title: Chemical signaling between gut microbiota and host chromatin: What is your gut really saying?
abstract: Mammals and their gut microbial communities share extensive and tightly coordinated co-metabolism of dietary substrates. A large number of microbial metabolites have been detected in host circulation and tissues and, in many cases, are linked to host metabolic, developmental, and immunological states. The presence of these metabolites in host tissues intersects with regulation of the host's epigenetic machinery. Although it is established that the host's epigenetic machinery is sensitive to levels of endogenous metabolites, the roles for microbial metabolites in epigenetic regulation are just beginning to be elucidated. This review focuses on eukaryotic chromatin regulation by endogenous and gut microbial metabolites and how these regulatory events may impact host developmental and metabolic phenotypes.
authors.affiliation: From the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Morgridge Institute for Research, and the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin 53715 and.
authors.forename: Kimberly A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Krautkramer
authors.affiliation: the Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 ferey@wisc.edu.
authors.forename: Federico E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Rey
authors.affiliation: From the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Morgridge Institute for Research, and the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin 53715 and john.denu@wisc.edu.
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Denu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D042002:Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly; D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic; D000069196:Gastrointestinal Microbiome; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism; D007422:Intestines / Q000382:microbiology; D015398:Signal Transduction
keywords: DNA demethylation; DNA methylation; chromatin; epigenetics; histone acetylation; histone deacetylase (HDAC); histone methylation; metabolism; microbiome