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Rochelle Lai

University of California, Los Angeles

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Ecology and engineering to modify the bile acid output of a defined microbial community

Xianfeng Zeng, Xiandong Meng, Allison M. Weakley, Kelsey E. Jarrett, Steven Kyle Higginbottom, Eugenell Mae Lopez, Ashley V. Cabrera, Ira J. Gray, Brian C. DeFelice, Masahiko Terasaki, Rochelle Lai, Madelaine C. Brearley-Sholto, Aishan Zhao, Kerrigan R Hall, Mikhail Levia, , Michael Andrew Fischbach

The paper shows that modifying microbial community composition, specifically overexpressing bile acid metabolic genes in Lactobacillus strains, can alter bile acid pool size and composition in mice.

bioRxiv · May 25, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology