Dietary carbohydrates articles within Nature

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• Letter | 11 January 2017

  Structural basis for nutrient acquisition by dominant members of the human gut microbiota

  The authors present structures of nutrient transport complexes of the commensal bacterium Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron and the mechanism by which it imports glycans.

  • Amy J. Glenwright
  • , Karunakar R. Pothula
  •  & Bert van den Berg

• Letter | 19 January 2014

  A discrete genetic locus confers xyloglucan metabolism in select human gut Bacteroidetes

  A genetic locus from the gut symbiont Bacteroides ovatus is identified and described that encodes a cohort of enzymes and carbohydrate-binding proteins necessary for the metabolism of xyloglucans—a predominant component of dietary fibre.

  • Johan Larsbrink
  • , Theresa E. Rogers
  •  & Harry Brumer

• Books & Arts | 19 December 2012

  Nutrition: Sugar caned

  David Katz finds much to chew on in a polemic on the risk of consuming too much high-fructose corn syrup.

  • David Katz

• Research Highlights | 31 March 2010

  Metabolism: Fat from fructose