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Determination of bioavailable-zinc from biofortified wheat using a coupled in vitro digestion/Caco-2 reporter-gene based assay
- Source :
- Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. 25:149-159
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2012.
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Abstract
- The zinc bioavailability from wheat- Aegilops derivatives and Triticum monococcum low phytic acid ( lpa ) mutants with varying zinc concentrations was assessed using a novel metal response element (MRE)-binding transcription factor-1 (MTF-1)/MRE luciferase reporter gene based transactivation assay in the coupled in vitro digestion/Caco-2 model. The zinc content in the genotypes studied ranged from 19 to 65 μg/g. The bioavailability enhancement of zinc as determined from the luciferase response of MTF1/MRE transfected cells to cooked digests of biofortified derivatives and the lpa mutants was recorded as a 1.2–2.0 fold-increase, corresponding to 1.8–3.3 fold increases in the zinc content over the respective WL711-cultivar and T. monococcum wild-type controls. The strong positive and negative correlations observed for zinc bioavailability with respect to zinc content and phytate:zinc molar ratios in the derivatives ( r = 0.74 and −0.76) as well as lpa mutants ( r = 0.89 and −0.94) illustrate the significance of using these parameters in zinc biofortification programmes. Genotypes with phytate:zinc molar ratios of less than 15, with remarkably enhanced zinc bioavailability, were identified. This method could thus serve as a sensitive transactivation assay for a screening approach that could accurately rank bioavailability of zinc from biofortified staples for subsequent animal studies and advance select lines for human studies.
Details
- ISSN :
- 08891575
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........893f1cbe763d3e36c50bd7f4288e24e7