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Table 2 Production of the short-chain fatty acids by the gut microbiota

From: The gut microbiota, environmental factors, and links to the development of food allergy

Short-chain fatty acids

Pathway

Microbiota

References

Acetate

Acetyl-CoA

Most enteric bacteria

[31]

Wood–Ljungdahl pathway

Blautia hydrogenotrophica

 

Propionate

Succinate pathway

Negativicutes, Bacteroidetes

[32]

Acrylate pathway

Megasphaera elsdenii, Clostridium propionicum

 

Propanodiol pathway

Salmonella enterica, Roseburia inulinivorans, Ruminococcus obeum

 

Butyrate

Butyrate kinase and phosphotransbutyrylase

Coprococcus species

[31]

Butyryl-coenzyme A (CoA):acetate CoA-transferase

Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, Roseburia spp., Eubacterium rectale, Eubacterium hallii Anaerostipes spp.

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