Background: Recently discovered relationships between the gastrointestinal microbiome
and the brain have implications for psychiatric disorders, including major depressive …

Polysaccharide was a class of macromolecular substance with various bioactive functions.
Gut symbiotic microorganisms could utilize the polysaccharides from various sources, thus …

Development of microbiota-directed foods (MDFs) that selectively increase the abundance
of beneficial human gut microbes, and their expressed functions, requires knowledge of both …

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

The majority of dietary fibre (DF) originates from plant cell walls. Chemically, DF mostly
comprise carbohydrate polymers, which resist hydrolysis by digestive enzymes in the …

Understanding how members of the human gut microbiota prioritize nutrient resources is
one component of a larger effort to decipher the mechanisms defining microbial community …

Low molecular weight seaweed polysaccharides exhibit promising potential as novel
therapeutics for the prevention of obesity and gut microbiota dysbiosis. The interplay …

The human gut microbiota endows the host with a wealth of metabolic functions central to
health, one of which is the degradation and fermentation of complex carbohydrates. The …

Background Despite the importance of the mucosal interface between microbiota and the
host in gut homeostasis, little is known about the mechanisms of bacterial gut colonization …

Increased hydrolysis of easily digestible biomass may lead to acidosis of anaerobic reactors
and decreased methane production. Previously, it was shown that the structure of microbial …