Intestinal crosstalk between bile acids and microbiota and its impact on host metabolism

A Wahlström, SI Sayin, HU Marschall, F Bäckhed - Cell metabolism, 2016 - cell.com
The gut microbiota is considered a metabolic" organ" that not only facilitates harvesting of
nutrients and energy from the ingested food but also produces numerous metabolites that …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of the gut microbiota on the bioavailability of oral drugs

X Zhang, Y Han, W Huang, M Jin, Z Gao - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to its safety, convenience, low cost and good compliance, oral administration attracts
lots of attention. However, the efficacy of many oral drugs is limited to their unsatisfactory …

Systematic assessment of secondary bile acid metabolism in gut microbes reveals distinct metabolic capabilities in inflammatory bowel disease

A Heinken, DA Ravcheev, F Baldini, L Heirendt… - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Background The human gut microbiome performs important functions in human health and
disease. A classic example for host-gut microbial co-metabolism is host biosynthesis of …

Metabolism of cholesterol and bile acids by the gut microbiota

P Gérard - Pathogens, 2013 - mdpi.com
The human gastro-intestinal tract hosts a complex and diverse microbial community, whose
collective genetic coding capacity vastly exceeds that of the human genome. As a …

Bile salt biotransformations by human intestinal bacteria

JM Ridlon, DJ Kang, PB Hylemon - Journal of lipid research, 2006 - ASBMB
Secondary bile acids, produced solely by intestinal bacteria, can accumulate to high levels
in the enterohepatic circulation of some individuals and may contribute to the pathogenesis …

Bile acid metabolism and signaling in cholestasis, inflammation, and cancer

T Li, U Apte - Advances in pharmacology, 2015 - Elsevier
Bile acids are synthesized from cholesterol in the liver. Some cytochrome P450 (CYP)
enzymes play key roles in bile acid synthesis. Bile acids are physiological detergent …

[HTML][HTML] The human gut sterolbiome: bile acid-microbiome endocrine aspects and therapeutics

JM Ridlon, JS Bajaj - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2015 - Elsevier
The human body is now viewed as a complex ecosystem that on a cellular and gene level is
mainly prokaryotic. The mammalian liver synthesizes and secretes hydrophilic primary bile …

Another renaissance for bile acid gastrointestinal microbiology

JM Ridlon, HR Gaskins - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2024 - nature.com
The field of bile acid microbiology in the gastrointestinal tract is going through a current
rebirth after a peak of activity in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This renewed activity is a …

Formation of secondary allo-bile acids by novel enzymes from gut Firmicutes

JW Lee, ES Cowley, PG Wolf, HL Doden, T Murai… - Gut …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The gut microbiome of vertebrates is capable of numerous biotransformations of bile acids,
which are responsible for intestinal lipid digestion and function as key nutrient-signaling …

The 'in vivo lifestyle' of bile acid 7α-dehydroxylating bacteria: comparative genomics, metatranscriptomic, and bile acid metabolomics analysis of a defined microbial …

JM Ridlon, S Devendran, JM Alves, H Doden… - Gut …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The formation of secondary bile acids by gut microbes is a current topic of considerable
biomedical interest. However, a detailed understanding of the biology of anaerobic bacteria …