Understanding the representative gut microbiota dysbiosis in metformin-treated Type 2 diabetes patients using genome-scale metabolic modeling
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2018

Dysbiosis in the gut microbiome composition may be promoted by therapeutic drugs such as metformin, the world's most prescribed antidiabetic drug. Under metformin treatment, disturbances of the intestinal microbes lead to increased abundance of Escherichia spp., Akkermansia muciniphila, Subdoligranulum variabile and decreased abundance of Intestinibacter bartlettii. This alteration may potentially lead to adverse effects on the host metabolism, with the depletion of butyrate producer genus. However, an increased production of butyrate and propionate was verified in metformin-treated Type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients. The mechanisms underlying these nutritional alterations and their relation with gut microbiota dysbiosis remain unclear. Here, we used Genome-scale Metabolic Models of the representative gut bacteria Escherichia spp., I. bartlettii, A. muciniphila, and S. variabile to elucidate their bacterial metabolism and its effect on intestinal nutrient pool, including macronutrients (e.g., amino acids and short chain fatty acids), minerals and chemical elements (e.g., iron and oxygen). We applied flux balance analysis (FBA) coupled with synthetic lethality analysis interactions to identify combinations of reactions and extracellular nutrients whose absence prevents growth. Our analyses suggest that Escherichia sp. is the bacteria least vulnerable to nutrient availability. We have also examined bacterial contribution to extracellular nutrients including short chain fatty acids, amino acids, and gasses. For instance, Escherichia sp. and S. variabile may contribute to the production of important short chain fatty acids (e.g., acetate and butyrate, respectively) involved in the host physiology under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. We have also identified pathway susceptibility to nutrient availability and reaction changes among the four bacteria using both FBA and flux variability analysis. For instance, lipopolysaccharide synthesis, nucleotide sugar metabolism, and amino acid metabolism are pathways susceptible to changes in Escherichia sp. and A. muciniphila. Our observations highlight important commensal and competing behavior, and their association with cellular metabolism for prevalent gut microbes. The results of our analysis have potential important implications for development of new therapeutic approaches in T2D patients through the development of prebiotics, probiotics, or postbiotics.

Genome-scale metabolic models

Host-microbiome interactions

Dysbiosis

Systems biology

Gut microbiota

Författare

Dorines Rosario

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Rui Benfeitas

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

G. Bidkhori

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

C. Zhang

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Mathias Uhlen

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Saeed Shoaie

Karolinska universitetssjukhuset

King's College London

Adil Mardinoglu

Chalmers, Biologi och bioteknik, Systembiologi

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Frontiers in Physiology

1664042x (eISSN)

Vol. 9 JUN 775

Ämneskategorier

Farmaceutisk vetenskap

Mikrobiologi

Organisk kemi

DOI

10.3389/fphys.2018.00775

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