Lactate cross-feeding between Bifidobacterium species and Megasphaera indica contributes to butyrate formation in the human colonic environment.
Sainan ZhaoRaymond LauYang ZhongMing-Hsu ChenPublished in: Applied and environmental microbiology (2023)
proliferated based on the lactate generated by bifidobacteria and produced butyrate as its end metabolic product. The pathways identified here may contribute to understanding butyrate formation in the gut microbiota.