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Jo Herbert
@microjo.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Microbiology - Schölmerich Lab | ETH Zürich🇨🇭| Metagenomics & ONT | 🧬 🧫🧪🔬| losing the ggplot 📊 | she/her
Reposted by Jo Herbert
Our recent paper by @julkras.bsky.social provides further insights into the metabolism of sulfoquinovose in humans and lab mice, and its prebiotic potential.

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Sulfoquinovose is exclusively metabolized by the gut microbiota and degraded differently in mice and humans - Microbiome
Background Sulfoquinovose (SQ) is a green-diet-derived sulfonated glucose and a selective substrate for a limited number of human gut bacteria. Complete anaerobic SQ degradation via interspecies metab...
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August 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM