Trophic interactions of infant bifidobacteria and eubacterium hallii during L-fucose and fucosyllactose degradation

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue JAN, 2017, Pages

  Schwab, Clarissa ^a   Ruscheweyh, Hans Joachim ^a,b   Bunesova, Vera ^a,c   Pham, Van Thanh ^a   Beerenwinkel, Niko ^a,b   Lacroix, Christophe ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bifidobacterium; Eubacterium hallii; Fucose; Fucosyllactose; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

FUCOSE; FUCOSYLLACTOSE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUBACTERIUM; FERMENTATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTESTINE FLORA; LIMIT OF DETECTION; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING;

EID: 85012008926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00095     Document Type: Article

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