Dietary pectic glycans are degraded by coordinated enzyme pathways in human colonic Bacteroides.
Luis, A.S., Briggs, J., Zhang, X., Farnell, B., Ndeh, D., Labourel, A., Basle, A., Cartmell, A., Terrapon, N., Stott, K., Lowe, E.C., McLean, R., Shearer, K., Schuckel, J., Venditto, I., Ralet, M.C., Henrissat, B., Martens, E.C., Mosimann, S.C., Abbott, D.W., Gilbert, H.J.(2018) Nat Microbiol 3: 210-219
- PubMed: 29255254 
- DOI: 10.1038/s41564-017-0079-1
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5OLP, 5OLQ, 5OLR, 5OLS, 5OPJ - PubMed Abstract: 
The major nutrients available to human colonic Bacteroides species are glycans, exemplified by pectins, a network of covalently linked plant cell wall polysaccharides containing galacturonic acid (GalA). Metabolism of complex carbohydrates by the Bacteroides genus is orchestrated by polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs) ...