Jun Seishima1 na1, Noriho Iida1 na1, Kazuya Kitamura1, Masahiro Yutani2, Ziyu Wang1, Akihiro Seki1, Taro Yamashita1, Yoshio Sakai1, Masao Honda3, Tatsuya Yamashita1, Takashi Kagaya1, Yukihiro Shirota1, Yukako Fujinaga2, Eishiro Mizukoshi1 & Shuichi Kaneko1 Genome Biology volume 20, Article number: 252 (2019) Cite this article Article metrics Abstract Background Recent metagenomic analyses have revealed dysbiosis of the gut microbiota of ulcerative colitis (UC) patients.