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SUBMITTER: O'Connell KJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3811189 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
O'Connell Kerry Joan KJ O'Connell Motherway Mary M O'Callaghan John J Fitzgerald Gerald F GF Ross R Paul RP Ventura Marco M Stanton Catherine C van Sinderen Douwe D
Applied and environmental microbiology 20130802 20
Members of the genus Bifidobacterium are common inhabitants of the gastrointestinal tracts of humans and other mammals, where they ferment many diet-derived carbohydrates that cannot be digested by their hosts. To extend our understanding of bifidobacterial carbohydrate utilization, we investigated the molecular mechanisms by which 11 strains of Bifidobacterium breve metabolize four distinct α-glucose- and/or α-galactose-containing oligosaccharides, namely, raffinose, stachyose, melibiose, and m ...[more]