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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2012

Quantitative assessment of the impact of the gut microbiota on lysine epsilon-acetylation of host proteins using gnotobiotic mice.

Gabriel M Simon, Jiye Cheng, Jeffrey I Gordon

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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30 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gabriel M SimonCenter for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA.
Jiye Cheng
Jeffrey I Gordon
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION - SMALL INTESTINER01DK030292 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI JEFFREY I GORDON, ANDREI L OSTERMAN · 1986 to 2026
$6.5M
GUT MICROBIOTA AND OBESITY: STUDIES IN GNOTOBIOTIC MICER01DK070977 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI GORDON, JEFFREY I, HETTICH, ROBERT L. · 2005 to 2020
$6.3M
REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION IN THE SMALL INTESTINER37DK030292 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI GORDON, JEFFREY I · 1993 to 2015
$4.0M
NIDDK NIH HHS DK30292NIDDK NIH HHS DK70977NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK030292NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK070977NIDDK NIH HHS R37 DK030292
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The gut microbiota influences numerous aspects of human biology. One facet that has not been thoroughly explored is its impact on the host proteome. We hypothesized that the microbiota may produce certain of its effects through covalent modification of host proteins. We focused on protein lysine ε-acetylation because of its recently discovered roles in regulation of cell metabolism, and the potential for products of microbial fermentation to interact with the lysine acetylation machinery of host cells. Germ-free mice, fed a (15)N-labeled diet for two generations, were colonized as adults with a microbiota harvested from conventionally raised mouse donors. Using high-resolution mass spectrometry, we quantified 3,891 liver and proximal colonic proteins, 558 of which contained 1,602 sites of lysine acetylation, 43% not previously described. Multiple proteins from multiple subcellular compartments underwent microbiota-associated increases in their levels of lysine acetylation at one or more residues, in one or both tissues. Acetylated proteins were enriched in functions related to energy production, respiration, and primary metabolism. A number of the acetylation events affect lysine residues at or near the active sites of enzymes, whereas others occur at locations that may affect other facets of protein function. One of these modifications, affecting Lys292 in mouse α-1-antitrypsin, was detected in the corresponding lysine of the human serum protein. Methods described in this report can be applied to other co- or posttranslational modifications, and add quantitation of protein expression and covalent modification to the arsenal of techniques for characterizing the dynamic, important interactions between gut symbionts and their hosts.

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Germ-Free LifeMetagenomeAcetylationAnimalsColonCyanobacteriaFemaleFermentationHumansIntestinesLiverLysineMaleMass SpectrometryMiceMice, Inbred C57BLLysine

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PMID22733758
PMCPMC3396494
OpenAlexW2079026023

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