Listening in on the conversation between the human gut microbiome and its host Review
| Authors: | Lin, W.; Djukovic, A.; Mathur, D.; Xavier, J. B. |
| Review Title: | Listening in on the conversation between the human gut microbiome and its host |
| Abstract: | The gut microbiome is an ecosystem. Natural selection favored microbes fit for the gut, which can utilize and convert molecules produced by the host for their own benefit. But natural selection also favored the host's mechanisms to sense and respond to the microbial ecosystem for its own benefit. We can listen in on the host–microbiome ‘conversation’ in the simultaneous responses of the microbiome and the host to strong perturbations. In laboratory animals a perturbation can be done for research; in human patients a perturbation can be caused by disease or therapy. Advances in metagenomics, metabolomics and computation amplify our means to listen in on the conversation between the gut microbiome and its host. © 2021 |
| Journal Title: | Current Opinion in Microbiology |
| Volume: | 63 |
| ISSN: | 1369-5274 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Inc. |
| Date Published: | 2021-10-01 |
| Start Page: | 150 |
| End Page: | 157 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.mib.2021.07.009 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
| PUBMED: | 34352595 |
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| Notes: | Review -- Export Date: 1 September 2021 -- Source: Scopus |
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