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One of the reasons that Bacteroides spp. are so successful at colonizing the colon may be due to the nutritional versatility exhibited by the numerically predominant colonic Bacteroides spp., namely, B. thetaiotaomicron, B. vulgatus, and B. uniformis. All these species are able to ferment a wide variety of dietary polysaccharides as well as host-derived mucopolysaccharides. Another possible reason for their success at colonizing the colon may be due to the intrinsic nature of the way Bacteroides' polysaccharide utilization systems work. Instead of taking a divide-and-conquer approach, that is, secreting extracellular polysaccharidases into the surrounding medium and translocating the breakdown products of enzymes through porins, Bacteroides spp. appear first to bind the polysaccharide at the cell surface and then to transport the molecule into the periplasm, where the majority of the polysaccharide-hydrolyzing enzymes are located. Nonetheless, the preponderance of the starch-hydrolyzing activity is within the cell, and until the precise location and topology of the outer membrane enzymes are found, the current model favors translocation across the outer membrane by a starch binding receptor. In any case, this general polysaccharide uptake strategy (substrate-sequestration) would confer a selective advantage to Bacteroides spp. in competition with those species of colonic bacteria that secrete extracellular enzymes, who most likely lose a large amount of potential nutritional sources to nearby competitors. 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