The effect of the digestion products of lactose (glucose and galactose) on its intraintestinal, in vivo hydrolysis by exogenous microbial beta-D-galactosidase.
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the American College of Nutrition
- Vol. 5 (3), 281-290
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07315724.1986.10720131
Abstract
Exogenous, microbial beta-D-galactosidases are capable of effecting hydrolysis of lactose in situ in the gastrointestinal tract of lactase-deficient subjects when given as replacement therapy at mealtime. As its digestion products-glucose and galactose-are known to inhibit lactose hydrolysis in vitro, the effect of adding excess monosaccharide to milk on the hydrolytic efficiency of a beta-galactosidase from Aspergillus niger in adult lactose-malabsorbers was tested. Subjects were studied with 360-ml volumes of milk containing 18 g of carbohydrate. This was administered as intact milk, as lactose-prehydrolyzed milk, and as milk to which 399 mg of Lactase N was added within 5 minutes of consumption. This latter Lactase N-treated milk was administered alone and with graded levels of glucose-9, 18, and 36 g-and with similar doses of galactose. The Lactase N enzyme alone at mealtime reduced breath H2 production by 68% as compared to intact milk. The addition of monosaccharides produced no change in the apparent hydrolytic efficiency of the Lactase N in situ. Thus, product inhibition is unlikely to be the basis for the limited efficiency of intraintestinal hydrolysis of milk lactose by the enzyme from A niger.This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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