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ToolsAlessi, Anna M, Gray, Victoria, Farquharson, Freda M, Flores-López, Adriana, Shaw, Sophie, Stead, David, Wegmann, Udo, Shearman, Claire, Gasson, Mike, Collie-Duguid, Elaina S R, Flint, Harry J and Louis, Petra (2020) β-Glucan is a major growth substrate for human gut bacteria related to Coprococcus eutactus. Environmental Microbiology, 22 (6). pp. 2150-2164. ISSN 1462-2912
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Abstract
A clone encoding carboxymethyl cellulase activity was isolated during functional screening of a human gut metagenomic library using Lactococcus lactis MG1363 as heterologous host. The insert carried a glycoside hydrolase family 9 (GH9) catalytic domain with sequence similarity to a gene from Coprococcus eutactus ART55/1. Genome surveys indicated a limited distribution of GH9 domains among dominant human colonic anaerobes. Genomes of C. eutactus-related strains harboured two GH9-encoding and four GH5-encoding genes, but the strains did not appear to degrade cellulose. Instead, they grew well on β-glucans and one of the strains also grew on galactomannan, galactan, glucomannan and starch. Coprococcus comes and Coprococcus catus strains did not harbour GH9 genes and were not able to grow on β-glucans. Gene expression and proteomic analysis of C. eutactus ART55/1 grown on cellobiose, β-glucan and lichenan revealed similar changes in expression in comparison to glucose. On β-glucan and lichenan only, one of the four GH5 genes was strongly upregulated. Growth on glucomannan led to a transcriptional response of many genes, in particular a strong upregulation of glycoside hydrolases involved in mannan degradation. Thus, β-glucans are a major growth substrate for species related to C. eutactus, with glucomannan and galactans alternative substrates for some strains.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. Environmental Microbiology published by Society for Applied Microbiology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | butyrate-producing bacteria,cellulose degradation,endoglucanase,genomics,metagenomics,microbiota,phylogenies,propionate,ruminococcus-champanellensis,secretion |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Apr 2020 00:47 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 05:59 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/74690 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1462-2920.14977 |
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