Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

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

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19929-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 26

Abstract

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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.