Home, sweet home : how mucus accommodates our microbiota

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As a natural environment for human-microbiota interactions, healthy mucus houses a remarkably stable and diverse microbial community. Maintaining this microbiota is essential to human health, both to support the commensal bacteria that perform a wide array of beneficial functions and to prevent the outgrowth of pathogens. However, how the host selects and maintains a specialized microbiota remains largely unknown. In this viewpoint, we propose several strategies by which mucus may regulate the composition and function of the human microbiota and discuss how compromised mucus barriers in disease can give rise to microbial dysbiosis.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:288

Enthalten in:

The FEBS journal - 288(2021), 6 vom: 01. März, Seite 1789-1799

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Benjamin X [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Chloe M [VerfasserIn]
Ribbeck, Katharina [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Microbial dysbiosis
Microbiota
Mucin glycans
Mucins
Mucus
Polysaccharides
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 27.07.2021

Date Revised 05.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/febs.15504

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313302413