Functional lower airways genomic profiling of the microbiome to capture active microbial metabolism.
Imran SulaimanBenjamin G WuYonghua LiJun-Chieh TsayMaya SauthoffAdrienne S ScottKun JiSergei B KoralovMichael WeidenJose C ClementeDrew R JonesYvonne J HuangKathleen A StringerLingdi ZhangAdam GeberStephanie BanakisLaura TiptonElodie GhedinLeopoldo N SegalPublished in: The European respiratory journal (2021)
Functional characterisation of the lower airway microbiota through metatranscriptome data identifies metabolically active organisms capable of producing metabolites with immunomodulatory capacity, such as SCFAs.