Cellulose degradation in the human gut: Ruminococcus champanellensis expands the cellulosome paradigm

Environ Microbiol. 2016 Feb;18(2):307-10. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13152. Epub 2016 Jan 18.

Authors

Isaac Cann^{1

2

3}, Rafael C Bernardi⁴, Roderick I Mackie^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Animal Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
² Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
³ Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
⁴ Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.

PMID: 26781441
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13152

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MeSH terms

Amino Acid Sequence
Bacterial Proteins / metabolism
Cellulose / metabolism
Cellulosomes*
Humans
Ruminococcus / metabolism*

Substances

Bacterial Proteins
Cellulose