Anthony L Shiver, Jiawei Sun, Rebecca Culver, Arvie Violette, Charles Wynter, Marta Nieckarz, Samara Paula Mattiello, Prabhjot Kaur Sekhon, Lisa Friess, Hans K Carlson, Daniel Wong, Steven Higginbottom, Meredith Weglarz, Weigao Wang, Benjamin D Knapp, Emma Guiberson, Juan Sanchez, Po-Hsun Huang, Paulo A Garcia, Cullen R Buie, Benjamin Good, Brian DeFelice, Felipe Cava, Joy Scaria, Justin Sonnenburg, Douwe Van Sinderen, Adam M Deutschbauer, Kerwyn Casey Huang
Bifidobacteria commonly represent a dominant constituent of human gut microbiomes during infancy, influencing nutrition, immune development, and resistance to infection. Despite interest as a probiotic therapy, predicting the nutritional requirements and health-promoting effects of Bifidobacteria is challenging due to major knowledge gaps. To overcome these deficiencies, we used large-scale genetics to create a compendium of mutant fitness in Bifidobacterium breve ( Bb ). We generated a high density, randomly barcoded transposon insertion pool in Bb , and used this pool to determine Bb fitness requirements during colonization of germ-free mice and chickens with multiple diets and in response to hundreds of in vitro perturbations...
August 29, 2023: bioRxiv