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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Enterococcus faecium
SUBMITTER: Xinglin Zhang
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-3760 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
PloS one 20130807 8
Enterococcus faecium is a gut commensal of humans and animals. In the intestinal tract, E. faecium will have access to a wide variety of carbohydrates, including maltodextrins and maltose, which are the sugars that result from the enzymatic digestion of starch by host-derived and microbial amylases. In this study, we identified the genetic determinants for maltodextrin utilization of E. faecium E1162. We generated a deletion mutant of the mdxABCD-pulA gene cluster that is homologous to maltodext ...[more]