Impact of vitamin A transport and storage on intestinal retinoid homeostasis and functions

These are 16S rRNA amplicon library data generated from murine feces, collected from two strains of mice ( Wild type and Lrat-/-Rbp-/- mice). Female mice were maintained on a standard vitamin A-sufficient chow diet containing 18 IU vitamin A/g diet (Prolab Isopro RMH3000 5p75). At six weeks of age, Lrat-/-Rbp-/- and WT female mice, raised on the above-described regular chow diet, were placed either on a purified vitamin A-sufficient (Research Diets, VA-suf; 20 IU vitamin A/g diet) or -deficient diet (Research Diets, VA-def: < 0.02 IU vitamin A/g diet) for four weeks. The macronutrient composition of these diets was similar (protein 26%, carbohydrate 60%, fat 14% Kcal). At ten weeks of age, fresh feces were collected to perform 16S rRNA library construction and sequencing. Additional details are provided in the manuscript of the same name.