Drosophila microbiome modulates host developmental and metabolic homeostasis via insulin signaling |
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Authors: | Shin Seung Chul Kim Sung-Hee You Hyejin Kim Boram Kim Aeri C Lee Kyung-Ah Yoon Joo-Heon Ryu Ji-Hwan Lee Won-Jae |
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Affiliation: | School of Biological Science, Seoul National University and National Creative Research Initiative Center for Symbiosystem, Seoul 151-742, South Korea. |
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Abstract: | The symbiotic microbiota profoundly affect many aspects of host physiology; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying host-microbe cross-talk are largely unknown. Here, we show that the pyrroloquinoline quinone-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase (PQQ-ADH) activity of a commensal bacterium, Acetobacter pomorum, modulates insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling (IIS) in Drosophila to regulate host homeostatic programs controlling developmental rate, body size, energy metabolism, and intestinal stem cell activity. Germ-free animals monoassociated with PQQ-ADH mutant bacteria displayed severe deregulation of developmental and metabolic homeostasis. Importantly, these defects were reversed by enhancing host IIS or by supplementing the diet with acetic acid, the metabolic product of PQQ-ADH. |
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