ArticleMicrobiology (Reading, England)2025
Roles of human colonic bacteria in pectin utilization and associated cross-feeding networks revealed using synthetic co-cultures.
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- Decoding dietary pectin: from structural complexity and microbial CAZyme-PUL networks to cross-feeding and host-beneficial metabolites.Gut microbes · 2026Review
- The Role ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Polysaccharides from Er Chen Decoction: gastrointestinal fate, gut microbiota modulation and metabolomics.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Dietary fibre is a crucial component of healthy diets via its action on the human gut microbiota, but fibre intake is well below current international dietary guidelines at the population level. Pectin is a fibre constituent in fruit and vegetables that has the promise to promote a healthy and diverse microbiota. It is a highly complex molecule, and its composition differs between plants. Here, we assessed the ability of a panel of 23 human gut bacteria to ferment pectins extracted from different plants based on their genome carriage of carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) and their growth in pure culture on several mono-, oligo- and polysaccharides, as well as pectins from different plant sources. Growth behaviour was overall in good agreement with CAZyme carriage, and the results were used to design synthetic co-culture communities with different combinations of pectin degraders, pectin cross-feeders and background strains not expected to play a major role in pectin degradation. For pectin degraders,
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