AGEs	Advanced glycation end products
LAB	Lactic acid bacteria
GRAS	Generally recognized as safe
CML	Carboxymethyl lysine
CEL	Carboxyethyl lysine
PBS	Phosphate-buffered saline
MRS	Man–Rogosa–Sharpe
OD600	optical density at 600 nm
eggNOG	Evolutionary Eenealogy of Genes: Non-supervised Orthologous Groups
GO	Gene Ontology
KEGG	Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
CAZymes	Carbohydrate-active enzymes
PHI-base	Pathogen–Host Interaction database
CLSM	Confocal laser scanning microscopy
FITC	Fluorescein isothiocyanate
FTIR	Fourier-transform infrared
SEM	standard error of the mean
ANOVA	analysis of variance
GH	Glycoside hydrolases
GT	Glycosyl transferases
CE	Carbohydrate esterases
CBM	Carbohydrate-binding modules
AA	Auxiliary activities
PL	Polysaccharide lyases