Polysaccharide utilization loci and nutritional specialization in a dominant group of butyrate-producing human colonic firmicutes

Microbial Genomics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1-16

  Sheridan, Paul O ^a   Martin, Jennifer C ^a   Lawley, Trevor D ^b   Browne, Hilary P ^b   Harris, Hugh M B ^c   Bernalier Donadille, Annick ^d   Duncan, Sylvia H ^a   O’Toole, Paul W ^c   Scott, Karen P ^a   Flint, Harry J ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Carbohydrate; Comparative genomics; Gut microbiota; Lachnospiraceae; Obligate anaerobe; Roseburia

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; AMYLASE; AMYLOPECTIN; AMYLOSE; ARABINOGALACTAN; ARABINOXYLAN; BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; BUTYRIC ACID; CARBOHYDRATE BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLOMALTODEXTRIN GLUCANOTRANSFERASE; FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; GALACTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; GENOMIC DNA; HYDROLASE; INULIN; MANNAN; OLIGO 1,6 GLUCOSIDASE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PECTIN; PULLULANASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLAN; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE; XYLO GLUCAN; XYLO OLIGOSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ENZYME; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE UTILIZATION ECOTYPE; COLON FLORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EUBACTERIUM RECTALE; FIRMICUTES; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PHYLOGENY; POLYSACCHARIDE UTILIZATION LOCI; ROSEBURIA FAECIS; ROSEBURIA HOMINIS; ROSEBURIA INTESTINALIS; ROSEBURIA INULINIVORANS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; COLON; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BUTYRATES; COLON; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; ENZYMES; FIRMICUTES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85045989657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20575858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000043     Document Type: Article

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