Project description:Beneficial modulation of the gut microbiome has high-impact implications not only in humans, but also in livestock that sustain our current societal needs. In this context, we have engineered an acetylated galactoglucomannan (AcGGM) fibre from spruce trees to match unique enzymatic capabilities of Roseburia and Faecalibacterium species, both renowned butyrate-producing gut commensals. The accuracy of AcGGM was tested in an applied pig feeding trial, which resolved 355 metagenome-assembled genomes together with quantitative metaproteomes. In AcGGM-fed pigs, both target populations differentially expressed AcGGM-specific polysaccharide utilization loci, including novel, mannan-specific esterases that are critical to its deconstruction. We additionally observed a “butterfly effect”, whereby numerous metabolic changes and interdependent cross-feeding pathways were detected in neighboring non-mannolytic populations that produce short-chain fatty acids. Our findings show that intricate structural features and acetylation patterns of dietary fibre can be customized to specific bacterial populations, with the possibility to create greater modulatory effects at large.

2020-09-28 | PXD015757 | Pride

H1 hESC Exposed to Butyrate

Project description:To assess the effect of sodium butyrate exposure on human ESC grown without culture support for self-renewal (I.e. without conditioned medium and added bFGF) - three groups were compared - H1 culture in feeder conditioned medium vs without conditioned medium in 0.2 mM sodium butyrate vs. grown in sodium butyrate for 4 passages followed by return to conditioned medium conditions for 3 passages. The three groups were grown in triplicate and compared on Agilent whole human genome array

2009-03-05 | GSE15110 | GEO

Bacillus magaterium strain:megaterium | isolate:SS3

Project description:Bacillus magaterium strain:megaterium | isolate:SS3 Genome sequencing

| PRJNA1140371 | ENA