Journal
ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
Volume 131, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.104989
Keywords
Gut bacteria; Tetracycline; Metabolism; Immune response
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- Ministry of Education - Singapore Academic Research Fund Tier 1 [M4011732.030]
- Nanyang Technological University [M4081915]
- Singapore National Environment Agency [M4061617]
- Ministry of Health -Singapore National Medical Research Council under its Clinician-Scientist Individual Research Grant (CS-IRG) [MOH-000141]
- [OFIRG/0076/2018]
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The human gut microbiome (GM) in healthy people is chronically exposed to tetracycline (TET) via environmental exposure and dietary uptake. However, limited information is available on its effect on the GM metabolome and effect on the host, especially at the dietary exposure level. Here, we investigated how TET at both sub-pharmaceutical and dietary exposure levels affects the metabolome and the secretome-induced host immune response by studying several representative gut bacteria. Interestingly, the metabolome showed a highly species-specific pattern with a distinct dose-response relationship. B. fragilis was highly sensitive to TET and vitamin, nucleotide, and amino acid metabolism pathways were the most vulnerable metabolic pathways at dietary exposure level. For key metabolite short chain fatty acids, TET significantly induced the synthesis of butyrate in B. fragilis, rather than C. sporogenes and E. coli. Furthermore, TET induced the release of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in E. coli. and enhanced the immune response; however, there was no obvious effect on B. fragilis. Interestingly, the overall immune response modulation with TET exposure relied on the ratio between E. coli. and B. fragilis, possibly due to the neutralization of active LPS from E. coli. by the LPS from B. fragilis. Overall, our results showed that the effect of TET from environmental exposure on the host health would be highly dependent on the GM composition, especially for the gut bacterial metabolome and secretome induced immune response.
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