The microbial-mammalian metabolic axis: beyond simple metabolism.

Dumas, Marc-Emmanuel · Cell Metab · 2011

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Abstract

The microbiome heavily influences the metabolism of its host. In this issue of Cell Metabolism, Donohoe and colleagues demonstrate that microbial butyrate, used as a fuel metabolite, prevents autophagy in colonocytes, showing that the microbial-mammalian metabolic axis goes beyond simple metabolism.