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Microbiota-Modulated Metabolites Shape the Intestinal Microenvironment by Regulating NLRP6 Inflammasome Signaling
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Host-microbiome co-evolution drives homeostasis and disease susceptibility, yet regulatory principles governing the integrated intestinal host-commensal microenvironment remain obscure. While inflammasome signaling participates in these interactions, its activators and microbiome-modulating mechanisms are unknown. Here, we demonstrate that the microbiota-associated metabolites taurine, histamine, and spermine shape the host-microbiome interface by co-modulating NLRP6 inflammasome signaling, epithelial IL-18 secretion, and downstream anti-microbial peptide (AMP) profiles. Distortion of this balanced AMP landscape by inflammasome deficiency drives dysbiosis development. Upon fecal transfer, colitis-inducing microbiota hijacks this microenvironment-orchestrating machinery through metabolite-mediated inflammasome suppression, leading to distorted AMP balance favoring its preferential colonization. Restoration of the metabolite-inflammasome-AMP axis reinstates a normal microbiota and ameliorates colitis. Together, we identify microbial modulators of the NLRP6 inflammasome and highlight mechanisms by which microbiome-host interactions cooperatively drive microbial community stability through metabolite-mediated innate immune modulation. Therefore, targeted "postbiotic" metabolomic intervention may restore a normal microenvironment as treatment or prevention of dysbiosis-driven diseases.
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“free taurine generated by deconjugation can enhance the activation of the NLRP6 inflammasome and thereby increase production of IL-18 by the intestinal epithelium, which supports epithelial barrier function and maintenance (Levy et al., 2015).”
From Understanding the Holobiont: How Microbial Metabolites Affect Human Health and Shape the Immune System (2017) · cites this paper as Levy et al., 2015
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“Spermine and the monoamine histamine both inhibit activation of the NLRP6 inflammasome, a protein complex expressed by epithelial cells that regulates IL-18 secretion.”
From Understanding the Holobiont: How Microbial Metabolites Affect Human Health and Shape the Immune System (2017) · cites this paper as Levy et al., 2015
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“Levy et al. recently reported that exogenous polyamines can reduce the release of IL-18, a cytokine that promotes epithelial repair and barrier function.”
From Understanding the Holobiont: How Microbial Metabolites Affect Human Health and Shape the Immune System (2017) · cites this paper as Levy et al., 2015
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“taurine, another microbial metabolite that derives from host-produced bile acids (see below), counteracts the effects of spermine and histamine, indicating a finely tuned balance of opposing bacterial stimuli (Levy et al., 2015).”
From Understanding the Holobiont: How Microbial Metabolites Affect Human Health and Shape the Immune System (2017) · cites this paper as Levy et al., 2015
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“NLRP6 inflammasome signaling is co-modulated by microbiota-derived metabolites, which regulates epithelial IL-18 secretion and AMP expression profiles.71”
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- Authors
- Levy, M., Thaiss, C. A., Zeevi, D., Dohnalová, L., Zilberman-Schapira, G., Mahdi, J. A., David, E., Savidor, A., Korem, T., Herzig, Y., Pevsner-Fischer, M., Shapiro, H., Christ, A., Harmelin, A., Halpern, Z., Latz, E., Flavell, R. A., Amit, I., Segal, E., & Elinav, E.
- Affiliations
- Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (IL)
- University of Bonn (DE)
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Segal, Eran
- Elinav, Eran
- ORCID
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- Cell
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- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-12
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- 163
- Issue
- 6
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- 1428-1443
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- 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
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- PMC5665753
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- National Cancer Institute (P30CA016359)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (P30DK034989)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Inflammasome and immune disorders
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune Response and Inflammation
- Keywords
- gut microbiota, NLRP6 inflammasome, host-microbiome interactions, taurine, histamine, spermine, IL-18, antimicrobial peptides, dysbiosis, colitis, fecal microbiota transplantation, postbiotics, innate immune modulation, intestinal epithelium
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Colitis, Colon, Germ-Free Life, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Receptors, Cell Surface, Taurine, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Signal Transduction, Interleukin-18, Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides, Mice, Inflammasomes, Microbiota, Dysbiosis
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