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Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women

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Munukka, Eveliina, Ahtiainen, Juha P., Puigbó, Pere, Jalkanen, Sirpa, Pahkala, Katja, Keskitalo, Anniina, Kujala, Urho M., Pietilä, Sami, Hollmén, Maija, Elo, Laura, Huovinen, Pentti, D'Auria, Giuseppe, Pekkala, Satu·2018·Frontiers in Microbiology

DOI 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02323PMC PMC6178902

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Abstract

Previously sedentary overweight women (n=19) underwent a six-week endurance exercise intervention, but two were excluded due to antibiotic therapy. The gut microbiota composition and functions were analyzed by 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and metagenomics. Body composition was analyzed with DXA X-ray densitometer and serum metabolomics with NMR metabolomics. Total energy and energy-yielding nutrient intakes were analyzed from food records using Micro-Nutrica software. Serum clinical variables were determined with KONELAB instrument. Soluble Vascular Adhesion Protein 1 (VAP-1) was measured with ELISA and its’ enzymatic activity as produced hydrogen peroxide. The exercise intervention was effective, as maximal power and maximum rate of oxygen consumption increased while android fat mass decreased. No changes in diet were observed. Metagenomic analysis revealed taxonomic shifts including an increase in Akkermansia and a decrease in Proteobacteria. These changes were independent of age, weight, fat % as well as energy and fibre intake. Training slightly increased Jaccard distance of genus level β-diversity. Training did not alter the enriched metagenomic pathways, which, according to Bray Curtis dissimilarity analysis, may have been due to that only half of the subjects’ microbiomes responded considerably to exercise. Nevertheless, training decreased the abundance of several genes including those related to fructose and amino acid metabolism. These metagenomic changes, however, were not translated into major systemic metabolic changes as only two metabolites, phospholipids and cholesterol in large VLDL particles, decreased after exercise. Training also decreased the amine oxidase activity of pro-inflammatory VAP-1, whereas no changes in CRP were detected. All clinical blood variables were within normal range, yet exercise slightly increased glucose and decreased LDL and HDL. In conclusion, exercise training modified the gut microbiome without greatly affecting systemic metabolites or body composition. Based on our data and existing literature, we propose that especially Akkermansia and Proteobacteria are exercise-responsive taxa. Our results warrant the need for further studies in larger cohorts to determine whether exercise types other than endurance exercise also modify the gut metagenome.

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Six weeks of supervised endurance exercise in previously sedentary overweight women improved fitness and modestly shifted gut metagenome composition, including increased *Akkermansia* and decreased Proteobacteria, without major changes in systemic metabolism or body composition. The authors propose *Akkermansia* and Proteobacteria as exercise-responsive taxa but call for larger/longer trials.

Key findings

Exercise was effective: VO2max increased from 29.8 ± 5.2 to 32.5 ± 5.4 ml·min⁻¹·kg⁻¹ and maximal power from 182.9 ± 36.0 to 202.6 ± 36.4 W (both p < 0.001); submaximal blood lactate decreased from 3.0 ± 0.8 to 2.3 ± 0.7 mmol·L⁻¹ (p < 0.001). Android fat mass decreased from 3.87 ± 1.42 to 3.75 ± 1.39 kg (p = 0.005), with no significant weight, BMI, total fat, or diet changes except a slight increase in starch energy percentage (20.7 ± 6.3 to 22.8 ± 3.4, p = 0.033).
Metagenomic analysis showed increased genus-level Jaccard β-diversity (0.449 to 0.465, p = 0.014), increased Verrucomicrobia (p = 0.038), Verrucomicrobiaceae (p = 0.038), Bifidobacteriaceae (p = 0.015), *Akkermansia* (p = 0.038), *Dorea* (p = 0.028), and *Anaerofilum* (p = 0.037), and decreased Proteobacteria (p = 0.039), unidentified Porphyromonadaceae (p = 0.016), *Odoribacter* (p = 0.033), unidentified Desulfovibrionaceae (p = 0.037), and unidentified Enterobacteriaceae (p = 0.036). Only Proteobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, Verrucomicrobiaceae, and *Akkermansia* changed independently of age, weight, fat %, android fat %, energy, sucrose, or fiber intake.
No major KEGG pathway enrichment changes were detected; several individual genes decreased, including those related to fructose/mannose metabolism, amino acid metabolism, and B-vitamin synthesis. Systemic metabolomics showed only decreased phospholipids and cholesterol in large VLDL particles (p < 0.05 for both). VAP-1 enzymatic activity decreased (p = 0.011) without change in VAP-1 protein or CRP, and TLR5 mRNA increased (p = 0.029).

Methods

Design: six-week supervised endurance cycling intervention in previously sedentary overweight women (BMI >27.5 kg/m²), with a preceding six-week non-training control period; subjects served as their own controls. Three sessions/week progressed from 40 to 60 min, with low-intensity and moderate-intensity interval cycling.
Sample: 19 women underwent the intervention; 2 were excluded from final analyses due to antibiotic therapy, leaving n = 17 for physical performance, body composition, and clinical variables; n = 15 for metagenome analyses after 2 additional samples clustered differently; n = 14 completed food diaries at all time points.
Measurements/analysis: 16S rRNA gene V4 amplicon sequencing and shotgun metagenomics; DXA for body composition; NMR metabolomics; KONELAB clinical assays; VAP-1 ELISA and amine oxidase activity; whole-blood TLR4/TLR5 qPCR. Statistics included repeated-measures ANOVA with Bonferroni post-hoc, Wilcoxon signed-rank tests with Benjamini-Hochberg correction, QIIME, Microbiome Analyst, Spearman correlations, and general linear models.

Limitations

Stated: the cohort was small and the authors state that larger and longer exercise trials are needed; only approximately half of subjects’ microbiomes responded considerably to exercise, and inter-individual variation was large; food records are prone to under-reporting and social-desirability/social-approval bias; the mechanism by which exercise regulates VAP-1 activity without changing protein concentration could not be determined.
Evident from the text: the study included only overweight women and only endurance exercise, so findings may not generalize to men, other BMI groups, or other exercise types; metagenome analyses were reduced to n = 15, and diet analyses to n = 14, further limiting power; the absence of major systemic metabolic changes may partly reflect heterogeneous individual responses rather than true lack of effect.

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“Another study reported that combined eight-weeks aerobic and resistance exercise induced modest shifts in gut metagenomes despite no changes in the diversity of taxa or metabolic pathways (Cronin et al., 2018).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Introduction
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“To date, one study showed that exercise induced compositional changes in the human gut microbiota that were more pronounced in lean than in obese (Allen et al., 2017).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Introduction
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“Cross-sectional human studies have reported that professional rugby players diverge from body mass index (BMI)-matched non-athletes in several bacterial phyla (Clarke et al., 2014), and that normal weight active women differ from sedentary women in several taxa (Bressa et al., 2017).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Introduction
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“Both exercise and gut microbiota are known to induce inflammation (Clark and Mach, 2017), which may be mediated by bacterial molecules-recognizing Toll-like receptors (TLR) (McKenzie et al., 2017).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Introduction
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“VAP-1 is a multifunctional protein with amine oxidase activity (Salmi and Jalkanen, 2017) that degrades primary amines and produces hydrogen peroxide, ammonium and aldehydes, which can modify the microenvironment to pro-inflammatory direction and cause detrimental effects on vasculature.”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Introduction
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“Acute effects of exercise have also been studied using maximal bicycle ergometer test that showed an increase in the abundance of 7 out of 9 major taxa in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome compared to 2 of 9 in healthy controls (Shukla et al., 2015).”
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In the paper
“Cross-sectional human studies have reported that professional rugby players diverge from body mass index (BMI)-matched non-athletes in several bacterial phyla (Clarke et al., 2014), and that normal weight active women differ from sedentary women in several taxa (Bressa et al., 2017).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites Bressa et al., 2017 source
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In the paper
“VAP-1 is a multifunctional protein with amine oxidase activity (Salmi and Jalkanen, 2017) that degrades primary amines and produces hydrogen peroxide, ammonium and aldehydes, which can modify the microenvironment to pro-inflammatory direction and cause detrimental effects on vasculature.”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites Salmi and Jalkanen, 2017
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In the paper
“VAP-1 is a multifunctional protein with amine oxidase activity (Salmi and Jalkanen, 2017) that degrades primary amines and produces hydrogen peroxide, ammonium and aldehydes, which can modify the microenvironment to pro-inflammatory direction and cause detrimental effects on vasculature.”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites Salmi and Jalkanen, 2017
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“In addition, half marathon performed by amateurs was reported to affect gut microbiota composition, predicted functions and fecal metabolites (Zhao et al., 2018b).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Introduction
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“In addition, in the study of Bressa et al. the sedentary group had significantly higher body fat percentage and mass (Bressa et al., 2017), traits known to be highly associated with gut microbiota composition (Turnbaugh et al., 2009).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Introduction
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“Previously we have shown that the amine oxidase activity of Vascular Adhesion Protein 1 (VAP-1) is involved in a lipolysaccharide-induced inflammation model (Yu et al., 2006)”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites Yu et al., 2006
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In the paper
“Both exercise and gut microbiota are known to induce inflammation (Clark and Mach, 2017), which may be mediated by bacterial molecules-recognizing Toll-like receptors (TLR) (McKenzie et al., 2017).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites Clark and Mach, 2017
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“Recently, animal models have shown that exercise impacts microbial abundance (Lambert et al., 2015; Welly et al., 2016)”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites Lambert et al., 2015 source
- Not checked yetcites Welly et al., 2016 source
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“Due to that the gut microbiota composition is known to be highly associated with weight and body composition (Turnbaugh et al., 2009)”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Results > Exercise training did not lead to a significant weight loss but decreased android fat mass
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- Not checked yetcites Turnbaugh et al., 2009 source
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“In animal models exercise has boosted the abundance of Dorea (Allen et al., 2015; Denou et al., 2016)”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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“as well as between physically active and sedentary women (Bressa et al., 2017).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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“as fiber-rich diet seem to promote Akkermansia growth (Everard et al., 2014).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Everard et al., 2014 source
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“As exercise is known to increase absorption of fructose (Fujisawa et al., 1993)”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Fujisawa et al., 1993 source
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“An increased abundance of Enterobacteriaceae has been reported in obesity (Scheepers et al., 2015)”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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“A similar concept of the so-called responder microbes was also raised in a diet intervention that attempted to ameliorate Type 2 diabetes by improving short chain fatty acid (SCFA) production from fibers (Zhao et al., 2018a).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Zhao et al., 2018a
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“This could contribute to the reduction in fructose and mannose metabolism genes.”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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- Rests on an assumption: Fructose absorption mainly occurs in the small intestine.
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“Akkermansia has been found to be lower in several conditions, such as during obesity, diabetes (Cani and de Vos, 2017)”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Cani and de Vos, 2017
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“On the other hand, similar to our results, Allen and co-workers reported compositional and β-diversity changes of the microbiota in response to six-weeks endurance training that resembled the intervention of our study (Allen et al., 2017).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Allen et al., 2017 source
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In the paper
“The authors concluded that the shifts were dependent on the obesity status and were reversed after cessation of the training.”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Allen et al., 2017 source
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“However, including both genders in the study may have hindered some of the discoveries, as gender differences in the gut microbiota are known to influence, for instance, metabolic outcomes and immunity (Fransen et al., 2017).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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In the paper
“First, athletes harbored more Akkermansia than sedentary controls (Clarke et al., 2014)”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Clarke et al., 2014 source
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In the paper
“In agreement with our findings, exercise decreased Proteobacteria in rats with high aerobic capacity (Liu et al., 2015).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Liu et al., 2015 source
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“In contrast to our study, after eight-weeks of non-guided, combined aerobic and resistance exercise, Cronin et al. failed to detect significant changes in the gut microbiota composition or functions.”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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“while in a human study it increased after cessation of the training and not in response to exercise (Allen et al., 2017).”
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- Not checked yetcites Allen et al., 2017 source
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In the paper
“Nevertheless, a prolonged protein supplementation did not affect the gut microbiome (Cronin et al., 2018) and therefore the real effect of reduced protein intake can be questioned.”
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- Not checked yetcites Cronin et al., 2018 source
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In the paper
“and, that intrinsic aerobic capacity impacts the microbiota composition (Pekkala et al., 2017).”
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- Not checked yetcites Pekkala et al., 2017 source
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“In accordance, animal studies by us and others have reported that high-intensity endurance training modified the gut microbiota (Campbell et al., 2016; Denou et al., 2016)”
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- Not checked yetcites Campbell et al., 2016 source
- Not checked yetcites Denou et al., 2016 source
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“Akkermansia is suggested to be health-beneficial for its capacity to improve lipid oxidation in diet-induced obese mice (Everard et al., 2013).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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In the paper
“It was recently demonstrated by targeted gene amplification, not metagenomics, that in addition to the influence on the gut microbiota composition, exercise training increased the gene encoding butyrate forming Butyryl CoA: Acetate CoA transferase (Allen et al., 2017)”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Allen et al., 2017 source
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In the paper
“as did the active women compared to inactive (Bressa et al., 2017).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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In the paper
“where the majority of carbohydrate-metabolizing microbes reside (Krajmalnik-Brown et al., 2012).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Krajmalnik-Brown et al., 2012 source
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In the paper
“and in rats the latter decreased in response to voluntary exercise (Liu et al., 2015).”
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- Not checked yetcites Liu et al., 2015 source
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In the paper
“and non-alcoholic steatohepatosis (Zhu et al., 2013)”
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“Inter-individual variation in the gut microbiota composition and gene content is known to be vast (Lozupone et al., 2012).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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“Corroborating our findings Odoribacter and unidentified Desulfovibrionaceae were lower in active women than sedentary (Bressa et al., 2017)”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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“as gender differences in the gut microbiota are known to influence, for instance, metabolic outcomes and immunity (Fransen et al., 2017).”
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“It seems that both compositional and functional differencies in the gut microbiota exist between professional athletes and their BMI-matched sedentary counterparts (Clarke et al., 2014)”
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“But interestingly, contradictory findings from the human exercise interventions have been recently presented (Allen et al., 2017; Cronin et al., 2018).”
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“Nevertheless, a prolonged protein supplementation did not affect the gut microbiome (Cronin et al., 2018)”
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“as VLDL transports lipids from liver to peripheral tissues and thus has detrimental cardiovascular effects (Ren et al., 2010).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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“In addition, in mice, exhaustive exercise up-regulates flagellin-mediated inflammation by increasing TLR5 expression (Uchida et al., 2014).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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“The VLDL particle reducing effect of exercise is supported by our own study showing that long-term leisure time physical activity was associated with lower cholesterol in VLDL (Kujala et al., 2013).”
§ Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women > Discussion
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“Our finding is in agreement with the report showing that a prolonged bout of strenuous exercise increases the expression of TLRs (Gleeson, 2007).”
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Dietary composition affects the gut microbiota.
“As dietary composition affects the gut microbiota, the total daily energy and the intake of energy-yielding nutrients, were analyzed from the 3-days food records.”
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Starch is broken down into glucose moieties.
“as starch is broken down into glucose moieties”
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Fructose absorption mainly occurs in the small intestine.
“that mainly occurs in the small intestine”
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No studies in humans have reported associations between Proteobacteria and exercise or physical fitness that would support the responsiveness of this taxon to exercise training.
“However, to our knowledge, no studies in humans have reported associations between Proteobacteria and exercise or physical fitness that would support the responsiveness of this taxon to exercise training.”

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Age exception for adjusted taxonomic changes is reversed
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Authors: Munukka, E., Ahtiainen, J. P., Puigbó, P., Jalkanen, S., Pahkala, K., Keskitalo, A., Kujala, U. M., Pietilä, S., Hollmén, M., Elo, L., Huovinen, P., D'Auria, G., & Pekkala, S.
Affiliations: University of Turku (FI)
University of Jyväskylä (FI)
Corresponding author: Pekkala, Satu
ORCID: Munukka, Eveliina
Ahtiainen, Juha P.
Jalkanen, Sirpa
Pahkala, Katja
Keskitalo, Anniina
Kujala, Urho M.
Pietilä, Sami
Hollmén, Maija
Elo, Laura
Huovinen, Pentti
Pekkala, Satu
Venue: Frontiers in Microbiology
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2018-10-03
Volume: 9
Pages: 2323-2323
ISSN: 1664-302X (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02323
PMC: PMC6178902
OpenAlex: W2895626130
Semantic Scholar: 49f9b1b1c0362d8fb2a32100df80f53eb0f3b6bb
Cited by: 237
References: 55
Citations by year: 2026: 31 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 43 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 14
FWCI: 6.49
Type: journal article
Language: en
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Funders: Juho Vainion Säätiö
Topics: Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
Health Sciences › Dentistry › Periodontics › Oral microbiology and periodontitis research
Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
Keywords: endurance exercise, gut microbiota, gut metagenome, overweight women, Akkermansia, Proteobacteria, serum metabolomics, VAP-1, amine oxidase activity, hydrogen peroxide, body composition, fat mass, fructose metabolism, amino acid metabolism, lipid metabolism, VLDL cholesterol, phospholipids

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