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Gut Microbiota from Twins Discordant for Obesity Modulate Metabolism in Mice
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Transforming Fat to Thin: How much does the microbiota influence the host's phenotype? Ridaura et al. ( 1241214 ; see the Perspective by Walker and Parkhill ) obtained uncultured fecal microbiota from twin pairs discordant for body mass and transplanted them into adult germ-free mice. It was discovered that adiposity is transmissible from human to mouse and that it was associated with changes in serum levels of branched-chain amino acids. Moreover, obese-phenotype mice were invaded by members of the Bacteroidales from the lean mice, but, happily, the lean animals resisted invasion by the obese microbiota.
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“Multiple human and animal studies have linked increased branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes in obese groups [150,151,152,153].”
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“This is thought to be driven by an expansion in pro-inflammatory species of bacteria, such as E. coli, and a depletion of anti-inflammatory bacteria such as Faecalibacterium prausnitzii [133,134].”
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“Furthermore, athletes have an enriched profile of SCFAs, previously associated with numerous health benefits and a lean phenotype.[33][34][35]”
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“The same clusters are observed when correlating with individual taxa, in support of previously observed links between SCFAs and numerous metabolic benefits and a lean phenotype.[33][34][35]”
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“Studies with gnotobiotic mice colonized with the microbiota of lean or obese twins have also shown that this phenotype is also transmissible [7].”
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“This observation also holds true when the microbiota from obese or lean humans is transferred to germ-free mice (Ridaura et al., 2013; Tremaroli et al., 2015).”
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“altering the gut microbiome in humans and mice has shown improvement in metabolic syndrome.”
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“reports of alterations in the gut microbiota of obese people4,13–15, which confer the obese or adiposity phenotypes when transferred to mice14,16”
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“Importantly, the lean microbiota could only invade and prevent increased adiposity when the recipient mice consumed a diet that was low in fat and high in fruits and vegetables.”
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“bacterial representatives from the microbiota of lean individuals were associated with an increased production of short-chain fatty acids”
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“the microbiota of obese individuals had an increased abundance of genes that are involved in biosynthesis of branched-chain amino acids, which are associated with impaired sensitivity to insulin14.”
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“Transfer of gut microbiota from lean and obese individuals can recapitulate the metabolic phenotype in ex-germ free mice.14”
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“experiments have shown that the condition can be transferred from obese mice or humans to healthy mice via conventionalization (i.e. microbiota transfer by feeding fecal material) [64, 65].”
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“Gut microbiota plays a key role in the pathogenesis of obesity.”
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“Furthermore, athletes have an enriched profile of SCFAs, previously associated with numerous health benefits and a lean phenotype [61–63].”
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“obese mice fed a low saturated fat, high fruit and vegetable diet can take on microbiota characteristics of lean mice [63].”
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“mice consuming this diet regardless of lean or obese state gained less fat mass compared to lean and obese mice fed a high-saturated fat, low fruit and vegetable diet, typical of a Westernized diet.”
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“in support of purported links between SCFAs and numerous metabolic benefits and a lean phenotype [61–63].”
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“transplantation of the fecal microbiota from patients with obesity, steatosis or type 2 diabetes can partly reproduce the donor’s metabolic phenotype in mouse recipients [4–7].”
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“similar transplantation of the microbiome from the obese but not normal-weight twin, to healthy germ-free mice, also promotes adiposity and perturbs glucose metabolism [9].”
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“transplanting the microbiota of genetically obese ob/ob mice or obese humans to lean germfree mice increases the adiposity of the recipient mice [8], [9]”
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- Authors
- Ridaura, V. K., Faith, J. J., Rey, F. E., Cheng, J., Duncan, A. E., Kau, A. L., Griffin, N. W., Lombard, V., Henrissat, B., Bain, J. R., Muehlbauer, M. J., Ilkayeva, O., Semenkovich, C. F., Funai, K., Hayashi, D. K., Lyle, B. J., Martini, M. C., Ursell, L. K., Clemente, J. C., Van Treuren, W., Walters, W. A., Knight, R., Newgard, C. B., Heath, A. C., & Gordon, J. I.
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Duke Medical Center (US)
- Mondelēz International (United States) (US)
- Kraft Foods Group, Glenview, IL 60025, USA.
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Gordon, Jeffrey I.
- ORCID
- Ridaura, Vanessa K.
- Faith, Jeremiah J.
- Rey, Federico E.
- Cheng, Jiye
- Duncan, Alexis E.
- Kau, Andrew L.
- Griffin, Nicholas W.
- Lombard, Vincent
- Henrissat, Bernard
- Bain, James R.
- Muehlbauer, Michael J.
- Ilkayeva, Olga
- Semenkovich, Clay F.
- Funai, Katsuhiko
- Lyle, Barbara J.
- Walters, William A.
- Knight, Rob
- Newgard, Christopher B.
- Heath, Andrew C.
- Gordon, Jeffrey I.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2013-09-06
- Volume
- 341
- Issue
- 6150
- Pages
- 1241214-1241214
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- PMC
- PMC3829625
- OpenAlex
- W1993399595
- Cited by
- 3,788
- References
- 76
- Citations by year
- 2026: 169 · 2025: 209 · 2024: 260 · 2023: 289 · 2022: 329 · 2021: 422 · 2020: 387 · 2019: 322 · 2018: 357 · 2017: 306 · 2016: 267 · 2015: 264 · 2014: 174 · 2013: 29
- FWCI
- 109.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (K05AA017688)
- National Institute on Aging (P30AG028716)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM008759, T32GM142607)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (K01DK095774, P01DK058398, DK078669, DK-58398, P01DK078669, R01DK076729, DK 70977, F32DK091044, R01DK070977, P30DK056341, P30DK020579)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
- Health Sciences › Dentistry › Periodontics › Oral microbiology and periodontitis research
- Keywords
- gut microbiota, obesity, twin discordance, fecal microbiota transplantation, germ-free mice, body composition, fat mass, Bacteroidetes, diet-microbiome interactions, saturated fat, fruit and vegetable intake, metabolic phenotypes
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Animals, Cecum, Feces, Female, Germ-Free Life, Humans, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Obese, Obesity, Thinness, Twins, Weight Gain, Diet, Fat-Restricted, Bacteroidetes, Gastrointestinal Tract, Adiposity, Mice, Metagenome, Metabolome, Young Adult
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