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ArticleGut microbes

Mining the human gut microbiome for novel stress resistance genes.

Eamonn P Culligan, Julian R Marchesi, Colin Hill, Roy D Sleator

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Article in Gut microbes. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Gut Microbiota as a Mediator of Dietary Salt Effects on Blood Pressure.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  5. Designer probiotics: Development and applications in gastrointestinal health.World journal of gastrointestinal pathophysiology · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Eamonn P CulliganAlimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Julian R Marchesi
Colin Hill
Roy D Sleator

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the rapid advances in sequencing technologies in recent years, the human genome is now considered incomplete without the complementing microbiome, which outnumbers human genes by a factor of one hundred. The human microbiome, and more specifically the gut microbiome, has received considerable attention and research efforts over the past decade. Many studies have identified and quantified "who is there?," while others have determined some of their functional capacity, or "what are they doing?" In a recent study, we identified novel salt-tolerance loci from the human gut microbiome using combined functional metagenomic and bioinformatics based approaches. Herein, we discuss the identified loci, their role in salt-tolerance and their importance in the context of the gut environment. We also consider the utility and power of functional metagenomics for mining such environments for novel genes and proteins, as well as the implications and possible applications for future research.

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MetagenomeOsmotic PressureBacteriaComputational BiologyGastrointestinal TractGenes, BacterialGenomicsHumansStress, Physiological

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PMID22688726
PMCPMC3463497

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