Open AccessFecal menaquinone profiles of overweight adults are associated with gut microbiota composition during a gut microbiota–targeted dietary intervention,
Author(s) -
J. Philip Karl,
Xueyan Fu,
Xiaoxin Wang,
Yufeng Zhao,
Jian Shen,
Chenhong Zhang,
Benjamin E. Wolfe,
Edward Saltzman,
Liping Zhao,
Sarah L. Booth
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of clinical nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.608
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1938-3207
pISSN - 0002-9165
DOI - 10.3945/ajcn.115.109496
Subject(s) - gut flora , prevotella , bacteroides , feces , biology , bacteroidaceae , microbiology and biotechnology , bacteria , immunology , genetics
Emerging evidence supports novel roles for vitamin K in cardiometabolic health, some of which may be unique to the bacterially synthesized vitamin K forms known as menaquinones. However, factors influencing menaquinone biosynthesis by the gut microbiota and associations with cardiometabolic health have not been examined.
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