Journal
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 69, Issue 10, Pages 3032-3043Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c04575
Keywords
human milk oligosaccharides; fucosyltransferase 2; secretor; infant; fecal microbiota
Funding
- Beijing Science and Technology Project [Z181100009318005]
- 111 Project from the Education Ministry of China [B18053]
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This study analyzed the profiles of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) from secretor or non-secretor mothers and the fecal microbiota composition of breastfed infants. The results showed higher levels of total and fucosylated HMOs in secretor mothers, while Bifidobacterium genus was more abundant in infants fed by non-secretor mothers. Associations between specific HMOs and Bifidobacterium strains were also found.
Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) play key roles in shaping infant fecal microbiota, and HMOs profiles have been reported to vary according to the mother's glycosyltransferase phenotype. In this study, the profiles of HMOs in human milk from secretor or non-secretor mothers collected at 2 months postpartum were analyzed by liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry. 16S rRNA sequencing was used to characterize the fecal microbiota of breastfed infants. The amount of total and fucosylated HMOs were higher in secretor than non-secretor mothers, while Bifidobacterium genus were highly enriched in infants fed by non-secretor mothers. Associations between HMOs and infant fecal microbiota showed that the relative abundance of Bifidobacterium-OTU158 was positively associated with 2'-fucosyllactose and 3-fucosyllactose, and Bifidobacterium-OTU90 was negatively associated with lacto-N-difucohexaose. The present study provides the HMO profiles from Chinese mothers and their associations with infant fecal microbiota composition, suggesting that HMO compositions are associated with different Bifidobacterium strains in species-specific manner.
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