elasticity of the dough liquor fraction. This is consistent with published studies reporting a relationship between galactolipids and breadmaking quality and suggests a mechanism of action for the QTL.
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- Byoung Min
- Department of Plant Science, Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Quadram Institute Bioscience, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, NR4 7UA, UK
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- Quadram Institute Bioscience, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, NR4 7UA, UK
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- Department of Plant Science, Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Computational and Analytical Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Department of Plant Science, Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK.,Computational and Analytical Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Life Sciences, University of Bristol, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
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- Heygates Ltd., Bugbrooke Mill, Bugbrooke, Northampton NN7 3QH, UK
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Plant Science, Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Plant Science, Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
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The starchy endosperm of the mature wheat grain comprises three major cell types, namely sub-aleurone cells, prismatic cells and central cells, which differ in their contents of functional components: gluten proteins, starch, cell wall polysaccharides (dietary fibre) and lipids. Gradients are established during grain development but may be modified during grain maturation and are affected by plant nutrition, particularly nitrogen application, and environmental factors. Although the molecular controls of their formation are unknown, the high content of protein and low content of starch of sub-aleurone cells, compared to the other starchy endosperm cells types, may result from differences in developmental programming related to the cells having a separate origin (from anticlinal division of the aleurone cells). The gradients within the grain may be reflected in differences in the compositions of mill streams, particularly those streams enriched in the central and outer cells of the starchy endosperm, respectively, allowing the production of specialist flours for specific end uses. The mature starchy endosperm of wheat comprises three cell types. These differ in their contents of functional components. These differences are reflected in the compositions of mill streams. These differences may affect functionality. Hence innovative milling can be used to prepare flours for special uses.
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Key Words
- A, arabinose
- AX, arabinoxylan
- AXOS, arabinoxylan oligosaccharide
- DP, degree of polymerisation
- DPA, days past anthesis
- Dietary fibre
- FTIR, Fourier transform infrared
- GL, galactolipid
- Gluten proteins
- HMW, high molecular weight
- LMW, low molecular weight
- Lipids
- NMR, nuclear magnetic resonance
- PL, phospholipid
- Polysaccharides
- SIMS, secondary ion mass spectrometry
- Starch
- Starchy endosperm
- TAG, triacylglycerol
- TDF, total dietary fibre
- WE, water-extractable
- WU, water-unextractable
- Wheat
- White flour
- X, xylose
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- Peter R Shewry
- Plant Science Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, AL5 2JQ, UK.,School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Early Gate, RG6 6AR, Reading, UK
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- Plant Science Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, AL5 2JQ, UK
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- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Early Gate, RG6 6AR, Reading, UK
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Dell'Aquila C, Neal AL, Shewry PR. Development of a reproducible method of analysis of iron, zinc and phosphorus in vegetables digests by SEC-ICP-MS. Food Chem 2019; 308:125652. [PMID: 31669949 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2019.125652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2018] [Revised: 08/10/2019] [Accepted: 10/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Vegetables contain iron, zinc and phosphorus as complexes with phytates limiting their availability from a vegetarian diet, meaning non-haem iron deficiency anaemia and zinc deficiency immune malfunction are a risk. Although these elements have been analysed previously in biological fluids and cereal using LC-ICP-MS, there is no method suitable for analysing iron, zinc and phosphorus simultaneously in vegetables because of their complex matrix. In this study, we analysed iron, zinc and phosphorus in cabbage, broccoli, pepper, spinach, kale and rocket after a simulated gastrointestinal digestion using a newly optimised SEC-ICP-MS method. Ammonium nitrate, as the mobile phase, and a suitable rinsing regime, allowed good reproducibility and maintenance of the equipment. The method showed good reproducibility and can be easily adapted to other vegetables, as required.
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- Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
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Shi Z, Wang Y, Wan Y, Hassall K, Jiang D, Shewry PR, Hawkesford MJ. Gradients of Gluten Proteins and Free Amino Acids along the Longitudinal Axis of the Developing Caryopsis of Bread Wheat. J Agric Food Chem 2019; 67:8706-8714. [PMID: 31310118 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b02728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Gradients in the contents and compositions of gluten proteins and free amino acids and the expression levels of gluten protein genes in developing wheat caryopses were determined by dividing the caryopsis into three longitudinal sections, namely, proximal (En1), middle (En2), and distal (En3) to embryo. The total gluten protein content was lower in En1 than in En2 and En3, with decreasing proportions of HMW-GS, LMW GS, and α/β- and γ-gliadins and increasing proportions of ω-gliadins. These differences were associated with the abundances of gluten protein transcripts. Gradients in the proportions of the gluten protein polymers which affect dough processing quality also occurred, but not in total free amino acids. Microscopy showed that the lower gluten protein content in En1 may have resulted, at least in part, from the presence of modified cells in the dorsal part of En1, but the reasons for the differences in composition are not known.
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- Zhiqiang Shi
- National Technology Innovation Center for Regional Wheat Production, Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, and Ecology and Production in Southern China, Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture , Nanjing Agricultural University , Nanjing 210095 , P.R. China
- Plant Sciences Department , Rothamsted Research , Harpenden , Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ , U.K
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- Plant Sciences Department , Rothamsted Research , Harpenden , Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ , U.K
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- Plant Sciences Department , Rothamsted Research , Harpenden , Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ , U.K
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- Computational and Analytical Sciences Department , Rothamsted Research , Harpenden , Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ , U.K
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- National Technology Innovation Center for Regional Wheat Production, Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, and Ecology and Production in Southern China, Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture , Nanjing Agricultural University , Nanjing 210095 , P.R. China
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- Plant Sciences Department , Rothamsted Research , Harpenden , Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ , U.K
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- Plant Sciences Department , Rothamsted Research , Harpenden , Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ , U.K
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Soycan G, Schär MY, Kristek A, Boberska J, Alsharif SNS, Corona G, Shewry PR, Spencer JPE. Composition and content of phenolic acids and avenanthramides in commercial oat products: Are oats an important polyphenol source for consumers? Food Chem X 2019; 3:100047. [PMID: 31432024 PMCID: PMC6694861 DOI: 10.1016/j.fochx.2019.100047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2019] [Revised: 07/02/2019] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Commercial oat products contained ten phenolic acids and three avenanthramides. Commercial oats provide 15.79–25.05 mg total phenolic acids in a 40 g serving of oats. The concentrations and compositions in the products were broadly similar. Major component was ferulic acid (58–78.1%) in all products. Oatbran concentrate has the highest levels of phenolic acids and avenanthramides.
Oats contain a range of phenolic acids and avenanthramides which may have health benefits. Analysis of 22 commercial oat products (oat bran concentrate, oat bran, flaked oats, rolled oats and oatcakes) using HPLC-DAD detected eleven bound and thirteen free + conjugated phenolic acids and avenanthramides. The oat products (excluding concentrate) provided between 15.79 and 25.05 mg total phenolic acids (9.9–19.33 mg bound, 4.96–5.72 mg free + conjugated) and between 1.1 and 2 mg of avenanthramides in a 40 g portion while an 11 g portion of oat concentrate provided 16.7 mg of total phenolic acids (15.17 mg bound, 1.53 mg free + conjugated) and 1.2 mg of avenanthramides. The compositions and concentrations of the components in the different products were broadly similar, with the major component being ferulic acid (58–78.1%). The results show that commercial oat products are a source of phenolic acids and avenanthramides for consumers.
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- Gulten Soycan
- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Reading, UK
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- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Reading, UK
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- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Reading, UK
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- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Reading, UK
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- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Reading, UK
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- Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Reading, UK.,Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK
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- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Reading, UK
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Wheat is the staple food crop in temperate countries and increasingly consumed in developing countries, displacing traditional foods. However, wheat products are typically low in bioavailable iron and zinc, contributing to deficiencies in these micronutrients in countries where wheat is consumed as a staple food. Two factors contribute to the low contents of bioavailable iron and zinc in wheat: the low concentrations of these minerals in white flour, which is most widely consumed, and the presence of phytates in mineral‐rich bran fractions. Although high zinc types of wheat have been developed by conventional plant breeding (biofortification), this approach has failed for iron. However, studies in wheat and other cereals have shown that transgenic (also known as genetically modified; GM) strategies can be used to increase the contents of iron and zinc in white flour, by converting the starchy endosperm tissue into a ‘sink’ for minerals. Although such strategies currently have low acceptability, greater understanding of the mechanisms which control the transport and deposition of iron and zinc in the developing grain should allow similar effects to be achieved by exploiting naturally induced genetic variation. When combined with conventional biofortification and innovative processing, this approach should provide increased mineral bioavailability in a range of wheat products, from white flour to wholemeal.
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- J Balk
- John Innes Centre Norwich Research Park Norwich UK.,School of Biological Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich UK
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- John Innes Centre Norwich Research Park Norwich UK.,School of Biological Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich UK
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- Department of Plant Science Rothamsted Research Harpenden UK
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- Department of Plant Science Rothamsted Research Harpenden UK
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- School of Materials University of Manchester Manchester UK.,Photon Science Institute University of Manchester Manchester UK
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- John Innes Centre Norwich Research Park Norwich UK
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences Kings College London UK
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- Department of Plant Science Rothamsted Research Harpenden UK
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Tosi P, He J, Lovegrove A, Gonzáles-Thuillier I, Penson S, Shewry PR. Corrigendum to “Gradients in compositions in the starchy endosperm of wheat have implications for milling and processing” [Trends in Food Science and Technology 82 (2018) 1–7]. Trends Food Sci Technol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2018.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Tosi P, He J, Lovegrove A, Gonzáles-Thuillier I, Penson S, Shewry PR. Gradients in compositions in the starchy endosperm of wheat have implications for milling and processing. Trends Food Sci Technol 2018; 82:1-7. [PMID: 30532347 PMCID: PMC6267945 DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2018.09.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2018] [Revised: 07/24/2018] [Accepted: 09/26/2018] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Wheat is the major food grain consumed in temperate countries. Most wheat is consumed after milling to produce white flour, which corresponds to the endosperm storage tissue of the grain. Because the starchy endosperm accounts for about 80% of the grain dry weight, the miller aims to achieve flour yields approaching this value. SCOPE AND APPROACH Bioimaging can be combined with biochemical analysis of fractions produced by sequential pearling of whole grains to determine the distributions of components within the endosperm tissue. KEY FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS This reveals that endosperm is not homogeneous, but exhibits gradients in composition from the outer to the inner part. These include gradients in both amount and composition. For example, the content of gluten proteins decreases but the proportion of glutenin polymers increases from the outside to the centre of the tissue. However, the content of starch increases with changes in the granule size distribution, the proportions of amylose and amylopectin, and their thermal properties. Hence these parts of the endosperm differ in the functional properties for food processing. Gradients also exist in minor components which may affect health and processing, such as dietary fibre and lipids. The gradients in grain composition are reflected in differences in the compositions of the mill streams which are combined to give white flour (which may number over 20). These differences could therefore be exploited by millers and food processors to develop flours with compositions and properties for specific end uses.
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- Paola Tosi
- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Early Gate, RG6 6AR, Reading, UK
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- School of Science, Engineering and Design, Teesside University, TS1 3BA, UK
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- Plant Science Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Plant Science Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts, AL5 2JQ, UK
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Moore KL, Rodríguez-Ramiro I, Jones ER, Jones EJ, Rodríguez-Celma J, Halsey K, Domoney C, Shewry PR, Fairweather-Tait S, Balk J. The stage of seed development influences iron bioavailability in pea (Pisum sativum L.). Sci Rep 2018; 8:6865. [PMID: 29720667 PMCID: PMC5932076 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-25130-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2018] [Accepted: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Pea seeds are widely consumed in their immature form, known as garden peas and petit pois, mostly after preservation by freezing or canning. Mature dry peas are rich in iron in the form of ferritin, but little is known about the content, form or bioavailability of iron in immature stages of seed development. Using specific antibodies and in-gel iron staining, we show that ferritin loaded with iron accumulated gradually during seed development. Immunolocalization and high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS) revealed that iron-loaded ferritin was located at the surface of starch-containing plastids. Standard cooking procedures destabilized monomeric ferritin and the iron-loaded form. Iron uptake studies using Caco-2 cells showed that the iron in microwaved immature peas was more bioavailable than in boiled mature peas, despite similar levels of soluble iron in the digestates. By manipulating the levels of phytic acid in the digestates we demonstrate that phytic acid is the main inhibitor of iron uptake from mature peas in vitro. Taken together, our data show that immature peas and mature dry peas contain similar levels of ferritin-iron, which is destabilized during cooking. However, iron from immature peas is more bioavailable because of lower phytic acid levels compared to mature peas.
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- Katie L Moore
- School of Materials, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Department of Metabolic Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.
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Salt LJ, González-Thuillier I, Chope G, Penson S, Tosi P, Haslam RP, Skeggs PK, Shewry PR, Wilde PJ. Intrinsic wheat lipid composition effects the interfacial and foaming properties of dough liquor. Food Hydrocoll 2018; 75:211-222. [PMID: 29398762 PMCID: PMC5646524 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2017.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Doughs were prepared from a single variety breadmaking flour (cv. Hereward), from three successive harvests (years; 2011, 2012 and 2013). A preparation of the aqueous phase from dough, known as dough liquor (DL), was prepared by ultracentrifugation and its physico-chemical properties were investigated. Surface tension and interfacial rheology, showed that the interface of DL was lipid-dominated and that 2013 DL had a different type of interface to 2011 and 2012 DL. This data was consistent with the improved foam stability observed for 2013 DL and with the types of lipids identified. All foams collapsed quickly, but the most stable foam was from 2013 DL with 89.2% loss in foam, followed by 2011 DL with 91.7% loss and 2012 had the least stable foam with a loss of 92.5% of the foam structure. Glycolipids (DGDG and MGDG) were enriched in 2013 DL, and were also present in DL foam, contributing towards improved stability. Neutral lipids, such as FFAs, were enriched in DL foams contributing towards instability and rapid foam collapse. Baking trials using 2012 and 2013 flour, showed increased loaf volumes and gas bubble diameter in 2013 bread compared to 2012 bread, highlighting the potential impact that surface active polar lipids, enriched in the aqueous phase of dough, could have on improving breadmaking quality. During proving, gas bubble stability is determined by the types of lipids adsorbed at the air-water interface of the aqueous phase. Both proteins and lipids were active at the air-water interface of dough liquor (DL), but it was dominated by lipids. FFAs were enriched in DL foams and were detrimental to foam stability, whilst Polar lipids were enriched in DL. Greatest loaf volumes were generated from flour that produced DL with the highest enrichment of polar lipids.
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- Louise J. Salt
- Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7UA, UK
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- Campden BRI, Station Road, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, GL55 6LD, UK
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- Campden BRI, Station Road, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, GL55 6LD, UK
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- University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AH, UK
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- Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Hovis Limited, The Lord Rank Centre, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP12 3QS, UK
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- Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK
- University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AH, UK
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- Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7UA, UK
- Corresponding author.
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De Santis MA, Kosik O, Passmore D, Flagella Z, Shewry PR, Lovegrove A. Data set of enzyme fingerprinting of dietary fibre components (arabinoxylan and β-glucan) in old and modern Italian durum wheat genotypes. Data Brief 2018; 16:1062-1068. [PMID: 29326969 PMCID: PMC5760467 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.12.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2017] [Revised: 12/05/2017] [Accepted: 12/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The data presented are related to the research article entitled “Comparison of the dietary fibre composition of old and modern durum wheat (Triticum turgidum spp. durum) genotypes” (De Santis et al., 2018) [1]. This article provides details of the structures of the major dietary fibre components, arabinoxylan and β-glucan, in semolina and wholemeal flour of old and modern Italian durum wheat genotypes grown in two seasons, determined by enzyme digestion followed by high-performance anion-exchange chromatography (enzyme fingerprinting).
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- Michele A De Santis
- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, degli Alimenti e dell'Ambiente (SAFE), Università degli Studi di Foggia, Via Napoli 25, 71122 Foggia, Italy
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, degli Alimenti e dell'Ambiente (SAFE), Università degli Studi di Foggia, Via Napoli 25, 71122 Foggia, Italy
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom
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A number of studies have suggested that ancient wheats have health benefits compared with modern bread wheat. However, the mechanisms are unclear and limited numbers of genotypes have been studied, with a particular focus on Kamut® (Khorasan wheat). This is important because published analyses have shown wide variation in composition between genotypes, with further effects of growth conditions. The present article therefore critically reviews published comparisons of the health benefits of ancient and modern wheats, in relation to the selection and growth of the lines, including dietary interventions and comparisons of adverse effects (allergy, intolerance, sensitivity). It is concluded that further studies are urgently required, particularly from a wider range of research groups, but also on a wider range of genotypes of ancient and modern wheat species. Furthermore, although most published studies have made efforts to ensure the comparability of material in terms of growth conditions and processing, it is essential that these are standardised in future studies and this should perhaps be a condition of publication. Critically appraises the health benefits of ancient wheats in relationship to grain composition. Includes human intervention trials and in vitro studies. Included metabolic and adverse effects. Makes recommendations for future work.
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- Peter R Shewry
- Department of Plant Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK.,School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Reading RG6 6AR, UK
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Schär MY, Corona G, Soycan G, Dine C, Kristek A, Alsharif SNS, Behrends V, Lovegrove A, Shewry PR, Spencer JPE. Excretion of Avenanthramides, Phenolic Acids and their Major Metabolites Following Intake of Oat Bran. Mol Nutr Food Res 2017; 62. [PMID: 29024323 PMCID: PMC5836716 DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201700499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2017] [Revised: 09/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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SCOPE Wholegrain has been associated with reduced chronic disease mortality, with oat intake particularly notable for lowering blood cholesterol and glycemia. To better understand the complex nutrient profile of oats, we studied urinary excretion of phenolic acids and avenanthramides after ingestion of oat bran in humans. METHODS AND RESULTS After a 2-d (poly)phenol-low diet, seven healthy men provided urine 12 h before and 48 h after consuming 60 g oat bran (7.8 μmol avenanthramides, 139.2 μmol phenolic acids) or a phenolic-low (traces of phenolics) control in a crossover design. Analysis by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UPLC)-MS/MS showed that oat bran intake resulted in an elevation in urinary excretion of 30 phenolics relative to the control, suggesting that they are oat bran-derived. Mean excretion levels were elevated between 0-2 and 4-8 h, following oat bran intake, and amounted to a total of 33.7 ± 7.3 μmol total excretion (mean recovery: 22.9 ± 5.0%), relative to control. The predominant metabolites included: vanillic acid, 4- and 3-hydroxyhippuric acids, and sulfate-conjugates of benzoic and ferulic acids, which accounted collectively for two thirds of total excretion. CONCLUSION Oat bran phenolics follow a relatively rapid urinary excretion, with 30 metabolites excreted within 8 h of intake. These levels of excretion suggest that bound phenolics are, in part, rapidly released by the microbiota.
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- Manuel Y Schär
- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Roehampton, London, UK
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- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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Freeman J, Ward JL, Kosik O, Lovegrove A, Wilkinson MD, Shewry PR, Mitchell RA. Feruloylation and structure of arabinoxylan in wheat endosperm cell walls from RNAi lines with suppression of genes responsible for backbone synthesis and decoration. Plant Biotechnol J 2017; 15:1429-1438. [PMID: 28316134 PMCID: PMC5633762 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2017] [Revised: 03/10/2017] [Accepted: 03/13/2017] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Arabinoxylan (AX) is the major component of the cell walls of wheat grain (70% in starchy endosperm), is an important determinant of end-use qualities affecting food processing, use for animal feed and distilling and is a major source of dietary fibre in the human diet. AX is a heterogeneous polysaccharide composed of fractions which can be sequentially extracted by water (WE-AX), then xylanase action (XE-AX) leaving an unextractable (XU-AX) fraction. We determined arabinosylation and feruloylation of AX in these fractions in both wild-type wheat and RNAi lines with decreased AX content (TaGT43_2 RNAi, TaGT47_2 RNAi) or decreased arabinose 3-linked to mono-substituted xylose (TaXAT1 RNAi). We show that these fractions are characterized by the degree of feruloylation of AX, <5, 5-7 and 13-19 mg bound ferulate (g-1 AX), and their content of diferulates (diFA), <0.3, 1-1.7 and 4-5 mg (g-1 AX), for the WE, XE and XU fractions, respectively, in all RNAi lines and their control lines. The amount of AX and its degree of arabinosylation and feruloylation were less affected by RNAi transgenes in the XE-AX fraction than in the WE-AX fraction and largely unaffected in the XU-AX fraction. As the majority of diFA is associated with the XU-AX fraction, there was only a small effect (TaGT43_2 RNAi, TaGT47_2 RNAi) or no effect (TaXAT1 RNAi) on total diFA content. Our results are compatible with a model where, to maintain cell wall function, diFA is maintained at stable levels when other AX properties are altered.
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- Jackie Freeman
- Plant Biology and Crop ScienceRothamsted ResearchHarpendenHertfordshireUK
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- Plant Biology and Crop ScienceRothamsted ResearchHarpendenHertfordshireUK
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- Plant Biology and Crop ScienceRothamsted ResearchHarpendenHertfordshireUK
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- Plant Biology and Crop ScienceRothamsted ResearchHarpendenHertfordshireUK
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- Plant Biology and Crop ScienceRothamsted ResearchHarpendenHertfordshireUK
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- Plant Biology and Crop ScienceRothamsted ResearchHarpendenHertfordshireUK
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De Santis MA, Kosik O, Passmore D, Flagella Z, Shewry PR, Lovegrove A. Comparison of the dietary fibre composition of old and modern durum wheat (Triticum turgidum spp. durum) genotypes. Food Chem 2017; 244:304-310. [PMID: 29120786 PMCID: PMC5692191 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2017.09.143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2017] [Revised: 08/29/2017] [Accepted: 09/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Dietary fibre components in old and recent genotypes of durum wheat are compared. No differences in total arabinoxylan were observed in wholemeal or semolina. Recent genotypes contained a higher proportion of soluble arabinoxylan in wholemeal. Recent genotypes contained higher proportions of beta-glucan. Intensive breeding has not led to decreases in dietary fibre in durum wheat.
It has been suggested that intensive breeding has led to decreased contents of health-promoting components in modern wheats. We therefore compared the contents and compositions of the major dietary fibre components, arabinoxylan and β-glucan, in semolina and wholemeal flour of old and modern Italian durum wheats. No differences in total arabinoxylan content were observed but the modern varieties had higher proportions of soluble arabinoxylan in wholemeals and of β-glucan in semolina. The study therefore provides no evidence that intensive breeding has had negative effects on the contents of dietary fibre components in durum wheat. However, comparison of material grown over two years indicated that the content and composition of arabinoxylan and β-glucan were more stable in the older than in the modern genotypes. The identification of modern cultivars with high viscosity associated with a high content of β-glucan suggests that they are good sources of fibre for human health.
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- Michele Andrea De Santis
- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, degli Alimenti e dell'Ambiente (SAFE), Università degli Studi di Foggia, Via Napoli 25-71122, Foggia, Italy.
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom.
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, degli Alimenti e dell'Ambiente (SAFE), Università degli Studi di Foggia, Via Napoli 25-71122, Foggia, Italy.
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom.
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom.
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Min B, González-Thuillier I, Powers SJ, Wilde P, Shewry PR, Haslam RP. Effects of Cultivar and Nitrogen Nutrition on the Lipid Composition of Wheat Flour. J Agric Food Chem 2017; 65:5427-5434. [PMID: 28614658 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b01437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Despite being minor components of flour, wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) lipids contribute to grain processing. They are particularly important for bread making, where they adsorb to the surface of gas bubbles formed during the proving stage of bread making, stabilizing the gas cells and improving gas retention within the dough. This contributes to the volume and texture of the loaf. However, little is understood about how their amount, composition, and properties vary in response to genotype (G), environment (E) or G × E interactions. Six wheat lines were therefore grown at three levels of nitrogen supply at Rothamsted Research, and 48 lipid species across six lipid classes were identified and quantified in white flour using electrospray ionization-tandem triple quadrupole mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS). This showed clear differences in the contents and compositions of lipids between cultivar as well as effects of nitrogen fertilization, which would be expected to have impacts on the processing properties of the samples.
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- Quadram Institute Bioscience, Institute of Food Research , Norwich Research Park NR4 7UA, United Kingdom
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Shewry PR, Corol DI, Jones HD, Beale MH, Ward JL. Defining genetic and chemical diversity in wheat grain by 1H-NMR spectroscopy of polar metabolites. Mol Nutr Food Res 2017; 61:1600807. [PMID: 28087883 PMCID: PMC5516129 DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201600807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2016] [Revised: 12/12/2016] [Accepted: 01/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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SCOPE The application of high-throughput 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) of unpurified extracts to determine genetic diversity and the contents of polar components in grain of wheat. METHODS AND RESULTS Milled whole wheat grain was extracted with 80:20 D2 O:CD3 OD containing 0.05% d4 -trimethylsilylpropionate. 1H-NMR spectra were acquired under automation at 300°K using an Avance Spectrometer operating at 600.0528 MHz. Regions for individual metabolites were identified by comparison to a library of known standards run under identical conditions. The individual 1H-NMR peaks or levels of known metabolites were then compared by Principal Component Analysis using SIMCA-P software. CONCLUSIONS High-throughput 1H-NMR is an excellent tool to compare the extent of genetic diversity within and between wheat species, and to quantify specific components (including glycine betaine, choline, and asparagine) in individual genotypes. It can also be used to monitor changes in composition related to environmental factors and to support comparisons of the substantial equivalence of transgenic lines.
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- Peter R Shewry
- Department of Plant and Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
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- Department of Plant and Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
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- Department of Plant and Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
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- Department of Plant and Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
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- Department of Plant and Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
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De Santis MA, Giuliani MM, Giuzio L, De Vita P, Lovegrove A, Shewry PR, Flagella Z. Differences in gluten protein composition between old and modern durum wheat genotypes in relation to 20th century breeding in Italy. Eur J Agron 2017; 87:19-29. [PMID: 28769550 PMCID: PMC5521873 DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2017.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2016] [Revised: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 04/14/2017] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The impact of breeding on grain yields of wheat varieties released during the 20th century has been extensively studied, whereas less information is available on the changes in gluten quality associated with effects on the amount and composition of glutenins and gliadins. In order to explore the effects of breeding during the 20th century on gluten quality of durum wheat for processing and health we have compared a set of old and modern Italian genotypes grown under Mediterranean conditions. The better technological performance observed for the modern varieties was found to be due not only to the introgression of superior alleles of high (HMW-GS) and low molecular weight (LMW-GS) glutenin subunits encoded at Glu-B1 and Glu-B3 loci, but also to differential expression of specific storage proteins. In particular, the higher gluten index observed in modern genotypes was correlated with an increased glutenin/gliadin ratio and the expression of B-type LMW-GS which was, on average, two times higher in the modern than in the old group of durum wheat genotypes. By contrast, no significant differences were found between old and modern durum wheat genotypes in relation to the expression of α-type and γ-type gliadins which are major fractions that trigger coeliac disease (CD) in susceptible individuals. Furthermore, a drastic decrease was observed in the expression of ω-type gliadins in the modern genotypes, mainly ω-5 gliadin (also known as Tri a 19) which is a major allergen in wheat dependent exercise induced anaphylaxis (WDEIA). Immunological and 2DE SDS-PAGE analyses indicated that these differences could be related either to a general down-regulation or to differences in numbers of isoforms. Lower rainfall during grain filling period was related to overall higher expression of HMW-GS and ω-gliadins. In conclusion, breeding activity carried out in Italy during the 20th century appears to have improved durum wheat gluten quality, both in relation to technological performance and allergenic potential.
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- Michele A. De Santis
- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, degli Alimenti e dell’Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Foggia, Via Napoli 25 - 71122, Foggia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, degli Alimenti e dell’Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Foggia, Via Napoli 25 - 71122, Foggia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, degli Alimenti e dell’Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Foggia, Via Napoli 25 - 71122, Foggia, Italy
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- Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria – Centro di Ricerca per la Cerealicoltura (CREA-CER), S.S. 673 km 25.200, 71122 Foggia, Italy
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- Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, degli Alimenti e dell’Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Foggia, Via Napoli 25 - 71122, Foggia, Italy
- Corresponding author.
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Bromilow S, Gethings LA, Buckley M, Bromley M, Shewry PR, Langridge JI, Clare Mills EN. A curated gluten protein sequence database to support development of proteomics methods for determination of gluten in gluten-free foods. J Proteomics 2017; 163:67-75. [PMID: 28385663 PMCID: PMC5479479 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2017.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2017] [Revised: 03/20/2017] [Accepted: 03/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The unique physiochemical properties of wheat gluten enable a diverse range of food products to be manufactured. However, gluten triggers coeliac disease, a condition which is treated using a gluten-free diet. Analytical methods are required to confirm if foods are gluten-free, but current immunoassay-based methods can unreliable and proteomic methods offer an alternative but require comprehensive and well annotated sequence databases which are lacking for gluten. A manually a curated database (GluPro V1.0) of gluten proteins, comprising 630 discrete unique full length protein sequences has been compiled. It is representative of the different types of gliadin and glutenin components found in gluten. An in silico comparison of their coeliac toxicity was undertaken by analysing the distribution of coeliac toxic motifs. This demonstrated that whilst the α-gliadin proteins contained more toxic motifs, these were distributed across all gluten protein sub-types. Comparison of annotations observed using a discovery proteomics dataset acquired using ion mobility MS/MS showed that more reliable identifications were obtained using the GluPro V1.0 database compared to the complete reviewed Viridiplantae database. This highlights the value of a curated sequence database specifically designed to support the proteomic workflows and the development of methods to detect and quantify gluten. Significance We have constructed the first manually curated open-source wheat gluten protein sequence database (GluPro V1.0) in a FASTA format to support the application of proteomic methods for gluten protein detection and quantification. We have also analysed the manually verified sequences to give the first comprehensive overview of the distribution of sequences able to elicit a reaction in coeliac disease, the prevalent form of gluten intolerance. Provision of this database will improve the reliability of gluten protein identification by proteomic analysis, and aid the development of targeted mass spectrometry methods in line with Codex Alimentarius Commission requirements for foods designed to meet the needs of gluten intolerant individuals. A curated database comprising 630 gluten protein sequences has been compiled. Sequences represent the gliadin and glutenin protein species found in gluten. Coeliac toxic motifs were distributed across all gluten protein sub-types. It gave more reliable identifications than the reviewed Viridiplantae database.
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- Sophie Bromilow
- School of Biological Sciences, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester, M17DN, UK
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- Waters Corporation, Stamford Avenue, Altrincham Road, Wilmslow SK9 4AX, UK
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, M17DN, UK
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- Genon Laboratories Limited, Cragg Vale, Halifax, UK
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- Waters Corporation, Stamford Avenue, Altrincham Road, Wilmslow SK9 4AX, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester, M17DN, UK.
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Wilkinson MD, Tosi P, Lovegrove A, Corol DI, Ward JL, Palmer R, Powers S, Passmore D, Webster G, Marcus SE, Knox JP, Shewry PR. The Gsp-1 genes encode the wheat arabinogalactan peptide. J Cereal Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcs.2017.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Bromilow SNL, Gethings LA, Langridge JI, Shewry PR, Buckley M, Bromley MJ, Mills ENC. Comprehensive Proteomic Profiling of Wheat Gluten Using a Combination of Data-Independent and Data-Dependent Acquisition. Front Plant Sci 2017; 7:2020. [PMID: 28119711 PMCID: PMC5223596 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.02020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2016] [Accepted: 12/19/2016] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Wheat is the most important food crop in the world, the unique physiochemical properties of wheat gluten enabling a diverse range of food products to be manufactured. However, genetic and environmental factors affect the technological properties of gluten in unpredictable ways. Although newer proteomic methods have the potential to offer much greater levels of information, it is the older gel-based methods that remain most commonly used to identify compositional differences responsible for the variation in gluten functionality, in part due to the nature of their primary sequences. A combination of platforms were investigated for comprehensive gluten profiling: a QTOF with a data independent schema, which incorporated ion mobility (DIA-IM-MS) and a data dependent acquisition (DDA) workflow using a linear ion trap quadrupole (LTQ) instrument. In conjunction with a manually curated gluten sequence database a total of 2736 gluten peptides were identified with only 157 peptides identified by both platforms. These data showed 127 and 63 gluten protein accessions to be inferred with a minimum of one and three unique peptides respectively. Of the 63 rigorously identified proteins, 26 were gliadin species (4 ω-, 14 α-, and 8 γ-gliadins) and 37 glutenins (including 29 LMW glutenin and 8 HMW glutenins). Of the HMW glutenins, three were 1Dx type and five were 1Bx type illustrating the challenge of unambiguous identification of highly polymorphic proteins without cultivar specific gene sequences. The capacity of the platforms to sequence longer peptides was crucial to achieving the number of identifications, the combination of QTOF-LTQ technology being more important than extraction method to obtain a comprehensive profile. Widespread glutamine deamidation, a post-translational modification, was observed adding complexity to an already highly polymorphic mixture of proteins, with numerous insertions, deletions and substitutions. The data shown is the most comprehensive and detailed proteomic profile of gluten to date.
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- Sophie N. L. Bromilow
- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of ManchesterManchester, UK
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- School of Chemistry, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of ManchesterManchester, UK
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of ManchesterManchester, UK
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Moore KL, Tosi P, Palmer R, Hawkesford MJ, Grovenor CRM, Shewry PR. The dynamics of protein body formation in developing wheat grain. Plant Biotechnol J 2016; 14:1876-82. [PMID: 26898533 PMCID: PMC4988504 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2015] [Revised: 02/04/2016] [Accepted: 02/10/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Wheat is a major source of protein in the diets of humans and livestock but we know little about the mechanisms that determine the patterns of protein synthesis in the developing endosperm. We have used a combination of enrichment with (15) N glutamine and NanoSIMS imaging to establish that the substrate required for protein synthesis is transported radially from its point of entrance in the endosperm cavity across the starchy endosperm tissues, before becoming concentrated in the cells immediately below the aleurone layer. This transport occurs continuously during grain development but may be slower in the later stages. Although older starchy endosperm cells tend to contain larger protein deposits formed by the fusion of small protein bodies, small highly enriched protein bodies may also be present in the same cells. This shows a continuous process of protein body initiation, in both older and younger starchy endosperm cells and in all regions of the tissue. Immunolabeling with specific antibodies shows that the patterns of enrichment are not related to the contents of gluten proteins in the protein bodies. In addition to providing new information on the dynamics of protein deposition, the study demonstrates the wider utility of NanoSIMS and isotope labelling for studying complex developmental processes in plant tissues.
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- Katie L Moore
- School of Materials, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- School of Agriculture Policy and Development, Reading University, Reading, UK
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- Peter R Shewry
- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK
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- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, UK
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Wheat is a staple food throughout the temperate world and an important source of nutrients for many millions of people. However, the last few years have seen increasing concerns about adverse effects of wheat on health, particularly in North America and Europe, with the increasing adoption of wheat‐free or gluten‐free diets. This relates to two concerns: that wheat products are disproportionally responsible for increases in obesity and type 2 diabetes and that wheat gluten proteins cause a range of adverse reactions, including allergies, coeliac disease and ‘non‐coeliac gluten sensitivity’. The first concern has been refuted in previous publications, and we therefore focus on the second here. Current evidence indicates that allergy to ingested wheat and coeliac disease (and related intolerances) each occur in up to 1% of the population. The extent to which their prevalence has increased is difficult to quantify due to improved diagnosis and increased awareness. However, neither appears to be increasing disproportionally when compared with other immunologically mediated adverse reactions to food. Other adverse reactions to wheat are more difficult to define as their mechanisms are not understood and they are therefore difficult to diagnose. In particular, ‘non‐coeliac wheat sensitivity’ has been reported to occur in 6% or more of the population in the US. However, the application of more rigorous diagnostic criteria is likely to give substantially lower estimates of prevalence. It is therefore unlikely that the health of more than a small proportion of the population will be improved by eliminating wheat or gluten from the diet. In fact, the opposite may occur as wheat is an important source of protein, B vitamins, minerals and bioactive components.
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- P R Shewry
- Rothamsted Research Hertfordshire UK; University of Reading Berkshire UK
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- Rothamsted Research Hertfordshire UK
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Koga S, Böcker U, Moldestad A, Tosi P, Shewry PR, Mosleth EF, Uhlen AK. Influence of temperature during grain filling on gluten viscoelastic properties and gluten protein composition. J Sci Food Agric 2016; 96:122-130. [PMID: 25565275 DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.7068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2014] [Revised: 12/19/2014] [Accepted: 12/26/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of low to moderate temperatures on gluten functionality and gluten protein composition. Four spring wheat cultivars were grown in climate chambers with three temperature regimes (day/night temperatures of 13/10, 18/15 and 23/20 °C) during grain filling. RESULTS The temperature strongly influenced grain weight and protein content. Gluten quality measured by maximum resistance to extension (Rmax ) was highest in three cultivars grown at 13 °C. Rmax was positively correlated with the proportion of sodium dodecyl sulfate-unextractable polymeric proteins (%UPP). The proportions of ω-gliadins and D-type low-molecular-weight glutenin subunits (LMW-GS) increased and the proportions of α- and γ-gliadins and B-type LMW-GS decreased with higher temperature, while the proportion of high-molecular-weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GS) was constant between temperatures. The cultivar Berserk had strong and constant Rmax between the different temperatures. CONCLUSION Constant low temperature, even as low as 13 °C, had no negative effects on gluten quality. The observed variation in Rmax related to temperature could be explained more by %UPP than by changes in the proportions of HMW-GS or other gluten proteins. The four cultivars responded differently to temperature, as gluten from Berserk was stronger and more stable over a wide range of temperatures.
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- Shiori Koga
- Department of Plant Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, PO Box 5003, NO-1432, Ås, Norway
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- School of Agriculture Policy & Development, Reading University, PO Box 237, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 7BE, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, PO Box 5003, NO-1432, Ås, Norway
- Nofima AS, PO Box 210, NO-1431, Ås, Norway
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Coeliac disease is an intolerance triggered by the ingestion of wheat gluten proteins. It is of increasing concern to consumers and health professionals as its incidence appears to be increasing. The amino acid sequences in gluten proteins that are responsible for triggering responses in sensitive individuals have been identified showing that they vary in distribution among and between different groups of gluten proteins. Conventional breeding may therefore be used to select for gluten protein fractions with lower contents of coeliac epitopes. Molecular breeding approaches can also be used to specifically down-regulate coeliac-toxic proteins or mutate coeliac epitopes within individual proteins. A combination of these approaches may therefore be used to develop a “coeliac-safe” wheat. However, this remains a formidable challenge due to the complex multigenic control of gluten protein composition. Furthermore, any modified wheats must retain acceptable properties for making bread and other processed foods. Not surprisingly, such coeliac-safe wheats have not yet been developed despite over a decade of research. Coeliac disease is of increasing concern as its incidence appears to be increasing. Over 30 amino acid sequences (coeliac epitopes) have been defined. Coeliac epitopes differ in their distribution between wheat gluten proteins. Transgenesis can be used to reduce coeliac-toxic proteins and coeliac epitopes. This can be exploited to develop “coeliac-safe” wheats.
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- Peter R Shewry
- Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK; University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AH, UK
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- Cardiff School of Heath Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Llandaff Campus, Western Avenue, Cardiff CF5 2YB, UK
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Corol DI, Ravel C, Rakszegi M, Charmet G, Bedo Z, Beale MH, Shewry PR, Ward JL. (1)H-NMR screening for the high-throughput determination of genotype and environmental effects on the content of asparagine in wheat grain. Plant Biotechnol J 2016; 14:128-39. [PMID: 25816894 PMCID: PMC4949679 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2014] [Revised: 02/18/2015] [Accepted: 02/21/2015] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
Abstract
Free asparagine in cereals is known to be the precursor of acrylamide, a neurotoxic and carcinogenic product formed during cooking processes. Thus, the development of crops with lower asparagine is of considerable interest to growers and the food industry. In this study, we describe the development and application of a rapid (1)H-NMR-based analysis of cereal flour, that is, suitable for quantifying asparagine levels, and hence acrylamide-forming potential, across large numbers of samples. The screen was applied to flour samples from 150 bread wheats grown at a single site in 2005, providing the largest sample set to date. Additionally, screening of 26 selected cultivars grown for two further years in the same location and in three additional European locations in the third year (2007) provided six widely different environments to allow estimation of the environmental (E) and G x E effects on asparagine levels. Asparagine concentrations in the 150 genotypes ranged from 0.32 to 1.56 mg/g dry matter in wholemeal wheat flours. Asparagine levels were correlated with plant height and therefore, due to recent breeding activities to produce semi-dwarf varieties, a negative relationship with the year of registration of the cultivar was also observed. The multisite study indicated that only 13% of the observed variation in asparagine levels was heritable, whilst the environmental contribution was 36% and the GxE component was 43%. Thus, compared to some other phenotypic traits, breeding for low asparagine wheats presents a difficult challenge.
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Affiliation(s)
- Delia I Corol
- Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Martonvásár, Hungary
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- Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Martonvásár, Hungary
| | - Michael H Beale
- Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
| | - Peter R Shewry
- Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
| | - Jane L Ward
- Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
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