Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Altered intestinal microbiota–host mitochondria crosstalk in new onset Crohn’s disease

  • Walid Mottawea,
  • Cheng-Kang Chiang,
  • Marcus Mühlbauer,
  • Amanda E. Starr,
  • James Butcher,
  • Turki Abujamel,
  • Shelley A. Deeke,
  • Annette Brandel,
  • Hu Zhou,
  • Shadi Shokralla,
  • Mehrdad Hajibabaei,
  • Ruth Singleton,
  • Eric I. Benchimol,
  • Christian Jobin,
  • David R. Mack,
  • Daniel Figeys,
  • Alain Stintzi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13419
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Crohn’s disease is associated with altered intestinal microbiota. Here, the authors show that the microbe Atopobium parvulumis associated with Crohn’s disease patients, triggers colitis in a mouse model, and that scavenging microbe-induced hydrogen sulfide improved symptoms in mice.