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Laboratory mice born to wild mice have natural microbiota and model human immune responses

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Rosshart, Stephan P., Herz, Jasmin, Vassallo, Brian G., Hunter, Ashli, Wall, Morgan K., Badger, Jonathan H., McCulloch, John A., Anastasakis, Dimitrios G. +18 more·2019·Science

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Born to be a wildling: Inbred laboratory mouse strains are used extensively in basic and translational immunology research. However, the commensal and pathogenic repertoire of resident microbes encountered in the wild is not replicated in a lab setting. This can substantially distort how the immune system develops and functions, leading to false assumptions of how our own “wild” immune system works. Rosshart et al. circumvented this dilemma by implanting lab-strain embryos into wild mice (see the Perspective by Nobs and Elinav). The resultant “wildlings” had a systemic immune phenotype and a bacterial, viral, and fungal microbiome much closer to those of their wild counterparts. In two preclinical experiments, where lab mice had previously failed to predict the human response to drug treatments, wildlings accurately phenocopied patient outcomes. Science , this issue p. eaaw4361 ; see also p. 444

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Rosshart, S. P., Herz, J., Vassallo, B. G., Hunter, A., Wall, M. K., Badger, J. H., McCulloch, J. A., Anastasakis, D. G., Sarshad, A. A., Leonardi, I., Collins, N., Blatter, J. A., Han, S.-J., Tamoutounour, S., Potapova, S., Foster St. Claire, M. B., Yuan, W., Sen, S. K., Dreier, M. S., Hild, B., Hafner, M., Wang, D., Iliev, I. D., Belkaid, Y., Trinchieri, G., & Rehermann, B.
Affiliations
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
  • University of Virginia (US)
  • United States Department of Health and Human Services (US)
  • Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • Laboratory of Animal Sciences Section, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Corresponding author
  • Rosshart, Stephan P.
  • Herz, Jasmin
  • Vassallo, Brian G.
  • Rehermann, Barbara
Venue
Science
Published
2019-08-02
Volume
365
Issue
6452
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2965604684
Cited by
572
References
68
Citations by year
2026: 53 · 2025: 92 · 2024: 76 · 2023: 81 · 2022: 71 · 2021: 104 · 2020: 74 · 2019: 20
FWCI
22.26
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (DDIR Innovation Award, DK113136, AI137157-01)
  • National Cancer Institute (intramural research program)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (intramural research program)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (intramural research program)
  • National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (intramural research program)
  • Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation (Senior Research Award)
  • Kenneth Rainin Foundation
  • ARC Foundation for Cancer Research
  • European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) fellowship (ALTF1535-2014)
  • Swedish Resarch Council (2015-06376)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (HI 2088/1-1)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Animal Genetics and Reproduction
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune Response and Inflammation
Keywords
embryo transfer, gut microbiota, fungal communities, virome, immune response modeling, translational research, reproducibility, pathogen colonization, natural microbiota
MeSH terms
Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Host Microbial Interactions, Animals, Animals, Wild, Humans, Immunity, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Models, Animal, Mice, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Translational Research, Biomedical

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