Combined metagenomic and phenomic approaches identify a novel salt tolerance gene from the human gut microbiome

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Culligan, Eamonn P ^a,b   Marchesi, Julian R ^a,c,d   Hill, Colin ^a,b   Sleator, Roy D ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Department of Chemistry   (Ireland)

Author keywords

BIOLOG; Functional metagenomics; Gut microbiome; Metagenomics; Microbiota; Phenotype microarray; Salt tolerance; Transcriptional regulator

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE; PRIMER DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL RESPIRATION; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOSMID; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENOTYPE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; INTESTINE; MALE; METABOLIC CAPACITY; METABOLIC RATE; METAGENOMICS; MFST GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOLALITY; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALT TOLERENCE GENE; SDTR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGMA 54 DEPENDENT TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR GENE; SMG 9 GENE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 84899688942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00189     Document Type: Article

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