Mucosal Glycan Foraging Enhances the Fitness and Transmission of a Saccharolytic Human Distal Gut Symbiont: ECF mutant
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ABSTRACT: Growth of isogenic parent ('tdk strain'), 5xECF-sigma factor mutant and complemented mutant strain in the cecum of NMRI inbred mice fed a glycan-restricted, 'simple sugar' diet (35% each glucose and sucrose). Bacteria were collected from mouse distal gut 10 days after colonization.
ORGANISM(S): Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Bifidobacterium longum
PROVIDER: GSE11953 | GEO | 2008/11/21
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA109257
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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