The Ruminococcus bromii amylosome protein Sas6 binds single and double helical α-glucan structures in starch

AL Photenhauer, RC Villafuerte-Vega… - Nature structural & …, 2024 - nature.com
Resistant starch is a prebiotic accessed by gut bacteria with specialized amylases and
starch-binding proteins. The human gut symbiont Ruminococcus bromii expresses Sas6 …

What We Know About the Actual Role of Traditional Probiotics in Health and Disease

F Al-Akayleh, ASA Agha, M Al‐Remawi… - Probiotics and …, 2024 - Springer
The complex relationship between probiotics and human health goes beyond their
traditional function in gut health, generating considerable interest for their broad potential in …

Kluyveromyces marxianus Ameliorates High‐Fat‐Diet‐Induced Kidney Injury by Affecting Gut Microbiota and TLR4/NF‐κB Pathway in a Mouse Model

N Li, G Zhao, M Xu - Cellular Microbiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives. The effects of Kluyveromyces marxianus on high‐fat diet‐(HFD‐) induced kidney
injury (KI) were explored. Methods. HFD‐induced KI model was established using male …

Simple, reference-independent assessment to empirically guide correction and polishing of hybrid microbial community metagenomic assembly

GJ Smith, TA van Alen, MAHJ van Kessel, S Lücker - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Hybrid metagenomic assembly of microbial communities, leveraging both long-and short-
read sequencing technologies, is becoming an increasingly accessible approach, yet its …

Simple, reference-independent analyses help optimize hybrid assembly of microbial community metagenomes

GJ Smith, T van Alen, M van Kessel, S Lücker - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Hybrid metagenomic assembly, leveraging both long-and short-read sequencing
technologies, of microbial communities is becoming an increasingly accessible approach …

Novel amylase genes enable utilisation of resistant starch by bifidobacteria relevant to early-life microbiome development

ME Millar, M Abele, HC Harris, TT Koev, A Telatin… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Bifidobacterium species and strains are key members of the gut microbiota, appearing soon
after birth and persisting into adulthood. Resistant starch is an important dietary substrate for …

Diet-specific impacts on the gut microbiome and their relation to health and inflammation

S El-Shafie, A Metwaly - Nutrition in the Control of Inflammation, 2025 - Elsevier
The etiology of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) remains unclear, but it is believed that
environmental factors play a significant role in their development. Analyses of patient …