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Gut microbiota from multiple sclerosis patients enables spontaneous autoimmune encephalomyelitis in mice

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Berer, Kerstin, Gerdes, Lisa Ann, Cekanaviciute, Egle, Jia, Xiaoming, Xiao, Liang, Xia, Zhongkui, Liu, Chuan, Klotz, Luisa +6 more·2017·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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, an organism shown to induce a protective immunoregulatory profile in vitro. Immune cells from mouse recipients of MS-twin samples produced less IL-10 than immune cells from mice colonized with healthy-twin samples. IL-10 may have a regulatory role in spontaneous CNS autoimmunity, as neutralization of the cytokine in mice colonized with healthy-twin fecal samples increased disease incidence. These findings provide evidence that MS-derived microbiota contain factors that precipitate an MS-like autoimmune disease in a transgenic mouse model. They hence encourage the detailed search for protective and pathogenic microbial components in human MS.

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  • The microbiota composition differs significantly between healthy controls and patients affected by neurodegenerative disorders such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and neuropsychiatric disorders.

    “The microbiota composition differs significantly between healthy controls and patients affected by neurodegenerative disorders (such as multiple sclerosis (MS), Alzheimer’s (AD) and Parkinson’s (PD) diseases) (20, 22, 23, 32, 111–115), and neuropsychiatric disorders (NPS) (30), like major depressive and mood disorders.”
  • Immune cells of murine recipients of multiple sclerosis-derived samples produced less IL-10 than cells from mice colonized with microbiota derived from healthy twins.

    “Interestingly, the immune cells of murine recipients of MS-derived samples produced less IL-10 than cells from mice colonized with the microbiota derived from the healthy twins (112).”
  • Transplanting multiple sclerosis twins' intestinal microbes into germ-free animals genetically susceptible to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis promoted the disease in vivo with significantly higher incidence than transplanting healthy twins' microbes.

    “However, the remarkable finding was that transplanting the MS-twins’ intestinal microbes into GF animals, genetically susceptible to developing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) was enough to promote the disease in vivo with a significantly higher incidence than by transplanting the healthy twins’ microbes (112).”
  • Multiple sclerosis twins had a higher abundance of taxa like Akkermansia in their feces.

    “They reported that MS-twins had a higher abundance of taxa like Akkermansia in their feces (112).”
  • Neutralization of IL-10 in mice colonized with healthy fecal samples increased disease incidence.

    “IL-10 is one of the master regulatory cytokines, and its neutralization in mice colonized with healthy fecal samples increased disease incidence (112).”

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Berer, K., Gerdes, L. A., Cekanaviciute, E., Jia, X., Xiao, L., Xia, Z., Liu, C., Klotz, L., Stauffer, U., Baranzini, S. E., Kümpfel, T., Hohlfeld, R., Krishnamoorthy, G., & Wekerle, H.
Affiliations
  • Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology (DE)
  • Institut für Klinische Neuroimmunologie (DE)
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • BGI Group (China) (CN)
  • University Hospital Münster (DE)
  • Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (DE)
  • Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (DE)
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2017-09-11
Volume
114
Issue
40
Pages
10719-10724
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
OpenAlex
W2756391458
Cited by
933
References
40
Citations by year
2026: 67 · 2025: 97 · 2024: 88 · 2023: 107 · 2022: 107 · 2021: 162 · 2020: 100 · 2019: 106 · 2018: 86 · 2017: 11
FWCI
65.06
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)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
  • Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • Multiple Sclerosis Society
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (K12GM081266)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R25NS070680)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
Keywords
multiple sclerosis, gut microbiota, autoimmune encephalomyelitis, IL-10, fecal microbiota transplantation, twin studies, transgenic mouse model, immune regulation
MeSH terms
Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Adult, Aged, Animals, Brain, Disease Models, Animal, Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Multiple Sclerosis, Cohort Studies, T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory, Mice, Young Adult, Metagenomics

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