Biomass utilization by gut microbiomes

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 279-296

  White, Bryan A ^a   Lamed, Raphael ^b   Bayer, Edward A ^c   Flint, Harry J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes); Carbohydrate binding module (CBM); Cohesin; Dockerin; Glycoside hydrolases; Polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs)

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; CELLULOSOME; MICROBIAL ENZYME; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PERIPLASMIC PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTEROIDETES; BIOMASS; CELL SURFACE; DEGRADATION; EUKARYOTE; FIBROBACTER SUCCINOGENES; FIRMICUTES; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; LARGE INTESTINE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PLANT FIBER; PREVOTELLA; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; RUMINANT STOMACH; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOMASS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 84907228460     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-092412-155618     Document Type: Review

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