Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 metabolises the human milk oligosaccharides lacto-N-tetraose and lacto-N-neo-tetraose through overlapping, yet distinct pathways

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  James, Kieran ^a,b   Motherway, Mary O'Connell ^b   Bottacini, Francesca ^b   Van Sinderen, Douwe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOSUGAR; LACTO-N-NEOTETRAOSE; LACTOSAMINE; LACTOSE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

BACTERIAL GENE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST MILK; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

AMINO SUGARS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; LACTOSE; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MILK, HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 85002680289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep38560     Document Type: Article

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