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SUBMITTER: Wang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5702268 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Yuhao Y Kuang Zheng Z Yu Xiaofei X Ruhn Kelly A KA Kubo Masato M Hooper Lora V LV
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20170901 6354
The intestinal microbiota has been identified as an environmental factor that markedly affects energy storage and body-fat accumulation in mammals, yet the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here we show that the microbiota regulates body composition through the circadian transcription factor NFIL3. <i>Nfil3</i> transcription oscillates diurnally in intestinal epithelial cells, and the amplitude of the circadian oscillation is controlled by the microbiota through group 3 innate lymphoid cells ...[more]