Lactic acid bacteria contribution to gut microbiota complexity: lights and shadows.
Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) are ancient organisms that cannot biosynthesize functional cytochromes, and cannot get ATP from respiration. Besides sugar fermentation, they evolved electrogenic decarboxylations and ATP-forming deiminations. The right balance between sugar fermentation and decarboxylatio...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-06-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fcimb.2012.00086/full |