Hepatic and Gut Microbial Metabolism
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbiology and Ecological Metabolomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2021) | Viewed by 469
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioinformatics; metabolism; metagenome; metabolome; liver diseases; diabetes
2. Science for Life Laboratory, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, 171 21 Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: systems biology; genome-scale metabolic modeling; microbial community modeling; metabolism; metagenome
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is a great pleasure to invite all enthusiatic researchers in the field of human microbiome for publication in the Special Issue “Hepatic and and Gut Microbial Metabolism”.
Recently, mounting evidence has suggested that human gut microbiota contributes to host physiology with energy aquicistions and the diverse spectrum of bioactive metabolites, that the organ in closest contact with it, the liver, has been signficantly associated with. For example, gut microbiota could modulate body fat composition, including liver fat and hepatic steatosis, can be reduced with a change of microbiota compositions, by using prebiotics that promote a healthy microbiome, such as insulin-type fructans.
However, links between the host and microbial metabolism are still unclear because of the diversity and complexity of gut microbiota. For example, microbially fermented ethanol could promote hepatic steatosis, whereas short chain fatty acids could reduce its progression. This Special Issue cordially invites all experimental and computational approaches that demonstrate how dysbiotic gut microbiota could lead to the dysregulated metabolism of chronic liver diseases, which include quantitative metagenomic profiling, multi-omics approaches that integrate host multi-omics with the meta-omics of gut microbiota, and the systems biology of host–microbe interactions. We invite all forms of articles, including research articles, reviews, and short communications for submission.
Dr. Sunjae Lee
Dr. Saeed Shoaie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Metagenome
- Metabolome
- Functional metagenome
- Liver diseases
- Microbial metabolism
- Host-microbe interactions
- Genome-scale metabolic model
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