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Harper KN, Armelagos GJ. Genomics, the origins of agriculture, and our changing microbe-scape: time to revisit some old tales and tell some new ones. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2013; 152 Suppl 57:135-52. [PMID: 24249593 PMCID: PMC7159788 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Though agriculture is often viewed as one of humanity's crowning achievements, skeletal evidence indicates that dependence on domesticated plants and animals was accompanied by an increase in infectious disease. Scientists have proposed that many important infections emerged in the period following the advent of agriculture, as a result of newly dense populations and novel proximity to domestic animals that served as reservoirs for novel pathogens. Here, we review genomic evidence regarding pathogen origins, analyzing these data using the epidemiological transition framework. Genetic information has forced us to reconsider how and when many important pathogens emerged; it appears that a number of infections thought to result from contact with domesticated animals arose much earlier than agriculture was adopted. We also consider the broader effect of agriculture upon the microbiome, exploring potential consequences for human health. We end by discussing the changes in the human microbe-scape we are likely to see in the future.
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- Kristin N Harper
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10032
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Ezell JM, Wegienka G, Havstad S, Ownby DR, Johnson CC, Zoratti EM. A cross-sectional analysis of pet-specific immunoglobulin E sensitization and allergic symptomatology and household pet keeping in a birth cohort population. Allergy Asthma Proc 2013; 34:504-10. [PMID: 24169057 DOI: 10.2500/aap.2013.34.3698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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It is unknown whether family members with detectable specific immunoglobulin E (sIgE) and/or allergic symptoms to pets are more or less likely to reside in a household with pets. We cross-sectionally investigated potential relationships between family members' allergic sensitization and symptoms to dogs and cats and current household pet-keeping practices, using birth cohort data. Blood samples taken from children enrolled in a birth cohort and their biological mothers and fathers, when the children were aged 18 years, were assessed for sIgE to dog and cat allergens. Interviews assessed subjects' self-reported pet exposure symptoms, current household pet-keeping practices, and socioeconomic characteristics. Overall, household dog or cat keeping was not associated with sIgE to these animals and/or self-reported allergic symptoms in the presence of these animals, even after controlling for factors such as education and household income. In subgroup analyses, current household dog keeping among dog-symptomatic teens (n = 40) was significantly lower than among teens who were not dog symptomatic (n = 289), at 48.8 and 61.1%, respectively (p = 0.036). Current household cat keeping was significantly lower among cat-symptomatic mothers (n = 27) compared with mothers who were not cat symptomatic (n = 120), at 24.3 and 37.0%, respectively (p = 0.015). However, when considering those who were both sensitized and reported symptoms, only the mother and cat-keeping associations persisted (p = 0.049). When cat-sensitized mothers report allergic symptoms to cats, these pets may be less likely to be kept in homes. Elevated dog and cat allergen sIgE does not appear to be associated with the keeping of these pets.
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- Jerel M. Ezell
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Sim K, Powell E, Shaw AG, McClure Z, Bangham M, Kroll JS. The neonatal gastrointestinal microbiota: the foundation of future health? Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2013; 98:F362-4. [PMID: 23221466 DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2012-302872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- Kathleen Sim
- Section of Paediatrics, Department of Medicine, Wright Fleming Institute, Imperial College London, St Mary's Campus, Norfolk Place, London, UK
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Ling Z, Liu X, Luo Y, Yuan L, Nelson KE, Wang Y, Xiang C, Li L. Pyrosequencing analysis of the human microbiota of healthy Chinese undergraduates. BMC Genomics 2013; 14:390. [PMID: 23758874 PMCID: PMC3685588 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2013] [Accepted: 06/03/2013] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Background Elucidating the biogeography of bacterial communities on the human body is critical for establishing healthy baselines from which to detect differences associated with disease; however, little is known about the baseline bacterial profiles from various human habitats of healthy Chinese undergraduates. Results Using parallel barcoded 454 pyrosequencing targeting on the 16S rRNA gene V3 region, the bacterial diversity of the nasopharynx, saliva, dominant hands, and feces were investigated from 10 healthy Chinese junior boarding undergraduates at Zhejiang University. The participants were 21–24 years of age with a body mass index (BMI) < 24 kg/m2. A total of 156,717 high-quality pyrosequencing reads were obtained for evaluating bacterial diversity, which represented 29,887 unique phylotypes. The overall taxonomic distribution of the 16S rRNA gene-based amplicons demonstrated that these 4 habitats of the human body harbored distinct microbiota and could be divided into different clusters according to anatomic site, while the established patterns of bacterial diversity followed the human body habitat (feces, hands, saliva, and nasopharynx). Although significant inter-individual variation was observed, the healthy microbiota still shared a large number of phylotypes in each habitat, but not among the four habitats, indicating that a core microbiome existed in each healthy habitat. The vast majority of sequences from these different habitats were classified into different taxonmies that became the predominant bacteria of the healthy microbiota. Conclusions We first established the framework of microbial communities from four healthy human habitats of the same participants with similar living environments for the Chinese undergraduates. Our data represent an important step for determining the diversity of Chinese healthy microbiota, and can be used for more large-scale studies that focus on the interactions between healthy and diseases states for young Chinese adults in the same age range.
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- Zongxin Ling
- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310003, China
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Zeng B, Li G, Yuan J, Li W, Tang H, Wei H. Effects of age and strain on the microbiota colonization in an infant human flora-associated mouse model. Curr Microbiol 2013; 67:313-21. [PMID: 23604540 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-013-0360-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2011] [Accepted: 03/04/2013] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The establishment of human flora-associated animal models allows the in vivo manipulation of host, microbial, and environmental parameters to influence the gut microbial community. However, it is difficult to simulate infant gut microbiota in germ-free animals because of the variation and dynamic state of infant microbial communities. In this study, the effects of age and strain on intestinal microbiota were observed in an infant human flora-associated (IHFA) mouse model. To establish an IHFA model, postnatal day (PND) 1 germ-free mice (Kunming, n = 10; BALB/c, n = 10) were infected with feces from a breast-fed infant. Microbiota in the feces of BALB/c mice (at PND 7, 14, and 21), and Kunming mice (at PND 14) were analyzed by PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Bifidobacteria and lactobacilli levels in the feces of BALB/c and Kunming mice (PND 7/14/21) were detected by quantitative real-time PCR. The Dice similarity coefficient (Cs) for the fecal microbiota of IHFA mice in comparison with the HD donor sample was higher for BALB/c mice than for Kunming mice (P < 0.05). In addition, the DCs at PND 7 were lower than those at PND 14 and PND 21 in both mouse strains (P < 0.05). The Bifidobacteria and Lactobacillus species colonizing the BALB/c mice were similar to those in the Kunming mice (at PND 7/14/21). The bifidobacteria counts increased with age in both mouse strains, whereas the lactobacilli counts decreased with age in both strains. These results suggest that both age and strain influence microbiota patterns in the IHFA mouse model.
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- Benhua Zeng
- Department of Laboratory Animal Science, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Third Military Medical University, Gaotanyan Street, Chongqing, China.
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Dang HT, Kim SA, Park HK, Shin JW, Park SG, Kim W. Analysis of Oropharyngeal Microbiota between the Patients with Bronchial Asthma and the Non-Asthmatic Persons. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.4167/jbv.2013.43.4.270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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- Hien Thanh Dang
- Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
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- Division of Pulmonology and Allergology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Applied Statistics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
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Beck JM, Young VB, Huffnagle GB. The microbiome of the lung. Transl Res 2012; 160:258-66. [PMID: 22683412 PMCID: PMC3440512 DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2012.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 234] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2012] [Revised: 02/06/2012] [Accepted: 02/07/2012] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Investigation of the lung microbiome is a relatively new field. Although the lungs were classically believed to be sterile, recently published investigations have identified microbial communities in the lungs of healthy humans. At the present time, there are significant methodologic and technical hurdles that must be addressed in ongoing investigations, including distinguishing the microbiota of the upper and lower respiratory tracts. However, characterization of the lung microbiome is likely to provide important pathogenic insights into cystic fibrosis, respiratory disease of the newborn, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and asthma. In addition to characterization of the lung microbiome, the microbiota of the gastrointestinal tract have profound influence on the development and maintenance of lung immunity and inflammation. Further study of gastrointestinal-respiratory interactions is likely to yield important insights into the pathogenesis of pulmonary diseases, including asthma. As this field advances over the next several years, we anticipate that studies using larger cohorts, multicenter designs, and longitudinal sampling will add to our knowledge and understanding of the lung microbiome.
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- James M Beck
- Pulmonary Section, Medical Service, Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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Giannoukos G, Ciulla DM, Huang K, Haas BJ, Izard J, Levin JZ, Livny J, Earl AM, Gevers D, Ward DV, Nusbaum C, Birren BW, Gnirke A. Efficient and robust RNA-seq process for cultured bacteria and complex community transcriptomes. Genome Biol 2012; 13:R23. [PMID: 22455878 PMCID: PMC3439974 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-3-r23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2012] [Revised: 03/12/2012] [Accepted: 03/28/2012] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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We have developed a process for transcriptome analysis of bacterial communities that accommodates both intact and fragmented starting RNA and combines efficient rRNA removal with strand-specific RNA-seq. We applied this approach to an RNA mixture derived from three diverse cultured bacterial species and to RNA isolated from clinical stool samples. The resulting expression profiles were highly reproducible, enriched up to 40-fold for non-rRNA transcripts, and correlated well with profiles representing undepleted total RNA.
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- Georgia Giannoukos
- Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA.
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Walton SF, Weir C. The interplay between diet and emerging allergy: what can we learn from Indigenous Australians? Int Rev Immunol 2012; 31:184-201. [PMID: 22587020 DOI: 10.3109/08830185.2012.667180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The pathophysiology of atopic diseases, including asthma and allergy, is the result of complex gene-environment interactions. Since European colonization the Indigenous population of Australia has undergone significant changes with respect to their lifestyle as hunter-gatherers. These changes have had a detrimental effect on Aboriginal health, in part due to immunological modification. This review provides a comparative look at both the traditional Aboriginal/Indigenous diet and modern Western diets, examines some common allergies increasingly reported in contemporary Indigenous populations, and reviews concepts such the effect of vitamin deficiencies and changes in gut microbiota on immune function.
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- Shelley F Walton
- School of Health and Sport Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia.
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Bailey MT. The contributing role of the intestinal microbiota in stressor-induced increases in susceptibility to enteric infection and systemic immunomodulation. Horm Behav 2012; 62:286-94. [PMID: 22366706 DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2011] [Revised: 02/06/2012] [Accepted: 02/08/2012] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The body is colonized by highly complex and genetically diverse communities of microbes, the majority of which reside within the intestines in largely stable but dynamically interactive climax communities. These microbes, referred to as the microbiota, have many functions that enhance the health of the host, and it is now recognized that the microbiota influence both mucosal and systemic immunity. The studies outlined in this review demonstrate that the microbiota are also involved in stressor-induced immunomodulation. Exposure to different types of stressors, including both physical and psychological stressors, changes the composition of the intestinal microbiota. The altered profile increases susceptibility to an enteric pathogen, i.e., Citrobacter rodentium, upon oral challenge, but is also associated with stressor-induced increases in innate immune activity. Studies using germfree mice, as well as antibiotic-treated mice, provide further evidence that the microbiota contribute to stressor-induced immunomodulation; stressor-induced increases in splenic macrophage microbicidal activity fail to occur in mice with no, or reduced, intestinal microbiota. While the mechanisms by which microbiota can impact mucosal immunity have been studied, how the microbiota impact systemic immune responses is not clear. A mechanism is proposed in which stressor-induced degranulation of mucosal mast cells increases the permeability of the intestines. This increased permeability would allow intact bacteria and/or bacterial products (like peptidoglycan) to translocate from the lumen of the intestines to the interior of the body, where they directly, or indirectly, prime the innate immune system for enhanced reactivity to antigenic stimulation.
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- Michael T Bailey
- Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Evaluation of 16S rDNA-based community profiling for human microbiome research. PLoS One 2012; 7:e39315. [PMID: 22720093 PMCID: PMC3374619 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 225] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2011] [Accepted: 03/13/2012] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The Human Microbiome Project will establish a reference data set for analysis of the microbiome of healthy adults by surveying multiple body sites from 300 people and generating data from over 12,000 samples. To characterize these samples, the participating sequencing centers evaluated and adopted 16S rDNA community profiling protocols for ABI 3730 and 454 FLX Titanium sequencing. In the course of establishing protocols, we examined the performance and error characteristics of each technology, and the relationship of sequence error to the utility of 16S rDNA regions for classification- and OTU-based analysis of community structure. The data production protocols used for this work are those used by the participating centers to produce 16S rDNA sequence for the Human Microbiome Project. Thus, these results can be informative for interpreting the large body of clinical 16S rDNA data produced for this project.
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Allen RG, Lafuse WP, Galley JD, Ali MM, Ahmer BMM, Bailey MT. The intestinal microbiota are necessary for stressor-induced enhancement of splenic macrophage microbicidal activity. Brain Behav Immun 2012; 26:371-82. [PMID: 22100833 PMCID: PMC3288745 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2011.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2011] [Revised: 11/04/2011] [Accepted: 11/04/2011] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The indigenous microbiota impact mucosal, as well as systemic, immune responses, but whether the microbiota are involved in stressor-induced immunomodulation has not been thoroughly tested. A well characterized murine stressor, called social disruption (SDR), was used to study whether the microbiota are involved in stressor-induced enhancement of macrophage reactivity. Exposure to the SDR Stressor enhanced the ability of splenic macrophages to produce microbicidal mediators (e.g., inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), superoxide anion, and peroxynitrite) and to kill target Escherichia coli. Exposure to the SDR Stressor also increased cytokine production by LPS-stimulated splenic macrophages. These effects, however, were impacted by the microbiota. Microbicidal activity and cytokine mRNA in splenic macrophages from Swiss Webster germfree mice that lack any commensal microbiota were not enhanced by exposure to the SDR Stressor. However, when germfree mice were conventionalized by colonizing them with microbiota from CD1 conventional donor mice, exposure to the SDR Stressor again increased microbicidal activity and cytokine mRNA. In follow-up experiments, immunocompetent conventional CD1 mice were treated with a cocktail of antibiotics to disrupt the intestinal microbiota. While exposure to the SDR Stressor-enhanced splenic macrophage microbicidal activity and cytokine production in vehicle-treated mice, treatment with antibiotics attenuated the SDR Stressor-induced increases in splenic macrophage reactivity. Treatment with antibiotics also prevented the stressor-induced increase in circulating levels of bacterial peptidoglycan, suggesting that translocation of microbiota-derived peptidoglycan into the body primes the innate immune system for enhanced activity. This study demonstrates that the microbiota play a crucial role in stressor-induced immunoenhancement.
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- Rebecca G. Allen
- Integrated Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210,Center for Microbial Interface Biology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Division of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Center for Microbial Interface Biology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210,Department of Microbiology, College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Center for Microbial Interface Biology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210,Division of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210,Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210,Address Correspondence To: Michael T. Bailey, Ph.D. The Ohio State University, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, College of Medicine, 257 IBMR Building, 460 Medical Center Dr. Columbus OH, 43210, Phone: 614-293-4277,
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW In this review, we describe the 'state-of-the-art' in our knowledge of asthma and what gaps exist, which can be exploited in the future for effective translation of our knowledge from the bench or population studies to diagnosis and therapy. RECENT FINDINGS The advent of microbiome research has expanded the potential role of microbes in asthma. There has been a significant increase in our understanding of the pathologic, genetic, cellular and molecular mechanisms of asthma. Nonetheless, the contribution of microbes to the genesis, exacerbation and treatment of asthma are poorly understood. SUMMARY Asthma is a complex chronic disease of the lung whose incidence is growing at all ages despite the progress that has been made in the areas of diagnosis and treatment of asthma. The complexity is partly due to the environmental insults such as allergens and microbial infections that play differential roles in the pathogenesis of childhood vis-à-vis elderly asthma. Microbes may play important roles in the exacerbation of asthma and hence in the comorbidities due to asthma, and also in the causation of asthma.
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The lumen of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is home to an enormous quantity of different bacterial species, our microbiota, that thrive in an often symbiotic relationship with the host. Given that the healthy host must regulate contact between the microbiota and its immune system to avoid overwhelming systemic immune activation, humans have evolved several mechanisms to attenuate systemic microbial translocation (MT) and its consequences. However, several diseases are associated with the failure of one or more of these mechanisms, with consequent immune activation and deleterious effects on health. Here, we discuss the mechanisms underlying MT, diseases associated with MT, and therapeutic interventions that aim to decrease it.
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- Jason M Brenchley
- Program in Barrier Immunity and Repair and Immunopathogenesis Unit, Lab of Molecular Microbiology, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
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Kim W. Application of Metagenomic Techniques: Understanding the Unrevealed Human Microbiota and Explaining the in Clinical Infectious Diseases. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.4167/jbv.2012.42.4.263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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- Wonyong Kim
- Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
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Gigante G, Tortora A, Ianiro G, Ojetti V, Purchiaroni F, Campanale M, Cesario V, Scarpellini E, Gasbarrini A. Role of gut microbiota in food tolerance and allergies. Dig Dis 2011; 29:540-9. [PMID: 22179209 DOI: 10.1159/000332977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Alterations of commensal flora may cause various gastrointestinal and extraintestinal diseases, including food intolerances and food allergies. According to the 'microflora hypothesis', alterations in the composition of gut microbiota in industrialized countries have disturbed the mechanisms of mucosal immune tolerance. Over the past few years several studies have looked for a role for probiotics in the treatment of food allergies with promising results.
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- Giovanni Gigante
- Internal Medicine Department, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Gemelli Hospital, Rome, Italy
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Lamousé-Smith ES, Tzeng A, Starnbach MN. The intestinal flora is required to support antibody responses to systemic immunization in infant and germ free mice. PLoS One 2011; 6:e27662. [PMID: 22114681 PMCID: PMC3219679 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2011] [Accepted: 10/21/2011] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The presence of a complex and diverse intestinal flora is functionally important for regulating intestinal mucosal immune responses. However, the extent to which a balanced intestinal flora regulates systemic immune responses is still being defined. In order to specifically examine whether the acquisition of a less complex flora influences responses to immunization in the pre-weaning stages of life, we utilize a model in which infant mice acquire an intestinal flora from their mothers that has been altered by broad-spectrum antibiotics. In this model, pregnant dams are treated with a cocktail of antibiotics that alters both the density and microbial diversity of the intestinal flora. After challenge with a subcutaneous immunization, the antibiotic altered flora infant mice have lower antigen specific antibody titers compared to control age-matched mice. In a second model, we examined germ free (GF) mice to analyze how the complete lack of flora influences the ability to mount normal antibody responses following subcutaneous immunization. GF mice do not respond well to immunization and introduction of a normal flora into GF mice restores the capacity of these mice to respond. These results indicate that a gastrointestinal flora reduced in density and complexity at critical time points during development adversely impacts immune responses to systemic antigens.
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- Esi S. Lamousé-Smith
- Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Ma ZS, Abdo Z, Forney LJ. Caring about trees in the forest: incorporating frailty in risk analysis for personalized medicine. Per Med 2011; 8:681-688. [PMID: 22754581 DOI: 10.2217/pme.11.72] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The analysis of frailty originated in studies of aging and demography in which the objective was to demonstrate that the hazard rates (mortality risks) of individuals in a population could significantly differ from the population hazard rate as a whole. The differences between these two hazard rates can arise from frailty - differences among individuals that are not observed in a study. We posit that frailty modeling is a useful approach for risk analysis in personalized medicine because it provides a way to address the important and perplexing question of how to translate findings from population studies to the diagnosis and treatment of disease in specific individuals. Our suggestion is based on three unique advantages of frailty modeling: frailty modeling offers an effective approach to analyze the risks at both the individual and population levels and can be used to infer relationships between the two; frailty modeling can be used to analyze the dependence between survival events - one of the most difficult issues in any field that involves common risks; and frailty modeling can be used to describe unobserved or unobservable risks. Finally, we suggest that frailty modeling should be particularly useful in the study and treatment of diseases that are caused or influenced by the human microbiome. By doing so, truly 'personalized' medicine can advance based on a better understanding of the risks to both 'trees' (individuals) and 'forests' (populations).
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- Zhanshan Sam Ma
- Department of Biological Sciences, 441A Life Sciences South, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-3051, USA
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Marchesi JR. Shifting from a gene-centric to metabolite-centric strategy to determine the core gut microbiome. Bioeng Bugs 2011; 2:309-14. [PMID: 22008940 DOI: 10.4161/bbug.2.6.17235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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A key challenge in the area of determining how the microbiome communicates with the host's karyome is deciding which microbial functions should be studied. Ideally we would wish to look at functions which are not only important to the microbial host, but which also play roles in host physiology. Selecting the key microbial functions is essential to developing robust strategies to either promote or demote them, with the aim to enhancing host health. This commentary argues that the bottom-up approach is not providing the necessary gene-set from which we can start to develop a robust core microbiome and in fact we should adopt a top-down strategy in order to indentify the functions that are important and need further study.
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The innate immune system consists of multiple cell types that express germline-encoded pattern recognition receptors that recognize pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) or danger-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). Allergens are frequently found in forms and mixtures that contain PAMPs and DAMPs. The innate immune system is interposed between the external environment and the internal acquired immune system. It is also an integral part of the airways, gut, and skin. These tissues face continuous exposure to allergens, PAMPs, and DAMPs. Interaction of allergens with the innate immune system normally results in immune tolerance but, in the case of allergic disease, this interaction induces recurring and/or chronic inflammation as well as the loss of immunologic tolerance. Upon activation by allergens, the innate immune response commits the acquired immune response to a variety of outcomes mediated by distinct T-cell subsets, such as T-helper 2, regulatory T, or T-helper 17 cells. New studies highlighted in this review underscore the close relationship between allergens, the innate immune system, and the acquired immune system that promotes homeostasis versus allergic disease.
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- Michael Minnicozzi
- Asthma, Allergy and Inflammation Branch, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-6601, USA
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Chuang SC, Vermeulen R, Sharabiani MTA, Sacerdote C, Fatemeh SH, Berrino F, Krogh V, Palli D, Panico S, Tumino R, Athersuch TJ, Vineis P. The intake of grain fibers modulates cytokine levels in blood. Biomarkers 2011; 16:504-10. [PMID: 21812595 DOI: 10.3109/1354750x.2011.599042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Dietary fiber may modulate the environment of the intestinal lumen, alter the intestinal microflora populations, and influence the immune response and disease risk. Epidemiological investigations have suggested that higher fiber intake is associated with lower overall mortality, in particular from cardiovascular and digestive tract diseases. Here a panel of 17 cytokines and chemokines were measured in plasma of 88 cancer-free subjects sampled within the Italian EPIC-Italy cohort. A statistically significant inverse association (p-trend = 0.01) was observed for cereal fiber and cytokines included in the main factor in factor analysis (IL-1β, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-13, and TNF-α), which alone explained 35.5% of variance. Our study suggests that fiber intake, especially cereal fiber, may be associated with a decreased level of pro-inflammatory cytokines.
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- Shu-Chun Chuang
- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK
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Mattila P, Joenväärä S, Renkonen J, Toppila-Salmi S, Renkonen R. Allergy as an epithelial barrier disease. Clin Transl Allergy 2011; 1:5. [PMID: 22410284 PMCID: PMC3294629 DOI: 10.1186/2045-7022-1-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2011] [Accepted: 06/10/2011] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The objective of this review is to focus on putative modified epithelial functions related to allergy. The dysregulation of the epithelial barrier might result in the allergen uptake, which could be the primary defect in the pathogenesis of allergic reaction. We review the literature of the role of respiratory epithelium as an active barrier, how allergens are transported through it and how it senses the hostile environmental allergens and other dangerous stimuli.
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- Pirkko Mattila
- Transplantation Laboratory & Infection Biology Research Program, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki & Helsinki University Central Hospital, HUSLAB, Helsinki, Finland.
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Lin KW, Li J, Finn PW. Emerging pathways in asthma: innate and adaptive interactions. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2011; 1810:1052-8. [PMID: 21596099 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2011.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2011] [Revised: 03/17/2011] [Accepted: 04/28/2011] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Allergic asthma is a complex and chronic airway inflammatory disorder, and the prevalence of asthma has increased. Adaptive antigen-dependent immunity is a classical pathway of asthmatic pathology. Recent studies have focused on innate antigen-independent immunity in asthma. SCOPE OF REVIEW This review discusses updated research associating innate immunity with allergic asthma. We focus on innate molecules (Toll-like receptors and nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptors) and review studies regarding innate and adaptive interactions in allergic responses (surfactant protein D, lipopolysaccharide, and early life immune responses). We also highlight new emerging concepts in the field applicable to innate immunity and asthma. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS Innate immunity plays a key role in asthma. Understanding innate and adaptive interactions provide significant information in asthmatic research. Innate molecules not only contribute to classical pulmonary defense, but also modulate inflammatory responses. Emerging concepts in the analysis of the microbiome, microRNA and autophagy may provide new insights in searching therapeutic targets. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE Finding specific mechanisms of innate and/or adaptive immunity in asthma are timely goals for further research. Integration of bioinformatics and systems biology tools, particularly in relation to microbiome analysis, may be helpful in providing an understanding to allergic immune responses. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled Biochemistry of Asthma.
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- Ko-Wei Lin
- Division of Pulmonary and critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Preparation of high quality allergen extracts is essential for the diagnosis and immunotherapy of allergic disorders. Standardization of allergen extracts concerns determination of the allergen unit, development of reference material and measurement of the overall IgE binding capacity of an allergen extract. Recently, quantification of individual allergens has been the main focus of allergen standardization because the allergenicity of most allergen extracts is known to be mainly dependent on the content of a small number of allergen molecules. Therefore, characterization of major allergens will facilitate the standardization of allergens. In this article, we review the current state of allergen standardization. In addition, we briefly summarize the components of allergen extracts that should be under control for the optimization of allergen standardization, since its adjuvant-like activities could play an important role in allergic reactions even though the molecule itself does not bind to the IgE antibodies from subjects.
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- Kyoung Yong Jeong
- Department of Internal Medicine and Institute of Allergy, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Institute of Allergy, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Center for Immunology and Pathology, Korea National Institute of Health, Osong, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Institute of Allergy, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Bailey MT, Dowd SE, Galley JD, Hufnagle AR, Allen RG, Lyte M. Exposure to a social stressor alters the structure of the intestinal microbiota: implications for stressor-induced immunomodulation. Brain Behav Immun 2011; 25:397-407. [PMID: 21040780 PMCID: PMC3039072 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2010.10.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 779] [Impact Index Per Article: 59.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2010] [Revised: 10/24/2010] [Accepted: 10/24/2010] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The bodies of most animals are populated by highly complex and genetically diverse communities of microorganisms. The majority of these microbes reside within the intestines in largely stable but dynamically interactive climax communities that positively interact with their host. Studies from this laboratory have shown that stressor exposure impacts the stability of the microbiota and leads to bacterial translocation. The biological importance of these alterations, however, is not well understood. To determine whether the microbiome contributes to stressor-induced immunoenhancement, mice were exposed to a social stressor called social disruption (SDR), that increases circulating cytokines and primes the innate immune system for enhanced reactivity. Bacterial populations in the cecum were characterized using bacterial tag-encoded FLX amplicon pyrosequencing. Stressor exposure significantly changed the community structure of the microbiota, particularly when the microbiota were assessed immediately after stressor exposure. Most notably, stressor exposure decreased the relative abundance of bacteria in the genus Bacteroides, while increasing the relative abundance of bacteria in the genus Clostridium. The stressor also increased circulating levels of IL-6 and MCP-1, which were significantly correlated with stressor-induced changes to three bacterial genera (i.e., Coprococcus, Pseudobutyrivibrio, and Dorea). In follow up experiments, mice were treated with an antibiotic cocktail to determine whether reducing the microbiota would abrogate the stressor-induced increases in circulating cytokines. Exposure to SDR failed to increase IL-6 and MCP-1 in the antibiotic treated mice. These data show that exposure to SDR significantly affects bacterial populations in the intestines, and remarkably also suggest that the microbiota are necessary for stressor-induced increases in circulating cytokines.
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- Michael T. Bailey
- Division of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210,Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Research and Testing Laboratory and Medical Biofilm Research Institute, Lubbock, TX 79407
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- Division of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Division of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Integrated Biomedical Science Graduate Training Program, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
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- Department of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430
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Yang JY, Karr JR, Watrous JD, Dorrestein PC. Integrating '-omics' and natural product discovery platforms to investigate metabolic exchange in microbiomes. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2010; 15:79-87. [PMID: 21087892 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.10.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2010] [Revised: 10/20/2010] [Accepted: 10/20/2010] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The microbiome is an abundance of microorganisms within a host (e.g. human microbiome). These microorganisms produce small molecules and metabolites that have been shown to affect and dictate the physiology of an individual. Functional knowledge of these molecules, often produced for communication or defense, will reveal the interplay between microbes and host in health and disease. The vast diversity in structure and function of microbiome-associated small molecules necessitate tools that will utilize multiple '-omics' strategies to understand the interactions within the human microbiome. This review discusses the importance of these investigations and the integration of current '-omics' technologies with tools established in natural product discovery in order to identify and characterize uncharacterized small molecules in the effort towards diagnostic modeling of the human microbiome.
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- Jane Y Yang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Kwaik YA. The grand challenges to cellular and infection microbiology. Front Microbiol 2010; 1:3. [PMID: 21607078 PMCID: PMC3095395 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2010.00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2010] [Accepted: 06/07/2010] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Yousef Abu Kwaik
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of LouisvilleLouisville, KY, USA
- Department of Biology, University of LouisvilleLouisville, KY, USA
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