Nature Communications (May 2022)

Elucidating Human Milk Oligosaccharide biosynthetic genes through network-based multi-omics integration

  • Benjamin P. Kellman,
  • Anne Richelle,
  • Jeong-Yeh Yang,
  • Digantkumar Chapla,
  • Austin W. T. Chiang,
  • Julia A. Najera,
  • Chenguang Liang,
  • Annalee Fürst,
  • Bokan Bao,
  • Natalia Koga,
  • Mahmoud A. Mohammad,
  • Anders Bech Bruntse,
  • Morey W. Haymond,
  • Kelley W. Moremen,
  • Lars Bode,
  • Nathan E. Lewis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29867-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Human milk oligosaccharides are fundamental to infant health. Here the authors deploy a multi-omics systems biology approach to elucidate their biosynthetic network, including the associated enzymes and likely structures of ambiguous oligosaccharides.