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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Khan MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3400418 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The ISME journal 20120223 8
Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is one of the most abundant bacteria in the human gut ecosystem and it is an important supplier of butyrate to the colonic epithelium. Low numbers of faecalibacteria have been associated with inflammatory bowel disease. Despite being extremely oxygen sensitive, F. prausnitzii is found adherent to the gut mucosa where oxygen diffuses from epithelial cells. This paradox is now explained on the basis of gas tube experiments, flavin-dependent reduction of 5,5'-dithiobis- ...[more]