Project description
Food-derived extracellular vesicles for diagnosing and monitoring metabolic diseases
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived from food play an important role in nutrition. They can withstand digestion and influence the gut microbiome, gut-resident cells and even the EVs these cells secrete. When they cross the gut wall into the bloodstream, they can affect cellular metabolism and disease. The EIC-funded NutriEV project aims to investigate the role of EVs derived from raw and fermented foods in gut health, obesity and metabolic regulation. This could support their use in non-invasive monitoring and in therapeutics delivery. To do so, the team will rely on comprehensive in vitro, in vivo and clinical investigations.
Objective
The NutriEV project explores the pivotal role of extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived from food in nutrition. These nutriEVs are envisioned to serve as superfoods and nutritional biosensors. The project integrates various disciplines, including nutrition, microbiome research, glycan analysis, molecular biology, nanoreagent assembly, biosensors, organoid technologies, in vivo models, and clinical research.
NutriEVs obtained from raw and fermented foods are a model for our research. Investigating the glycans associated with NutriEVs will provide insights into how these vesicles may deliver their nutritional cargo to cells. NutriEVs can withstand the digestive process, influencing the gut microbiome and other gut-resident cells, including their secreted EVs. Subsequently, they transcytose across the gut wall into the bloodstream, impacting cellular metabolism and disease.
The project delves into the intricate interplay between dietary EVs, the gut residence cell, the microbiome, and their associated EVs. We aim to understand their role in gut health, obesity, and metabolic regulation through a comprehensive array of in vitro, in vivo, and clinical investigations. These EVs are detected in sweat with unique molecular signatures, providing non-invasive biomonitoring technologies to assess nutritional impact. These technologies can potentially revolutionize our ability to evaluate the influence of nutrition. The successful completion of the NutriEV project presents promising translational opportunities for both the food industry and medicine.
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HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC)
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01
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90014 Oulu
Finland
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