Gut microbes have been recognized to convert the human bile acids by deconjugation, dehydroxylation, dehydrogenation and epimerization of the cholesterol core, but the ability to re-conjugate them with amino acids as an additional conversion has only been recently described. These new bile acids ...

Synthetic human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) structures are used to supplement infant formula despite limited understanding of their impact on the developing gut microbiota. Here, we assess the impact of 2-fucosyllactose (2’FL) and pooled (p)HMOs on the composition and activity of cultured microbia...

Previous epidemiological and laboratorial studies have demonstrated a close relationship between plasma manganese (Mn) levels and type 2 diabetes (T2D), however, the underlying mechanism remains undisclosed. In this study, we employed a comprehensive approach that integrated fecal 16S rRNA sequen...

OBJECTIVE: Patients with renal failure suffer from symptoms caused by uraemic toxins, possibly of gut microbial origin, as deduced from studies in animals. The aim of the study is to characterise relationships between the intestinal microbiome composition, uraemic toxins and rena...

Emerging evidence suggests a link between gut microbiota, bile acid metabolism, and immune dysregulation in dyslipidemia. Through a case-control study involving 140 participants and animal experiment, we identified significantly elevated count of peripheral blood CD3+ T cells, CD4+ T cells, CD8+ ...

Owing to its compositional and chemical complexity, much of the gut microbiota metabolome remains poorly characterized. Aromatic amino acids (AAAs) have a history of being privileged substrates for the biosynthesis of diverse bioactive metabolites and thus represent a potentially rich source of b...