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Microbiota imbalance induced by dietary sugar disrupts immune-mediated protection from metabolic syndrome

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Kawano, Yoshinaga, Edwards, Madeline, Huang, Yiming, Bilate, Angelina M., Araujo, Leandro P., Tanoue, Takeshi, Atarashi, Koji, Ladinsky, Mark S. +5 more·2022·Cell

Abstract

How intestinal microbes regulate metabolic syndrome is incompletely understood. We show that intestinal microbiota protects against development of obesity, metabolic syndrome, and pre-diabetic phenotypes by inducing commensal-specific Th17 cells. High-fat, high-sugar diet promoted metabolic disease by depleting Th17-inducing microbes, and recovery of commensal Th17 cells restored protection. Microbiota-induced Th17 cells afforded protection by regulating lipid absorption across intestinal epithelium in an IL-17-dependent manner. Diet-induced loss of protective Th17 cells was mediated by the presence of sugar. Eliminating sugar from high-fat diets protected mice from obesity and metabolic syndrome in a manner dependent on commensal-specific Th17 cells. Sugar and ILC3 promoted outgrowth of Faecalibaculum rodentium that displaced Th17-inducing microbiota. These results define dietary and microbiota factors posing risk for metabolic syndrome. They also define a microbiota-dependent mechanism for immuno-pathogenicity of dietary sugar and highlight an elaborate interaction between diet, microbiota, and intestinal immunity in regulation of metabolic disorders.

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  • Unhealthy dietary interventions, such as high-fat, high-sugar, and high-salt interventions, negatively impact the gut microbiome and induce intestinal inflammation by impairing TH17 cell functions.

    “Unhealthy dietary interventions, such as high-fat, high-sugar, and high-salt interventions, have been shown to negatively impact the gut microbiome and induce intestinal inflammation by impairing TH17 cell functions.698–700”
  • CD5L is selectively expressed by non-pathogenic in vitro Th17 cells and inhibits their acquisition of a pathogenic phenotype.

    “CD5 antigen-like (CD5L), a regulator of lipid metabolism, was selectively expressed by Th17 cells differentiated in vitro under non-pathogenic conditions, and was shown to inhibit Th17 cells to attain a pathogenic Th17 cell phenotype”

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Kawano, Y., Edwards, M., Huang, Y., Bilate, A. M., Araujo, L. P., Tanoue, T., Atarashi, K., Ladinsky, M. S., Reiner, S. L., Wang, H. H., Mucida, D., Honda, K., & Ivanov, I. I.
Affiliations
  • Columbia University (US)
  • Rockefeller University (US)
  • Keio University (JP)
  • California Institute of Technology (US)
  • Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Ivanov, Ivaylo I.
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2022-09
Volume
185
Issue
19
Pages
3501-3519.e20
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4293462145
Cited by
349
References
84
Citations by year
2026: 72 · 2025: 106 · 2024: 82 · 2023: 77 · 2022: 12
FWCI
22.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (20H05627)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (RM1HG009490)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U01AI163069, R01AI144808, R21AI146817, R56AI076458, R01AI132403)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK118044, R01DK113375, R01DK093674, R01DK098378, P30DK132710)
  • National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (R01EB031935)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
Keywords
gut microbiota, dietary sugar, metabolic syndrome, obesity, Th17 cells, IL-17, fat absorption, high-fat high-sugar diet, ILC3, Faecalibaculum rodentium, commensal bacteria, intestinal immunity, prediabetes
MeSH terms
Dietary Sugars, Animals, Intestinal Mucosa, Lipids, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Obesity, Interleukin-17, Metabolic Syndrome, Mice, Th17 Cells, Diet, High-Fat, Microbiota

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