ArticlemBio2020
New View on Dietary Fiber Selection for Predictable Shifts in Gut Microbiota.
Article in mBio, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 78 papers.
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78 citing papers in PubMed.
- Impact of fiber-containing enteral nutrition on microbial community dynamics in critically ill trauma patients: a pilot-randomized trial.BMC medicine · 2025Trial
- Microbiota-Dependent Fiber Responses: A Proof-of-Concept Study on Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production in Prevotella- and Bacteroides-Dominated Healthy Individuals.The Journal of nutrition · 2025Trial
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- Designing fiber-gut microbiome interactions with active learning.Nature chemical biology · 2026Article
- How Complex Dietary Fibers Can Be Used to Shape the Human Gut Microbiome Toward Reduced Inflammatory Potential: A Pilot Study.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Effects of Partial Replacement of Wheat Bran with Poplar Wood Composite Fiber on Growth Performance, Nutrient Apparent Digestibility, Immune Function, and Gut Microbiota in Growing Pigs.Veterinary sciences · 2026Article
- A Diverse Fiber Mixture, Reflective of a Nutritionally Balanced Diet, Is Well Tolerated by Healthy Adults.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
- Gut Microbiome-Associated Effects of Plant-Based Diets on Glucose Homeostasis, Body Composition, and Cognitive Function: A Scoping Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Article
- Function of molecular-weight-optimized Astragalus polysaccharides in cisplatin-caused acute kidney injury: mechanisms centered on gut microbiota regulation and precise treatment approaches.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Shaping postoperative outcomes: microbiota-modifying dietary fiber interventions in colorectal cancer treatment.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Microbial micronutrient sharing, gut redox balance and keystone taxa as a basis for a new perspective to solutions targeting health from the gut.Gut microbes · 2025Review
- Systematically-designed mixtures outperform single fibers for gut microbiota support.Gut microbes · 2025Article
- Mechanistic insights into microbiome-dependent and personalized responses to dietary fibre in a randomized controlled trial.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Triacetin and a Mushroom Blend Restore Butyrate Production by IBS Microbiomes Ex Vivo, Thus Promoting Barrier Integrity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Processed Pearl Millet Improves the Morphology and Gut Microbiota in Wistar Rats.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effects of cRG-I Prebiotic Treatment on Gut Microbiota Composition and Metabolic Activity in Dogs In Vitro.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- A prebiotic dietary pilot intervention restores faecal metabolites and may be neuroprotective in Parkinson's Disease.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2025Article
- Achieving healthy aging through gut microbiota-directed dietary intervention: Focusing on microbial biomarkers and host mechanisms.Journal of advanced research · 2025Review
- Gut Goo: Physiology, Diet, and Therapy of Intestinal Mucus and Biofilms in Gastrointestinal Health and Disease.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2025Review
18 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
2 authors.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Dietary fibers can be utilized to shape the human gut microbiota. However, the outcomes from most dietary fibers currently used as prebiotics are a result of competition between microbes with overlapping abilities to utilize these fibers. Thus, divergent fiber responses are observed across individuals harboring distinct microbial communities. Here, we propose that dietary fibers can be classified hierarchically according to their specificity toward gut microbes. Highly specific fibers harbor chemical and physical characteristics that allow them to be utilized by only a narrow group of bacteria within the gut, reducing competition for that substrate. The use of such fibers as prebiotics targeted to specific microbes would result in predictable shifts independent of the background microbial composition.
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