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ReviewJournal of bacteriology2020

If you eat it, or secrete it, they will grow: the expanding list of nutrients utilized by human gut bacteria.

Robert W P Glowacki, Eric C Martens

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Review in Journal of bacteriology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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36citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  11. Cecal microbial composition and serum concentration of short-chain fatty acids in laying hens fed different fiber sources.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2025
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  19. Glycative stress as a cause of macular degeneration.Progress in retinal and eye research · 2024
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  20. Determinants of raffinose family oligosaccharide use inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Robert W P GlowackiDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Eric C MartensDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6681-2990

Funding

Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis Training ProgramT32AI007528 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI CARRUTHERS, VERNON BRUCE · 1998 to 2024
$6.8M
Defining a nutrient niche competed for by gut commensal bacteria and pathogensR21AI128120 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MARTENS, ERIC C · 2017 to 2018
$417k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI128120NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007528
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In order to persist, successful bacterial inhabitants of the human gut need to adapt to changing nutrient conditions, which are influenced by host diet and a variety of other factors. For members of the Bacteroidetes and several other phyla, this has resulted in diversification of a variety of enzyme-based systems that equip them to sense and utilize carbohydrate-based nutrients from host, diet, and bacterial origin. In this review, we focus first on human gut

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PMID33168637
PMCPMC8092160

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