Bacteria of the human gut microbiome catabolize red seaweed glycans with carbohydrate-active enzyme updates from extrinsic microbes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 48, 2012, Pages 19786-19791

  Hehemann, Jan Hendrik ^a   Kelly, Amelia G ^b   Pudlo, Nicholas A ^b   Martens, Eric C ^b   Boraston, Alisdair B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE ACTIVE ENZYME; CARRAGEENAN; ENZYME; POLYSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES PLEBEIUS; EATING HABIT; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; POLYSACCHARIDE UTILIZATION LOCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAWEED; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BIOCATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; ENZYMES; HUMANS; INTESTINES; METAGENOME; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLYSACCHARIDES; RHODOPHYTA; SEAWEED;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES PLEBEIUS;

EID: 84870351198     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211002109     Document Type: Article

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