Evidence that polygalacturonic acid may not be a major source of carbon and energy for some colonic Bacteroides species.

Five Bacteroides species that are found in the human colon can utilize polygalacturonic acid (PGA) when they are grown in laboratory media: Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, Bacteroides vulgatus, Bacteroides ovatus, Bacteroides fragilis subsp. a, and Bacteroides sp. strain 3452A (an unnamed DNA-DNA homo...

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Main Authors: McCarthy, R E, Salyers, A A
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1986
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC203385/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3729407
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