Sporulation capability and amylosome conservation among diverse human colonic and rumen isolates of the keystone starch-degrader Ruminococcus bromii

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 324-336

  Mukhopadhya, Indrani ^a   Moraïs, Sarah ^b,i   Laverde Gomez, Jenny ^a   Sheridan, Paul O ^a   Walker, Alan W ^a   Kelly, William ^c   Klieve, Athol V ^d   Ouwerkerk, Diane ^d,e   Duncan, Sylvia H ^a   Louis, Petra ^a   Koropatkin, Nicole ^f   Cockburn, Darrell ^f   Kibler, Ryan ^f   Cooper, Philip J ^g   Sandoval, Carlos ^g   Crost, Emmanuelle ^h   Juge, Nathalie ^h   Bayer, Edward A ^b   Flint, Harry J ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g Hospital Cantonal Padre Alberto Buffoni   (Ecuador)

^h INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; STARCH;

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL SPORE; BOVINE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHILD; COLON; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; RUMEN; RUMINOCOCCUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CATTLE; CHILD; COLON; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIOTA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; RUMEN; RUMINOCOCCUS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; STARCH;

EID: 85040365951     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14000     Document Type: Article

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