W5122: Beneficial and Adverse Effects of Natural Chemicals on Human Health and Food Safety

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02/15/2023

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There were 71 new publications by W5122 members in 2022-2023 period, addressing the effects of bioactive nutrients on health and chronic disease risk, basic insights into nutrient metabolism, and the development of new methodology and technologies for studying these processes in humans and novel model systems.  Publications are listed below with W5122 group members in boldfaced text.



  1. Pratibha V Nerurkar*, Jennifer Yokoyamaa, Kramer Ichimuraa , Shannon Kutschera, Jamie Wonga, Harry C Bittenbender, Youping Deng. Medium Roasting and Brewing Methods Differentially Modulate Global Metabolites, Lipids, Biogenic Amines, Minerals, and Antioxidant Capacity of Hawai'i-Grown Coffee (Coffea arabica). Metabolites, 2023 Mar 10;13(3):412. doi: 10.3390/metabo13030412.

  2. Gallegos-Ibanez, D, Jurado-Molina, J, Wedwitschka, H, Delgado E, Nelles, M.; Stinner, W. 2023. Ensiling of invasive Elodea sp., a novel aquatic biomass feedstock for the sustainable biogas production: effects of wheat straw and silage additives on silage quality and methane production. ACS Agricultural Science & Technology, DOI: 10.1021/acsagscitech.3c00043. 

  3. Sapkota G, Delgado E, VanLeeuwen DF. Holguin OF, Flores N, Yao S. 2023. Preservation of Phenols, Antioxidant Activity, and Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate in Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) Fruits with Different Drying Methods. MDPI – Plants 12, 1804. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12091804.

  4. Rodriguez Borbon, MI, Sohn, H, Delgado E, Fuqua, DO, Rodríguez Medina, A, Tlapa, D, Baez Lopez, Y. 2023. Shelf-Life Assessment on European Cucumber based on Accelerated Temperature-Humidity Stresses. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 2663. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13042663.

  5. Sapkota G, Delgado E, VanLeeuwen DF. Holguin O, Flores N, Heyduck R, Yao S. 2023. Dynamics of Nutrients in Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) at Different Maturity Stages, Cultivars, and Locations. HortScience 58(2):155–163. https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI16880-22

  6. Thais M. Ramos, Hanna Louvau, Heesun Kim, Maria L. Marco, and Erin DiCaprio. 2022. Leveraging the COVID-19 fermentation trend to enhance nutrition and food safety extension efforts. Journal of Extension 60(4). Article 15. 10.34068/joe.60.04.15

  7. Zhengyao Xue and Maria L Marco. 2022. Improved assessments of bulk milk microbiota composition via sample preparation and DNA extraction methods. PLoS One 15:17(9) e0267992

  8. Colin Hill, Daniel J Tancredi, Christopher J Cifelli PhD, Joanne L Slavin, Jaime Gahche, Maria L Marco, Robert Hutkins, Victor L Fulgoni III, Daniel Merenstein, and Mary Ellen Sanders. 2023. Positive health outcomes associated with live microbe intake from foods, including fermented foods, assessed using NHANES database. Journal of Nutrition 153(3):1143-1149.

  9. Eric Stevens and Maria L Marco. 2023. Bacterial extracellular electron transfer in plant and animal ecosystems. FEMS Microbiology Reviews 19:47(3).

  10. Javad Barouei, Alice Martinic, Zach Bendiks, Darya Mishchuk, Dustin Heeney, Carolyn M Slupsky, and Maria L Marco. 2023. Type 2-resistant starch and Lactiplantibacillus plantarum NCIMB 8826 result in additive and interactive effects in diet-induced obese mice. Nutrition Research 118:12-28.

  11. Shuangping, Zhi-Feng Zhang, Jieqi Mao, Zhilei Zhou, Jing Zhang, Caihong Shen, Songtao Wang, Maria L Marco, Jian Mao. 2023. Integrated meta-omics approaches reveal Saccharopolyspora as the core functional genus in huangjiu fermentations NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes. 9:65.

  12. Eric T. Stevens, Wannes Van Beeck, Benjamin Blackburn, Sara Tejedor-Sanz, Alycia R. M. Rasmussen, Mackenzie E. Carter, Emily Mevers, Caroline M. Ajo-Franklin, and Maria L. Marco. Lactiplantibacillus plantarum uses ecologically relevant, exogenous quinones for extracellular electron transfer. mBio 14(6):e0223423.

  13. Maier MLV, Siddens LK, Pennington JM, Uesugi SL, Labut E, Vertel EA, Anderson KA, Tidwell LG, Tilton SC, Ognibene TJ, Turteltaub KW, Smith JN, Williams DE. 2023. Impact of Phenanthrene Co-Administration on the Toxicokinetics of Benzo[a]pyrene in Humans. UPLC-Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Following Oral Microdosing. Chemico-Biological Interactions. 382:110608. doi: 10.1016/j.cbi.2023.110608. PMID: 37369263

  14. Rude CI, Tidwell LG, Tilton SC, Waters KM, Anderson KA, Tanguay RL. 2023. Coupling Environmental Whole Mixture Toxicity Screening with Unbiased RNA-Seq Reveals Site-Specific Biological Responses in Zebrafish. Toxics. 11(3). doi: 10.3390/toxics11030201. PMCID: PMC10053777.

  15. Vermillion Maier ML, Siddens LK, Pennington JM, Uesugi SL, Tilton SC, Vergel EA, Anderson KA, Tidwell LG, Ognibene TJ, Turteltaub KW, Smith JN, Williams DE. 2023. Benzo[a]pyrene toxicokinetics in humans following dietary supplementation with 3,3’-Diindolylmethane (DIM) or Brussels sprouts. Appl. Pharmacol. 460:116377. doi: 10.1016/j.taap.2023.116377. PMCID: PMC9946811. (4.219)

  16. Rivera BN, Ghetu C, Chang Y, Truong L, Tanguay RL, Anderson KA, Tilton SC. 2022. Leveraging multiple data streams for prioritization of mixtures for hazard characterization. Toxics: Risk Assessment on Toxicity of Chemical Mixtures. 10:651. doi.org/10.3390/toxics10110651. PMCID: PMC9699527.

  17. St Mary L, Truong L, Bieberich AA, Fatig RO 3rd, Rajwa B, Tanguay RL. 2023. Comparative analysis between zebrafish and an automated live-cell assay to classify developmental neurotoxicant chemicals. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2023 Oct 1;476:116659. doi: 10.1016/j.taap.2023.116659.

  18. Green AJ, Truong L, Thunga P, Leong C, Hancock M, Tanguay RL, Reif DM. 2023. Deep autoencoder-based behavioral pattern recognition outperforms standard statistical methods in high-dimensional zebrafish studies. 2023 Sep 17:2023.09.13.557544. doi: 10.1101/2023.09.13.557544.

  19. Dasgupta S, LaDu JK, Garcia GR, Li S, Tomono-Duval K, Rericha Y, Huang L, Tanguay RL. 2023. A CRISPR-Cas9 mutation in sox9b long intergenic noncoding RNA (slincR) affects zebrafish development, behavior, and regeneration. oxicol Sci. 2023 Jul 28;194(2):153-166. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfad050.

  20. McClure RS, Rericha Y, Waters KM, Tanguay RL. 2023. 3' RNA-seq is superior to standard RNA-seq in cases of sparse data but inferior at identifying toxicity pathways in a model organism. Front Bioinform. 2023 Jul 27;3:1234218. doi: 10.3389/fbinf.2023.1234218.

  21. Wilson LB, Moran IL, Anderson KA, Tanguay RL. 2023. Advances in PAH mixture toxicology enabled by zebrafish. Curr Opin Toxicol. 2023 Jun;34:100392. doi: 10.1016/j.cotox.2023.100392.

  22. Henderson TD, Choi J, Leonard SW, Head B, Tanguay RL, Barton CL, Traber MG. 2023. Chronic Vitamin E Deficiency Dysregulates Purine, Phospholipid, and Amino Acid Metabolism in Aging Zebrafish Skeletal Muscle. Antioxidants (Basel). 2023 May 26;12(6):1160. doi: 10.3390/antiox12061160.

  23. Nguyen BD, Stevens BL, Elson DJ, Finlay D, Gamble JT, Kopparapu PR, Tanguay RL, Buermeyer AB, Kerkvliet NI, Kolluri SK. 2023. 11-Cl-BBQ, a select modulator of AhR-regulated transcription, suppresses lung cancer cell growth via activation of p53 and p27Kip1. FEBS J. 2023 Apr;290(8):2064-2084. doi: 10.1111/febs.16683.

  24. Elson DJ, Nguyen BD, Bernales S, Chakravarty S, Jang HS, Korjeff NA, Zhang Y, Wilferd SF, Castro DJ, Plaisier CL, Finlay D, Oshima RG, Kolluri SK. 2023. Induction of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor-Mediated Cancer Cell-Selective Apoptosis in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells by a High-Affinity Benzimidazoisoquinoline. ACS Pharmacol Transl Sci. 2023 Jun 7;6(7):1028-1042. doi: 10.1021/acsptsci.2c00253.

  25. Elson DJ, Nguyen BD, Korjeff NA, Wilferd SF, Puig-Sanvicens V, Sang Jang H, Bernales S, Chakravarty S, Belmar S, Ureta G, Finlay D, Plaisier CL, Kolluri SK. 2023. Suppression of Ah Receptor (AhR) increases the aggressiveness of TNBC cells and 11-Cl-BBQ-activated AhR inhibits their growth. Biochem Pharmacol. 2023 Sep;215:115706. doi: 10.1016/j.bcp.2023.115706.

  26. Elson DJ, Kolluri SK. 2023. Tumor-Suppressive Functions of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR) and AhR as a Therapeutic Target in Cancer. Biology (Basel). 2023 Mar 30;12(4):526. doi: 10.3390/biology12040526.

  27. Yang L, Marney L, Magana AA, Choi J, Wright K, Mcferrin J, Gray NE, Soumyanath A, Stevens JF, Maier CS. 2023. Quantification of Caffeoylquinic Acids and Triterpenes as Targeted Bioactive Compounds of Centella asiatica in Extracts and Formulations by Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry. J Chromatogr Open. 2023 Nov 27;4:100091. doi: 10.1016/j.jcoa.2023.100091.

  28. Yang L, Stanisheuski S, Song Z, Bracha S, Maier CS. 2023. Top-down mass spectrometry for characterizing the low molecular weight proteome of canine osteosarcoma cell phenotypes. Eur J Mass Spectrom (Chichester). 2023 Oct;29(5-6):313-325. doi: 10.1177/14690667231202766.

  29. Newman NK, Zhang Y, Padiadpu J, Miranda CL, Magana AA, Wong CP, Hioki KA, Pederson JW, Li Z, Gurung M, Bruce AM, Brown K, Bobe G, Sharpton TJ, Shulzhenko N, Maier CS, Stevens JF, Gombart AF, Morgun A. 2023. Reducing gut microbiome-driven adipose tissue inflammation alleviates metabolic syndrome. 2023 Sep 21;11(1):208. doi: 10.1186/s40168-023-01637-4.

  30. Holvoet H, Long DM, Yang L, Choi J, Marney L, Poeck B, Maier CS, Soumyanath A, Kretzschmar D, Strauss R. 2023. Chlorogenic Acids, Acting via Calcineurin, Are the Main Compounds in Centella asiatica Extracts That Mediate Resilience to Chronic Stress in Drosophila melanogaster. 2023 Sep 16;15(18):4016. doi: 10.3390/nu15184016.

  31. Kundu P, Paraiso IL, Choi J, Miranda CL, Kioussi C, Maier CS, Bobe G, Stevens JF, Raber J. 2023. Xanthohumol improves cognition in farnesoid X receptor-deficient mice on a high-fat diet. Dis Model Mech. 2022 Nov 1;15(11):dmm049820. doi: 10.1242/dmm.049820.

  32. Zhang J, Urriola PE, Naeve SL, Shurson GC, Chen C. Counteracting Roles of Lipidic Aldehydes and Phenolic Antioxidants on Soy Protein Oxidation Defined by a Chemometric Survey of Solvent and Mechanically Extracted Soybean Meals. Antioxidants 12, 1419 (2023)

  33. Guse K, Sharma A, Weyenberg E, Davison S, Ma Y, Choi Y, Johnson AJ, Chen C, Gomez A. Regular Consumption of Lacto-fermented Vegetables has Greater Effects on the Gut Metabolome Compared with the Microbiome. Gut Microbiome, 4: e11 (2023)

  34. Trudeau M, Mosher W, Tran H, de Rodas B, Karnezos P, Urriola PE, Gomez A, Saqui-Salces M, Chen C, Shurson GC. Experimental facility had a greater effect on growth performance, gut microbiome, and metabolome in weaned pigs than feeding diets containing subtherapeutic levels of antibiotics: a case study. PLOS ONE 18: e0285266 (2023)

  35. Kim J, Park M, Ahn E, Mao Q, Chen C, Ryu S, Jeon B. Stimulation of Surface Polysaccharide Production under Aerobic Conditions Confers Aerotolerance in Campylobacter jejuni. Microbio Spectr. 11: e0376122 (2023)

  36. Guo Y, Wang L, Hanson A, Urriola PE, Shurson GC, Chen C. Identification of Protective Amino Acid Metabolism Events in Nursery Pigs Fed Thermally Oxidized Corn Oil. Metabolites 13: 103 (2023)

  37. Liu J, Huang L, An J, Y Ma, Cheng Y, Zhang R, Peng P, Wang Y, Addy M, Chen P, Chen C, Liu Y, Huang G, Ruan R. Application of High-Pressure Homogenization to Improve Physicochemical and Antioxidant Properties of Almond Hulls. Journal of Food Process Engineering. e14235 (2023)

  38. Meng J, Abu YF, Zhang Y, Zhou Y, Xie Y, Yan Y, Tao J, Ramakrishnan S, Chen C, Roy S. Opioidinduced microbial dysbiosis disrupts CPT11 metabolism and increases gastrointestinal toxicity in a murine model. Br J Pharmacol. 180:1362-1378 (2023)

  39. Bu F, Feyzi S, Nayak G, Mao Q, Kondeti VSSK, Bruggeman P, Chen C, Ismail BP. Investigation of novel cold atmospheric plasma sources and their impact on the structural and functional characteristics of pea protein. Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies 83: 103248 (2023)



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  2. Turner, N.D.   Cancer health concerns.  Food Science.  https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85125-1.00142-3

  3. Conran, N., M. Lambert, and D. Turner. 2023.  Introduction to the thematic issue:  Recognition of women leaders in Science.  Experimental Biology and Medicine 247:2173-2175.

  4. Omar AK, Li Puma LC, Whitcomb LA, Risk BD, Witt AC, Bruemmer J, Winger QA, Bouma GJ, Chicco AJ. High-fat diet during pregnancy promotes fetal skeletal muscle fatty acid oxidation and insulin resistance in an ovine model Am J Physiol Reg Integr Comp Physiol; 325:R523, 2023. PMID: 37642284

  5. Liu W, LeBar K, Roth K, Pang J, Ayers J, Chicco AJ, Puttlitz CM, Wang, Z. Alterations of biaxial viscoelastic properties of the right ventricle in pulmonary hypertension development in rest and acute stress conditions. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2023 May 30. doi: doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2023.1182703.

  6. Parsons AM, Rajendran RR, Whitcomb LA, Bouma GJ, Chicco AJ. Characterization of trophoblast mitochondrial function and responses to testosterone treatment in ACH-3P cells. Placenta 137:70, 2023. PMID: 37087951

  7. Giovana D. Catandi GC, Cheng M, Chicco AJ, Chen T, Carnevale EM. L-carnitine enhances developmental potential of bovine oocytes matured under high lipid concentrations in vitro. Animal Repro Sci 252:107249, 2023.

  8. Chicco AJ, Zilhaver PT, Whitcomb LA, Fresa KJ, Izon CS, Gonzalez-Franquesa A, Dometita C, Irving BA, Garcia-Roves PM. Resolving the Rotenone Paradox: elucidating the complexity of multi-substrate respirometry protocols. MitoFit Preprints 2022.17. https://doi.org/10.26124/mitofit:2022-0017

  9. Chatfield KC, Sparagna GC, Specht KS, Whitcomb L, Omar A, Wolfe LA, Chicco AJ. Long-chain fatty acid oxidation and respiratory complex I deficiencies distinguish Barth Syndrome from idiopathic pediatric cardiomyopathy. J Inher Metab Dis 45(1):111-124, 2022. PMID: 34821394

  10. Merlin AC, Gonzalez K, Mockler S, Perez Y, Jia UA, Chicco AJ, Ullevig SL, Chung E. Post-weaning dietary intervention modulates the effects of maternal and postnatal high-fat and high-sucrose diet on cardiometabolic health in male adult offspring. Metabolites 12(6):563, 2022. PMID: 35736495

  11. Wang E, Whitcomb LA, Chicco AJ, Wilson JW. Transient absorption spectroscopy and imaging of redox in muscle mitochondria. Biomedical Optics Express 13(4): 2103–2116, 2022; PMID: 35519286

  12. Wang E, Specht KS, Chicco AJ, Wilson JW. High repetition-rate transient absorption spectroscopy of respiratory supercomplexes. J Phys Chem B 126(7):1404-1412, 2022; PMID: 35166549

  13. Catandi GD, LiPuma LC, Obeidat YM, Maclellan LJ, Broeckling CD, Chen T, Chicco AJ, Carnevale EM. Oocyte metabolic function, lipid composition, and developmental potential are altered by diet in older mares. Reproduction 163(4): 183, 2022.

  14. Zhai C, Li Puma LC, Chicco AJ, Omar A, Delmore AJ, Geornaras I, Speidel SE, Holt TN, Thomas MG, Enns RM, Nair MN. Pulmonary arterial pressure in fattened Angus steers at moderate altitude influences early postmortem mitochondria functionality and meat color during retail display. Journal of Animal Science 100(2):skac002, 2022. PMID: 35015873

  15. Shivaram, K.B., Bhatt, P., Verma M.S., Clase, K., Simsek, H.* Bacteriophage-based biosensors for detection of pathogenic microbes in wastewater (Accepted: 26 July 2023) Science of the Total Environment

  16. Gopalakrishnan, S., Thomas, R.,§ Sedaghat, S.,§ Krishnakumar, A., Khan, S., Meyer, T., Ajieren, H., Nejati, S., Wang, J., Verma, M.S., Irazoqui, P., Rahimi, R.* (2023) Smart capsule for monitoring inflammation profile throughout the gastrointestinal tract. Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X 14: 100380 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosx.2023.100380.

  17. Centeno-Martinez, R.U., Mohan, S., Davidson, J.L., Schoonmaker, J.P., Ault, A., Verma, M.S., Johnson, T.A.* (2023) The bovine nasal fungal community and associations with bovine respiratory disease. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 10: 1165994 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1165994

  18. Kamel, M.S., El-Sayed, A.A., Munds, R.A., Verma, M.S.* (2023) Interactions between Humans and Dogs during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recent Updates and Future Perspectives. Animals 13:524 DOI: 3390/ani13030524.

  19. Wang, J., Ranjbaran, M., Ault, A., Verma, M.S.* (2023) A loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay to detect Bacteroidales and assess risk of fecal contamination. Food Microbiology 110:104173 DOI: 1016/j.fm.2022.104173.

  20. Nolasco E^, Baraka E^, Yang J, Ciftci N. O, Majumder K* (2024). In-vitro bio-accessibility and antioxidant activity of commercial standard and enriched whole egg compounds influenced by production and domestic cooking practices. Food Chemistry, 430, 136948. doi: 1016/j.foodchem.2023.136948

  21. Guha S^, Majumder K* (2024). Efficacy of Great Northern beans-derived bioactive compounds in reducing vascular inflammation. Food Bioscience, 57, 103524. doi: 1016/j.fbio.2023.103524

  22. Nolasco E^, Krassovskaya, I., Hong K., Hansen K^., Alvarez S., Obata T., & Majumder K* (2023). Sprouting alters metabolite and peptide contents in the gastrointestinal digest of soybean and enhances in-vitro anti-inflammatory activity. Journal of Functional Foods, 109, 105780. doi: 1016/j.jff.2023.105780

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  25. Sly B, Weir TL, Cunningham-Sabo L, Leisz S, Stull VJ, Melby CL (2023) Increasing household diet diversity and food security in rural Rwanda using small-scale nutrition- sensitive agriculture: A community-level study. Nutrients 15, 3137; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15143137 IF:5.717

  26. Ecton KE, Graham EL, Risk BD, Brown GD, Stark GC, Wei Y, Trikha SRJ, Weir TL, Gentile CL (2023) Toll-like receptor 4 deletion partially protects mice from high fat diet-induced arterial stiffness despite perturbation to the gut microbiota. Front Microbiomes 2:1095997. doi: 10.3389/frmbi.2023.1095997

  27. Ventura M, Holland ME, Bartlett-Smith M, Chaparro JM, Prenni JE, Patz JA, Paskewitz A, Weir TL, Stull VJ (2023) Suitability of maize crop residue fermented by Pleurotus ostreatus as feed for edible crickets: growth performance, micronutrient content, and iron bioavailability. Frontiers Nutr. 10.3389/fnut.2023.1157811

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