Bacteria With Sweet Tooth Keeps Us Healthy: Study

A new study provided insights about the interaction between bacteria and mucus building mucins - proteins that have sugars associated with them - and how the specificity of these interactions affects health. Dr Nathalie Juge and her team at the IFR have shown that the ability to use mucins in the human gut varies between different gut bacteria strains. The IFR researchers looked at Ruminococcus gnavus. This is a common species of gut bacteria found ...