Glycan-Based Shaping Of The Microbiota During Primate Evolution
S. Singh, P. Bastos-Amador, J. A. Thompson, M. Truglio, B. Yilmaz, S. Cardoso, D. Sobral, M. P. Soares
The paper investigates how loss of GGTA1 function in primates affects host-microbiota interactions, finding that it reduces microbiota pathogenicity through IgA targeting of Gal-expressing bacteria.
bioRxiv · Feb 10, 2021Evolutionary Biology