Project description:To characterize the effect of lactic acid on the L. plantarum growth and adaptation, we investigated the transcriptome under hydrochloride (HCl) or lactic acid at the early stage of the growth.
Project description:Nowadays, Western diets and lifestyle lead to an increasing occurrence of chronic gut inflammation, that represents an emerging health concern with still a lack of successful therapies. Fermented foods, and their associated Lactic Acid Bacteria, have recently regained popularity for their probiotic potential including the maintenance of gut homeostasis by modulating the immune and inflammatory response. Our study aims to investigate the cross-talk between the food-borne strain Lactiplantibacillus plantarum C9O4 and intestinal epithelial cells in an in vitro inflammation model. Cytokines profile shows the ability of C9O4 to significantly reduce levels of IL-2, IL-5, IL-6, and IFN-γ. Proteomic functional analysis reveals an active host-microbe interaction that highlights an immunoregulatory role of C9O4, able to revert both the detrimental effects of IFN-γ through the JAK/STAT pathway and the apoptosis process in inflamed cells. These results suggest a promising therapeutic role of fermented food-associated microbes for the management of gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases.
Project description:Some commensal bacteria stimulate the immune system but do not present specific antigenicity. Such adjuvant effects have been reported for the bacterial species Lactobacillus plantarum. To study in vivo human responses to L. plantarum, a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled cross-over study was performed. Healthy adults were provided preparations of living and heat-killed L. plantarum bacteria, biopsies were taken from the intestinal mucosa and altered transcriptional profiles were analysed. Transcriptional profiles of human epithelia displayed striking differences upon exposure to living L. plantarum bacteria harvested at different growth phases. Modulation of NF-κB-dependent pathways was central among the major altered cellular responses. This unique in vivo study shows which cellular pathways are associated with the induction of immune tolerance in mucosal tissues towards common adjuvanticity possessing lactobacilli. Keywords: mucosal response of healthy adult humans to lactic acid bacteria
Project description:This project uses TMT labeling quantitative proteomics technology to carry out research, and a total of 898 proteins have been identified. Differentially expressed proteins were screened according to the criteria of expression fold change of more than 1.5-fold (up-regulation more than 1.5-fold or down-regulation less than 0.67) and P value<0.05. Among them, taking the comparison group Control VS H2O2 as an example, there were 31 up-regulated differentially expressed proteins and 81 down-regulated differentially expressed proteins. Through GO enrichment and KEGG pathway analysis, it was found that these differentially expressed proteins are mainly involved in important biological processes such as single-organism metabolic process, small molecule metabolic process, organophosphate metabolic process, organophosphate biosynthetic process and carbohydrate derivative biosynthetic process, and are mainly involved in the regulation of Metabolic pathways, Fructose and mannose metabolism, Oxidative phosphorylation, Tyrosine and Degradation of aromatic compounds and other important KEGG metabolic pathways.
