CLA Conversion of Bifidobacterium breve JKL2022
Microbial production of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) has been part of the global interest in hopes of improving the CLA content of food products in order to meet the concentration of the bioactive substance necessary to elicit the expected beneficial activity in consumers. In this study, Bifidobacterium breve JKL2022 demonstrated the ability to mediate the conversion of CLA from free linoleic acid in three conditions – growing cells, washed cells, and crude protein extracts.