Acetate & Bifidobacterium / Bifidobacter

Exposure to human milk oligosaccharides during infancy supports the colonization with Bifidobacterium / Bifidobacter spp., producing fucose, acetate, pyruvate, and 1,2-propanediol to support the expansion of expansion the microbiota through cross-feeding, and encouraging Immune tolerance towards Commensal Bacteria / Commensalism
Fanning et al. 2012 PNAS 109(6): 2108-2113
Lawson et al. 2020 ISME J. 14: 635-648

Preventive and Non-preventive Bifidobacterium / Bifidobacter Can Produce Enough Acetate in the Presence of Glucose, and This Is Probably What Takes Place in the Proximal Part of the Colon
Fukuda et al. 2011 Nature 469: 543-547

Bifidobacterium / Bifidobacter breaks down sugars with its saccharolytic enzymes to acetate, lactate, formate, ethanol
Macfarlane et al. 1995 In Gastrointestinal and Oesophageal Pathology, 2nd ed., pp. 249-274 [R Whitehead, editor]. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone