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Mucin foraging enables Akkermansia muciniphila to compete against other microbes in the gut and to modulate host sterol biosynthesis
2022-03-31
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Akkermansia muciniphila, a prominent member of the gastrointestinal tract (GI) microbiota, uses mucins as a sole source of carbon and nitrogen. A. muciniphila is considered a next-generation probiotic because its abundance in humans positively correlates with protection from metabolic syndrome and obesity. However, A. muciniphila is intractable to genetic analysis and thus the molecular...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 72cb8279-1c2d-526e-ae4e-0d50b960cb74
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1475049/v1
