Current Knowledge on Honey and Its Derivatives with Genomic Stability: A Mini Review

Abstract

Genome health is an important factor that plays a role in various degenerative diseases. Instability of genome is the prevalence of mutation within the genome such as changed in nucleic acid and chromosomal arrangement and also the presence of abnormal number of chromosome in cell. Therefore, several method were used to overcome this problem and one of them is by using natural product such as honey, propolis, bee pollen and royal jelly that is high in antioxidant. Those are products that derive from honey bee and had been used as food supplement to increase the quality of life. Therefore, this systematic review provides the updates on the potential of honey bee products to decrease DNA damage both in in vivo and in vitro approaches. Search term of “honey”, “propolis”, “bee pollen”, royal jelly”, “DNA damage”, “genome integrity”, and “telomere” were used for searching purpose in three databases (Scopus, Pubmed and Medline) and also Google Scholar. All the published articles were assessed using PRISMA guidelines and finally after the eligibility process, only 34 published articles were selected for this review. Based on the reports, the product from the honey bee decrease the genome related diseases by reducing the accumulation of free radical, increase the DNA repair protein expression and decrease the telomerase activity in the cell. This provides a large gap in the research field focusing on the effect of those derivatives from bees on genomic stability.