Project description:Peanut allergy reaction severity correlates with increased intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) barrier permeability. CC027/GeniUnc mice develop peanut allergy by intragastric administration of peanut proteins without adjuvant. We report that peanut-allergic CC027/GeniUnc mice showed increased IEC barrier permeability and systemic peanut allergen Ara h 2 after challenge. Jejunal epithelial cell transcriptomics showed effects of peanut allergy on IEC proliferation, survival, and metabolism, and revealed IEC-predominant angiopoietin like-4 (Angptl4) as a unique feature of CC027/GeniUnc peanut allergy. Peanut-allergic pediatric patients demonstrated significantly higher serum ANGPTL4 compared to non-peanut-allergic but atopic patients, highlighting its potential as a biomarker of peanut allergy.
Project description:To explore the effects of gut microbiota of young (8 weeks) or old mice (18~20 months) on stroke, feces of young (Y1-Y9) and old mice (O6-O16) were collected and analyzed by 16s rRNA sequencing. Then stroke model was established on young mouse receive feces from old mouse (DOT1-15) and young mouse receive feces from young mouse (DYT1-15). 16s rRNA sequencing were also performed for those young mice received feces from young and old mice.
Project description:Purpose: This study aims to compare and analyze the differences in bacterial community composition in fecal samples from mice treated with Control(DW), Vancomycin (VAN), Ampicillin (AMP), Neomycin (NEO), Metronidazole (MET), and a combination of all antibiotics (ALL, VANM) using 16S rRNA sequencing. Methods: Each antibiotics treated mice's fecal samples were collected and stored -80'c until analyzation. DNA was extracted using the NucleoSpin DNA Stool Kit (MACHEREY-NAGEL) following the manufacturer’s protocol. Metagenomic sequencing was performed on an Illumina MiSeq platform (Illumina), targeting the V3 and V4 regions of the 16S rRNA gene according to the manufacturer's instructions. PCR products were purified using AMPure XP beads, and sequencing adapters were added using the Nextera XT Index Kit (Illumina). The library was further purified with AMPure XP beads and quantified using automated electrophoresis with the TapeStation System (Agilent). Sequencing was performed using the MiSeq v3 reagent kit (Illumina), following the manufacturer’s protocol. Results: QIIME2 (v2023.02) was used to process and analyze 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing data, from sequence preprocessing to taxonomic classification. Paired-end sequences were merged and quality-filtered using Deblur. The resulting amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) were used for downstream analyses. Conclusions: Our study presents a comparative analysis of bacterial community composition in fecal samples from antibiotic-treated mice. We observed that microbiota composition varied distinctly depending on the type of antibiotic administered.
Project description:FastQ files from 16S sequencing of fecal samples from pancreatic cancer xenografted mice not treated (CTRL) and treated with chemotherapy (GEM+nab-PTX), probiotics (PRO) and chemotherapy + probiotics (GEM+nab-PTX+PRO)
Project description:Age-dependent changes of the gut-associated microbiome have been linked to increased frailty and systemic inflammation. This study found that age-associated changes of the gut microbiome of BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice could be reverted by co-housing of aged (22 months old) and adult (3 months old) mice for 30-40 days or faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from adult into aged mice. This was demonstrated using high-throughput sequencing of the V3-V4 hypervariable region of bacterial 16S rRNA gene isolated from faecal pellets collected from 3-4 months old adult and 22-23 months old aged mice before and after co-housing or FMT.