Project description:Impact of antibiotics (T2) or antibiotics in combination with stress (T3) in early life on intestinal functioning in pigs on 8, 55, 176 days in jejunum and ileum (blood only day 8) and control pigs (T1)
Project description:Impact of antibiotics (T2) or antibiotics in combination with stress (T3) in early life on intestinal functioning in pigs on 8, 55, 176 days in jejunum and ileum (blood only day 8) and control pigs (T1) 4 pools consisting of 16 animals were generated per time-point (day 8, 55, 176 after birth) per treatment (T1;control, T2; antibiotics, T3; antibiotics+stress)
Project description:An inverse correlation between countries endemic for helminth infestation and Crohn's disease (CD) incidences has been reinforced by anecdotal but successful cases of helminth therapy for CD. Recent studies have revealed that tuft cells in the small intestine are critical for sensing helminths and directing a type 2 immune response to counteract colonization. Here, we establish an inverse relationship between chemosensory tuft cells and local tissue inflammation in CD patients as well as an established mouse model of TNF-á-induced Crohn's-like ileitis (TNFÄARE). Using a combination of mouse and organoid models, single-cell RNA-sequencing, multiplex immunofluorescence, computational analysis, metabolite mass spectrometry, and microbiome sequencing and manipulation, we identified Atonal Homolog 1 (ATOH1)-independent tuft cells, as opposed to ATOH1-dependent tuft cells, to be responsive to the commensal microbiome through the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle metabolite succinate. To evaluate the ability of the malleable, ATOH1-independent tuft cell population to suppress intestinal inflammation, we administered succinate to TNFÄARE animals post onset of ileal inflammatory disease. We observed significantly reduced pathology that is exquisitely dependent on succinate-induced tuft cell specification in the disease model, leading to an anti-helminth response previously shown to suppress inflammation. Inflammation suppression was triggered by cytokines critical to anti-helminthic response, such as IL-22, IL-25, and IL-13. We provide evidence implicating the modulatory role of intestinal tuft cells in chronic intestinal inflammation, which could enable the development of CD therapies around leveraging this rare and elusive cell type.
Project description:Pairwise comparison of ileum gene expression in pools (n=14) of wildtype 4 week old male Vs NaS1-/- knockout mice. Keywords: Genetic modification
Project description:To investigate how stimulation from indigenous bacteria for a day affects the local transcriptome of both Peyer's patch and surrounding ordinary mucosa in the rat ileum, we treated rats with a nonabsorbable antibiotics cocktail (vancomycin, polymyxin B and sucrose) for antibiotics-treatment group or sucrose solution for control group in drinking water 1 day before euthanasia. We then performed gene expression profiling analysis using data obtained from RNA-seq of ileal Peyer's patch and surrounding ordinary tissue from rats with or without antibiotics treatment.
Project description:We analyzed the effects of antibiotics using a popular model of gut microbiota depletion in mice by a cocktail of antibiotics. We combined intestinal transcriptome together with metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiota to develop a new bioinformatics approach that probes the links between microbial components and host functions. We found that most antibiotic-induced alterations can be explained by three factors: depletion of the microbiota; direct effects of antibiotics on host tissues; and the effects of remaining antibiotic-resistant microbes. While microbe depletion led to down-regulation of immunity, the two other factors primarily inhibited mitochondrial gene expression and amounts of active mitochondria, and induced cell death. By reconstructing and analyzing a transkingdom network, we discovered that these toxic effects were mediated by virulence/quorum sensing in antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This series includes gene expression in the ileum of control, antibiotics (ABx)-treated, germfree, germfree-ABx-treated and mice colonized with normal or Abx-resistant microbiota.
Project description:We analyzed the effects of antibiotics using a popular model of gut microbiota depletion in mice by a cocktail of antibiotics. We combined intestinal transcriptome together with metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiota to develop a new bioinformatics approach that probes the links between microbial components and host functions. We found that most antibiotic-induced alterations can be explained by three factors: depletion of the microbiota; direct effects of antibiotics on host tissues; and the effects of remaining antibiotic-resistant microbes. While microbe depletion led to down-regulation of immunity, the two other factors primarily inhibited mitochondrial gene expression and amounts of active mitochondria, and induced cell death. By reconstructing and analyzing a transkingdom network, we discovered that these toxic effects were mediated by virulence/quorum sensing in antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This series includes gene expression in the ileum of control, antibiotics (ABx)-treated, germfree, germfree-ABx-treated and mice colonized with normal or Abx-resistant microbiota. common reference design with a pool of small intestine RNA labeled with Cy3
Project description:Bulk RNA-seq show differential gene expression profile beween Wild type (WT) and Tet3 knockout (KO) in ileum. We identified genes involved in innate immune defense, anti-microbial response and growth signaling to be affected by TET3 deletion.