Outer membrane utilisomes mediate oligosaccharide uptake in gut Bacteroidetes
J. B. White, A. Silale, M. C. Feasey, T. Heunis, Y. Zhu, H. Zheng, A. Gajbhiye, S. Firbank, A. Basle, M. Trost, D. N. Bolam, N. A. Ranson, B. van den Berg
The paper identifies utilisomes as stable glycan-utilising complexes in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, revealing their structure and mechanism of substrate capture via cryo-EM.
bioRxiv · Aug 15, 2022Microbiology