Unique Organization of Extracellular Amylases into Amylosomes in the Resistant Starch-Utilizing Human Colonic Firmicutes Bacterium Ruminococcus bromii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We acknowledge support from BBSRC grant no. BB/L009951/1, from the Scottish government Food, Land and People program, and from the Society for Applied Microbiology. E.A.B. is supported by a grant (no. 1349/13) from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Jerusalem, Israel, and by a grant from the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF). E.A.B. is the incumbent of the Maynard I. and Elaine Wishner Chair of Bio-organic Chemistry. Thanks are due to Fergus Nicol for proteomic analysis and to Auriane Bernard for enzyme assays on stationary-phase cultures. We also thank Julian Parkhill and Keith Turner (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom) for making the R. bromii L2-63 genome sequence available for analysis.Peer reviewedPublisher PD