Identification and Characterization of Major Bile Acid 7α-Dehydroxylating Bacteria in the Human Gut

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In this study, we identified a key 7α-dehydroxylating bacterial group predicted to be largely responsible for converting primary bile acids (BAs) to secondary BAs in the human gut through sequence similarity network, genome neighborhood network, and gene abundance analyses using human gut metagenomes. The key bacterial group was phylogenetically quite different from known 7α-dehydroxylating bacteria, and their...

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