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A mucus-eating microbe controls the gut’s cholesterol factory

An elusive member of the gut microbiota can reduce cholesterol synthesis in the intestine.
Coloured transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a section through an intestinal gland of the small gut.

Bacteria living in the gut (above, an intestinal gland; artificially coloured) can affect cholesterol synthesis in the organ. Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/SPL

A mysterious bacterial species that colonizes the human gut can suppress genes its host uses to make cholesterol1.

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Nature 618, 889 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01944-8

References

  1. Davey, L. E. et al. Nature Microbiol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01407-w (2023).

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