I leave you? We finally found out what makes urine yellow

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There are a lot mysteries In life that We END up shrugging the shoulders disabled. For what East urine YELLOW? He just East, RIGHT? Instead that flush that 125 years question down THE bathroom, scientists research out THE answer, discover A previously unknown microbial enzyme was has blame.

THE enzyme that has evaded We For SO long East NOW known as bilirubin reductase. He was identified by searcher And assistant teacher Brantley Room of THE University of Maryland, WHO was part of A team base has THE university And THE National Institutes of Health.

Bilirubin East A orange pigment released by red blood cells After they die. Intestine microbes SO to use bilirubin reductase has to break down bilirubin In colorless urobilinogen, which is degrading In yellowish urobilin, giving urine that infamous tint. While urobilin previously had A association with THE color of urine, THE enzyme that departures THE process by produce urobilinogen was unknown until now.

"However he was previously thought that several enzymes were implied In THE reduction of bilirubin, OUR results support THE discovery that A Single enzyme carried out THE reduction of bilirubin has urobilinogen”, THE research team said In A study recently published In Nature Microbiology.

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Because a few intestine bacteria had has been known has reduce bilirubin, Room And her team knew Or has to start but research has fill In THE unknown by discovery out which particular species In fact TO DO This and how. This supposed they had has find THE embarrassed responsible For coding bilirubin reductase.

Previous studies had find that THE species Clostridiodes difficult was able of reduce bilirubin (However THE mechanism he used was unknown). Using vs. difficult as A base For comparison, THE team cultivated different species of intestine bacteria And exposed them has bilirubin has see if that bacteria could produce urobilinogen, detection It is presence using A fluorescence test.

THE fluorescence essay said Room And her colleagues that there were nine strains In THE tested species that they thought were able of reduce bilirubin, although how these bacteria were breakup he down was always not clear. After THE fluorescence essay, THE genomes of THE most closely related strains were analysis, And several turned out has share A embarrassed that coded A enzyme that could reduce bilirubin—bilirubin reductase.

Bacterial strains that metabolized bilirubin using bilirubin reductase all came Since species that were find has belong has A Single clade (THE researchers informally referred has he as THE bilirubin reductase clade). In that clade, most of these species are Since THE class Clostridia In THE phylum Firmicutes, A phylum of bacteria important has intestine health.

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THE Discovery of bilirubin reductase go beyond THE origin of urine color. After identify THE enzyme, THE researchers find out that, while bilirubin reductase East here In in good health adults, there East A deficit In newborns And adults with inflammatory intestine disease, which could Ultimately influence future treatments

By sequencing infant intestine genomes, Room And her team saw that bilirubin reductase was often missing during THE First of all little month of life. Also a lot bilirubin building up In THE blood turns THE skin And THE whites of THE eyes YELLOW, A symptom known as jaundice. Most infants to have a few level of jaundice, but he generally go far on It is clean.

THE absence of bilirubin reductase East Also partner with pigmented gallstones In adults with inflammatory intestine disease (inflammatory intestine disease Or IBD East A general term that can refer has several different diagnostics). Sequencing adult intestine genomes watch that there was A deficit of This enzyme In most the patients with Crohn's disease Or ulcerative colitis Who...