Maternal fucosyltransferase 2 status affects the gut bifidobacterial communities of breastfed infants

Microbiome

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lewis, Zachery T ^a   Totten, Sarah M ^a   Smilowitz, Jennifer T ^a   Popovic, Mina ^b   Parker, Evan ^a   Lemay, Danielle G ^a   Van Tassell, Maxwell L ^c   Miller, Michael J ^c   Jin, Yong Su ^c   German, J Bruce ^a   Lebrilla, Carlito B ^a   Mills, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

Bifidobacteria; Breastfeeding; FUT2; Human milk oligosaccharides; Infant; Marker gene sequencing; Secretor; Short chain fatty acids

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE 2; GLYCAN; LACTIC ACID; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM SUBSP. INFANTIS; BREAST MILK; CLOSTRIDIACEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUCOSYLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLALES; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIALYLATION; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIFIDOBACTERIALES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM;

EID: 84933516257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20492618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-015-0071-z     Document Type: Article

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