Production of α-Galactosylceramide by a Prominent Member of the Human Gut Microbiota

• Laura C. Wieland Brown ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laura C. Wieland Brown, Cristina Penaranda

  Affiliations Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Cristina Penaranda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laura C. Wieland Brown, Cristina Penaranda

  Affiliation Diabetes Center and the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Purna C. Kashyap,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Brianna B. Williams,

  Affiliation Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Jon Clardy,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Mitchell Kronenberg,

  Affiliation La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Justin L. Sonnenburg,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Laurie E. Comstock,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jeffrey A. Bluestone ,

  * E-mail: jeffreya.bluestone@ucsf.edu (JAB); fischbach@fischbachgroup.org (MAF)

  Affiliation Diabetes Center and the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Michael A. Fischbach

  * E-mail: jeffreya.bluestone@ucsf.edu (JAB); fischbach@fischbachgroup.org (MAF)

  Affiliation Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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