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Indoles from commensal bacteria extend healthspan

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Sonowal, Robert, Swimm, Alyson, Sahoo, Anusmita, Luo, Liping, Matsunaga, Yohei, Wu, Ziqi, Bhingarde, Jui A., Ejzak, Elizabeth A. +8 more·2017·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Abstract

Significance: Increases in human life expectancy over the next century will be accompanied by increased frailty and massive and unsustainable health care costs. Developing means to extend the time that individuals remain healthy and free of age-related infirmities, called healthspan, has therefore become a critical goal of aging research. We show that small molecules produced by the microbiota and related to indole extend healthspan in geriatric worms, flies, and mice, without attendant effects on lifespan. Indoles act via the aryl hydrocarbon receptor and cause animals to retain a youthful gene expression profile. Indoles may represent a new class of therapeutics that improve the way we age as opposed to simply extending how long we live.

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  • Healthy ageing correlates with increased indoles, gut bacterial tryptophan degradation products that mediate immune homeostasis via aryl hydrocarbon and IL-10 receptors.

    “healthy ageing correlates with an increased presence of certain indoles, which are gut bacterial degradation products of tryptophan that mediate immune homeostasis upon binding to aryl hydrocarbon receptors and IL-10 receptors15–17”
  • Recent animal studies have shown that metabolic byproducts of intestinal bacteria have great relevance in prolonging healthspan.

    “and that the metabolic byproducts of intestinal bacteria have a great relevance in prolonging healthspan [140].”

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Sonowal, R., Swimm, A., Sahoo, A., Luo, L., Matsunaga, Y., Wu, Z., Bhingarde, J. A., Ejzak, E. A., Ranawade, A., Qadota, H., Powell, D. N., Capaldo, C. T., Flacker, J. M., Jones, R. M., Benian, G. M., & Kalman, D.
Affiliations
  • Emory University (US)
  • McMaster University (CA)
  • Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322;
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2017-08-21
Volume
114
Issue
36
Pages
E7506-E7515
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
OpenAlex
W2747253994
Cited by
197
References
70
Citations by year
2026: 20 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 30 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 2
FWCI
7.22
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
HHS | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (2R01DK074731)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Aging › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
Keywords
indole, commensal bacteria, gut microbiota, healthspan, healthy aging, aging, fecundity, oogenesis, reproductive period, frailty, gene expression
MeSH terms
Aging, Animals, Bacteria, Drosophila melanogaster, Indoles, Longevity, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mutation, Reproduction, Caenorhabditis elegans, Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon, Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins, Mice, Transcriptome

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