Gut Microbial Metabolism and Biotransformation
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2020)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computational metabolomics and metagenomics; natural product discovery; microbiome analysis
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Interests: natural products; small molecules; metabolomics; mass spectrometry; chemical ecology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last decade, it has become evident that microbes play a crucial role in human and animal metabolism. Our understanding of the host–microbiome relationship has expanded thanks to the advances in metabolomics and genomics. With the help of multi-omics approaches, various connections between molecules and microorganisms have been revealed, including the microbial-mediated biotransformations of molecules. In this Special Issue of Metabolites, our aim is to bring together recent findings in topics including, but not restricted to: new metabolite discovery through gut microbial-mediated modifications, gut microorganisms producing/modifying chemicals present in the gut, known molecule-new metabolite approaches, the discovery of enzyme-specific transformations, and the discovery of functional roles of metabolites in the gut environment. Computational approaches to microbial metabolism and biotransformation in the gut environment are also encouraged.
Dr. Hosein Mohimani
Dr. Andrés Mauricio Caraballo-Rodríguez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metabolomics
- microbiome
- biotransformation
- metabolism
- metabolic pathways
- metabolite identification
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