Loss of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron bile acid-altering enzymes impacts bacterial fitness and the global metabolic transcriptome.

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Recent work on bile salt hydrolases (BSHs) in Gram-negative bacteria, such as Bacteroides, has primarily focused on how they can impact host physiology. However, the benefits bile acid metabolism confers to the bacterium that performs it are not well understood. In this study, we set out to define if and how Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (B. theta) uses its BSHs and hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase to modify bile acids to provide a fitness advantage for itself in vitro and in vivo. Genes encoding bile acid-altering enzymes were able to impact how B. theta responds to nutrient limitation in the presence of bile acids, specifically carbohydrate metabolism, affecting many polysaccharide utilization loci. This suggests that B. theta may b

SUBMITTER: McMillan AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10783122 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature