Iron modulates butyrate production by a child gut microbiota in vitro

mBio

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Dostal, Alexandra ^a   Lacroix, Christophe ^a   Bircher, Lea ^a   Pham, Van Thanh ^a   Follador, Rainer ^b   Zimmermann, Michael Bruce ^a   Chassard, Christophe ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MICROSYNTH AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETATE COENZYME A TRANSFERASE; BUTYRIC ACID; BUTYRYL COENZYME A; COENZYME A; FERREDOXIN; GENOMIC DNA; HYDROGEN; IRON; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PYRUVIC ACID; RNA 16S; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; COENZYME A TRANSFERASE; PYRUVATE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DOWN REGULATION; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINE FLORA; IRON DEFICIENCY; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; PHYSIOLOGY;

BUTYRATES; CHILD; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COENZYME A-TRANSFERASES; FERMENTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; IRON; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PYRUVATE SYNTHASE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84952838120     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01453-15     Document Type: Article

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