Age-Related Colonic Mucosal Microbiome Community Shifts in Monkeys release_47yks4depndihk6jnsgd2i4kpe

by Ravichandra Vemuri, Chrissy Sherrill, Matt Davis, Kylie Kavanagh

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2020  

Abstract

Recent evidence suggests that gut microbiome changes that occur with age impact the health of the host. While it is known that the gut microbiome and physiological systems interact, the relationship between the microbiome in an aged body system remains to be clearly defined, particularly in the context of inflammation. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate systemic inflammation and the mucosal microbiome in young and old female vervet monkeys. Ascending colon mucosal biopsies and blood samples from healthy young and old monkeys were collected for 16S rRNA gene sequencing and cytokine analyses, respectively. To demonstrate microbial co-occurrence patterns, we used Kendall's tau correlation measure of interactions between microbes. We found elevated levels of plasma MCP-1 and CRP in old monkeys, which are indicative of higher systemic inflammation. Microbiome analysis revealed increases in abundance of opportunistic pathobionts such as members of the Proteobacteria phylum in old monkeys. At the family level, abundances of Prevotellaceae and Helicobacteraceae were higher in old monkeys than in young. We also found significantly lower Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes ratio (P= 0.03) and lower abundance of butyrate-producing microbes in old monkeys, consistent with a less healthy profile. Microbial community co-occurrence analysis revealed 13 nodes and 41 associations in the young monkeys, but only 12 nodes and 21 associations in the old monkeys. Our findings provided novel insights into systemic inflammation and gut microbial interactions, highlights the importance of the mucosal niche changes with age, and may facilitate further understanding of the decline in the stability of the microbial community with aging.
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