E. coli as an All-Rounder: The Thin Line Between Commensalism and Pathogenicity

A Leimbach, J Hacker, U Dobrindt - Between pathogenicity and …, 2013 - Springer
Escherichia coli is a paradigm for a versatile bacterial species which comprises harmless
commensal as well as different pathogenic variants with the ability to either cause intestinal …

Prebiotics and gut microbiota in chickens

M Pourabedin, X Zhao - FEMS microbiology letters, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Prebiotics are non-digestible feed ingredients that are metabolized by specific members of
intestinal microbiota and provide health benefits for the host. Fermentable oligosaccharides …

Genetic mechanisms of prebiotic oligosaccharide metabolism in probiotic microbes

YJ Goh, TR Klaenhammer - Annual review of food science and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Recent insights into the relationship between the human gut and its resident microbiota
have revolutionized our appreciation of this symbiosis and its impact on health and disease …

Food formats for effective delivery of probiotics

ME Sanders, ML Marco - Annual Review of Food Science and …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Probiotic bacteria are increasingly incorporated into food products intended to confer health
benefits in the human gut and beyond. Little is known about how the food matrix and product …

FODMAPs, inflammatory bowel disease and gut microbiota: updated overview on the current evidence

CD Simões, M Maganinho, AS Sousa - European journal of nutrition, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Based on the fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and
polyols (FODMAP) hypothesis, the low-FODMAP diet has been suggested as a potential …

Escherichia coli physiology and metabolism dictates adaptation to diverse host microenvironments

CJ Alteri, HLT Mobley - Current opinion in microbiology, 2012 - Elsevier
Bacterial growth in the host is required for pathogenesis. To successfully grow in vivo,
pathogens have adapted their metabolism to replicate in specific host microenvironments …

Structurally complex carbohydrates maintain diversity in gut-derived microbial consortia under high dilution pressure

T Yao, MH Chen, SR Lindemann - FEMS microbiology ecology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Dietary fibers are major substrates for maintaining and sha** gut microbiota, but the
structural specificity of these fibers for the diversity, structure and function of gut microbiota …

Metabolism and fitness of urinary tract pathogens

CJ Alteri, HLT Mobley - Metabolism and Bacterial …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Among common infections, urinary tract infections (UTI) are the most frequently diagnosed
urologic disease. The majority of UTIs are caused by Escherichia coli and these …

Prebiotic potential of pulp and kernel cake from Jerivá (Syagrus romanzoffiana) and Macaúba palm fruits (Acrocomia aculeata)

AC Andrade, JFU Marinho, AC de Souza… - Food Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
The jerivá (Syagrus romanzoffiana) and the macaúba (Acrocomia aculeata) are palm trees
of the Arecaceae family, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical areas of Latin America …

Transcriptional Analysis of Prebiotic Uptake and Catabolism by Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM

JM Andersen, R Barrangou, MA Hachem, SJ Lahtinen… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
The human gastrointestinal tract can be positively modulated by dietary supplementation of
probiotic bacteria in combination with prebiotic carbohydrates. Here differential …