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We used the B. cereus strain ATCC 25621 (a cow feces isolate), and a group of three strains that were identified for this study including RS1045 (a worm gut strain), RS1255 (a human tonsil strain), and RS1557 (a fern rhizosphere strain).
As reviewed by Ryan (2017) and Koppel et al. (2017), there are very few NQOs characterized from human gut bacterial strains.
In the coming years, more efforts are essential to characterize azoreductases from environment and human gut bacterial strains, and their properties could be altered in order to enhance their catalytic efficiency, substrate specificity, and enzyme stability.
Genomic DNA samples from termite gut spirochete strains belonging to the genus Treponema and community DNA samples from the gut contents of various termites and cockroaches were extracted and purified.
Both studies employed 16S rRNA gene sequencing using the Illumina MiSeq sequencer, demonstrating the advantages of NGS technology in aiding to identify more disease-related gut bacterial strains and the function of bacteria on the pathogenesis of AS.
Recent studies have shown very promising results as the condition can be treated by fecal transplant from a healthy donor, or in a simplified format as a cocktail containing six different gut bacterial strains that aid in the re-establishment of health-associated commensals and thereby displace C. difficile in a mouse model.
To test this, the researchers used two bacteria that both live in the gut: a strain of Escherichia coli that secretes microcin 24 and a Salmonella enterica strain that is susceptible to it.
Fifty-seven functions present in 20 or more gut-associated strains and absent from seven or eight nongut-associated strains were identified (supplementary table S3d, Supplementary Material online).
A comparative analysis of such in vivo clinical studies demonstrates that the persistence time of probiotic bacteria in gut varies from strain to strain (Table 5).
