Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Bacterial diet modulates tamoxifen-induced death via host fatty acid metabolism

  • Cédric Diot,
  • Aurian P. García-González,
  • Andre F. Vieira,
  • Melissa Walker,
  • Megan Honeywell,
  • Hailey Doyle,
  • Olga Ponomarova,
  • Yomari Rivera,
  • Huimin Na,
  • Hefei Zhang,
  • Michael Lee,
  • Carissa P. Olsen,
  • Albertha J. M. Walhout

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33299-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Here, Diot et al. use the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a model to identify off-target toxicity mechanisms for tamoxifen, and find that these include fatty acid metabolism and cell death, which can be modulated by different bacterial species.