• Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Human Milk Oligosaccharides. The Molecular Mechanism of Bifidobacterium Bifidum Lacto-N-biosidase 

      Cuxart, Irene; Coines, Joan; Esquivias, Oriol; Faijes, Magda; Planas, Antoni (Planas Sauter); Biarnés Fontal, Xevi; Rovira, Carme (ACS Catalysis 2022, 12(8), 4737–4743, 2022)
      Bifidobacterium bifidum lacto-N-biosidase (LnbB) is a critical enzyme for the degradation of human milk oligosaccharides in the gut microbiota of breast-fed infants. Guided by recent crystal structures, ...
    • Fortifier selection and dosage enables control of breast milk osmolarity 

      Oller Salvia, Benjamí; Herranz Barbero, Ana; Rico, Nayra; Aldecoa-Bilbao, Victoria; Macías-Muñoz, Laura; Wijngaard, Robin; Figueras-Aloy, Josep; Salvia-Roigés, Ma Dolors (Plos One. Vol.15, n.6 (2020), e0233924, 2020-06)
      Background: Human breast milk (BM) fortification is required to feed preterm newborns with less than 32 weeks of gestation. However, addition of fortifiers increases osmolarity and osmolarity values ...