Keeping the clock running: The microbiome as a pivotal timekeeper

Margaret McFall-Ngai

doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2021.07.014

Keeping the clock running: The microbiome as a pivotal timekeeper

Cell Metab. 2021 Aug 3;33(8):1514-1515. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2021.07.014.

Author

Margaret McFall-Ngai¹

Affiliation

¹ Kewalo Marine Laboratory, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA. Electronic address: mcfallng@hawaii.edu.

PMID: 34348097
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2021.07.014

Abstract

Research of animal microbiomes is demonstrating that these host-microbe partnerships are on a profound circadian rhythm. Recently in Cell, Brooks et al. (2021) report that host rhythms drive behaviors of specific microbiome members, which orchestrate a coordination of the innate immune system with the circadian clock.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Circadian Clocks*
Circadian Rhythm
Immune System
Microbiota*
Running*