MUC5AC and colitis: However, colitis is characterized by several key disruptions according to a previous study: the DSS group is characterized by a great reduction in Roseburia (Nie et al., 2021) and an increase in the opportunist pathogens and mucin degrader Bacteroides, B. acidifaciens (Chang et al., 2021; Pan et al., 2022; Thipart et al., 2023).