Precocious infant fecal microbiome promotes enterocyte barrier dysfuction, altered neuroendocrine signaling and associates with increased childhood obesity risk

Autor: Germaine J. M. Yong, Cara E. Porsche, Alexandra R. Sitarik, Kei E. Fujimura, Kathryn McCauley, Dat T. Nguyen, Albert M. Levin, Kimberley J. Woodcroft, Dennis R. Ownby, Andrew G. Rundle, Christine C. Johnson, Andrea Cassidy-Bushrow, Susan V. Lynch
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Gut Microbes, Vol 16, Iss 1 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 19490976
1949-0984
1949-0976
DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2023.2290661
Popis: ABSTRACTEarly life gut microbiome composition has been correlated with childhood obesity, though microbial functional contributions to disease origins remain unclear. Here, using an infant birth cohort (n = 349) we identify a distinct fecal microbiota composition in 1-month-old infants with the lowest rate of exclusive breastfeeding, that relates with higher relative risk for obesity and overweight phenotypes at two years. Higher-risk infant fecal microbiomes exhibited accelerated taxonomic and functional maturation and broad-ranging metabolic reprogramming, including reduced concentrations of neuro-endocrine signals. In vitro, exposure of enterocytes to fecal extracts from higher-risk infants led to upregulation of genes associated with obesity and with expansion of nutrient sensing enteroendocrine progenitor cells. Fecal extracts from higher-risk infants also promoted enterocyte barrier dysfunction. These data implicate dysregulation of infant microbiome functional development, and more specifically promotion of enteroendocrine signaling and epithelial barrier impairment in the early-life developmental origins of childhood obesity.
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