Breaking bugs: gut microbes metabolize dietary components and modulate vascular health.
Breaking bugs: gut microbes metabolize dietary components and modulate vascular health.
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DOI:
10.1080/10408398.2023.2251616
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发表时间:
2023-08
影响因子:
10.2
通讯作者:
Adhini Kuppuswamy Satheesh Babu;Harini Srinivasan;Pon Velayutham Anandh Babu
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作者:
Adhini Kuppuswamy Satheesh Babu;Harini Srinivasan;Pon Velayutham Anandh Babu
Gut microbiota modulates host physiology and pathophysiology through the production of microbial metabolites. Diet is a crucial factor in shaping the microbiome, and gut microbes interact with the host by producing beneficial or detrimental diet-derived microbial metabolites. Evidence from our lab and others indicates that the interaction between diet and gut microbes plays a pivotal role in modulating vascular health. Diet-derived microbial metabolites such as short-chain fatty acids and metabolites of phenolic acids improve vascular health, whereas trimethylamine oxide and certain amino acid-derived microbial metabolites impair the vasculature. These metabolites have been shown to regulate blood pressure, vascular inflammation, and atherosclerosis by acting on multiple targets. Nonetheless, there are substantial gaps in knowledge within this field. The microbial enzymes essential for the production of diet-derived metabolites, the role of the food matrix in regulating the bioavailability of metabolites, and the structure-activity relationships between metabolites and biomolecules in the vasculature are largely unknown. Potential diet-derived metabolites to improve vascular health can be identified through future studies that investigate the causal relationship between dietary components, gut microbes, diet-derived metabolites, and vascular health by using radiolabeled compounds, metabolomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics techniques.