Systems-level characterization of a host-microbe metabolic symbiosis in the mammalian gut

Gut Microbes

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Heinken, Almut ^a   Sahoo, Swagatika ^a   Fleming, Ronan M T ^a   Thiele, Ines ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron; Computational modeling; Constraint based modeling; Host microbe interactions; Metabolism; Mus musculus; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DEOXYURIDINE; HYALURONIC ACID; METHIONINE; OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; PHOSPHOSERINE; PHOSPHOSERINE PHOSPHATASE; RIBOSE 5 PHOSPHATE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE;

ACIDURIA; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; COMPUTER MODEL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GERMFREE ANIMAL; GROWTH RATE; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE FLORA; KNOCKOUT GENE; LETHALITY; LIPID DIET; MALE; METABOLOME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DIET; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDESTHETAIOTAOMICRON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; CONSTRAINT-BASED MODELING; DIET; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; HOST-MICROBE INTERACTIONS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

BACTEROIDESTHETAIOTAOMICRON; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; CONSTRAINT-BASED MODELING; HOST-MICROBE INTERACTIONS; METABOLISM; MUS MUSCULUS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTEROIDES; DIET; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METABOLOME; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84871588520     PISSN: 19490976     EISSN: 19490984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/gutm.22370     Document Type: Article

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