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Gastroenterology ; 160(5): 1532-1545, 2021 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33310084

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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Altered gut microbiota composition and function have been associated with inflammatory bowel diseases, including ulcerative colitis (UC), but the causality and mechanisms remain unknown. METHODS: We applied 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing, shotgun metagenomic sequencing, in vitro functional assays, and gnotobiotic colonizations to define the microbial composition and function in fecal samples obtained from a cohort of healthy individuals at risk for inflammatory bowel diseases (pre-UC) who later developed UC (post-UC) and matched healthy control individuals (HCs). RESULTS: Microbiota composition of post-UC samples was different from HC and pre-UC samples; however, functional analysis showed increased fecal proteolytic and elastase activity before UC onset. Metagenomics identified more than 22,000 gene families that were significantly different between HC, pre-UC, and post-UC samples. Of these, 237 related to proteases and peptidases, suggesting a bacterial component to the pre-UC proteolytic signature. Elastase activity inversely correlated with the relative abundance of Adlercreutzia and other potentially beneficial taxa and directly correlated with known proteolytic taxa, such as Bacteroides vulgatus. High elastase activity was confirmed in Bacteroides isolates from fecal samples. The bacterial contribution and functional significance of the proteolytic signature were investigated in germ-free adult mice and in dams colonized with HC, pre-UC, or post-UC microbiota. Mice colonized with or born from pre-UC-colonized dams developed higher fecal proteolytic activity and an inflammatory immune tone compared with HC-colonized mice. CONCLUSIONS: We have identified increased fecal proteolytic activity that precedes the clinical diagnosis of UC and associates with gut microbiota changes. This proteolytic signature may constitute a noninvasive biomarker of inflammation to monitor at-risk populations that can be targeted therapeutically with antiproteases.


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Bactérias/enzimologia , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Colite Ulcerativa/microbiologia , Fezes/microbiologia , Microbioma Gastrointestinal , Peptídeo Hidrolases/metabolismo , Adolescente , Adulto , Animais , Bactérias/efeitos dos fármacos , Bactérias/genética , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Biomarcadores/metabolismo , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Criança , Colite Ulcerativa/diagnóstico , Colite Ulcerativa/tratamento farmacológico , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Transplante de Microbiota Fecal , Feminino , Microbioma Gastrointestinal/efeitos dos fármacos , Vida Livre de Germes , Humanos , Masculino , Metagenoma , Metagenômica , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Peptídeo Hidrolases/genética , Valor Preditivo dos Testes , Estudos Prospectivos , Inibidores de Proteases/uso terapêutico , Proteólise , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Ribotipagem , Adulto Jovem
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