Structural basis for nutrient acquisition by dominant members of the human gut microbiota

Nature

Volumn 541, Issue 7637, 2017, Pages 407-411

  Glenwright, Amy J ^a   Pothula, Karunakar R ^b   Bhamidimarri, Satya P ^b   Chorev, Dror S ^c   Baslé, Arnaud ^a   Firbank, Susan J ^a   Zheng, Hongjun ^a   Robinson, Carol V ^c   Winterhalter, Mathias ^b   Kleinekathöfer, Ulrich ^b   Bolam, David N ^a   Van Den Berg, Bert ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCAN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; LIGAND;

BACTERIUM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEGRADATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; LIGAND; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COLON FLORA; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTER MEMBRANE; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; BACTEROIDES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTEROIDES SP.; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; BACTEROIDETES; NEGIBACTERIA; SUS;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTEROIDES; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; POLYSACCHARIDES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85017153583     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature20828     Document Type: Article

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