Short-chain fatty-acid-producing bacteria: key components of the human gut microbiota

W Fusco, MB Lorenzo, M Cintoni, S Porcari… - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) play a key role in health and disease, as they regulate gut
homeostasis and their deficiency is involved in the pathogenesis of several disorders …

Butyrate producers,“The Sentinel of Gut”: Their intestinal significance with and beyond butyrate, and prospective use as microbial therapeutics

V Singh, GD Lee, HW Son, H Koh, ES Kim… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Gut-microbial butyrate is a short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) of significant physiological
importance than the other major SCFAs (acetate and propionate). Most butyrate producers …

The controversial role of human gut lachnospiraceae

M Vacca, G Celano, FM Calabrese, P Portincasa… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
The complex polymicrobial composition of human gut microbiota plays a key role in health
and disease. Lachnospiraceae belong to the core of gut microbiota, colonizing the intestinal …

Gut microbes from the phylogenetically diverse genus Eubacterium and their various contributions to gut health

A Mukherjee, C Lordan, RP Ross, PD Cotter - Gut microbes, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last two decades our understanding of the gut microbiota and its contribution to
health and disease has been transformed. Among a new 'generation'of potentially beneficial …

[HTML][HTML] Role of microbiota-derived short-chain fatty acids in nervous system disorders

R Mirzaei, B Bouzari, SR Hosseini-Fard… - Biomedicine & …, 2021 - Elsevier
During the past decade, accumulating evidence from the research highlights the suggested
effects of bacterial communities of the human gut microbiota and their metabolites on health …

Dietary metabolism, the gut microbiome, and heart failure

WHW Tang, DY Li, SL Hazen - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2019 - nature.com
Advances in our understanding of how the gut microbiota contributes to human health and
diseases have expanded our insight into how microbial composition and function affect the …

The potential of gut commensals in reinforcing intestinal barrier function and alleviating inflammation

K Hiippala, H Jouhten, A Ronkainen, A Hartikainen… - Nutrients, 2018 - mdpi.com
The intestinal microbiota, composed of pro-and anti-inflammatory microbes, has an essential
role in maintaining gut homeostasis and functionality. An overly hygienic lifestyle …

Conversion of dietary inositol into propionate and acetate by commensal Anaerostipes associates with host health

TPN Bui, L Mannerås-Holm, R Puschmann… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We describe the anaerobic conversion of inositol stereoisomers to propionate and acetate
by the abundant intestinal genus Anaerostipes. A inositol pathway was elucidated by …

Formation of propionate and butyrate by the human colonic microbiota

P Louis, HJ Flint - Environmental microbiology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The human gut microbiota ferments dietary non‐digestible carbohydrates into short‐chain
fatty acids (SCFA). These microbial products are utilized by the host and propionate and …

Nondigestible carbohydrates, butyrate, and butyrate-producing bacteria

X Fu, Z Liu, C Zhu, H Mou, Q Kong - Critical reviews in food science …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Nondigestible carbohydrates (NDCs) are fermentation substrates in the colon after esca**
digestion in the upper gastrointestinal tract. Among NDCs, resistant starch is not hydrolyzed …