Ruminococcus torques

GeneBankAC: FP929055

Ruminococcus torques (RT) is a common and plentiful component of the human gut microbiota (1), but its functional role in regulating host metabolism is still mostly unknown. Ruminococcus torques belongs to the species in the healthy human gut - the abundance is low: about 0.97% of all species in the healthy human gut (3). It is an asporulate and member of Clostridium cluster XIVa (2) and belongs to the mucin degrading/consuming bacteria (4).

It is one of several bacterial species exacerbating ALS symptoms in mice (5).

References:

(1) Valentino et al. 2024 Cell Rep 43: 115018
(2) Guo et al. 2020b Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 11: 24
(3) King et al. 2019
(4) Png et al. 2010 Am. J. Gastroenterol. 105: 2420-2428
(5) Blacher 2021 Science 373: 172-173

see also:
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) & Gut microbiota