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The fitness of the Bacteroidales, the dominant order of bacteria in the human gut, is an emergent property of glycans and one specific metabolite, butyrate.
Bacteroidales and Clostridiales / Eubacteriales harbor enzymes that can break down complex polysaccharides, including fibers and mucins, and use them as an energy source
Pickard et al. 2017 Imm…
References (Sources)
- Consumption of human milk oligosaccharides by gut-related microbes
- Gut microbiota: Role in pathogen colonization, immune responses, and inflammatory disease
- Strain-level fitness in the gut microbiome is an emergent property of glycans and a single metabolite
- Type VI secretion systems of human gut Bacteroidales segregate into three genetic architectures, two of which are contained on mobile genetic elements