Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Gut microbiota confers host resistance to obesity by metabolizing dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids

  • Junki Miyamoto,
  • Miki Igarashi,
  • Keita Watanabe,
  • Shin-ichiro Karaki,
  • Hiromi Mukouyama,
  • Shigenobu Kishino,
  • Xuan Li,
  • Atsuhiko Ichimura,
  • Junichiro Irie,
  • Yukihiko Sugimoto,
  • Tetsuya Mizutani,
  • Tatsuya Sugawara,
  • Takashi Miki,
  • Jun Ogawa,
  • Daniel J. Drucker,
  • Makoto Arita,
  • Hiroshi Itoh,
  • Ikuo Kimura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11978-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The gut microbiome is an important regulator of metabolic health. Here the authors show that intestinal bacteria metabolize dietary linoleic acid to 10-hydroxy-cis-12-octadecenoic acid (HYA) which confers host resistance to high fat diet-induced obesity in mice.