Noster Microbiome Research: Analyzing Bacterial Digest
Carbohydrates, such as sugars, fibers and starches, for example, require bacterial intervention to be properly broken down.
- Carbohydrates, such as sugars, fibers and starches, for example, require bacterial intervention to be properly broken down.
- The scientists tested their method by analyzing mouse feces; they successfully detected several fatty acid metabolites produced by the gut microbiota.
- It combines liquid chromatography, a technique used for physically separating substances, and mass spectroscopy, used for analyzing masses of substances.
- LC-MS/MS can be used for analyzing a wide range of chemical compounds, including metabolites.