Anti-Cancer Effects of Enriched Yeast Identified
Posted on Feb. 17, 2012, 6 a.m. in
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An essential trace element, selenium acts as an antioxidant to protect cells from the free radical damage that causes aging and is linked to many age-related diseases. Karam El-Bayoumy, from Penn State College of Medicine (Pennsylvania, USA), and colleagues performed proteomic analysis of both regular and selenium-enriched yeast. Finding that selenium-enriched yeast produced a change in 37 proteins, a number of which are involved in the carcinogenesis process, the team urges for preclinical animal models and pilot human clinical trials to ascertain the potential beneficial anti-cancer effects.
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Karam El-Bayoumy, Arunangshu Das, Stephen Russell, Steven Wolfe, Rick Jordan, Kutralanathan Renganathan, et al. “The effect of selenium enrichment on baker's yeast proteome.” Journal of Proteomics, Volume 75, Issue 3, 4 January 2012, Pages 1018-1030.
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