Plant cell wall breakdown by anaerobic microorganisms from the mammalian digestive tract

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1125, Issue , 2008, Pages 280-288

  Flint, Harry J ^a   Bayer, Edward A ^b  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cellulosome; Large intestine; Lignocellulose; Microbial ecology; Prevotella; Rumen; Ruminococcus

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; RNA 16S;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATALYSIS; CELL WALL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EUKARYOTE; FECES MICROFLORA; GENOMICS; INTESTINE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL WALL; PLANT FIBER; PREVOTELLA; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RUMEN MICROORGANISM; RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVEFACIENS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; POLYPLASTRON MULTIVESICULATUM; POSIBACTERIA; PREVOTELLA; PREVOTELLA BRYANTII; PROTOZOA; RUMINOCOCCUS; RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVEFACIENS; UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 41349093562     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1419.022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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