“…Using this cholic acid-based ABP, we profiled BSH activities within gut microbes and identified active BSH enzymes within healthy and colitic mouse gut microbiomes. Additional approaches have been developed using chemical probes containing a fluorogenic or luminogenic group to monitor BSH activity (Brandvold et al, 2019; Khodakivskyi et al, 2021; Kombala et al, 2023; Sveistyte et al, 2020), alternative covalent warheads to profile and inhibit BSH activity (Adhikari et al, 2020; Brandvold et al, 2021), and photoaffinity labels to identify bile acid-binding proteins (Forster et al, 2022; Liu et al, 2022; Yang et al, 2022, 2023; Zhuang et al, 2017). Despite the number of emerging chemical tools to study BSH activities, the substrate preferences within the BSH family at a metaproteome level remain unknown.…”