Diet and Gut Microbiome Interactions: Enzymes, Pathways, and Cells
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Gut Microbiota".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2022) | Viewed by 12258
Special Issue Editor
Interests: "agricultural glycomics; functional genomics of carbohydrate utilization; intestinal microbiomes; carbohydrate active enzymes; enzyme discovery; alternatives to antibiotics for livestock production "
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The study of microbiomes associated with the digestive systems of animals has emerged as a prominent area of biological science within the last two decades. The main focus of research has been on structural changes in taxonomic diversity and abundance imparted by diet, development, and disease using a spectrum of sequencing technologies, as well as animal and environmental models. Looking forward, understanding molecular interactions between the gut microbiome and dietary complex carbohydrates and other metabolites will be pivotal for unlocking the potential of functional foods, prebiotics, and probiotics; developing personalized microbiome-based therapeutics; and the sustainable production of food animals. Next-generation sequencing, multi-OMICs (e.g., metatranscriptomics, metaproteomics, metabolomics), and advances in bioinformatics and artificial intelligence have begun to illuminate the complex sequence–function relationships operating within gut microbial ecosystems. Such combinatorial approaches promise to usher in the next frontier of microbiome sciences and provide the tools researchers need to study cellular physiology at the single-cell level and to assign genotype–phenotype relationships within complex datasets.
This Special Issue is focused on understanding interactions between the gut microbiome and host diet, with a focus on enzymes, pathways, and cellular mechanisms that shape the microbial communities of the gut in humans and animals. New research articles and reviews that address these topics are invited for submission.
Dr. D. Wade Abbott
Guest Editor
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