Degradation of Fructans and Production of Propionic Acid by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron are Enhanced by the Shortage of Amino Acids

Frontiers in Nutrition

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Adamberg, Signe ^a   Tomson, Katrin ^b   Vija, Heiki ^c   Puurand, Marju ^a   Kabanova, Natalja ^b   Visnapuu, Triinu ^d   Jõgi, Eerik ^d   Alamäe, Tiina ^d   Adamberg, Kaarel ^a,b  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b Competence Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies ^*  (Estonia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS AND BIOPHYSICS   (Estonia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

amino acid metabolism; Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron; defined medium; FOS; fructan; isothermal microcalorimetry; levan; metabolic flux analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938904607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2014.00021     Document Type: Article

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