A collection of bacterial isolates from the pig intestine reveals functional and taxonomic diversity

A collection of bacterial isolates from the pig intestine reveals functional and taxonomic diversity

The authors present a public collection of 117 bacterial isolates from the pig gut, including the description of 38 novel taxa. Interesting functions discovered in these organisms include a new fucosyltransferease and sactipeptide-like molecules encoded by biosynthetic gene clusters.

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Main Authors: David Wylensek, Thomas C. A. Hitch, Thomas Riedel, Afrizal Afrizal, Neeraj Kumar, Esther Wortmann, Tianzhe Liu, Saravanan Devendran, Till R. Lesker, Sara B. Hernández, Viktoria Heine, Eva M. Buhl, Paul M. D’Agostino, Fabio Cumbo, Thomas Fischöder, Marzena Wyschkon, Torey Looft, Valeria R. Parreira, Birte Abt, Heidi L. Doden, Lindsey Ly, João M. P. Alves, Markus Reichlin, Krzysztof Flisikowski, Laura Navarro Suarez, Anthony P. Neumann, Garret Suen, Tomas de Wouters, Sascha Rohn, Ilias Lagkouvardos, Emma Allen-Vercoe, Cathrin Spröer, Boyke Bunk, Anja J. Taverne-Thiele, Marcel Giesbers, Jerry M. Wells, Klaus Neuhaus, Angelika Schnieke, Felipe Cava, Nicola Segata, Lothar Elling, Till Strowig, Jason M. Ridlon, Tobias A. M. Gulder, Jörg Overmann, Thomas Clavel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19929-w

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19929-w

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