The Cytosolic Oligosaccharide-Degrading Proteome of Butyrivibrio Proteoclasticus.

ABSTRACT: The growth and productivity of ruminants depends on a complex microbial community found in their fore-stomach (rumen), which is able to breakdown plant polysaccharides and ferment the released sugars. Butyrivibrio proteoclasticus B316T is a Gram-positive polysaccharide-degrading, butyrate-producing bacterium that is present at high numbers in the rumen of animals consuming pasture or grass silage based diets. B316T is one of a small number of rumen fibrolytic microbes capable of efficiently degrading and utilizing xylan, as well as being capable of utilizing arabinose, xylose, pectin and starch. We have therefore carried out a proteomic analysis of B316T to identify intracellular enzymes that are implicated in the metabolism of internalized xylan. Three hundred and ninety four proteins wer

SUBMITTER: Dunne JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5217386 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature