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Bifidobacterium longum
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Collection numbers: ATCC 15707
Bifidobacterium longum strains possess the abfA cluster, which is crucial for arabinan utilization.
A distinct Bifidobacterium longum group expanded with the introduction of solid foods and harbored enzymes for utilizing breast milk and solid food substrates
The clade was highly prevalent in Bangladesh, present globally (at lower prevalence), and correlated with many other gut taxa and metabolites, indicating an essential role in gut ecology
Transitional B. longum, a clade prevalent in Bangladeshi children during weaning, harbors enzymes for utilizing breast milk and solid food substrate
Vatanen et al…
References (Sources)
- Cross-feeding between Bifidobacterium longum BB536 and acetate-converting, butyrate-producing colon bacteria during growth on oligofructose
- Death and the Miser: microbiota regulate the outcome of checkpoint inhibition immunotherapy
- Distinct Bifidobacterium strains drive different immune responses in vitro
- Eating for two: how metabolism establishes inter-species interactions in the gut.
- Incorporation of cholesterol into the cellular membrane of Bifidobacterium longum.
- Intestinal microbiota is altered in patients with colon cancer and modified by probiotic intervention
- Low gut microbiota diversity in early in- fancy precedes asthma at school age