Starving out the Enemy.
2020
The intestinal microbiota promote myriad functions that affect the host. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Caballero-Flores et al. (2020) demonstrate that resident microbes can thwart gut colonization by the enteric bacterial pathogen Citrobacter rodentium by consuming amino acids, thus starving the invading organism of essential nutrients.
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