Carbohydrates comprise a large fraction of the typical diet, yet humans are only able to
directly process some types of starch and simple sugars. The remainder transits the large …

Symbiotic microorganisms that reside in the human intestine are adept at foraging glycans
and polysaccharides, including those in dietary plants (starch, hemicellulose and pectin) …

Yeasts, which have been a component of the human diet for at least 7,000 years, possess
an elaborate cell wall α-mannan. The influence of yeast mannan on the ecology of the …

Abstract The Polysaccharide Utilization Loci (PUL) database was launched in 2015 to
present PUL predictions in∼ 70 Bacteroidetes species isolated from the human …

Resident bacteria in the densely populated human intestinal tract must efficiently compete
for carbohydrate nutrition. The Bacteroidetes, a dominant bacterial phylum in the …

Glycans are the major carbon sources available to the human colonic microbiota. Numerous
N-glycosylated proteins are found in the human gut, from both dietary and host sources …

The critical importance of gastrointestinal microbes to digestion of dietary fiber in humans
and other mammals has been appreciated for decades. Symbiotic microorganisms expand …

Newly named in 1989, Capnocytophaga canimorsus is a bacterial pathogen found in the
saliva of healthy dogs and cats, and is transmitted to humans principally by dog bites. This …

Bacterial chitinases (EC 3.2. 1.14) and chitin-binding proteins (CBPs) play a fundamental
role in the degradation of the ubiquitous biopolymer chitin, and the degradation products …

Milk, in addition to nourishing the neonate, provides a range of complex glycans whose
construction ensures a specific enrichment of key members of the gut microbiota in the …