Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Gut microbiota production of trimethyl-5-aminovaleric acid reduces fatty acid oxidation and accelerates cardiac hypertrophy

  • Mingming Zhao,
  • Haoran Wei,
  • Chenze Li,
  • Rui Zhan,
  • Changjie Liu,
  • Jianing Gao,
  • Yaodong Yi,
  • Xiao Cui,
  • Wenxin Shan,
  • Liang Ji,
  • Bing Pan,
  • Si Cheng,
  • Moshi Song,
  • Haipeng Sun,
  • Huidi Jiang,
  • Jun Cai,
  • Minerva T. Garcia-Barrio,
  • Y. Eugene Chen,
  • Xiangbao Meng,
  • Erdan Dong,
  • Dao Wen Wang,
  • Lemin Zheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29060-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Intestinal microbiota alterations may affect heart function through the production of gut-derived metabolites. Here the authors found that gut microbiota-derived TMAVA is a key determinant for the development of cardiac hypertrophy through inhibition of carnitine synthesis and subsequent fatty acid oxidation.