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- Food composition and properties
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Gut microbiota and health
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2024
Humans, like all mammals, depend on the gut microbiome for digestion of cellulose, main component plant fiber. However, evidence cellulose fermentation in human is scarce. We have identified ruminococcal species microbiota populations that assemble functional multienzymatic cellulosome structures capable degrading cell wall polysaccharides. One these species, which strongly associated with humans, likely originated ruminant and was subsequently transferred to gut, potentially during...
10.1126/science.adj9223
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Science
2024-03-14
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