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Microbial interaction between the succinate-utilizing bacterium Phascolarctobacterium faecium and the gut commensal Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.

Nao Ikeyama, Takumi Murakami, Atsushi Toyoda, Hiroshi Mori, Takao Iino, Moriya Ohkuma, Mitsuo Sakamoto

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Article in MicrobiologyOpen, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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67citing papers in PubMed
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67 citing papers in PubMed, 109 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Nao IkeyamaMicrobe Division/Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Takumi MurakamiAdvanced Genomics Center, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-4738-0464
Atsushi ToyodaAdvanced Genomics Center, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan.
Hiroshi MoriAdvanced Genomics Center, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0806-7704
Takao IinoMicrobe Division/Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Moriya OhkumaMicrobe Division/Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Mitsuo SakamotoMicrobe Division/Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3622-4642
National Institute of Genetics · JPRIKEN BioResource Research Center · JPJapan Agency for Medical Research and Development · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A large variety of microbes are present in the human gut, some of which are considered to interact with each other. Most of these interactions involve bacterial metabolites. Phascolarctobacterium faecium hardly uses carbohydrates for growth and instead uses succinate as a substrate. This study investigated the growth behavior of the co-culture of the succinate-specific utilizer P. faecium and the succinogenic gut commensal Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron. Succinate production by B. thetaiotaomicron supported the growth of P. faecium and concomitant propionate production via the succinate pathway. The succinate produced was completely converted to propionate. This result was comparable with the monoculture of P. faecium in the medium supplemented with 1% (w/v) succinate. We analyzed the transcriptional response (RNA-Seq) between the mono- and co-culture of P. faecium and B. thetaiotaomicron. Comparison of the expression levels of genes of P. faecium between the mono- and co-cultured conditions highlighted that the genes putatively involved in the transportation of succinate were notably expressed under the co-cultured conditions. Differential expression analysis showed that the presence of P. faecium induced changes in the B. thetaiotaomicron transcriptional pattern, for example, expression changes in the genes for vitamin B

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Bacterial ProteinsBacteroides thetaiotaomicronGastrointestinal MicrobiomeMicrobial InteractionsSuccinic AcidVeillonellaceaeBacterial ProteinsSuccinic AcidBacteroides thetaiotaomicronPhascolarctobacterium faeciumRNA-Seqsuccinate pathwaysurvival strategy

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PMID32856395
PMCPMC7568257
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