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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
SUBMITTER: Eric Martens
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-11980 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Martens Eric C EC Chiang Herbert C HC Gordon Jeffrey I JI
Cell host & microbe 20081101 5
The distal human gut is a microbial bioreactor that digests complex carbohydrates. The strategies evolved by gut microbes to sense and process diverse glycans have important implications for the assembly and operation of this ecosystem. The human gut-derived bacterium Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron forages on both host and dietary glycans. Its ability to target these substrates resides in 88 polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs), encompassing 18% of its genome. Whole genome transcriptional profil ...[more]