Dual Regulation Mechanism of Obesity: DNA Methylation and Intestinal Flora

Obesity is a multifactorial chronic inflammatory metabolic disorder, with pathogenesis influenced by genetic and non-genetic factors such as environment and diet. Intestinal microbes and their metabolites play significant roles in the occurrence and development of obesity by regulating energy metabo...

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Những tác giả chính: Yi Ren, Peng Huang, Lu Zhang, Yu-Fen Tang, Sen-Lin Luo, Zhou She, Hong Peng, Yu-Qiong Chen, Jin-Wen Luo, Wang-Xin Duan, Ling-Juan Liu, Li-Qun Liu
Định dạng: Bài viết
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: MDPI AG 2024-07-01
Loạt:Biomedicines
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Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/12/8/1633
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Tóm tắt:Obesity is a multifactorial chronic inflammatory metabolic disorder, with pathogenesis influenced by genetic and non-genetic factors such as environment and diet. Intestinal microbes and their metabolites play significant roles in the occurrence and development of obesity by regulating energy metabolism, inducing chronic inflammation, and impacting intestinal hormone secretion. Epigenetics, which involves the regulation of host gene expression without changing the nucleotide sequence, provides an exact direction for us to understand how the environment, lifestyle factors, and other risk factors contribute to obesity. DNA methylation, as the most common epigenetic modification, is involved in the pathogenesis of various metabolic diseases. The epigenetic modification of the host is induced or regulated by the intestinal microbiota and their metabolites, linking the dynamic interaction between the microbiota and the host genome. In this review, we examined recent advancements in research, focusing on the involvement of intestinal microbiota and DNA methylation in the etiology and progression of obesity, as well as potential interactions between the two factors, providing novel perspectives and avenues for further elucidating the pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment of obesity.
số ISSN:2227-9059