MicrobiologybioRxiv
A genetically adaptable strategy for ribose scavenging in a human gut symbiont plays a diet-dependent role in colon colonization
Robert W. P. Glowacki, Nicholas A. Pudlo, Yunus Tuncil…·Eric C. Martens
The paper identifies a ribose utilization system in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron that is essential for gut colonization and shows its diet-dependent role through metabolic context.
DOI 10.2139/ssrn.3354892