A murine model of tuberculosis/type 2 diabetes comorbidity for investigating the microbiome, metabolome and associated immune parameters
Sathkumara, Harindra D., Eaton, Janet L., Field, Matt A., Govan, Brenda L., Ketheesan, Natkunam, and Kupz, Andreas (2021) A murine model of tuberculosis/type 2 diabetes comorbidity for investigating the microbiome, metabolome and associated immune parameters. Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, 4 (2). pp. 181-188.
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Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world. The metabolic disease type 2 diabetes (T2D) significantly increases the risk of developing active TB. Effective new TB vaccine candidates and novel therapeutic interventions are required to meet the challenges of global TB eradication. Recent evidence suggests that the microbiota plays a significant role in how the host responds to infection, injury and neoplastic changes. Animal models that closely reflect human physiology are crucial in assessing new treatments and to decipher the underlying immunological defects responsible for increased TB susceptibility in comorbid patients. In this study, using a diet-induced murine T2D model that reflects the etiopathogenesis of clinical T2D and increased TB susceptibility, we investigated how the intestinal microbiota may impact the development of T2D, and how the gut microbial composition changes following a very low-dose aerosol infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Our data revealed a substantial intestinal microbiota dysbiosis in T2D mice compared to non-diabetic animals. The observed differences were comparable to previous clinical reports in TB patients, in which it was shown that Mtb infection causes rapid loss of microbial diversity. Furthermore, diversity index and principle component analyses demonstrated distinct clustering of Mtb-infected non-diabetic mice vs. Mtb-infected T2D mice. Our findings support a broad applicability of T2D mice as a tractable small animal model for studying distinct immune parameters, microbiota and the immune-metabolome of TB/T2D comorbidity. This model may also enable answers to be found to critical outstanding questions about targeted interventions of the gut microbiota and the gut-lung axis.
| Item ID: | 69830 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 2576-2095 |
| Keywords: | gut microbiota, host microbe interaction, infectious diseases, tuberculosis, type 2 diabetes |
| Copyright Information: | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial- NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non- commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. © 2021 The Authors. Animal Models and Experimental Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of The Chinese Association for Laboratory Animal Sciences. |
| Funders: | James Cook University (JCU), National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) |
| Projects and Grants: | NHMRC APP1052764, NHMRC APP1120808, NHMRC APP1140709 |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2021 02:13 |
| FoR Codes: | 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3107 Microbiology > 310702 Infectious agents @ 40% 32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES > 3202 Clinical sciences > 320211 Infectious diseases @ 40% 32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES > 3204 Immunology > 320407 Innate immunity @ 20% |
| SEO Codes: | 28 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 2801 Expanding knowledge > 280102 Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences @ 65% 20 HEALTH > 2001 Clinical health > 200104 Prevention of human diseases and conditions @ 35% |
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