Propionate production by Bacteroidia gut bacteria and its dependence on substrate concentrations differs among species.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Propionate is a food preservative and platform chemical, but no biological process competes with current petrochemical production routes yet. Although propionate production has been described for gut bacteria of the class Bacteroidia, which also carry great capacity for the degradation of plant polymers, knowledge on propionate yields and productivities across species is scarce. This study aims to compare propionate production from glucose within Bacteroidia and characterize good propionate producers among this group.

Results

We collected published information on propionate producing Bacteroidia, and selected ten species to be further examined. These species were grown under defined conditions to compare their product formation. While propionate, acetate, succinat

SUBMITTER: Doring C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11238397 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature