Take Your Pick: Vitamins and Microbiota Facilitate Pathogen Clearance.
The gut microbiota plays a chief role in vitamin production. Changes in its membership impact the gut metabolome and host susceptibility to pathogens. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Miki et al. (2017) show that RegIIIβ impacts microbiota composition, decreasing vitamin B6 production and promoting sustained colonization by Salmonella.
Departments of Microbiology and Biochemistry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-9048, USA. Electronic address: vanessa.sperandio@utsouthwestern.edu.
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D064307:Microbiota; D012475:Salmonella; D014815:Vitamins
D014815:Vitamins
Salmonella; microbiota; vitamin B6