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Coordinate regulation of glycan degradation and polysaccharide capsule biosynthesis by a prominent human gut symbiont

ABSTRACT: Analysis of B. thetaiotaomicron trans-envelope signaling mutants in ECF-sigma factors, anti-sigma factors and SusC-like transporters. B. thetaiotaomicron mutants were transcriptionally profiled after growth in vitro in either minimal medium plus glucose or minimal medium plus neutral O-glycans

ORGANISM(S): Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron VPI-5482

SUBMITTER: Eric Martens

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-14592 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Coordinate regulation of glycan degradation and polysaccharide capsule biosynthesis by a prominent human gut symbiont.

Martens Eric C EC Roth Robyn R Heuser John E JE Gordon Jeffrey I JI

The Journal of biological chemistry 20090429 27

Bacteria in the distal human gut have evolved diverse abilities to metabolize complex glycans, including the capacity to degrade these compounds as nutrients and to assemble their component sugars into new polymers such as extracellular capsules. The human gut bacterium Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron is well endowed with the ability to metabolize both host- and diet-derived glycans. Its genome contains 88 different polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs) for complex glycan catabolism and eight diff ...[more]

PMID: 19403529

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Coordinate regulation of glycan degradation and polysaccharide capsule biosynthesis by a prominent human gut symbiont

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Coordinate regulation of glycan degradation and polysaccharide capsule biosynthesis by a prominent human gut symbiont.

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