鱼类肠道微生物与宿主免疫系统相互作用研究进展

鱼类肠道中存在大量微生物,对于维持宿主健康具有重要作用。鱼类免疫系统能够监视并调控肠道微生物组成,维持肠道菌群稳态。同时,鱼类肠道共生微生物调节鱼类免疫系统,抑制病原微生物的过度增殖,保证宿主的健康。本文回顾了鱼类肠道微生物与宿主免疫系统相互作用的研究进展,重点介绍了宿主免疫系统识别肠道微生物、塑造肠道菌群以及益生菌对宿主免疫和肠道菌群的调控等,提出了理想的益生菌应该来自动物自身胃肠道,生产中应谨慎选用非宿主来源的益生菌,以期为推动鱼类肠道功能微生物开发和应用提供理论支撑。     

蜜蜂肠道菌群定殖研究进展

肠道菌群在其宿主健康中发挥着各种各样的重要功能。蜜蜂是高度社会化的昆虫,其肠道菌群与大多数昆虫明显不同,由兼性厌氧和微好氧的细菌组成,具有高度保守性和专门的核心肠道微生物群。近年来的研究表明,蜜蜂肠道微生物群在代谢、免疫功能、生长发育以及保护机体免受病原体侵袭等方面起着重要作用,并已证实肠道微生物在蜜蜂健康和疾病中起着重要作用,肠道微生物群的破坏对蜜蜂健康会产生不利影响。本文综述了蜜蜂肠道菌群的特征及菌群定殖研究进展,介绍了蜜蜂的日龄、群体、季节等对蜜蜂肠道菌群定殖的影响,探讨了宿主的功能和新陈代谢对肠道菌群的影响。     

鸡肠道微生物菌群的建立发育、分布和生理学意义

鸡的胃肠道具有复杂的微生物菌群,该微生物菌群与宿主的肠道和整体健康密切相关,为了全面揭示鸡肠道微生物菌群的组成及其功能,本文对鸡肠道微生物菌群的建立发育、各肠段群落的分布及其生理学意义进行综述,从而为鸡肠道功能菌株的分离及有效利用,合理调控微生物菌群-宿主相互作用,提高饲料转化率和改善肠道健康提供理论依据。     

单胃动物肠道微生物菌群与肠道免疫功能的相互作用

动物胃肠道栖息着大量的微生物,这些微生物及其代谢产物在营养、免疫等方面对宿主的健康有重要的意义。近年来研究发现肠道微生物与免疫系统间存在密切的交流和互作机制,尽管肠道共生菌具有定植抑制效应,但肠道微生物也可通过其特定组分刺激免疫细胞如Tregs细胞、Th17细胞的分化,肠道菌群的紊乱可能导致细菌移位、肠道屏障功能损伤,影响机体健康。宿主免疫系统可通过分泌多种免疫效应因子如MUC、sIgA、ITF、RegIIIγ、α-防御素等调节肠道微生物的分布和组成,调节肠道菌群的稳态。本文综述了单胃动物肠道微生物菌群的组成,深入探讨了肠道微生物菌群与动物肠道免疫功能之间的相互作用。     

动物宿主——肠道微生物代谢轴研究进展

肠道中栖息着数量庞大且复杂多样的微生物菌群,在维持宿主肠道微环境稳态中发挥重要作用。微生物菌群可以利用宿主肠道的营养素,发酵产生代谢产物,与宿主机体形成宿主—微生物代谢轴(host-microbe metabolic axis)。该代谢轴既能影响营养素吸收和能量代谢,又可调控宿主各项生理过程。本文主要阐述宿主-肠道微生物代谢轴的概念、肠-肝轴、肠-脑轴、肠道微生物与宿主肠道代谢轴的互作以及对机体健康的影响。     

宿主遗传因素对肠道菌群的影响

随着高通量测序技术的发展,人们逐渐认识到肠道菌群与人类的健康和疾病密切相关,并发现肠道菌群受很多因素的影响。除了研究传统饮食和药物对肠道菌群的改变外,近年来,科学家也开始注重遗传因素在塑造肠道菌群中的作用。遗传因素可决定宿主的饮食偏好、肠道的生理结构、肠道屏障功能和免疫功能等,而这些都直接与肠道菌群相互作用,参与肠道微生态平衡的构建和稳定。因此,在研究肠道菌群与疾病发生相关性的过程中也需要考虑遗传因素的重要性。随着基因敲除、无菌小鼠和菌群移植等实验技术的革新,以及主成分分析、数量性状基因座和全基因组关联性分析等大数据分析手段的提高,科学家能够深入研究宿主遗传基因与肠道菌群之间的关联性,从而证明宿主遗传基因在塑造肠道微生态的过程中具有重要作用。本文将首先简述肠道菌群与疾病发生之间可能存在的联系,然后从多方面综述遗传因素对肠道菌群的影响及主要的研究进展,从而为今后该领域的深入研究提供重要的指导,也为今后预防和治疗疾病提供新思路和新方法。     

膳食脂肪对肠道微生物的影响及 宿主代谢调控的研究进展

膳食脂肪作为人体重要的营养物质之一,为人体提供能量及营养。不同种类的膳食脂肪对宿主肠道微生物的组成和数量的影响有着明显的差异。同时肠道微生物又能参与宿主的代谢调控以及影响肠道屏障功能等。过多的摄入富含饱和脂肪酸的膳食脂肪会引起肠道中厚壁菌门、变形菌门、梭菌属等的增加,从而影响宿主代谢过程中的胆汁酸等信号分子改变,导致肠道通透性的增加和系统炎症。富含n-3多不饱和脂肪酸的膳食脂肪会引起肠道中双歧杆菌和乳杆菌的增加,从而影响宿主代谢过程中的短链脂肪酸的水平,某些短链脂肪酸能够调控宿主的胰岛素分泌以及炎症因子的表达。本文综述了膳食脂肪的种类、肠道微生态和宿主代谢调控之间的相互作用及其可能的作用机制,为深入了解饮食、肠道微生态、宿主健康三者之间的关系提供了依据。     

影响人肠道微生物菌群结构的因素

肠道微生物与人类健康状况直接相关。目前,微生物研究者已对影响人及模式动物(主要为鼠和猪)肠道微生物菌群结构的因素展开了广泛研究,取得了较大研究进展。本文综述了影响肠道微生物菌群结构的因素,主要有年龄、宿主基因型、宿主所处环境、食物和抗生素等,以使人们了解和控制这些因素,从而保持良好的健康状态。     

病毒感染对宿主肠道微生态的影响

摘要：肠道菌群对宿主免疫系统的建立和发育起着重要的作用,与宿主的生理、病理等密切相关,对机体抗病毒作用具有一定的影响。病毒感染影响宿主肠道微生物群落,进而影响宿主机体营养物质的代谢及细胞免疫功能。本研究着重综述病毒感染对宿主肠道微生态及免疫的影响。     

以肠道菌群为导向的精准饮食干预改善宿主代谢的研究进展CSCD

肠道菌群对宿主健康的作用已被广泛证实,而饮食习惯对肠道菌群产生深远的影响。近年来,通过调整饮食结构实现对肠道菌群的靶向调节,从而改善宿主代谢,促进宿主健康已取得显著成效。Gordon等对微生物群导向性食物的一系列研究,与赵立平团队对由全谷物、中药和益生元组成的配方食物的一系列研究均发现,补充特定的食物成分可以有效增加特定的菌种、菌株以及“功能群”的丰度,从而有效改善宿主表型。本文拟对这两个系列的研究结果进行分析和总结,以期为今后探寻更好的以优化肠道微生物群为导向的饮食干预方案提供参考。     

细菌脂肪酸合成多样性的研究进展

与哺乳动物、真菌采用I型脂肪酸合成系统不同,细菌采用II型脂肪酸合成系统,每步反应都由独立的酶催化,因此细菌脂肪酸合成酶是研究抗菌药物的优良靶标。研究表明,在不同细菌中参与脂肪酸合成的酶都具有较高的多样性,而脂肪酸种类不同,合成方式也不尽相同,本文对此进行了总结。     

Fats for thoughts: An update on brain fatty acid metabolism

Brain fatty acid (FA) metabolism deserves a close attention not only for its energetic aspects but also because FAs and their metabolites/derivatives are able to influence many neural functions, contributing to brain pathologies or representing potential targets for pharmacological and/or nutritional interventions.Glucose is the preferred energy substrate for the brain, whereas the role of FAs is more marginal. In conditions of decreased glucose supply, ketone bodies, mainly formed by FA oxidation, are the alternative main energy source. Ketogenic diets or medium-chain fatty acid supplementations were shown to produce therapeutic effects in several brain pathologies.Moreover, the positive effects exerted on brain functions by short-chain FAs and the consideration that they can be produced by intestinal flora metabolism contributed to the better understanding of the link between “gut-health” and “brain-health”.Finally, attention was paid also to the regulatory role of essential polyunsaturated FAs and their derivatives on brain homeostasis.     

Dietary macronutrients modulate the fatty acyl composition of rat liver mitochondrial cardiolipins

The interaction of dietary fats and carbohydrates on liver mitochondria were examined in male FBNF1 rats fed 20 different low-fat isocaloric diets. Animal growth rates and mitochondrial respiratory parameters were essentially unaffected, but mass spectrometry-based mitochondrial lipidomics profiling revealed increased levels of cardiolipins (CLs), a family of phospholipids essential for mitochondrial structure and function, in rats fed saturated or trans fat-based diets with a high glycemic index. These mitochondria showed elevated monolysocardiolipins (a CL precursor/product of CL degradation), elevated ratio of trans-phosphocholine (PC) (18:1/18:1) to cis-PC (18:1/18:1) (a marker of thiyl radical stress), and decreased ubiquinone Q₉; the latter two of which imply a low-grade mitochondrial redox abnormality. Extended analysis demonstrated: i) dietary fats and, to a lesser extent, carbohydrates induce changes in the relative abundance of specific CL species; ii) fatty acid (FA) incorporation into mature CLs undergoes both positive (>400-fold) and negative (2.5-fold) regulation; and iii) dietary lipid abundance and incorporation of FAs into both the CL pool and specific mature tetra-acyl CLs are inversely related, suggesting previously unobserved compensatory regulation. This study reveals previously unobserved complexity/regulation of the central lipid in mitochondrial metabolism.     

Ethanol-induced decreases in membrane long-chain unsaturated fatty acids correlate with impaired chick brain development

Exposure to ethanol at 0 days of development induced changes in total membrane fatty acid composition at 18 days of development. When exposed to ethanol concentrations ranging from 0–743.27μm/kg egg wt, decreased levels of long-chain, unsaturated membrane fatty acids and increased levels of short-chain, saturated membrane fatty acids were observed in embryonic chick brains at 18 days of development. The ratios of unsaturated membrane/saturated membrane fatty acids correlated with an ethanol-induced reduction in neuron densities within the cerebral hemispheres and three different regions of the optic lobes with correlation coefficients (r) ranging from 0.44 [F = (1, 32) 7.84; P ≤ 0.009] to 0.59 [F = (1, 32) 17.38; P ≤ 0.0002]. The ratios of long-chain/short-chain membrane fatty acids also correlated with an ethanol-induced reduction in neuron densities within the cerebral hemispheres and three different regions of the optic lobes with correlation coefficients (r) ranging from 0.51 [F = (1, 32) 11.27; P≤ 0.002] to 0.66 [F = (1, 32) 24.40; P ≤ 0.0001]. Cell fractionation studies indicated that the ethanol-induced changes in brain membrane fatty acid composition were restricted to microsomal membranes.     

Thematic review series: patient-oriented research. Dietary fat, carbohydrate, and protein: effects on plasma lipoprotein patterns

In general, under isoweight conditions, different types of dietary protein or individual amino acids have little effect on lipoprotein patterns. Dietary carbohydrate tends to increase plasma triglyceride when it displaces fat, accompanied by a decrease in HDL cholesterol concentrations. Potential differential effects of types of carbohydrate are difficult to assess because of differences in rates of absorption and confounding of dietary fiber. Saturated fatty acids increase LDL and HDL cholesterol, whereas trans fatty acids increase LDL but not HDL cholesterol. Unsaturated fatty acids decrease LDL and HDL cholesterol, polyunsaturated more so than monounsaturated. There has been considerable interest in the potential benefit of major shifts in dietary macronutrients on weight loss and lipoprotein patterns. Short-term data favor substituting protein and fat for carbohydrate, whereas long-term data have failed to show a benefit for weight loss. During an active weight loss period low-carbohydrate diets more favorably affect triglyceride and HDL and less favorably affect LDL cholesterol concentrations. Additional efforts need to be focused on gaining a better understanding of the effect of dietary macronutrient profiles on established and emerging cardiovascular disease risk factors, mechanisms for changes observed and contributors to individual variability. Such data are needed to allow reassessment and, if necessary, modification of current recommendations.     

Intramyocardial fate of 15-p-iodophenyl-β-methylpentadecanoic acid (IMPPA): Is it a good tracer of fatty acid myocardial uptake?

Summary Iodinated fatty acids (FAs) are now used in Nuclear Medicine to assess, by external detection, myocardial metabolism. Methylated FAs have been proposed as tracers of FA myocardial uptake. IMPPA is a new FA analogue in which a methyl group have been introduced in position to inhibit -oxidation and a terminal phenyl group prevents a possible omega oxidation. We have compared the intramyocardial behaviour of this FA with the 15-p-iodophenyl-pentadecanoic acid (IPPA), the straight chain analogue, and with the 15-phenyl--methylpentadecanoic acid (MPPA), the 3 of them being labelled with C14 on the carboxyl group, in isolated rat hearts perfused in a recirculating system.When IMPPA is compared to IPPA (influence of the methyl group), we observe 1 — an inhibition of -oxidation (no significant production of labelled C02 and very low radioactivity in the aqueous phase) leading to a reduced uptake, 2 — a lower radioactivity in the organic phase due to a hindrance to the esterification process both into TGs and PLs, the free FAs level being higher. When IMPPA is compared to MPPA (influence of the iodine atom), we observe 1 — the same inhibition of -oxidation, 2 — a higher myocardial radioactivity due to a much higher level of free FAs, the esterification into TGs and PLs being reduced.This study with IMPPA indicates that it is taken up by the heart and trapped there, as it is not oxydized. This long retention time, apart from giving good scintigraphic images, should make IMPPA useful to study the regional myocardial uptake of FAs.     

Fatty acid constituents of Peganum harmala plant using Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectroscopy

Fatty acid contents of the Peganum harmala plant as a result of hexane extraction were analyzed using GC–MS. The saturated fatty acid composition of the harmal plant was tetradecanoic, pentadecanoic, tridecanoic, hexadecanoic, heptadecanoic and octadecanoic acids, while the saturated fatty acid derivatives were 12-methyl tetradecanoic, 5,9,13-trimethyl tetradecanoic and 2-methyl octadecanoic acids. The most abundant fatty acid was hexadecanoic with concentration 48.13% followed by octadecanoic with concentration 13.80%. There are four unsaturated fatty acids called (E)-9-dodecenoic, (Z)-9-hexadecenoic, (Z,Z)-9,12-octadecadienoic and (Z,Z,Z)-9,12,15-octadecatrienoic. The most abundant unsaturated fatty acid was (Z,Z,Z)-9,12,15-octadecatrienoic with concentration 14.79% followed by (Z,Z)-9,12-octadecadienoic with concentration 10.61%. Also, there are eight non-fatty acid compounds 1-octadecene, 6,10,14-trimethyl-2-pentadecanone, (E)-15-heptadecenal, oxacyclohexadecan-2 one, 1,2,2,6,8-pentamethyl-7-oxabicyclo[4.3.1]dec-8-en-10-one, hexadecane-1,2-diol, n-heneicosane and eicosan-3-ol.     

Effect of oilseed type on milk fatty acid composition of individual cows,and also bulk tank milk fatty acid composition from commercial farms

Supplementing dairy cow diets with oilseed preparations has been shown to replace milk saturated fatty acids (SFA) with mono- and/or polyunsaturated fatty acids (MUFA, PUFA), which may reduce risk factors associated with cardio-metabolic diseases in humans consuming milk and dairy products. Previous studies demonstrating this are largely detailed, highly controlled experiments involving small numbers of animals, but in order to transfer this feeding strategy to commercial situations further studies are required involving whole herds varying in management practices. In experiment 1, three oilseed supplements (extruded linseed (EL), calcium salts of palm and linseed oil (CPLO) and milled rapeseed (MR)) were included in grass silage-based diets formulated to provide cows with ~350 g oil/day, and compared with a negative control (Control) diet containing no supplemental fat, and a positive control diet containing 350 g/cow per day oil as calcium salt of palm oil distillate (CPO). Diets were fed for 28-day periods in a 5×4 Latin Square design, and milk production, composition and fatty acid (FA) profile were analysed at the end of each period. Compared with Control, all lipid supplemented diets decreased milk fat SFA concentration by an average of 3.5 g/100 g FA, by replacement with both cis- and trans-MUFA/PUFA. Compared with CPO, only CPLO and MR resulted in lower milk SFA concentrations. In experiment 2, 24 commercial dairy farms (average herd size±SEM 191±19.3) from the south west of the United Kingdom were recruited and for a 1 month period asked to supplement their herd diets with either CPO, EL, CPLO or MR at the same inclusion level as the first study. Bulk tank milk was analysed weekly to determine FA concentration by Fourier Transform mid-IR spectroscopy prediction. After 4 weeks, EL, CPLO and MR all decreased herd milk SFA and increased MUFA to a similar extent (average −3.4 and +2.4 g/100 g FA, respectively) when compared with CPO. Differing responses observed between experiments 1 and 2 may be due in part to variations in farm management conditions (including basal diet) in experiment 2. This study demonstrates the importance of applying experimental research into commercial practice where variations in background conditions can augment different effects to those obtained under controlled conditions.