Project description:To determine the activation patterns of ILC2s and associated ILC2-intrinsic functional molecules triggered by the high fiber diet, we administered either a control or high fiber diet in WT mice and performed RNA sequencing of FACS-sorted ILC2s from mouse colons. RNAseq libraries were prepared from 1,000 sorted colonic lamina propria ILC2s (CD45+Lin-CD90.2+CD127+KLRG1+) by the Epigenomics Core at WCM using the Clontech SMARTer® Ultra® Low Input RNA Kit V4 (Clontech Laboratories). Libraries were sequenced on an Illumina HiSeq 2500, generating 50 bp single-end reads. Two samples from two control diet-fed WT SPF mice and two samples from two high fiber diet-fed WT SPF mice were used.
Project description:RATIONALE: Fiber may lessen bowel side effects caused by radiation therapy. It is not yet known whether a high-fiber diet is more effective than a low-fiber diet in preventing bowel side effects caused by radiation therapy.
PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying a high-fiber diet to see how well it works compared with a low-fiber diet in preventing bowel side effects in patients undergoing radiation therapy for gynecological cancer, bladder cancer, colorectal cancer, or anal cancer.
Project description:Despite accepted health benefits of dietary fiber, little is known about the mechanisms by which fiber deprivation impacts the gut microbiota and alters disease risk. Using a gnotobiotic model, in which mice were colonized with a synthetic human gut microbiota, we elucidated the functional interactions between dietary fiber, the gut microbiota and the colonic mucus barrier, which serves as a primary defence against pathogens. We show that during chronic or intermittent dietary fiber deficiency, the gut microbiota resorts to host-secreted mucus glycoproteins as a nutrient source, leading to erosion of the colonic mucus barrier. Dietary fiber deprivation promoted greater epithelial access and lethal colitis by the mucosal pathogen, Citrobacter rodentium, but only in the presence of a fiber-deprived microbiota that is pushed to degrade the mucus layer. Our work reveals intricate pathways linking diet, gut microbiome and intestinal barrier dysfunction, which could be exploited to improve health using dietary therapeutics. Germ-free mice (Swiss Webster) were colonized with synthetic human gut microbiota comprising of 14 species belonging to five different phyla (names of bacterial species: Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, Bacteroides ovatus, Bacteroides caccae, Bacteroides uniformis, Barnesiella intestinihominis, Eubacterium rectale, Marvinbryantia formatexigens, Collinsella aerofaciens, Escherichia coli HS, Clostridium symbiosum, Desulfovibrio piger, Akkermansia muciniphila, Faecalibacterium prausnitzii and Roseburia intestinalis). These mice were fed either a fiber-rich diet or a fiber-free diet for about 6 weeks. The mice were then sacrificed and their cecal tissues were immediately flash frozen for RNA extraction. The extracted RNA was subjected to microarray analysis based on Mouse Gene ST 2.1 strips using the Affy Plus kit. Expression values for each gene were calculated using robust multi-array average (RMA) method.
Project description:Here we have shown that diet-mediated alterations of the gut microbiota composition cause an erosion of the colonic mucus barrier. A compensatory increase in cellular mucus production by the host is not sufficient to re-establish the barrier, possibly due to a lacking increase in mucus secretion. While microbial transplant from mice fed a fiber-rich diet can prevent the mucus defects, the mechanism seems to be independent of general fiber fermentation and rather depend on distinct bacterial species and/or their metabolites.
Project description:Gastrointestinal content of mice fed high or low fiber diets was labeled with the GH2c-ABP. 3x replicates of each diet, 2x littermates per diet. 12 total mice.
Project description:Type 2 diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) has been linked to Ca2+ signaling alterations, notably a decreased mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake. Uncovering of Ca2+ microdomains between cardiac mitochondria and reticulum launched a new investigation avenue for cardiometabolic diseases. We here aimed to study if the impairment of mitochondrial Ca2+ handling could be due to a dysregulation of the reticulum-mitochondria interactions or of the mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter in the diabetic mice heart. Phenotypic alterations of the type 2 diabetic mouse heart, was done using an in vivo obesogenic high fat high sucrose diet fed mouse model (HFHSD: 20% proteins, 36% lipids). The composition of the cardiac MAM fractions between standard diet-fed (SD) mice and HFHSD (HF) mice at 16 weeks was analysed by MS-based quantitative proteomics.
Project description:The composition of the diet affects many processes in the body, including body weight and endocrine system. We have previously shown that dietary fat also affects the immune system. Mice fed high fat diet rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids survive S. aureus infection to a much greater extent than mice fed high fat diet rich in saturated fatty acids. Here we present data regarding the dietary effects on protein expression in spleen from mice fed three different diets, I) low fat/chow diet (LFD, n=4), II) high fat diet rich in saturated fatty acids (HFD-S, n=4) and III) high fat diet rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids (HFD-P, n=4). We performed mass spectrophotometry based quantitative proteomics analysis of isolated spleen by implementing the isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantification (iTRAQ) approach. Mass spectrometry data were analysed using Proteome Discoverer 2.4 software using the search engine mascot against Mus musculus in SwissProt. 924 proteins are identified in all sets (n=4) for different dietary effects taken for statistical analysis using Qlucore Omics Explorer software. Only 20 proteins were found to be differentially expressed with a cut-off value of false discovery rate < 0.1 (q-value) when comparing HFD-S and HFD-P but no differentially expressed proteins were found when LFD was compared with HFD-P or HFD-S. We identified a subset of proteins that showed an inverse expression pattern between two high fat diets. These differentially expressed proteins were further classified by gene ontology for their role in biological processes and molecular functions.
Project description:Feeding dietary fiber is known to provide us many beneficial effects. We used microarrays to detail the changes of gene expression in colons of mice fed the psyllium fiber for 5 days.
Project description:Proteomics of liver tissue from mice fed a high fat diet (HFD) or regular chow diet. Data accompany our paper entitled “Dynamic Regulation of N6,2′-O-dimethyladenosine (m6Am) in Obesity” scheduled for publication in Nature Communications, 2021