Microbiome and human health: current understanding, engineering, and enabling technologies

N Aggarwal, S Kitano, GRY Puah, S Kittelmann… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The human microbiome is composed of a collection of dynamic microbial communities that
inhabit various anatomical locations in the body. Accordingly, the coevolution of the …

Microbiome-based therapeutics

MT Sorbara, EG Pamer - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Symbiotic microorganisms inhabiting the gastrointestinal tract promote health by decreasing
susceptibility to infection and enhancing resistance to a range of diseases. In this Review …

[HTML][HTML] Design, construction, and in vivo augmentation of a complex gut microbiome

AG Cheng, PY Ho, A Aranda-Díaz, S Jain, BY Feiqiao… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Efforts to model the human gut microbiome in mice have led to important insights into the
mechanisms of host-microbe interactions. However, the model communities studied to date …

[HTML][HTML] A cardiovascular disease-linked gut microbial metabolite acts via adrenergic receptors

I Nemet, PP Saha, N Gupta, W Zhu, KA Romano… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Summary Using untargeted metabolomics (n= 1,162 subjects), the plasma metabolite (m/z=
265.1188) phenylacetylglutamine (PAGln) was discovered and then shown in an …

[HTML][HTML] The gut microbiota at the service of immunometabolism

C Michaudel, H Sokol - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
The gut microbiota is implicated in immune system functions. Regulation of the metabolic
processes occurring in immune cells is crucial for the maintenance of homeostasis and …

Gut Parabacteroides merdae protects against cardiovascular damage by enhancing branched-chain amino acid catabolism

S Qiao, C Liu, L Sun, T Wang, H Dai, K Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Obesity, dyslipidemia and gut dysbiosis are all linked to cardiovascular diseases. A
Ganoderma meroterpene derivative (GMD) has been shown to alleviate obesity and …

Two distinct gut microbial pathways contribute to meta-organismal production of phenylacetylglutamine with links to cardiovascular disease

Y Zhu, M Dwidar, I Nemet, JA Buffa, N Sangwan… - Cell host & …, 2023 - cell.com
Recent studies show gut microbiota-dependent metabolism of dietary phenylalanine into
phenylacetic acid (PAA) is critical in phenylacetylglutamine (PAGln) production, a metabolite …

Host and gut bacteria share metabolic pathways for anti-cancer drug metabolism

P Spanogiannopoulos, TS Kyaw, BGH Guthrie… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Pharmaceuticals have extensive reciprocal interactions with the microbiome, but whether
bacterial drug sensitivity and metabolism is driven by pathways conserved in host cells …

A review of gut microbiota‐derived metabolites in tumor progression and cancer therapy

Q Yang, B Wang, Q Zheng, H Li, X Meng… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Gut microbiota‐derived metabolites are key hubs connecting the gut microbiome and cancer
progression, primarily by remodeling the tumor microenvironment and regulating key …

Genetic manipulation of gut microbes enables single-gene interrogation in a complex microbiome

WB Jin, TT Li, D Huo, S Qu, XV Li, M Arifuzzaman… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Hundreds of microbiota genes are associated with host biology/disease. Unraveling the
causal contribution of a microbiota gene to host biology remains difficult because many are …