Two routes of metabolic cross-feeding between Bifidobacterium adolescentis and butyrate-producing anaerobes from the human gut

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3593-3599

  Belenguer, Alvaro ^a   Duncan, Sylvia H ^a   Calder, A Graham ^a   Holtrop, Grietje ^b   Louis, Petra ^a   Lobley, Gerald E ^a   Flint, Harry J ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTERS; FERMENTATION; STARCH;

BUTYRATE-FORMING BACTERIA; COMPLEX SUBSTRATES; FRUCTO-OLIGOSACCHARIDES; METABOLIC CROSS-FEEDING;

METABOLISM;

ACETYL COENZYME A; BUTYRIC ACID; CARBON 13; FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; LACTIC ACID; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; STARCH;

BACTERIUM; CARBOHYDRATE; FERMENTATION; METABOLISM;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROSTIPES COCCAE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ADOLESCENTIS; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EUBACTERIUM; EUBACTERIUM HALLII; FEEDING; FERMENTATION; FIRMICUTES; INTESTINE FLORA; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; ROSEBURIA;

ACETATES; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BUTYRATES; CULTURE MEDIA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM; FATTY ACIDS; FRUCTOSE; HUMANS; LACTATES; OLIGOSACCHARIDES;

ANAEROSTIPES CACCAE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ADOLESCENTIS; EUBACTERIUM HALLII; ROSEBURIA;

EID: 33646585117     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.5.3593-3599.2006     Document Type: Article

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