Metabolic alterations to the mucosal microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease.

Background Inflammation during inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) may alter nutrient availability to adherent mucosal bacteria and impact their metabolic function. Microbial metabolites may regulate intestinal CD4+ T cell homeostasis. We investigated the relationship between inflammation and microbial function by inferred metagenomics of the mucosal microbiota from colonic pinch biopsies of IBD patients.