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Special Issue: Dietary Amino Acids and Intestinal Microbiota

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Over the last 10 years, there have been exciting discoveries regarding the important roles of dietary amino acids (e.g., arginine, glutamate, glutamine, glycine, leucine, proline, taurine, or tryptophan, a mix of amino acids, amino acid metabolites, or protein-rich functional foods) in shaping the gut microbiota in both humans and experimental animals, as well as impacting on their health (e.g., risks for the development of obesity, diabetes, inflammatory diseases, cancers, neurological disorders, and cardiovascular diseases). These findings have been published in top journals, including J Clin Invest, Am J Clin Nutr, J Nutr, Amino Acids, J Nutr Biochem, Nature, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, and Science. Readers of “Amino Acids” will benefit greatly from a thematic issue devoted to new developments of this emerging research area. This special issue in “Amino Acids” is open to submissions (either review, original research articles, perspectives, short communication, or letters to the Editor) from authors worldwide.

Editors

  • Francois Blachier Francois Blachier  &

    Francois Blachier

    François Blachier is Research Director at the National Institute for Agriculture, Alimentation and Environment (INRAe). He is deputy director of the Nutrition Physiology and Alimentary Behavior laboratory, which is one of the research units belonging to the Université Paris-Saclay/AgroParisTech/INRAe consortium. His team works on the metabolic crosstalk between the bacteria living in our gut and ourselves, notably regarding the metabolism of amino acids. He has published over 160 articles (source PubMed).

  • Guoyao Wu Guoyao Wu

    Guoyao Wu

    Dr. Wu is a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University. He received his PhD in 1989 in Animal Biochemistry from the University of Alberta, Canada and completed his postdoctoral training in diabetes, nutrition and biochemistry at McGill University and Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He joined Texas A&M University in October 1991. His nutrition-based research focuses on the biochemistry and physiology of amino acids (AAs) and related nutrients in animals at genetic, molecular, cellular, and whole-body levels. He has published more than 677 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 110 chapters in books, and two textbooks.

Articles (11 in this collection)