Fig. 2: Gut microbial analysis in human faeces.
From: Sucrose-preferring gut microbes prevent host obesity by producing exopolysaccharides
a Spearman’s rank correlation between faecal levels of total short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) such as acetate, propionate, and butyrate, exopolysaccharides (EPS) and donor body mass index (BMI) in human faeces (n = 132, 48 independent experiments). Two-tailed Mann–Whitney U test was used for the statistical analysis. b Results of correlation analysis among EPS hydrolase, glycolysis, and SCFA production between lean donors and donors with obesity (n = 26 independent experiments). c Comparison of polysaccharide synthesis, polysaccharide decomposition, glycolytic pathway enrichment, and SCFA synthesis between lean donors and donors with obesity in shotgun metagenomic sequencing analysis (n = 26 independent experiments). ***P < 0.001, **P < 0.01, *P < 0.05 Two-tailed Mann–Whitney U test was used for the statistical analysis. Results are presented as the mean ± standard error of the mean (SE). Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
