Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

An in vitro model maintaining taxon-specific functional activities of the gut microbiome

  • Leyuan Li,
  • Elias Abou-Samra,
  • Zhibin Ning,
  • Xu Zhang,
  • Janice Mayne,
  • Janet Wang,
  • Kai Cheng,
  • Krystal Walker,
  • Alain Stintzi,
  • Daniel Figeys

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12087-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The authors present an in vitro gut microbiome model that maintains the functional and compositional profiles of individual gut microbiomes, as assessed by metaproteomics. Gut microbiome responses to metformin in this model correlate with those shown in mice fed a high-fat diet.