Table 1 Key materials and software.

From: A decrease in Flavonifractor plautii and its product, phytosphingosine, predisposes individuals with phlegm-dampness constitution to metabolic disorders

Reagent or resource

Source

Identifier

Antibodies

Primary antibody against PPARα

Abcam Co. Ltd., CA, USA

ab126285

Primary antibody against ACADM

Proteintech Group, Inc., Wuhan, China

55210-1-AP

Primary antibody against ACADL

Proteintech Group, Inc., Wuhan, China

17526-1-AP

Primary antibody against CYP4A14

Abcam Co. Ltd., CA, USA

ab140635

Primary antibody against CYP7A1

Santa Cruz Biotechnology Inc., CA, USA

sc-518007

Primary antibody against CYP8B1

Abcam Co. Ltd., CA, USA

ab236607

Primary antibody against CYP27A1

Proteintech Group, Inc., Wuhan, China

14739-1-AP

Primary antibody against ACSL4

Proteintech Group, Inc., Wuhan, China

22401-1-AP

Primary antibody against ACSL5

Proteintech Group, Inc., Wuhan, China

15708-1-AP

Primary antibody against SCP2

Abcam Co. Ltd., CA, USA

ab140126

Primary antibody against EHHADH

Proteintech Group, Inc., Wuhan, China

26570-1-AP

Primary antibody against β-actin

Proteintech Group, Inc., Wuhan, China

81115-1-RR

Goat secondary antibody against rabbit

Proteintech Group, Inc., Wuhan, China

RGAR001

Goat secondary antibody against mouse

Proteintech Group, Inc., Wuhan, China

RGAM001

Primary antibody against GLUT2

Abcam, Ltd., Shanghai, China

ab152680

Primary antibody against GLUT4

Abcam, Ltd., Shanghai, China

ab33780

Primary antibody against p-IR-β

Cell Signaling Technology, Inc., Shanghai, China

#2381

Primary antibody against p-IRS

Cell Signaling Technology, Inc., Shanghai, China

#3026

Primary antibody against IR-β

Cell Signaling Technology, Inc., Shanghai, China

#3025

Primary antibody against IRS

Cell Signaling Technology, Inc., Shanghai, China

#2382

Recombinant protein and chip

Human PPARα Protein

Sino Biological Inc., Beijing, China

12080-H07E

Human PPARβ/δ Protein

Cloud-clone corp., Wuhan, China

RPC041Hu01

Human PPARγ Protein

Sino Biological Inc., Beijing, China

12019-H20B

Insulin

Beijing Solarbio Science & Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China

I8830

CM5 sensor chip

GE Healthcare, Chicago, IL, USA

BR100012

Experimental models: cell lines

HepG2 (human hepatocellular carcinoma) cells

Procell Life Science&Technology Co., Ltd., Wuhan, China

CL-0103

C57BL/6J mouse

Charles River Biotechnology Co., Ltd, China

213

Wistar rat

Charles River Biotechnology Co., Ltd, China

102

GF C57BL/6J mouse

Gempharmatech Co., Ltd

750

Critical commercial assays

Dual Luciferase Reporter Gene Assay kits

Hanbio Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China

20231017GX-DLR01

PPARα pcDNA3.1 plasmid

Hanbio Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China

20231017GX-PC04

PPRE pGL4.26 plasmid

Hanbio Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China

20231017GX-PC03

pRL-TK plasmid

Hanbio Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China

20231017GX-PC06

Rat rxra pcDNA3.1-3xFlag-T2A-EGFP

Hanbio Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China

20231017GX-PC02

Sodium palmitate/sodium oleate kit

Kunchuang Biotechnology, Xian, China

2

PPARα siRNA

Hanbio Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China

20230809GX-SI02

Control siRNA

Hanbio Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China

20230809GX-SI02

Lipo 8000 transfection reagent

Beyotime Biotechnology, Shanghai, China

C0533

Insulin ELISA Kit for

Cloud-clone corp., Wuhan, China

CEA448Mu

Opti-MEM

Invitrogen Co., Carlsbad, CA, USA

31985070

Oil Red O Stain Kit

Solarbio Co. Ltd., Beijing, China

G1262

Mouse GPT/ALT kit

Grace Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Suzhou, China

G0423W

Mouse GOT/AST kit

Grace Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Suzhou, China

G0424W

Mouse TG Content Assay Kit

Grace Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Suzhou, China

G0910W

Mouse TC Content Assay Kit

Grace Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Suzhou, China

G0909W

Taq Pro Universal SYBR qPCR master mix

Vazyme Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Nanjing, China

Q712-02

E.Z.N.A.â Soil DNA kit

Omega Bio-Tek Co. Ltd., Norcross, GA, USA

D5625-02

HE Staining Kit

Solarbio Co. Ltd., Beijing, China

G1120

HiScript® III All-in-one RT SuperMix

Perfect for qPCR

Vazyme Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Nanjing, China

R333

Software and algorithms

BiacoreTM Insight Software

Cytiva

https://www.cytivalifesciences.com/en/us

ImageJ

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe

https://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html

SPSS 16.0

IBM SPSS

https://www.ibm.com/hk-en/products/spss-statistics

R studio

RStudio

https://www.r-project.org/

Graphpad Prism 7

GraphPad

https://www.graphpad.com/scientificsoftware/prism/

Bacterial and Chemicals

Flavonifractor plautii

Guangdong Microbial Culture Collection Center (GDMCC)

GDMCC NO.1.1268

Phytosphingosine (≥ 98%)

Aladdin

D136389 CAS: 554-62-1

neomycin sulfate (600 μg/mg)

Macklin

N814740 CAS: 1405-10-3

metronidazole (≥ 98%)

Macklin

M813526 CAS: 443-48-1

Ampicillin (≥ 98%)

Macklin

A830931 CAS: 69-53-4

Vancomycin (≥ 950 μg/mg)

Macklin

V871983 CAS: 1404-90-6

Recombinant Human Insulin

Solarbio Co. Ltd., Beijing, China

I8830

TRIzol

Vazyme Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Nanjing, China

#R411

Streptozotocin

Sigma‒Aldrich, Inc., Shanghai, China

S0130

Other

Automatic Biochemistry Analyzer

Beckman Coulter, Inc. CA, USA

AU480

Glucometer

Bayer, Leverkusen, Germany

D2ASCCONKIT

Normal chow diet

SiPeiFu (Beijing) Biotechnology Co., Ltd, China

SPF-F02-003

High fat Diet

SiPeiFu (Beijing) Biotechnology Co., Ltd, China

010139

High fat Diet With 60 kcal% diet

SYSE BIO Co., Ltd, Changzhou, China

PD6001