The Impact of B3GNT7 on Properties of Intestinal Mucus and the Gut Microbiome

B3GNT7 对肠粘液和肠道微生物组特性的影响

基本信息

批准号：
10678564
负责人：
Mary Wilton Newton Burns
金额：
$ 3.86万
依托单位：
UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2023-07-01 至 2025-06-30
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10678564
关键词：
16S ribosomal RNA sequencing Affect Anabolism Bacteria Biochemical Biophysics Cell Line Cell surface Communities Crohn&apos s disease Disease Exhibits Foundations Fucose Future Gene Cluster Glycoconjugates Glycoproteins Health Homeostasis Human Human Cell Line Inflammation Inflammatory Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Intestines Knock-out Link Mass Spectrum Analysis Mediating Metagenomics Microbe Modeling Molecular Molecular Structure Mucins Mucous body substance Mus N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases Nutrient Patients Pattern Physiology Polysaccharides Property Quality of life Regulation Reporting Research Shotguns Signal Transduction Site Small Intestines Structure Sulfate Symbiosis Techniques Tissues Ulcerative Colitis United States beneficial microorganism biophysical properties biophysical techniques commensal bacteria commensal microbes cytokine dysbiosis enteric pathogen experimental study glycoproteomics glycosylation glycosyltransferase golgi apparatus membrane gut inflammation gut microbes gut microbiome gut microbiota host microbiome host microbiota host-microbe interactions ileum inhibitor insight interleukin-22 intestinal epithelium microbiome mouse model overexpression pathogenic microbe prevent response sugar sulfomucin

16S ribosomal RNA sequencing Affect Anabolism Bacteria Biochemical Biophysics Cell Line Cell surface Communities Crohn&apos s disease Disease Exhibits Foundations Fucose Future Gene Cluster Glycoconjugates Glycoproteins Health Homeostasis Human Human Cell Line Inflammation Inflammatory Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Intestines Knock-out Link Mass Spectrum Analysis Mediating Metagenomics Microbe Modeling Molecular Molecular Structure Mucins Mucous body substance Mus N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferases Nutrient Patients Pattern Physiology Polysaccharides Property Quality of life Regulation Reporting Research Shotguns Signal Transduction Site Small Intestines Structure Sulfate Symbiosis Techniques Tissues Ulcerative Colitis United States beneficial microorganism biophysical properties biophysical techniques commensal bacteria commensal microbes cytokine dysbiosis enteric pathogen experimental study glycoproteomics glycosylation glycosyltransferase golgi apparatus membrane gut inflammation gut microbes gut microbiome gut microbiota host microbiome host microbiota host-microbe interactions ileum inhibitor insight interleukin-22 intestinal epithelium microbiome mouse model overexpression pathogenic microbe prevent response sugar sulfomucin

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项目摘要

Project Summary The human intestine is colonized by a diverse array of almost 100 trillion bacteria that are critical for health. Intestinal mucus is the critical interface between the host and the gut microbiome; it is a barrier between humans and pathogenic microbes, and it is also an attractant for beneficial microbes, supporting vital commensal microbes with nutrients and attachment sites. The main components of intestinal mucus are highly O-glycosylated mucins and other glycoproteins. Inflammatory bowel diseases, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s, are characterized by gut inflammation that results in dysbiosis of the microbiome and alterations in intestinal mucus glycan structures. The molecular structure of mucus has functional significance. Fucosylation is abundant in mammalian intestinal mucus, and it has been shown to regulate commensal microbe colonization and maintain host-microbe symbiosis. Additionally, fucosylation has been shown to alter the quality and quantity of intestinal mucus in ulcerative colitis patients. Mucin sulfation has also been implicated in ulcerative colitis. β1-3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase 7 (B3GNT7) is an O-glycosyltransferase present on the Golgi apparatus membrane that transfers GlcNAc to glycan substrates and participates in polyLacNAc chain biosynthesis. Importantly, these polyLacNAc chains can go on to be further modified by fucose and/or sulfate. We previously reported that that IL-22, a cytokine critical for maintaining intestinal epithelial homeostasis, promotes B3GNT7 expression, increases fucosylated O-glycans, and increases polyLacNAc chains on a model of the human intestinal epithelium. Furthermore, we found that overexpression of B3GNT7 is sufficient to increase cell surface fucosylation. The research outlined in this proposal that B3GNT7 functions to maintain healthy intestinal mucus and support beneficial commensal gut microbes. This proposal will 1) Define the impact of B3GNT7 on the biophysical properties of intestinal mucus in cell lines and mice; and 2) Determine the effect of B3gnt7 expression on host-microbiome interactions. Regulation of intestinal mucus and the microbiome is poorly understood, and the experiments outline above will elucidate how changes in glycosylation regulate the microbiome at the molecular and tissue level. Importantly, it will lay the foundation for future studies of how glycosylation of intestinal mucus contributes to both human health and disease.