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ReviewDisease models & mechanisms2016

The interplay between intestinal bacteria and host metabolism in health and disease: lessons from Drosophila melanogaster.

Adam C N Wong, Audrey S Vanhove, Paula I Watnick

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Review in Disease models & mechanisms, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

66 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Adam C N WongDivision of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Audrey S VanhoveDivision of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Paula I WatnickDivision of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA paula.watnick@childrens.harvard.edu.

Funding

Vibrio cholerae colonization of the fly rectum and activation of natural competenR21AI109436 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI WATNICK, PAULA I · 2014 to 2015
$485k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI109436NIAID NIH HHS R21AI109436
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

All higher organisms negotiate a truce with their commensal microbes and battle pathogenic microbes on a daily basis. Much attention has been given to the role of the innate immune system in controlling intestinal microbes and to the strategies used by intestinal microbes to overcome the host immune response. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that the metabolisms of intestinal microbes and their hosts are linked and that this interaction is equally important for host health and well-being. For instance, an individual's array of commensal microbes can influence their predisposition to chronic metabolic diseases such as diabetes and obesity. A better understanding of host-microbe metabolic interactions is important in defining the molecular bases of these disorders and could potentially lead to new therapeutic avenues. Key advances in this area have been made using Drosophila melanogaster. Here, we review studies that have explored the impact of both commensal and pathogenic intestinal microbes on Drosophila carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. These studies have helped to elucidate the metabolites produced by intestinal microbes, the intestinal receptors that sense these metabolites, and the signaling pathways through which these metabolites manipulate host metabolism. Furthermore, they suggest that targeting microbial metabolism could represent an effective therapeutic strategy for human metabolic diseases and intestinal infection.

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DiseaseHealthHost-Pathogen InteractionsMicrobiotaAnimalsDrosophila melanogasterHumansIntestinesSignal TransductionCommensalDrosophila melanogasterMetabolismMicrobiotaPathogen

Identifiers

PMID26935105
PMCPMC4833331

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