Project description:Advanced age is associated with chronic low-grade inflammation, which is usually referred to as inflammaging. Elderly are also known to have an altered gut microbiota composition. However, whether inflammaging is a cause or consequence of an altered gut microbiota composition is not clear. In this study gut microbiota from young or old conventional mice was transferred to young germ-free mice. Four weeks after gut microbiota transfer immune cell populations in spleen, Peyer’s patches, and mesenteric lymph nodes from conventionalized germ-free mice were analyzed by flow cytometry. In addition, whole-genome gene expression in the ileum was analyzed by microarray. Gut microbiota composition of donor and recipient mice was analyzed with 16S rDNA sequencing. Here we show by transferring aged microbiota to young germ-free mice that certain bacterial species within the aged microbiota promote inflammaging. This effect was associated with lower levels of Akkermansia and higher levels of TM7 bacteria and Proteobacteria in the aged microbiota after transfer. The aged microbiota promoted inflammation in the small intestine in the germ-free mice and enhanced leakage of inflammatory bacterial components into the circulation was observed. Moreover, the aged microbiota promoted increased T cell activation in the systemic compartment. In conclusion, these data indicate that the gut microbiota from old mice contributes to inflammaging after transfer to young germ-free mice.
Project description:Profiling the skin microbiota composition from the face of healthy women. Exploring the differences between three age groups and between dry skin and not dry.
Project description:Gut microbiota were assessed in 540 colonoscopy-screened adults by 16S rRNA gene sequencing of stool samples. Investigators compared gut microbiota diversity, overall composition, and normalized taxon abundance among these groups.
Project description:We used 16S V3/V4 region amplification to evaluate the composition of bacteria species in mouse fecal pellets. Fecel pellets were collected from young-adult (12 weeks old) wild type C57Bl/6 mice and aged (72 weeks old) wild type C57Bl/6 mice after 21 days of vehicle or antibiotics treatment (to induce gut microbiota depletion). In one sequencing round, we sequenced a total of 12 different fecal samples (3 young control, 3 aged control, 3 young depleted gut microbiota (ABX) and 3 aged depleted gut microbiota (ABX)). Amplicons were indexed using the Nextera XT Index Kit and pooled into a library for Illumina sequencing.
Project description:Vitamin D insufficiency may exacerbate non-specific inflammation observed in older adults. Here, we tested the hypothesis that an inflammatory gene signature present in old skin following saline injection (as model for non-specific needle injury) normalizes after oral vitamin D3 supplementation. To define the saline-induced signature, we compared gene expression in skin biopsies taken six hours after saline injection in old adults (≥65 years) to biopsies from unmanipulated skin. We then assessed signature expression in saline-injected skin of old and young adults (<40 years), and in paired samples of old adults before and after oral vitamin D3 supplementation (6400 IU/day for 14 weeks), where median serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D increased from 43 nmol/L (interquartile range 36-53 nmol/L) to 131 nmol/L (interquartile range 115-147 nmol/L). This submission comprises 112 samples from 57 individuals.
Project description:Gut microbiota comparation of Young mice (n=10), Old mice, Young_yFMT (Young mice 14 days after transplant feces from young mice, n=10) and Young_oFMT (Young mice 14 days after transplant feces from old mice, n=10), Antibiotic group (Cefazolin, n=8).
Project description:Contact lens-related ocular surface complications occur more often in teenagers and young adults. The purpose of this study was to determine changes in tear proteome of young patients wearing glasses (GL), orthokeratology lenses (OK), and soft contact lenses (SCL). Twenty-two young patients (10-26 years of age) who were established (> 3 years) GL (n=10), OK (n=6), and SCL (n=6) wearers were recruited. Tears were collected via Schirmer strips. Proteomic data were collected using a data-independent acquisition-parallel accumulation serial fragmentation (diaPASEF) workflow. Tear proteome composition and abundance were compared across different correction groups and between the children (age <18 years) and young adults (age 18 years) GL wearers. We identified 3406 protein groups in tears. Among proteins identified in 80% of tear samples, 8 proteins were upregulated, and 11 proteins were down-regulated in the SCL group compared to the OK group. Eighty-two proteins were differentially expressed in children and young adults GL wearers, among which 67 proteins were upregulated, and 15 proteins were downregulated in children. These 82 proteins were involved in 1 inflammation, 9 immune, and 1 glycoprotein metabolic biological processes. As teenagers and young adults have the highest risk of developing contact lens-related complications, this work highlights the importance of understanding ocular responses to contact lens wear across different ages.
Project description:How early exposure to the microbiota impacts long-term host immunity remains poorly understood. Here we show that the development of mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells depends on early-life exposure to microbes that synthesize riboflavin, such as Enterobacteriaceae. This microbial imprinting relies on a specific temporal window, after which MAIT cell development is permanently impaired. In adults, MAIT cells are a dominant population of IL-17A-producing lymphocytes within the skin that can subsequently respond to skin commensals in an IL-1 and antigen-dependent manner. Consequently, local activation of cutaneous MAIT cells promotes wound healing and limits skin inflammation. Together, our work uncovers a privileged interaction between defined members of the microbiota and MAIT cells that sequentially controls both tissue-imprinting and subsequent response to injury and inflammation.
Project description:Given the gut microbiota involve aging processing, we performed comparative analysis of gut bacteriophage between older and young subjects using next-generation sequencing (NGS). In our previous study, we found that the Ruminococcaceae is higher in aged subjects comparing to young one. To identify the bacteriophage targeting to the Ruminococcaceae, we also access the composition of phage in the Ruminococcaceae (ATCC, TSD-27) after incubated with human stool samples. The Lactobacillus (ATCC, LGG) targeting phage was used as the control. The virome sequencing analysis using NGS indicated that Myoviridae are high enrich in young subjects and predominate in TSD-27 targeting phage.