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SUBMITTER: Marcobal A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3227561 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marcobal Angela A Barboza Mariana M Sonnenburg Erica D ED Pudlo Nicholas N Martens Eric C EC Desai Prerak P Lebrilla Carlito B CB Weimer Bart C BC Mills David A DA German J Bruce JB Sonnenburg Justin L JL
Cell host & microbe 20111027 5
Newborns are colonized with an intestinal microbiota shortly after birth, but the factors governing the retention and abundance of specific microbial lineages are unknown. Nursing infants consume human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) that pass undigested to the distal gut, where they may be digested by microbes. We determined that the prominent neonate gut residents, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron and Bacteroides fragilis, induce the same genes during HMO consumption that are used to harvest host muc ...[more]