Metatranscriptome analysis of the human fecal microbiota reveals subject-specific expression profiles, with genes encoding proteins involved in carbohydrate metabolism being dominantly expressed

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 5533-5540

  Booijink, Carien C G M ^a,d   Boekhorst, Jos ^b,e   Zoetendal, Erwin G ^a   Smidt, Hauke ^a   Kleerebezem, Michiel ^a,c   De Vos, Willem M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CDNA-AFLP; EXPRESSION PROFILE; FECAL MICROBIOTA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES; GENES ENCODING; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; HUMAN FECAL; IN-SITU; INTESTINAL TRACT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIOTAS; ORTHOLOGOUS GENES; RNA FINGERPRINTING; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC;

CARBOHYDRATES; METABOLISM; RNA;

GENE EXPRESSION;

CARBOHYDRATE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FECES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; FECES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; METAGENOME; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TIME; EVALUATION STUDY; PROCEDURES;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FECES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955963505     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00502-10     Document Type: Article

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