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ArticlemBio2024

Jeremy P H Wong, Noémie Chillier, Michaela Fischer-Stettler, Samuel C Zeeman, Tom J Battin, Alexandre Persat

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Article in mBio, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jeremy P H WongInstitute of Bioengineering and Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8731-3795
Noémie ChillierInstitute of Bioengineering and Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Michaela Fischer-StettlerDepartment of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Samuel C ZeemanDepartment of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Tom J BattinSchool of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Sion, Switzerland.
Alexandre PersatInstitute of Bioengineering and Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8426-8255
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CHETH Zurich · CH

Funding

Swiss National Science Foundation 310030_204190
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human colon hosts hundreds of commensal bacterial species, many of which ferment complex dietary carbohydrates. To transform these fibers into metabolically accessible compounds, microbes often express a series of dedicated enzymes homologous to the starch utilization system (Sus) encoded in polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs). The genome of IMPORTANCE: Polysaccharides are complex molecules that are commonly found in our diet. While humans lack the ability to degrade many polysaccharides, their intestinal microbiota contain bacterial commensals that are versatile polysaccharide utilizers. The gut commensal

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Bacteroides thetaiotaomicronBacteroidesDextransGastrointestinal TractHumansMolecular WeightPolysaccharidesStarchDextransPolysaccharidesStarchBacteroidescross-feedinggut microbiotamicrobial communitiespolysaccharidesPULs

Identifiers

PMID38376161
PMCPMC10936149
OpenAlexW4391955614

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Registered trials

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