bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/170548; this version posted February 7, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Microbiome–host systems interactions: Protective effects of propionate upon 2 the blood–brain barrier 3 4 Lesley Hoyles1*, Tom Snelling1, Umm-Kulthum Umlai1, Jeremy K. Nicholson1, Simon 5 R. Carding2, 3, Robert C. Glen1, 4 & Simon McArthur5* 6 7 1Division of Integrative Systems Medicine and Digestive Disease, Department of 8 Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, UK 9 2Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, UK 10 3The Gut Health and Food Safety Research Programme, The Quadram Institute, 11 Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK 12 4Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 13 Cambridge, UK 14 5Institute of Dentistry, Barts & the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Blizard 15 Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK 16 17 *Corresponding authors: Lesley Hoyles,
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[email protected] 19 Running title: Propionate affects the blood–brain barrier 20 Abbreviations: ADHD, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; ASD, autism spectrum 21 disorder; BBB, blood–brain barrier; CNS, central nervous system; FFAR, free fatty acid 22 receptor; KEGG, Kyoto Encyclopaedia of Genes and Genomes; GO, Gene Ontology; 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/170548; this version posted February 7, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.