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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, March 2008, p. 1646-1648, Vol. 74, No. 5
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01226-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

The Mucin Degrader Akkermansia muciniphila Is an Abundant Resident of the Human Intestinal Tract{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Muriel Derrien,1* M. Carmen Collado,2 Kaouther Ben-Amor,1 Seppo Salminen,2 and Willem M. de Vos1,3

Laboratory of Microbiology, Dreijenplein 10, 6703 HB Wageningen, The Netherlands,1 Functional Foods Forum, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland,2 Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland3

Received 1 June 2007/ Accepted 1 December 2007

A 16S rRNA-targeted probe, MUC-1437, was designed and validated in order to determine the presence and numbers of cells of Akkermansia muciniphila, a mucin degrader, in the human intestinal tract. As determined by fluorescent in situ hybridization, A. muciniphila accounted more than 1% of the total fecal cells and was shown to be a common bacterial component of the human intestinal tract.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of Microbiology, Dreijenplein 10, 6703 HB Wageningen, The Netherlands. Phone: 31 317 483 742. Fax: 31 317 483 829. E-mail: muriel.derrien{at}wur.nl

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 14 December 2007.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://aem.asm.org/.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, March 2008, p. 1646-1648, Vol. 74, No. 5
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01226-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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