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Angela K Jiang, Gabriela Arp, Margaret Kato…·Xiaofang Jiang
The paper identifies SpiE as a gut microbial enzyme that, along with SpiR, converts cholesterol to coprostanol, and shows its correlation with stool coprostanol levels and antibiotic impact.
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.
Gabriela Arp, Angela K Jiang, Keith Dufault‐Thompson…·Xiaofang Jiang
Gut bacteria encode 5β-reductase, fused 3β-HSDH/Δ5-4 isomerase and Δ6-3-ketosteroid reductase enzymes acting on steroid hormones; two of these genes are enriched in female gut metagenomes.