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Discovery of BilV reveals a multienzymatic basis for bilirubin reduction across vertebrate gut microbiomes
Angela K Jiang, Maggie R. Grant, Gabriela Arp…·Xiaofang Jiang
The paper identifies BilV, a novel enzyme that works with BilR to reduce bilirubin to urobilinogen, and shows its distribution varies across vertebrate gut microbiomes.