CBS Researchers Find Key Nutritional Differences in Human, Monkey Breast-Milk
Quick Summary
- Genome Center researchers help identity novel components of our milk proteome.
- Work led by Genome Center researchers Danielle Lemay and Kristen Beck (first author) has recently been published in the Journal of Proteome Research.
This article originally appeared on the College of Biological Sciences News.
Human babies appear to need more of a nutritional boost from breast-milk proteins than do infants of one of their closest primate relatives, suggests a study comparing human milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monkeys.
The research team, led by the University of California, Davis, came to this conclusion after developing a new technique for comparing the proteome — all detectable proteins — of human milk with the proteome of the rhesus macaque monkey.
The researchers expect the findings will provide a better understanding of human breast-milk composition and identify fundamental nutrients that should be included in infant formula.
The study, which revealed the first comprehensive macaque milk proteome and newly identified 524 human milk proteins, is reported online in the Journal of Proteome Research.
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- This story first appeared on UC Davis News
- Andy Fell, Research news (emphasis: biological and physical sciences, and engineering), 530-752-4533, ahfell@ucdavis.edu
- Danielle Lemay, UC Davis Genome Center, (530) 297-7688, dglemay@ucdavis.edu