Role of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii in Crohn's Disease: friend, foe, or does not really matter?
Role of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii in Crohn's Disease: friend, foe, or does not really matter?
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普氏粪杆菌在克罗恩病中的作用:朋友、敌人,还是并不重要?
DOI:
10.1097/mib.0000000000000079
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
Gerasimidis K
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作者:
Gerasimidis K
E18| www. ibdjournal. org our recognition of Helicobacter pylori as the leading cause of peptic ulceration and subsequent gastric carcinogenesis and seek to fit theories around observed evidence and not the opposite stance. The division of bacterial species within the literature into “good” and “bad” organisms is a biologically naive but narratively convenient position that ignores subspecies or strain-specific traits. Two species that would advocate caution with this approach are Escherichia coli, associated with many diseases including a key role in CD2 while also being long recognized as a successful probiotic agent, 3 and Bacteroides fragilis having a demonstrable role in driving an immunoregulatory response4 while also being capable of initiating rodent colitis. 5 In this context, a more complex role for F. prausnitzii than simply a “good guy” should at least be considered. We do not dispute that a dysbiotic microbiota is a characteristic of CD, but thus far reverse causality cannot be ruled out in previous studies. The previous observation from Sokol et al of a lower endoscopic relapse rate in those patients who had a higher abundance of F. prausnitzii6 is intriguing and we do not undermine the evidence that supports the anti-inflammatory properties and biological role of butyrate in colonic health. We would, however, highlight previous work among our group that demonstrates that treatment naive children have increased mucosal F. prausnitzii at diagnosis, 7 and previous studies have also demonstrated a reduction in F. prausnitzii in adults during EEN treatment who show a clinical response. 8 Collectively, these challenge the current paradigm that increases in this species are always beneficial in patients with CD. Additionally, the large majority of intervention studies using prebiotics and/or probiotics to induce or maintain clinical remission in people with CD have produced disappointing results, 9 and usage of butyrate enemas has been limited to patients with ulcerative colitis10 or in animal studies of colitis, 11 which do not necessarily reflect disease pathogenesis in humans. We do agree that gut microbiota plays an important role in the activation of the gut-associated immune system, and we suggest that EEN induces clinical remission and achieves mucosal healing by suppressing certain species of the gut microbiota and their metabolism. This way, activation of the defective gut-associated immune system in patients with CD by bacterially derived mediators is diminished. High-throughput sequencing and metabolomics techniques now offer improved characterization of the entire microbiome and its changes during EEN and during CD evolution. Future studies should try to delineate the primary bacterial changes during EEN and their mechanistic role in countering colonic inflammation compared with those that are epiphenomena, altered simply by the lack of fiber in the EEN feeds or other reasons. This will allow the development of novel nutritional therapies tailored specifically to CD, supplemented with or without butyrate producing ingredients, and with food-grade bacteria to promote or not the growth of symbiotic species and providing useful information for the pathogenesis and response to treatment of CD in other clinical situations.
影响因子:
4.9
作者:
Gerasimidis, Konstantinos;Bertz, Martin;Edwards, Christine A.
通讯作者:
Edwards, Christine A.