1. Epithelial-Derived Reactive Oxygen Species Enable AppBCX-Mediated Aerobic Respiration of Escherichia coli during Intestinal Inflammation
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Chanin, Rachael B, Winter, Maria G, Spiga, Luisella, Hughes, Elizabeth R, Zhu, Wenhan, Taylor, Savannah J, Arenales, Alexandre, Gillis, Caroline C, Büttner, Lisa, Jimenez, Angel G, Smoot, Madeline P, Santos, Renato L, and Winter, Sebastian E
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Microbiology ,Biological Sciences ,Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ,Prevention ,Autoimmune Disease ,Infectious Diseases ,Digestive Diseases ,Inflammatory Bowel Disease ,Infection ,Good Health and Well Being ,Aerobiosis ,Animals ,Colitis ,DNA ,Bacterial ,Disease Models ,Animal ,Electron Transport Complex IV ,Escherichia coli ,Escherichia coli Proteins ,Female ,Gastrointestinal Microbiome ,Host Microbial Interactions ,Hydrogen Peroxide ,Inflammation ,Intestinal Mucosa ,Male ,Mice ,Mice ,Inbred BALB C ,Mice ,Inbred C57BL ,Microbiota ,NADPH Oxidase 1 ,Oxygen ,Reactive Oxygen Species ,cytochrome oxidase ,gut inflammation ,gut microbiota dysbiosis ,intestinal epithelium ,microbial respiration ,reactive oxygen species ,Medical Microbiology ,Immunology ,Biochemistry and cell biology ,Medical microbiology - Abstract
The intestinal epithelium separates host tissue and gut-associated microbial communities. During inflammation, the host releases reactive oxygen and nitrogen species as an antimicrobial response. The impact of these radicals on gut microbes is incompletely understood. We discovered that the cryptic appBCX genes, predicted to encode a cytochrome bd-II oxidase, conferred a fitness advantage for E. coli in chemical and genetic models of non-infectious colitis. This fitness advantage was absent in mice that lacked epithelial NADPH oxidase 1 (NOX1) activity. In laboratory growth experiments, supplementation with exogenous hydrogen peroxide enhanced E. coli growth through AppBCX-mediated respiration in a catalase-dependent manner. We conclude that epithelial-derived reactive oxygen species are degraded in the gut lumen, which gives rise to molecular oxygen that supports the aerobic respiration of E. coli. This work illustrates how epithelial host responses intersect with gut microbial metabolism in the context of gut inflammation.
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- 2020