NIH R01 · 2024
Metaorganismal Endocrinology in Cardiometabolic Disease
Abstract: Recent evidence has emerged that microbes resident in the human intestine represent a key transmissible environmental factor contributing to a number of human diseases including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. However, mechanisms by which gut microbial-derived factors signal to the host to promote these diseases are largely unknown. We have recently discovered a metaorganismal pathway where nutrients present in high fat foods (phosphatidylcholine, choline, and L-carnitine) can be metabolized by the gut microbial enzymes to generate trimethylamine (TMA), which is then further metabolized by the host enzyme flavin-containing monooxygenase 3 (FMO3) to produce…
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