Project description:The microorganisms that colonized in or on hosts play significant roles in regulating host’s immunological fitness and bioenergy production, thus controls the host’s response to stress or foreign stimuli. Since radiation typically causes a pro-inflammatory and bioenergy expensive condition, we speculate that the radiation could influence gut microbial compositions, thereof the host-microbe bidirectional relationship. Pertinent model included exposing the young adult mice to total body irradiation (TBI) at doses of 9.5Gy and 11Gy, respectively. Descending colon contents (DCC) were collected from non-irradiated mice (baseline control), and irradiated mice euthanized on days 1, 3 and 9 post-TBI. DCC’s 16s ribosomal DNAs were screened for bacterial taxonomic classification and bacterial abundance profile informed metagenome-specific biofunctions. A second aliquot of same DCC was screened for untargeted metabolomics assay to find most perturbed metabolite-enriched networks. Dose-independent temporal delay since TBI emerged as the primary factor explaining the increased richness of bacterial community and the diversity of metabolite landscape. Among the mice exposed to 11Gy TBI, an increased abundance of Firmicutes, an anti-inflammatory and efficient energy harvesting bacteria accompanied an increment of pro-inflammatory Deferribacteres. Systems evaluation of the functional networks linked to DCC’s metagenome and metabolite, respectively, suggested a diverging trend between host and DCC microbes in regulating the network clusters, such as lipid metabolism, bioenergy synthesis, particularly at the later time points post-11Gy TBI. This analysis potentially suggested a disrupted symbiotic relationship between the host and microbes when the host became moribund.
Project description:Dietary intake of fruits and vegetables (FV) has been inversely associated with lower risk of ulcerative colitis. A pig model was used to evaluate the impact of feeding FV on the host response to dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis. Methods: Six-week-old pigs were fed a grower diet alone or supplemented with lyophilized FV equivalent to the half (half-FV) or full (full-FV) daily levels recommended for humans by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). Pigs were fed a 1) grower diet alone (negative control), 2) grower diet and orally treated with 4% DSS for 10 days to induce colitis (positive control), 3) half-FV diet treated with 4% DSS or 4) full-FV diet treated with 4% DSS. Pigs were monitored for the development of clinical signs of colitis. Proximal colon (PC) contents and mucosa (PCM) were collected for gut metagenome, tissue transcriptome and histopathological analysis. Results: Pigs fed the full-FV diet did not exhibit diarrhea, showed less fecal occult blood (FOB), PCM crypt hyperplasia but with no differential expressed genes (DEG) or changes in PC microbiome diversity (p < 0.05). Pigs within the half-FV group exhibited increased group FOB and DEG associated with tissue remodeling, crypt and goblet cell hyperplasia in the PCM and no changes in PC microbiome diversity and two pigs exhibiting diarrhea (p < 0.05). Pigs within the DSS positive control group exhibited a reduced DEG involved with intestinal immune response and PC microbiome diversity with altered metagenome, increased group PCM erosion and FOB with persistent diarrhea in one pig (p < 0.05) Conclusions: Overall, our results showed that pigs fed a three-week full-FV supplemented diet, were resistant to DSS-induced colitis with a differential dose-dependent protective effect on host intestinal tissue and gut metagenome when exposed to an inflammatory challenge.
Project description:Eriocitrin, found in lemon fruit, has shown a wide range of biological properties. Herein, to evaluate the intestinal metabolic profile of eriocitrin in colon, the flavonoids in mice colon contents were identified by ultra performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-ESI-MS/MS), and a total of 136 flavonoids were found, including eriocitrin and its six metabolites (eriodictyol, homoeriodictyol, hesperetin, eriodictyol-3'-O-glucoside, hesperetin-7-O-glucoside and eriodictyol-7-O-(6''-O-galloyl) glucoside). Mice colon contents were used for 16S rDNA gene sequencing and gas chromatography-mass (GC-MS). Resultu showed that eriocitrin significantly alters the beta diversity of the gut microbiota, the probiotics such as Lachnospiraceae_UCG_006 were significantly enriched, and the production of butyrate, valerate and hexanoate in the colon pool of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) were significant increased. The spearman's association analysis performed some intestinal bacteria may be involved in the metabolism of eriocitrin. Collectively, our results preliminarily suggesting the metabolism of eriocitrin in the gut, demonstrate alterations of eriocitrin on gut microbiota, which warrants further investigation to determine its potential use in food and biomedical applications.
2022-11-30 | GSE218729 | GEO
Project description:colon contents microbial community diversity
| PRJNA830328 | ENA
Project description:colon contents microbial community diversity