{"title":"Arming up against Omicron subvariants.","authors":"Daniel M Altmann, Rosemary J Boyton","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rapid evolution of COVID-19 Omicron variants is driven by evasion of neutralizing antibodies. Breakthrough infections are common, even in highly vaccinated populations, making it vital to understand immune cross-protective repertoires to variants. Two studies in this issue show that the primed T cell repertoire comprises strong cross-recognition of current variants.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":"32 2","pages":"147-148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139742951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Milk to mucus: How B. fragilis colonizes the gut.","authors":"Matthew R Olm, Noel T Mueller","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) consumption by the infant microbiota is positively associated with immune health. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Buzun et al. report a mechanism for HMO digestion by Bacteroides fragilis and demonstrate how the same pathway works on intestinal mucus to establish long-term gut residency.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":"32 2","pages":"149-150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139742953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jordi Mayneris-Perxachs, Anna Castells-Nobau, José Manuel Fernández-Real
{"title":"\"Indole-gence\" for the mind.","authors":"Jordi Mayneris-Perxachs, Anna Castells-Nobau, José Manuel Fernández-Real","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Surging depression rates highlight the need for innovative strategies beyond the traditional focus on the brain. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Cheng et al. uncover a role for the gut microbiota in depression through the intestinal receptor Grp35 and indole pathway, offering hope in fighting against depression.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":"32 2","pages":"151-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139742949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing microbial communities to starve out invading pathogens.","authors":"Melissa Ellermann","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Identifying key features required for specific community-level functions can be challenging, especially considering the complexity of the gut microbiome. In a recent study in Science, Spragge et al. present a high-throughput experimental framework to rationally design microbial communities that can resist invasion by specific bacterial pathogens.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":"32 2","pages":"145-146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139742952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Gpr35-tuned gut microbe-brain metabolic axis regulates depressive-like behavior.","authors":"Lingsha Cheng, Haoqian Wu, Xiaoying Cai, Youying Zhang, Siqi Yu, Yuanlong Hou, Zhe Yin, Qingyuan Yan, Qiong Wang, Taipeng Sun, Guangji Wang, Yonggui Yuan, Xueli Zhang, Haiping Hao, Xiao Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2023.12.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2023.12.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gene-environment interactions shape behavior and susceptibility to depression. However, little is known about the signaling pathways integrating genetic and environmental inputs to impact neurobehavioral outcomes. We report that gut G-protein-coupled receptor, Gpr35, engages a microbe-to-brain metabolic pathway to modulate neuronal plasticity and depressive behavior in mice. Psychological stress decreases intestinal epithelial Gpr35, genetic deletion of which induces depressive-like behavior in a microbiome-dependent manner. Gpr35<sup>-/-</sup> mice and individuals with depression have increased Parabacteroides distasonis, and its colonization to wild-type mice induces depression. Gpr35<sup>-/-</sup> and Parabacteroides distasonis-colonized mice show reduced indole-3-carboxaldehyde (IAld) and increased indole-3-lactate (ILA), which are produced from opposing branches along the bacterial catabolic pathway of tryptophan. IAld and ILA counteractively modulate neuroplasticity in the nucleus accumbens, a brain region linked to depression. IAld supplementation produces anti-depressant effects in mice with stress or gut epithelial Gpr35 deficiency. Together, these findings elucidate a gut microbe-brain signaling mechanism that underlies susceptibility to depression.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":" ","pages":"227-243.e6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139418806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell host & microbePub Date : 2024-01-10Epub Date: 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2023.11.006
Dongping Li, Yu Chen, Meijuan Wan, Fengyi Mei, Fangzhao Wang, Peng Gu, Xianglong Zhang, Rongjuan Wei, Yunong Zeng, Hanzhao Zheng, Bangguo Chen, Qingquan Xiong, Tao Xue, Tianshan Guan, Jiayin Guo, Yuanxin Tian, Li-Yan Zeng, Zhanguo Liu, Hang Yuan, Ling Yang, Hongbin Liu, Lei Dai, Yao Yu, Yifeng Qiu, Peng Wu, Sanda Win, Tin Aung Than, Riqing Wei, Bernd Schnabl, Neil Kaplowitz, Yong Jiang, Qiang Ma, Peng Chen
{"title":"Oral magnesium prevents acetaminophen-induced acute liver injury by modulating microbial metabolism.","authors":"Dongping Li, Yu Chen, Meijuan Wan, Fengyi Mei, Fangzhao Wang, Peng Gu, Xianglong Zhang, Rongjuan Wei, Yunong Zeng, Hanzhao Zheng, Bangguo Chen, Qingquan Xiong, Tao Xue, Tianshan Guan, Jiayin Guo, Yuanxin Tian, Li-Yan Zeng, Zhanguo Liu, Hang Yuan, Ling Yang, Hongbin Liu, Lei Dai, Yao Yu, Yifeng Qiu, Peng Wu, Sanda Win, Tin Aung Than, Riqing Wei, Bernd Schnabl, Neil Kaplowitz, Yong Jiang, Qiang Ma, Peng Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2023.11.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2023.11.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acetaminophen overuse is a common cause of acute liver failure (ALF). During ALF, toxins are metabolized by enzymes such as CYP2E1 and transformed into reactive species, leading to oxidative damage and liver failure. Here, we found that oral magnesium (Mg) alleviated acetaminophen-induced ALF through metabolic changes in gut microbiota that inhibit CYP2E1. The gut microbiota from Mg-supplemented humans prevented acetaminophen-induced ALF in mice. Mg exposure modulated Bifidobacterium metabolism and enriched indole-3-carboxylic acid (I3C) levels. Formate C-acetyltransferase (pflB) was identified as a key Bifidobacterium enzyme involved in I3C generation. Accordingly, a Bifidobacterium pflB knockout showed diminished I3C generation and reduced the beneficial effects of Mg. Conversely, treatment with I3C or an engineered bacteria overexpressing Bifidobacterium pflB protected against ALF. Mechanistically, I3C bound and inactivated CYP2E1, thus suppressing formation of harmful reactive intermediates and diminishing hepatocyte oxidative damage. These findings highlight how interactions between Mg and gut microbiota may help combat ALF.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":" ","pages":"48-62.e9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138500518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A key genetic factor governing arabinan utilization in the gut microbiome alleviates constipation.","authors":"Chengcheng Zhang, Leilei Yu, Chenchen Ma, Shuaiming Jiang, Yufeng Zhang, Shunhe Wang, Fengwei Tian, Yuzheng Xue, Jianxin Zhao, Hao Zhang, Liming Liu, Wei Chen, Shi Huang, Jiachao Zhang, Qixiao Zhai","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2023.10.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2023.10.011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Impaired gastrointestinal motility is associated with gut dysbiosis. Probiotics, such as Bifidobacteria, can improve this bowel disorder; however, efficacy is strain-dependent. We determine that a genetic factor, the abfA cluster governing arabinan utilization, in Bifidobacterium longum impacts treatment efficacy against functional constipation (FC). In mice with FC, B. longum, but not an abfA mutant, improved gastrointestinal transit time, an affect that was dependent upon dietary arabinan. abfA genes were identified in other commensal bacteria, whose effects in ameliorating murine FC were similarly abfA-dependent. In a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial, supplementation with abfA-cluster-carrying B. longum, but not an abfA-deficient strain, enriched arabinan-utilization residents, increased beneficial metabolites, and improved FC symptoms. Across human cohorts, abfA-cluster abundance can predict FC, and transplantation of abfA cluster-enriched human microbiota to FC-induced germ-free mice improved gut motility. Collectively, these findings demonstrate a role for microbial abfA cluster in ameliorating FC, establishing principles for genomics-directed probiotic therapies.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":" ","pages":"1989-2006.e8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138296742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell host & microbePub Date : 2023-12-13Epub Date: 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2023.10.017
Ran Wang, Chenying Li, Zhiyi Jia, Yaxing Su, Yingfei Ai, Qinghong Li, Xijie Guo, Zeng Tao, Fucheng Lin, Yan Liang
{"title":"Reversible phosphorylation of a lectin-receptor-like kinase controls xylem immunity.","authors":"Ran Wang, Chenying Li, Zhiyi Jia, Yaxing Su, Yingfei Ai, Qinghong Li, Xijie Guo, Zeng Tao, Fucheng Lin, Yan Liang","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2023.10.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2023.10.017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) mediate basal resistance to most phytopathogens. However, plant responses can be cell type specific, and the mechanisms governing xylem immunity remain largely unknown. We show that the lectin-receptor-like kinase LORE contributes to xylem basal resistance in Arabidopsis upon infection with Ralstonia solanacearum, a destructive plant pathogen that colonizes the xylem to cause bacterial wilt. Following R. solanacearum infection, LORE is activated by phosphorylation at residue S761, initiating a phosphorelay that activates reactive oxygen species production and cell wall lignification. To prevent prolonged activation of immune signaling, LORE recruits and phosphorylates type 2C protein phosphatase LOPP, which dephosphorylates LORE and attenuates LORE-mediated xylem immunity to maintain immune homeostasis. A LOPP knockout confers resistance against bacterial wilt disease in Arabidopsis and tomatoes without impacting plant growth. Thus, our study reveals a regulatory mechanism in xylem immunity involving the reversible phosphorylation of receptor-like kinases.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":" ","pages":"2051-2066.e7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136400795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell host & microbePub Date : 2023-12-13Epub Date: 2023-11-14DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2023.10.016
Peter Kuffa, Joseph M Pickard, Austin Campbell, Misa Yamashita, Sadie R Schaus, Eric C Martens, Thomas M Schmidt, Naohiro Inohara, Gabriel Núñez, Roberta Caruso
{"title":"Fiber-deficient diet inhibits colitis through the regulation of the niche and metabolism of a gut pathobiont.","authors":"Peter Kuffa, Joseph M Pickard, Austin Campbell, Misa Yamashita, Sadie R Schaus, Eric C Martens, Thomas M Schmidt, Naohiro Inohara, Gabriel Núñez, Roberta Caruso","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2023.10.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2023.10.016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN) with fiber-free diets is an effective steroid-sparing treatment to induce clinical remission in children with Crohn's disease (CD). However, the mechanism underlying the beneficial effects of EEN remains obscure. Using a model of microbiota-dependent colitis with the hallmarks of CD, we find that the administration of a fiber-free diet prevents the development of colitis and inhibits intestinal inflammation in colitic animals. Remarkably, fiber-free diet alters the intestinal localization of Mucispirillum schaedleri, a mucus-dwelling pathobiont, which is required for triggering disease. Mechanistically, the absence of dietary fiber reduces nutrient availability and impairs the dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonia (DNRA) metabolic pathway of Mucispirillum, leading to its exclusion from the mucus layer and disease remission. Thus, appropriate localization of the specific pathobiont in the mucus layer is critical for disease development, which is disrupted by fiber exclusion. These results suggest strategies to treat CD by targeting the intestinal niche and metabolism of disease-causing microbes.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":" ","pages":"2007-2022.e12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10842462/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134650729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell host & microbePub Date : 2023-12-13Epub Date: 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2023.11.004
Tomás Cerdó, Alicia Ruiz-Rodríguez, Inmaculada Acuña, Francisco José Torres-Espínola, Sergio Menchén-Márquez, Fernando Gámiz, Milagros Gallo, Nico Jehmlich, Sven-Bastiaan Haange, Martin von Bergen, Cristina Campoy, Antonio Suárez
{"title":"Infant gut microbiota contributes to cognitive performance in mice.","authors":"Tomás Cerdó, Alicia Ruiz-Rodríguez, Inmaculada Acuña, Francisco José Torres-Espínola, Sergio Menchén-Márquez, Fernando Gámiz, Milagros Gallo, Nico Jehmlich, Sven-Bastiaan Haange, Martin von Bergen, Cristina Campoy, Antonio Suárez","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2023.11.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2023.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gut microbiota has been linked to infant neurodevelopment. Here, an association between infant composite cognition and gut microbiota composition is established as soon as 6 months. Higher diversity and evenness characterize microbial communities of infants with composite cognition above (Inf-aboveCC) versus below (Inf-belowCC) median values. Metaproteomic and metabolomic analyses establish an association between microbial histidine ammonia lyase and infant histidine metabolome with cognition. Fecal transplantation from Inf-aboveCC versus Inf-belowCC donors into germ-free mice shows that memory, assessed by a novel object recognition test, is a transmissible trait. Furthermore, Inf-aboveCC mice are enriched in species belonging to Phocaeicola, as well as Bacteroides and Bifidobacterium, previously linked to cognition. Finally, Inf-aboveCC mice show lower fecal histidine and urocanate:histidine and urocanate:glutamate ratios in the perirhinal cortex compared to Inf-belowCC mice. Overall, these findings reveal a causative role of gut microbiota on infant cognition, pointing at the modulation of histidine metabolite levels as a potential underlying mechanism.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":" ","pages":"1974-1988.e4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138489381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}