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Strain-level fitness in the gut microbiome is an emergent property of glycans and a single metabolite.
Cell - 3 Feb 2022
Park Sun-Yang, Rao Chitong, Coyte Katharine Z, Kuziel Gavin A, Zhang Yancong, Huang Wentao, Franzosa Eric A, Weng Jing-Ke, Huttenhower Curtis, Rakoff-Nahoum Seth
Abstract excerpt
The human gut microbiota resides within a diverse chemical environment challenging our ability to understand the forces shaping this ecosystem. Here, we reveal that fitness of the Bacteroidales, the dominant order of bacteria in the human gut, is an emergent property of glycans and one specific metabolite, butyrate. Distinct sugars serve as strain-variable fitness switches activating context-dependent inhibitory...
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