Long-chain unsaturated fatty acids released during immune responses stimulate host-microbe trans-kingdom communication
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Immune responses can significantly alter the structure and function of the gut microbiota, leading to rapid transcriptional and metabolic shifts in commensal microbes. However, the host mediators involved in this process and their effects on bacteria remain poorly elucidated. Here, using a flagellin injection model to induce immune activation, we identified unsaturated long-chain fatty acids (uLCFAs) as broad modulators that are released into the gut lumen and alter bacterial gene expression. Luminal release of uLCFAs is partially mediated by host phospholipases, including PLA2G5. In response to uLCFAs, commensals such as Blautia trigger the expression of ohyA, encoding oleate hydratase, which converts toxic uLCFAs to non-toxic hydroxy fatty acids with immunomodulatory properties. Remarkably, oral administration of uLCFAs to mice replicates many of the bacterial transcriptional changes induced by flagellin. This molecular loop underscores the sophisticated interactions between host and microbiota and sheds light on how immune responses affect gut commensal functions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".