Dietary carbohydrates articles within Nature Communications

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• Article
  30 January 2024 | Open Access

  Longitudinal quantification of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis reveals late colonization in the infant gut independent of maternal milk HMO composition

  Here, the authors develop a high-throughput method to quantify Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis (BL. infantis), a proficient HMO-utilizer, from metagenomic sequencing, and applied it to a longitudinal cohort consisting of 21 mother-infant dyads, suggesting BL. infantis colonization to start late in the breast-feeding period.

  • Dena Ennis
  • , Shimrit Shmorak
  •  & Moran Yassour

• Article
  21 July 2023 | Open Access

  Determining the metabolic effects of dietary fat, sugars and fat-sugar interaction using nutritional geometry in a dietary challenge study with male mice

  The role of dietary fat vs sugar in the global obesity epidemic remains controversial. Using Nutritional Geometry methodology, the authors show that, in mice, both fats and sugars could lead to adverse metabolic outcomes, depending on the dietary context.

  • Jibran A. Wali
  • , Duan Ni
  •  & Stephen J. Simpson

• Article
  19 February 2020 | Open Access

  Alterations in promoter interaction landscape and transcriptional network underlying metabolic adaptation to diet

  Metabolic adaptation to different diets results in changes to gene expression. Here, the authors characterise the chromatin landscape and transcriptional network in mice on a diet of high saturated fat, compared to a diet high in carbohydrate, finding a dramatic reprogramming of the liver transcriptional network.

  • Yufeng Qin
  • , Sara A. Grimm
  •  & Paul A. Wade