Consumption of dietary lipids, such as cholesterol, modulates the gut microbiome with
consequences for host health through the production of microbiome-derived metabolites.
Despite the implications for host metabolism, a limited number of specific interactions of the
gut microbiome with diet-derived lipids have been characterized. This is partially because
obtaining species-level resolution of the responsible taxa can be challenging and additional
approaches are needed to identify health-relevant metabolites produced from cholesterol …