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Abstract
Bacteroides species can metabolize numerous plant polysaccharides and host glycans present in the mammalian gut. The regulatory systems governing the induction of particular polysaccharide utilization loci when the cognate glycan is present are known, but how expression is repressed when a higher-priority glycan is present is largely unknown. In this issue of the Journal of Bacteriology, Cao et al. (J. Bacteriol. 198:2410-2418, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JB.00381-16) reveal a conserved mechanism in Bacteroides whereby antisense small RNAs (sRNA) repress expression of genes involved in utilization of host glycans.Entities:
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27402626 PMCID: PMC4999925 DOI: 10.1128/JB.00514-16
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490