Inulin-type fructan degradation capacity of clostridium cluster IV and XlVa butyrate- producing colon bacteria and their associated metabolic outcomes

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 473-490

  Moens, F ^a   de Vuyst, L ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Butyrate; Clostridium cluster IV; Clostridium cluster XIVa; Gases; Inulin type fructans

Indexed keywords

FRUCTAN; FRUCTOSE; FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; INULIN; BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBON DIOXIDE; FORMIC ACID; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN; LACTIC ACID; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BUTYRICICOCCUS PULLICAECORUM; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CLOSTRIDIUM; COLON FLORA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EUBACTERIUM HALLII; EUBACTERIUM RECTALE; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; FLOW CYTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; SPECIES CULTIVATION; STOICHIOMETRY; COLON; EUBACTERIUM; FERMENTATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BUTYRATES; CARBON DIOXIDE; COLON; EUBACTERIUM; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; FERMENTATION; FORMATES; FRUCTOSE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; INULIN; LACTIC ACID; OLIGOSACCHARIDES;

EID: 85019667202     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2016.0142     Document Type: Article

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