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Impacts of Molecular Oxygen on the Structure and Function of the Intestinal Micro

分子氧对肠道微结构和功能的影响

基本信息

批准号：
8412245
负责人：
Jay W Grate
金额：
$ 27.74万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2013-03-07 至 2017-02-28
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8412245
关键词：
Address Affinity Animals Bacteria Budgets Cells Collaborations Communities Complex Cytochromes Diffuse Drug Metabolic Detoxication Elements Endoscopy Energy-Generating Resources Enterocytes Environment Environmental Impact Escherichia coli Evolution Gastrointestinal tract structure Germ-Free Habitats Health Homeostasis Human Human body In Vitro Intestinal Mucosa Intestines Knock-out Maintenance Measures Microbe Microbial Biofilms Microfluidics Molecular Mucosal Immunity Mus Organism Oxidases Oxygen Physiological Play Population Production Relative (related person)Research Resistance Respiration Role Shapes Shotguns Signal Transduction Structure Surface Surveys Testing Volatile Fatty Acids Work base cytochrome c oxidase fitness in vivo metagenome microbial community microbial host microbiome pathogen predictive modeling research study response tool

项目摘要

Complex communities of microbes are intimately associated with the human body and integral to human health. Unlike pathogens that inflict damage as a consequence of their proliferation, communities of mutualistic microbes are essential for the normal functioning of the host. In the GI tract, microbes play critical roles in the maintenance of gut homeostasis, including competition against ingested pathogens ("colonization resistance"), detoxification of ingested compounds, maintenance of mucosal immunity and production of short-chain fatty acids - the preferred energy source of colonic enterocytes and a potent immunomodulatory signal. While co- evolution of microbes and their human host has led to a genetically diverse community of microbes in the gut, microenvironments in the host shape these communities. In this proposal we will focus on the influence of oxygen gradients on the structure and function of microbial communities. In the mammalian GI tract, oxygen diffuses into the lumen from the host, resulting in a microoxic zone where the low oxygen concentrations have the potential to impact both microbial communities and host cells. Long-held assumptions about the concentration of oxygen required to support respiration have been challenged recently by the finding that populations of E. coli grow and respire at oxygen concentrations less than 3 nM - more than 2 orders of magnitude below previous estimates. We propose to test the impact OF low oxygen environments on the structure and function of microbial communities in the mammalian GI tract. We will study the role of oxygen gradients in governing the structure and activity of microbial communities as we address the following specific aims: 1) Determine the diversity and abundance of bacteria in the human and murine intestinal microbiomes that have high-affinity cytochrome oxidases, and assess the competitive fitness of these microaerobes; 2) Use in vitro spatially-structured microenvironments, with oxygen sensing elements, to assess the role of oxygen in determining the competitive fitness of microaerobes; and 3) Measure in vivo oxygen concentrations at the mucosal surface in germ free mice and mice colonized with or microbial communities. Additionally, we will determine if differences in strategies for dealing with oxygen gives a relative ecologic advantage to certain organisms. Understanding the role of oxygen in shaping the structure and function of microbial communities will advance our ability to build predictive models of interactions between the host and microbiota, not only in the GI tract, but anywhere on the body where biofilms create oxygen gradients.

复杂的微生物群落与人体密切相关，是人体不可或缺的一部分