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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Antibiotic treatment affects the expression levels of copper transporters and the isotopic composition of copper in the colon of mice.

Kerri A Miller, Fernando A Vicentini, Simon A Hirota, Keith A Sharkey, Michael E Wieser

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kerri A MillerDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4; kamiller@ucalgary.ca.
Fernando A VicentiniDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 4N1.
Simon A HirotaDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 4N1.
Keith A SharkeyDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 4N1.
Michael E WieserDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4.
University of Calgary · CA

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Copper is a critical enzyme cofactor in the body but also a potent cellular toxin when intracellularly unbound. Thus, there is a delicate balance of intracellular copper, maintained by a series of complex interactions between the metal and specific copper transport and binding proteins. The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the primary site of copper entry into the body and there has been considerable progress in understanding the intricacies of copper metabolism in this region. The GI tract is also host to diverse bacterial populations, and their role in copper metabolism is not well understood. In this study, we compared the isotopic fractionation of copper in the GI tract of mice with intestinal microbiota significantly depleted by antibiotic treatment to that in mice not receiving such treatment. We demonstrated variability in copper isotopic composition along the length of the gut. A significant difference, ∼1.0‰, in copper isotope abundances was measured in the proximal colon of antibiotic-treated mice. The changes in copper isotopic composition in the colon are accompanied by changes in copper transporters. Both CTR1, a copper importer, and ATP7A, a copper transporter across membranes, were significantly down-regulated in the colon of antibiotic-treated mice. This study demonstrated that isotope abundance measurements of metals can be used as an indicator of changes in metabolic processes in vivo. These measurements revealed a host-microbial interaction in the GI tract involved in the regulation of copper transport.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsCation Transport ProteinsColonCopperCopper Transporter 1Copper-Transporting ATPasesGastrointestinal MicrobiomeIsotopesMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLSuperoxide Dismutase-1Anti-Bacterial AgentsAtp7a protein, mouseCation Transport ProteinsCopperCopper Transporter 1Copper-Transporting ATPasesIsotopesSlc31a1 protein, mouseSod1 protein, mouseSuperoxide Dismutase-1ATP7Acopper isotopesCTR1intestinesmicrobiota

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PMID30850515
PMCPMC6442602
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