Fecal Protease Activity Is Associated with Compositional Alterations in the Intestinal Microbiota

Increase of Faecal Tryptic Activity Relates to Changes in the Intestinal Microbiome: Analysis of Crohn's Disease with a Multidisciplinary Platform

(2013) Tore Midtvedt et al.   PLoS One

Alterations in composition and diversity of the intestinal microbiota in patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome

(2012) I. M. Carroll et al.   NEUROGASTROENTEROLOGY AND MOTILITY

Characterization of the Fecal Microbiota Using High-Throughput Sequencing Reveals a Stable Microbial Community during Storage

(2012) Ian M. Carroll et al.   PLoS One

The SspA subtilisin-like protease of Streptococcus suis triggers a pro-inflammatory response in macrophages through a non-proteolytic mechanism

(2011) Laetitia Bonifait et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Global and Deep Molecular Analysis of Microbiota Signatures in Fecal Samples From Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

(2011) Mirjana Rajilić–Stojanović et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Gastrointestinal Microbiome Signatures of Pediatric Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

(2011) Delphine M. Saulnier et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Serine Protease PrtA from Streptococcus pneumoniae Plays a Role in the Killing of S. pneumoniae by Apolactoferrin

(2011) Shaper Mirza et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea

(2011) Daniel McDonald et al.   ISME Journal

Dispersal of Group A Streptococcal Biofilms by the Cysteine Protease SpeB Leads to Increased Disease Severity in a Murine Model

(2011) Kristie L. Connolly et al.   PLoS One

Cloning and expression of protease ClpP from Streptococcus pneumoniae in Escherichia coli: Study of the influence of kanamycin and IPTG concentration on cell growth, recombinant protein production and plasmid stability

(2011) Karen Einsfeldt et al.   VACCINE

Degradation of the extracellular matrix components by bacterial-derived metalloproteases

(2010) Mihaela Pruteanu et al.   INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES

UniFrac: an effective distance metric for microbial community comparison

(2010) Catherine Lozupone et al.   ISME Journal

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

The Effects of Alignment Quality, Distance Calculation Method, Sequence Filtering, and Region on the Analysis of 16S rRNA Gene-Based Studies

(2010) Patrick D. Schloss   PLoS Computational Biology

Commensal bacteria, traditional and opportunistic pathogens, dysbiosis and bacterial killing in inflammatory bowel diseases

(2009) Christopher D Packey et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Low counts of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii in colitis microbiota

(2009) H. Sokol et al.   INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES

Fecal proteases from diarrheic-IBS and ulcerative colitis patients exert opposite effect on visceral sensitivity in mice

(2009) Anita Annaházi et al.   PAIN

Contributions of Pain Sensitivity and Colonic Motility to IBS Symptom Severity and Predominant Bowel Habits

(2008) Motoyori Kanazawa et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Increased faecal serine protease activity in diarrhoeic IBS patients: a colonic lumenal factor impairing colonic permeability and sensitivity

(2008) K. Gecse et al.   GUT

Butyricicoccus pullicaecorum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, butyrate-producing bacterium isolated from the caecal content of a broiler chicken

(2008) V. Eeckhaut et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Increased Gastrointestinal Permeability and Gut Inflammation in Children with Functional Abdominal Pain and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

(2008) Robert J. Shulman et al.   JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS

Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is an anti-inflammatory commensal bacterium identified by gut microbiota analysis of Crohn disease patients

(2008) H. Sokol et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA