A genetically adaptable strategy for ribose scavenging in a human gut symbiont plays a diet-dependent role in colon colonization
R. Glowacki, N. Pudlo, Y. Tuncil, A. Luis, A. Terekhov, B. Hamaker, E. Martens
The paper identifies a ribose utilization system in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron that is essential for gut colonization and shows its diet-dependent role through metabolic context.
bioRxiv · Mar 13, 2019 · PreprintMicrobiology