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. 2017 Jul 12;22(1):3-4.
doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2017.06.011.

Bacteria Tell Us How to Protect Our Intestine

George Birchenough  1 , Gunnar C Hansson  2
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Bacteria Tell Us How to Protect Our Intestine

George Birchenough et al. Cell Host Microbe. .
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Abstract

The inner colon mucus layer capacity to separate bacteria from the epithelium is dependent on bacterial colonizers signaling to the host epithelium. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Wlodarska et al. (2017) demonstrate that the mucin-utilizing Peptostreptococcus russellii protects the host from inflammatory disease via metabolite signals.

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