“research in mice is showing that microbes communicate with their hosts by sending out metabolites that act on histones—thus influencing gene transcription not only in the colon but also in tissues in other parts of the body. The findings publish November 23 in Molecular Cell.”
Krautkramer et al: Molecular Cell “Diet-microbiota interactions mediate global epigenetic programming in multiple host tissues.”, DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.10.025
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