Commensal bacteria make GPCR ligands that mimic human signalling molecules

LJ Cohen, D Esterhazy, SH Kim, C Lemetre… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Commensal bacteria are believed to have important roles in human health. The mechanisms
by which they affect mammalian physiology remain poorly understood, but bacterial …

[PDF][PDF] Mapping interactions of microbial metabolites with human G-protein-coupled receptors

…, SM Han, AJ Pickard, A Rao, JR Cross, LJ Cohen… - Cell host & …, 2019 - cell.com
Despite evidence linking the human microbiome to health and disease, how the microbiota
affects human physiology remains largely unknown. Microbiota-encoded metabolites are …

[HTML][HTML] Resilience-based integrated IBD care is associated with reductions in health care use and opioids

…, S Tse, A Biello, R Ungaro, LJ Cohen, BL Cohen… - Clinical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Integrated inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) care is effective but not
routinely implemented. Validated methods that simultaneously address mind and body targets …

Discovery of MRSA active antibiotics using primary sequence from the human microbiome

…, X Vila-Farres, D Inoyama, M Ternei, LJ Cohen… - Nature Chemical …, 2016 - nature.com
Here we present a natural product discovery approach, whereby structures are
bioinformatically predicted from primary sequence and produced by chemical synthesis (synthetic-…

Genetic factors and the intestinal microbiome guide development of microbe-based therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases

LJ Cohen, JH Cho, D Gevers, H Chu - Gastroenterology, 2019 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Louis J. Cohen 1 , Judy H. Cho 1 2 3 , Dirk Gevers 4 ,
Hiutung Chu 5 6 … https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2019.03.017…

Functional metagenomic discovery of bacterial effectors in the human microbiome and isolation of commendamide, a GPCR G2A/132 agonist

LJ Cohen, HS Kang, J Chu… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The trillions of bacteria that make up the human microbiome are believed to encode functions
that are important to human health; however, little is known about the specific effectors that …

Antimicrobials inspired by nonribosomal peptide synthetase gene clusters

…, MA Ternei, C Lemetre, LJ Cohen… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Bacterial culture broth extracts have been the starting point for the development of numerous
therapeutics. However, only a small fraction of bacterial biosynthetic diversity is accessible …

Infliximab in pediatric ulcerative colitis: two-year follow-up

P Mamula, JE Markowitz, LJ Cohen… - Journal of pediatric …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Objectives The role of infliximab in treating pediatric ulcerative colitis (UC) is not defined. The
authors previously have described their experience with the open label use of infliximab in …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling function and diversity of bacterial lectins in the human microbiome

LJ Cohen, SM Han, P Lau, D Guisado, Y Liang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The mechanisms by which commensal organisms affect human physiology remain poorly
understood. Lectins are non-enzymatic carbohydrate binding proteins that all organisms …

Identification of the colicin V bacteriocin gene cluster by functional screening of a human microbiome metagenomic library

LJ Cohen, S Han, YH Huang, SF Brady - ACS infectious diseases, 2018 - ACS Publications
The forces that shape human microbial ecology are complex. It is likely that human microbiota,
similarly to other microbiomes, use antibiotics as one way to establish an ecological niche…