Nutritional Health Perspective of Natto: A Critical Review

Table 2

Lactic acid bacterial strains and their function.

Therapeutic property	Bacterial strains	Regulatory chemicals	References
Antioxidant damage DNA	L. acidophilus and L. Casei	↑ 5-fluorouracil	Elmore and Susan, [57].
Immune boosting	L. acidophilus	↑ DCs cell	Elmore and Susan, [57].
		↑ cytokines IL-12 and IL-10
Epigenetics	Lipoteichoic acid and L. acidophilus	↑ expression of tumor suppressor genes	Elmore and Susan, [57].