A microbial-derived succinylated bile acid to safeguard liver health.

Perino, Alessia; Demagny, Hadrien; Schoonjans, Kristina · Cell · 2024

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Abstract

In this issue of Cell, Nie and co-authors report that the microbe-derived bile acid (BA) 3-succinylated cholic acid protects against the progression of metabolic dysfunction-associated liver disease. Intriguingly, its protective mechanism does not involve traditional BA signaling pathways but is instead linked to the proliferation of the commensal microbe Akkermansia muciniphila.

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