Commensal Bacteria Decontaminating Your Diet

Melissa C Kordahi; R William DePaolo

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2019.09.013

Commensal Bacteria Decontaminating Your Diet

Cell Host Microbe. 2019 Oct 9;26(4):446-448. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.09.013.

Authors

Melissa C Kordahi¹, R William DePaolo²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
² Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Center for Microbiome Sciences & Therapeutics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 31600496
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.09.013

Abstract

The diet-microbiome interaction can positively or negatively affect our health depending on dietary habits. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Wolf et al. (2019) highlight the beneficial roles of gut commensal Collinsella in degrading potentially toxic food contaminants, called Maillard reaction products, found in processed foods.

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MeSH terms

Bacteria
Biodegradation, Environmental
Diet
Food Handling
Gastrointestinal Microbiome*
Humans