by Harvard Medical School Credit: CC0 Public Domain From immunity to metabolism to mental health, it seems like the gut microbiome has been linked to every aspect of human health and disease. But with hundreds of bacterial species populating our gastrointestinal tract, it’s a daunting task to pinpoint which molecules made by which bacteria affect which biological processes—and...
by Julia Evangelou Strait, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Proposed scheme for N-glycan utilization by B. infantis Bg_2D9. Breakdown of glycosidic linkages by specific glycoside hydrolases (GHs) is indicated in orange boxes. Proteins encoded by genes in the ngl cluster are highlighted in red. Credit: Science Translational Medicine (2022). DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abk1107 About 18 million children under age...
