High-amylose wheat generated by RNA interference improves indices of large-bowel health in rats

Ahmed Regina; Anthony Bird; David Topping; Sarah Bowden; Judy Freeman; Tina Barsby; Behjat Kosar-Hashemi; Zhongyi Li; Sadequr Rahman; Matthew Morell

doi:10.1073/pnas.0510737103

High-amylose wheat generated by RNA interference improves indices of large-bowel health in rats

Ahmed Regina, Anthony Bird, David Topping, Sarah Bowden, Judy Freeman, Tina Barsby, Behjat Kosar-Hashemi, Zhongyi Li, Sadequr Rahman, Matthew Morell

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Abstract

Foods high in resistant starch have the potential to improve human health and lower the risk of serious noninfectious diseases. RNA interference was used to down-regulate the two different isoforms of starch-branching enzyme (SBE) II (SBEIIa and SBEIIb) in wheat endosperm to raise its amylose content. Suppression of SBEIIb expression alone had no effect on amylose content; however, suppression of both SBEIIa and SBEIIb expression resulted in starch containing >70% amylose. When the >70% amylose wheat grain was fed to rats in a diet as a wholemeal, several indices of large-bowel function, including short-chain fatty acids, were improved relative to standard wholemeal wheat. These results indicate that this high-amylose wheat has a significant potential to improve human health through its resistant starch content.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3546-3551
Number of pages	6
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	103
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0510737103
Publication status	Published - 7 Mar 2006
Externally published	Yes

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Genetic engineering
Nutrition
Starch

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Regina, A, Bird, A, Topping, D, Bowden, S, Freeman, J, Barsby, T, Kosar-Hashemi, B, Li, Z, Rahman, S & Morell, M 2006, 'High-amylose wheat generated by RNA interference improves indices of large-bowel health in rats', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 103, no. 10, pp. 3546-3551. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0510737103

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High-amylose wheat generated by RNA interference improves indices of large-bowel health in rats

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