PUBLICATION
We know you are in there: Conversing with the indigenous gut microbiota
- Authors
- Cheesman, S.E., and Guillemin, K.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-070210-4
- Date
- 2007
- Source
- Research in Microbiology 158(1): 2-9 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Cheesman, Sarah, Guillemin, Karen
- Keywords
- Microbiota, Vertebrate gut, Mutualism, Microbial-associated molecular patterns, Epithelial homeostasis, Innate immunity, Glycans
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Disease Models, Animal
- Homeostasis
- Humans
- Immunity, Innate
- Intestinal Mucosa/microbiology*
- Intestinal Mucosa/physiology*
- Mice
- Polysaccharides/metabolism
- Signal Transduction
- Symbiosis
- Vertebrates/microbiology*
- Vertebrates/physiology*
- Zebrafish/microbiology
- Zebrafish/physiology
- PubMed
- 17223317 Full text @ Res. Microbiol.
Citation
Cheesman, S.E., and Guillemin, K. (2007) We know you are in there: Conversing with the indigenous gut microbiota. Research in Microbiology. 158(1):2-9.
Abstract
The vertebrate gut harbors a coevolved consortium of microbes that plays critical roles in the development and health of this organ. Here we discuss recent insights into the microbial-host molecular dialogs that shape the digestive tracts of the model vertebrates, mice and zebrafish, and consider the parallels between vertebrate-microbial mutualisms and the well-studied squid-Vibrio symbiosis.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping