Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Oral administration of Blautia wexlerae ameliorates obesity and type 2 diabetes via metabolic remodeling of the gut microbiota

  • Koji Hosomi,
  • Mayu Saito,
  • Jonguk Park,
  • Haruka Murakami,
  • Naoko Shibata,
  • Masahiro Ando,
  • Takahiro Nagatake,
  • Kana Konishi,
  • Harumi Ohno,
  • Kumpei Tanisawa,
  • Attayeb Mohsen,
  • Yi-An Chen,
  • Hitoshi Kawashima,
  • Yayoi Natsume-Kitatani,
  • Yoshimasa Oka,
  • Hidenori Shimizu,
  • Mari Furuta,
  • Yoko Tojima,
  • Kento Sawane,
  • Azusa Saika,
  • Saki Kondo,
  • Yasunori Yonejima,
  • Haruko Takeyama,
  • Akira Matsutani,
  • Kenji Mizuguchi,
  • Motohiko Miyachi,
  • Jun Kunisawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32015-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Here, the authors inversely associate Blautia wexlerae with obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus in humans and further show that administration of B. wexlerae to mice decrease both high-fat diet–induced obesity and diabetes via modulating gut microbial metabolism.