饮食后翻译修改小鼠肠道微生物蛋白质组以调节功能
Lior Lobel1, Y Grace Cao1, Kathrin Fenn1
1Departments of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
概括
食中的硫氨基酸可以改变肠道微生物以减少尿素毒素并减缓老鼠慢性病的进展. 这种方法通过翻译后修改调整微生物功能,而不会改变肠道微生物组合.
科学领域:
- 微生物学
- 肝脏病学
- 生物化学
背景情况:
- 慢性病与肠道微生物群的改变有关,但机制尚不清楚.
- 饮食中的蛋白质增加了肠道细菌的硫化 (H2S),醇和硫酸的产生,这些与尿素毒素有关.
- 硫化 (H2S) 有不同的生理作用,其中一些涉及翻译后的修改.
研究的目的:
- 在CKD小鼠模型中研究食中的硫氨基酸如何影响肠道微生物群功能.
- 探索翻译后修改在调解饮食对微生物尿素毒素产生影响中的作用.
- 确定调节微生物活动是否可以改善CKD的进展.
主要方法:
- 使用慢性病 (CKD) 的小鼠模型.
- 提供富含硫氨基酸的饮食.
- 分析了微生物酸酶活性及其翻译后的修改.
- 评估了对尿素毒素产生和CKD进展的影响.
主要成果:
- 一种高硫氨基酸饮食诱导了微生物酸酶的翻译后修饰.
- 这些修改降低了胺酶的活性,减少了尿素毒素的产生.
- 在小鼠模型中,饮食诱导的微生物功能的调节改善了CKD的进展.
- 尽管有功能性变化,但微生物群体的组成仍然没有变化.
结论:
- 饮食可以通过微生物酶的翻译后修改来调节肠道微生物群功能.
- 针对微生物酶活性,而不是社区组成,提供了减少尿素毒素的策略.
- 通过调整肠道微生物群功能,饮食干预有潜力治疗慢性病.
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