Nature Communications (May 2021)

Feeding-induced resistance to acute lethal sepsis is dependent on hepatic BMAL1 and FXR signalling

  • Sarah S. Geiger,
  • Javier Traba,
  • Nathan Richoz,
  • Taylor K. Farley,
  • Stephen R. Brooks,
  • Franziska Petermann,
  • Lingdi Wang,
  • Frank J. Gonzalez,
  • Michael N. Sack,
  • Richard M. Siegel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22961-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Time of day influences immune responses and lethality in response to LPS, with survival greatest at the beginning compared to the end of the light cycle. Here the authors show that feeding, rather than light, controls time-of-day dependent LPS sensitivity through the liver clock and hepatic FXR signalling.