Carbohydrate Syntrophy enhances the establishment of Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 in the neonatal gut

The non-digestible oligosaccharide fraction of maternal milk represents an important of carbohydrate and energy source for saccharolytic bifidobacteria in the gastrointestinal tract during early life. However, not all neonatal bifidobacteria isolates can directly metabolise the complex sialylated, f...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2018-07, Vol.8 (1), p.10627-10, Article 10627
Main Authors: O’Connell Motherway, Mary, O’Brien, Frances, O’Driscoll, Tara, Casey, Patrick G., Shanahan, Fergus, van Sinderen, Douwe
Format: Article
Language:English
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Astrophysics
Carbohydrates
Digestive system
Energy sources
Fucose
Gastrointestinal tract
Gene expression
Glucosamine
Humanities and Social Sciences
Lactose
multidisciplinary
N-Acetylglucosamine
Neonates
Oligosaccharides
Phenotypes
Physics
Rodents
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
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Summary:The non-digestible oligosaccharide fraction of maternal milk represents an important of carbohydrate and energy source for saccharolytic bifidobacteria in the gastrointestinal tract during early life. However, not all neonatal bifidobacteria isolates can directly metabolise the complex sialylated, fucosylated, sulphated and/or N-acetylglucosamine-containing oligosaccharide structures present in mothers milk. For some bifidobacterial strains, efficient carbohydrate syntrophy or crossfeeding is key to their establishment in the gut. In this study, we have adopted advanced functional genomic approaches to create single and double in-frame deletions of the N-acetyl glucosamine 6-phosphate deacetylase encoding genes, nagA1 and nagA2 , of B . breve UCC2003. In vitro phenotypic analysis followed by in vivo studies on co-colonisation, mother to infant transmission, and evaluation of the relative co-establishment of B . bifidum and B . breve UCC2003 or UCC2003ΔnagA1ΔnagA2 in dam-reared neonatal mice demonstrates the importance of crossfeeding on sialic acid, fucose and N-acetylglucosamine-containing oligosaccharides for the establishment of B . breve UCC2003 in the neonatal gut. Furthermore, transcriptomic analysis of in vivo gene expression shows upregulation of genes associated with the utilisation of lactose, sialic acid, GlcNAc-6-S and fucose in B . breve UCC2003, while for UCC2003ΔnagA1ΔnagA2 only genes for lactose metabolism were upregulated.
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-29034-0