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ReviewGlycobiology2021

Mucosal glycan degradation of the host by the gut microbiota.

Andrew Bell, Nathalie Juge

Erratum issuedOpen access · hybridAbstract readReview
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Review in Glycobiology, 2021. 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 65 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
65citing papers in PubMed
9.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

65 citing papers in PubMed, 103 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew BellThe Gut Microbes and Health Institute Strategic Programme, Quadram Institute Bioscience, Rosalind Franklin Road Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UQ, UK.
Nathalie JugeThe Gut Microbes and Health Institute Strategic Programme, Quadram Institute Bioscience, Rosalind Franklin Road Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8515-1315
Norwich Research Park · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/M011216/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/P008895/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/R012490/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/F/00044452Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/F/000PR10353
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The gut microbiota plays a major role in human health and an alteration in gut microbiota structure and function has been implicated in several diseases. In the colon, mucus covering the epithelium is critical to maintain a homeostatic relationship with the gut microbiota by harboring a microbial community at safe distance from the epithelium surface. The mucin glycans composing the mucus layer provide binding sites and a sustainable source of nutrients to the bacteria inhabiting the mucus niche. Access to these glycan chains requires a complement of glycoside hydrolases (GHs) produced by bacteria across the phyla constituting the human gut microbiota. Due to the increased recognition of the role of mucus-associated microbes in human health, how commensal bacteria breakdown and utilize host mucin glycans has become of increased interest and is reviewed here. This short review provides an overview of the strategies evolved by gut commensal bacteria to access this rich source of the nutrient with a focus on the GHs involved in mucin degradation.

Indexed as

Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeColonHumansIntestinal MucosaMucinsPolysaccharidesMucinsPolysaccharidesglycosylationgut microbiotamucinmucus

Identifiers

PMID33043970
PMCPMC8252862
OpenAlexW3091772305

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