Therapeutic Food Boosts Children's Growth

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A strain of the bacterium harbored in the children's gut microbial communities possessed a previously unknown gene capable of producing and metabolizing key molecules involved in regulating many important functions ranging from appetite, immune responses, neuronal function, and the ability of pathogenic bacteria to produce disease.

The results are published Oct. 25 in the journal Science .

The bacterial enzyme has a wider range of capabilities than human FAAH does.

The structures of the human and bacterial FAAH enzyme are very distinct; the investigational drugs that inhibit the human enzyme were found to not affect the bacterial enzyme.

The identification of this gut bacterial enzyme offers new opportunities to investigate the beneficial effects of the therapeutic food treatment.

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