«And we see that the gut microbiome affects
the host epigenome in a diet - dependent manner.
Not exact matches
The new Wisconsin study shows that a small set of short - chain fatty acids produced as the gut bacteria consume, metabolize and ferment nutrients from plants are important chemical messengers, communicating with the cells of the
host through the
epigenome.
«The bugs are somehow driving gene expression in the
host through alteration of the
epigenome,» explains John Denu, a UW - Madison professor of biomolecular chemistry and a senior researcher at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, and a co-author of the new study.
«The bugs are somehow driving gene expression in the
host through alteration of the
epigenome,» explains John Denu, a UW — Madison professor of biomolecular chemistry and a senior researcher at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, and a co-author of the new study.