title: The microbial-mammalian metabolic axis: beyond simple metabolism.
abstract: The microbiome heavily influences the metabolism of its host. In this issue of Cell Metabolism, Donohoe and colleagues demonstrate that microbial butyrate, used as a fuel metabolite, prevents autophagy in colonocytes, showing that the microbial-mammalian metabolic axis goes beyond simple metabolism.
authors.affiliation: Biomolecular Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, UK. m.dumas@imperial.ac.uk
authors.forename: Marc-Emmanuel
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Dumas