Amino acid competition shapes Acinetobacter baumannii gut carriage
Xiaomei Ren, R. C. Clark, Dziedzom A. Bansah, Elizabeth N. Varner, Connor R. Tiffany, Kanchan Jaswal, John H. Geary, Olivia Adele Todd, Jonathan D. Winkelman, Elliot S. Friedman, Riley N Jarrett, Babette S. Zemel, Gary D. Wu, Joseph P. Zackular, William H. DePas, , Lauren D. Palmer
This study shows that A. baumannii uses ornithine to compete with gut microbiota and persist in mice, with dietary ornithine promoting its carriage.
Cell Host & Microbe · Aug 1, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology