How microbial glycosyl hydrolase activity in the gut mucosa initiates microbial cross-feeding.
Glycobiology
; 32(3): 182-200, 2022 03 30.
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ABSTRACT
The intestinal epithelium is protected from direct contact with gut microbes by a mucus layer. This mucus layer consists of secreted mucin glycoproteins. The outer mucus layer in the large intestine forms a niche that attracts specific gut microbiota members of which several gut commensals can degrade mucin. Mucin glycan degradation is a complex process that requires a broad range of glycan degrading enzymes, as mucin glycans are intricate and diverse molecules. Consequently, it is hypothesized that microbial mucin breakdown requires concerted action of various enzymes in a network of multiple resident microbes in the gut mucosa. This review investigates the evolutionary relationships of microbial carbohydrate-active enzymes that are potentially involved in mucin glycan degradation and focuses on the role that microbial enzymes play in the degradation of gut mucin glycans in microbial cross-feeding and syntrophic interactions.
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Microbioma Gastrointestinal
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Mucosa Intestinal
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2022
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