Polymer Dietary Fibers and Gut Microbiota
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Fibers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 2971
Special Issue Editor
Interests: gut microbiota; marine polysaccharides; colitis; inflammatory bowel disease; fermentation; prebiotics; probiotics; obesity; diabetes; carbohydrate-based drugs
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Dietary fibers are a class of functional carbohydrate polymers that we consume every day. Dietary fibers are not absorbed after oral intake. Therefore, when reaching the distal colon, they could be fermented and metabolized by the gut microbiota. During this process, specific microbes from the gut will degrade the fibers and produce short-chain fatty acids. Additionally, certain fibers can promote the growth of specific bacteria in the gut and change the structure of the microbiota. Gut microbiota is a fast-moving field of biomedical research, and dissecting the interactions between gut microbiota and dietary fibers can help us to understand the function and metabolism of these polymers. It is against this backdrop that this Special Issue is being launched, which will focus on studies that explore the interactions between dietary fibers and gut microbiota.
In this Special Issue of Polymers, we sincerely invite you to submit research articles or informative reviews aiming to elucidate the interactions between gut microbiota and dietary fibers. Specifically, we would like to understand how dietary fibers are metabolized by human gut microbiota and what effects dietary fibers have on the composition of the gut microbiota in health and disease. Research articles and reviews to be considered for publication in this issue should focus on the following topics:
- Degradation behaviors of dietary fibers (for example, inulin, resistant starch, xylan, pectin) and functional natural polysaccharides by human gut microbiota;
- Modulatory effects of dietary fibers and functional natural polysaccharides on the gut microbiota in health and disease;
- Isolation of fiber-degrading bacteria from the human gut microbiota;
- Multi-omics studies aiming to dissect the interactions between gut microbiota and dietary fibers;
- Fermentation products analysis of dietary fibers and functional natural polysaccharides.
Dr. Qingsen Shang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- dietary fiber
- gut microbiota
- fermentation
- prebiotics
- probiotics
- polysaccharides
- short-chain fatty acids
- degradation
- high-throughput sequencing
- carbohydrate polymers
