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Detailed biochemical, structural and growth studies reveal how Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron coordinates a complex enzymatic response to deconstruct pectins — complex dietary components that comprise a tremendous diversity of monosaccharide units and glycosidic linkage combinations.

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Fig. 1: Proposed function of the hybrid two-component system.

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  1. Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

    Roderick I. Mackie & Isaac Cann

  2. Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

    Roderick I. Mackie & Isaac Cann

  3. Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

    Isaac Cann

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Mackie, R.I., Cann, I. Let them eat fruit. Nat Microbiol 3, 127–129 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-018-0108-8

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