Project description:We previously reported that skeletal muscle adaptation to regular exercise requires a healthy gut microbiome, contributing to growing evidence that some exercise benefits are mediated by microbiome-derived metabolites. Here, to identify such exercise-associated microbial metabolites, we transfer cecal contents from exercise-trained donor mice into exercise-naïve recipient mice undergoing unilateral hindlimb immobilization. Recipients of cecal material from exercise-trained donors exhibit less muscle atrophy compared with those receiving transfers from sedentary donors. Untargeted metabolomics reveal metabolites enriched in cecal content, serum, and muscle of recipients from exercise-trained donors, consistent with microbial origin. Oral administration of two such metabolites (pipecolic acid and succinate) attenuates muscle atrophy and preserves muscle function in exercise-naïve mice, potentially by enhancing cellular energy status and translational capacity. These findings further define the gut microbiome-skeletal muscle axis and provide evidence that exercise-associated microbial metabolites serve as a novel class of exercise mimetics for treating conditions responsive to physical activity.
Project description:Humans and animals encounter a summation of exposures during their lifetime (the exposome). In recent years, the scope of the exposome has begun to include microplastics. Microplastics (MPs) have increasingly been found in locations where there could be an interaction with Salmonella enterica Typhimurium, one of the commonly isolated serovars from processed chicken. In this study, the microbiota response to a 24-hour co-exposure to Salmonella enterica Typhimurium and/or low-density polyethylene (PE) microplastics in an in vitro broiler cecal model was determined using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing (Illumina) and untargeted metabolomics. Community sequencing results indicated that PE fiber with and without S. Typhimurium yielded a lower Firmicutes/Bacteroides ratio compared to other treatment groups, which is associated with poor gut health, and overall had greater changes to the cecal microbial community composition. However, changes in the total metabolome were primarily driven by the presence of S. Typhimurium. Additionally, the co-exposure to PE Fiber and S. Typhimurium caused greater cecal microbial community and metabolome changes than either exposure alone. Our results indicate that polymer shape is an important factor in effects resulting from exposure. It also demonstrates that microplastic-pathogen interactions cause metabolic alterations to the chicken cecal microbiome in an in vitro chicken cecal model.
2024-07-08 | MTBLS9001 | MetaboLights
Project description:cecal microbes of broiler chicken
| PRJNA627372 | ENA
Project description:metatranscriptome of broiler cecal microbiota
| PRJNA540969 | ENA
Project description:Broiler cecal microbial community diversity