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Impact of Lycium barbarum arabinogalactan on the fecal metabolome in a DSS-induced chronic colitis mouse model.

Abstract
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is often accompanied by the dysbiosis of gut microbiota and metabolism. Our previous study indicated that arabinogalactan from Lycium barbarum (LBP-3) could markedly attenuate the symptoms of chronic UC in mice by modulating the structure of gut microbiota. This study explored the impact of LBP-3 on the fecal metabolomic profiling of the same cohort of mice by HPLC-TripleTOF/MS. Untargeted metabolomic analyses indicated that supplementation with LBP-3 markedly reversed 18 of the 48 differential metabolites (mainly belonging to amino acids and organic acids) disturbed by DSS. Targeted metabolomics revealed that the lower levels of tryptophan, lysine, diiodothyronine, kynurenine, and betaine and higher levels of phenylalanine, leucine, glutamine, isoleucine, homoserine, (S)-2-hydroxyglutarate, 2-isopropylmalic acid, ascorbic acid, gluconic acid, and taurine, which were caused by DSS induction, were reversed by LBP-3 treatment. In addition, pathway analysis showed that the pentose phosphate pathway, phenylalanine metabolism, ascorbate and aldarate metabolism, and phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan biosynthesis were strongly affected by LBP-3. More importantly, the above amino acids, organic acids, and metabolic pathways changed by LBP-3 were correlated with the abundance of gut microbiota such as Turicibacter, Lactobacillus, Parasutterella, Odoribacter, Veillonella, Faecalibacterium, and Ruminococcaceae. This study advances our understanding of the interaction between the microbiome and metabolomics in DSS-induced chronic colitis after LBP-3 treatment.
AuthorsCui Cao, Linlin Wang, Chunqing Ai, Guiping Gong, Zhongfu Wang, Linjuan Huang, Shuang Song, Beiwei Zhu
JournalFood & function (Food Funct) Vol. 13 Issue 16 Pg. 8703-8716 (Aug 15 2022) ISSN: 2042-650X [Electronic] England
PMID35912853 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Galactans
  • Phenylalanine
  • Tryptophan
  • Dextran Sulfate
  • arabinogalactan
Topics
  • Animals
  • Colitis (chemically induced, drug therapy, microbiology)
  • Colitis, Ulcerative (chemically induced, drug therapy)
  • Dextran Sulfate
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Galactans
  • Humans
  • Lycium (chemistry)
  • Metabolome
  • Mice
  • Phenylalanine
  • Tryptophan

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