Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Early life gut microbiota sustains liver-resident natural killer cells maturation via the butyrate-IL-18 axis

  • Panpan Tian,
  • Wenwen Yang,
  • Xiaowei Guo,
  • Tixiao Wang,
  • Siyu Tan,
  • Renhui Sun,
  • Rong Xiao,
  • Yuzhen Wang,
  • Deyan Jiao,
  • Yachen Xu,
  • Yanfei Wei,
  • Zhuanchang Wu,
  • Chunyang Li,
  • Lifen Gao,
  • Chunhong Ma,
  • Xiaohong Liang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37419-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Liver-resident natural killer cells develop locally and have multiple immunological roles in situ. Here the authors investigate the gut-liver axis and show the impact of the intestinal microbiota on the development of liver-resident natural killer cells.