Improving microbial fitness in the mammalian gut by in vivo temporal functional metagenomics

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Yaung, Stephanie J ^a,b,c   Deng, Luxue ^d   Li, Ning ^d   Braff, Jonathan L ^c   Church, George M ^b,c   Bry, Lynn ^d   Wang, Harris H ^e,f   Gerber, Georg K ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

commensal fitness; functional metagenomics; microbiota; next generation sequencing; synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ALDOSE 1 EPIMERASE; ALPHA ARABINOFURANOSIDASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; ENDO 1,4 BETA XYLANASE; EPIMERASE; FRUCTOKINASE; FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; GALACTOKINASE; GALACTOSE; GENOMIC DNA; GLUCOSE GALACTOSE TRANSPORTER; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; GLYCOSIDASE; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; BACTEROIDES VULGATUS; CARBOHYDRATE TRANSPORT; CARBON SOURCE; COMMENSAL ESCHERICHIA COLI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GERMFREE MOUSE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INTESTINE FLORA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MAMMAL; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUCROSE METABOLISM; TIME; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BACTEROIDES; DNA SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; METAGENOMICS; MICE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84925861693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/msb.20145866     Document Type: Article

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