Nonstarch polysaccharides modulate bacterial microbiota, pathways for butyrate production, and abundance of pathogenic escherichia coli in the pig gastrointestinal tract

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3692-3701

  Metzler Zebeli, Barbara U ^a   Hooda, Seema ^a   Pieper, Robert ^b,d   Zijlstra, Ruurd T ^a   Van Kessel, Andrew G ^b   Mosenthin, Rainer ^a,c   Gänzle, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTEROIDES; BUTYRATE KINASE; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; COENZYME A; E. COLI; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECAL MICROBIOTA; FERMENTABILITY; FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE COPY NUMBER; INTESTINAL BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES; LARGE INTESTINE; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MICROBIOTAS; NON-STARCH POLYSACCHARIDES; NUTRIENT FLOWS; PREVOTELLA; PRODUCTION PATHWAYS; QUANTITATIVE PCR; SMALL INTESTINE; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POLYSACCHARIDES; RNA; VISCOSITY;

BACTERIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL RNA; BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; RNA 16S; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ABUNDANCE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DIET; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PIG; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSACCHARIDE; VIRULENCE; VISCOSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS; ILEUM; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BUTYRATES; DIET; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ILEUM; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METAGENOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYSACCHARIDES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SWINE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES (CLASS); CLOSTRIDIUM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVOTELLA; SUIDAE;

EID: 77953034354     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00257-10     Document Type: Article

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