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ReviewGlycobiology2022

How microbial glycosyl hydrolase activity in the gut mucosa initiates microbial cross-feeding.

Maryse D Berkhout, Caroline M Plugge, Clara Belzer

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Review in Glycobiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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

39 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maryse D BerkhoutLaboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research, Stippeneng 4, Wageningen 6708WE, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-3765-8853
Caroline M PluggeLaboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research, Stippeneng 4, Wageningen 6708WE, The Netherlands.
Clara BelzerLaboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research, Stippeneng 4, Wageningen 6708WE, The Netherlands.
Wageningen University & Research · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intestinal epithelium is protected from direct contact with gut microbes by a mucus layer. This mucus layer consists of secreted mucin glycoproteins. The outer mucus layer in the large intestine forms a niche that attracts specific gut microbiota members of which several gut commensals can degrade mucin. Mucin glycan degradation is a complex process that requires a broad range of glycan degrading enzymes, as mucin glycans are intricate and diverse molecules. Consequently, it is hypothesized that microbial mucin breakdown requires concerted action of various enzymes in a network of multiple resident microbes in the gut mucosa. This review investigates the evolutionary relationships of microbial carbohydrate-active enzymes that are potentially involved in mucin glycan degradation and focuses on the role that microbial enzymes play in the degradation of gut mucin glycans in microbial cross-feeding and syntrophic interactions.

Indexed as

Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeIntestinal MucosaHydrolasesMucinsPolysaccharidesHydrolasesMucinsPolysaccharidesCAZymesglycosidasesgut microbiotamucinsyntrophic interactions

Identifiers

PMID34939101
PMCPMC8966484
OpenAlexW4200078777

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