B vitamins are essential micronutrients for the metabolism of human and microbials cells. Humans lack the capacity to produce B vitamins and rely mainly on dietary intake while microbes are themselves able to synthetize B vitamins.
Microbial-synthetized B vitamins have the potential to raise the nutritional values of food via fermentation thus providing the consumers with a higher B vitamin dietary intake. Moreover, it is still under debate whether or to what extent gut microbiota-synthesized B vitamins contribute to host demands. Furthermore, little is known on the roles and functions of dietary B-vitamins for the complex human gut microbiota dynamics and trophic interactions in the gut.
This Research Topic aims to provide a platform for the publication of research driving a comprehensive understanding on the role of microbially synthetized B vitamins for the enrichment of food and for gut and host health. Furthermore, potential mechanisms by which B vitamins modulate the gut microbiota composition and metabolism and the consequences that such a modulation has for microbiome-host metabolic and immune interactions will also be tackled.
Highly advanced research including Original Research, Perspectives, Mini Reviews, Commentaries and Opinion papers on these fields - but are not limited - are welcomed:
o Supplementation of indigenous fermented food by microbially produced B vitamins
o Modulation of gut microbiota composition and metabolism by B vitamins
o B vitamins impact on gut health and host physiology
o New methodologies to study B vitamins
o B vitamins and microbes: microbes trophic interactions in the gut
B vitamins are essential micronutrients for the metabolism of human and microbials cells. Humans lack the capacity to produce B vitamins and rely mainly on dietary intake while microbes are themselves able to synthetize B vitamins.
Microbial-synthetized B vitamins have the potential to raise the nutritional values of food via fermentation thus providing the consumers with a higher B vitamin dietary intake. Moreover, it is still under debate whether or to what extent gut microbiota-synthesized B vitamins contribute to host demands. Furthermore, little is known on the roles and functions of dietary B-vitamins for the complex human gut microbiota dynamics and trophic interactions in the gut.
This Research Topic aims to provide a platform for the publication of research driving a comprehensive understanding on the role of microbially synthetized B vitamins for the enrichment of food and for gut and host health. Furthermore, potential mechanisms by which B vitamins modulate the gut microbiota composition and metabolism and the consequences that such a modulation has for microbiome-host metabolic and immune interactions will also be tackled.
Highly advanced research including Original Research, Perspectives, Mini Reviews, Commentaries and Opinion papers on these fields - but are not limited - are welcomed:
o Supplementation of indigenous fermented food by microbially produced B vitamins
o Modulation of gut microbiota composition and metabolism by B vitamins
o B vitamins impact on gut health and host physiology
o New methodologies to study B vitamins
o B vitamins and microbes: microbes trophic interactions in the gut