Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

The parasitic worm product ES-62 normalises the gut microbiota bone marrow axis in inflammatory arthritis

  • James Doonan,
  • Anuradha Tarafdar,
  • Miguel A. Pineda,
  • Felicity E. Lumb,
  • Jenny Crowe,
  • Aneesah M. Khan,
  • Paul A. Hoskisson,
  • Margaret M. Harnett,
  • William Harnett

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09361-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Gastrointestinal infection with parasitic helminths can protect against mucosal diseases via impacting on the microbiome. Here the authors show that ES-62, a product secreted by a tissue-resident helminth modulates the host gut microbiome to protect against inflammatory arthritis in a mouse model.