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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2020

Like Cures Like: Pharmacological Activity of Anti-Inflammatory Lipopolysaccharides From Gut Microbiome.

Tzu-Lung Lin, Chin-Chung Shu, Young-Mao Chen, Jang-Jih Lu, Ting-Shu Wu, Wei-Fan Lai, Chi-Meng Tzeng, Hsin-Chih Lai, Chia-Chen Lu

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.

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73citing papers in PubMed
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed, 137 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

Tzu-Lung LinDepartment of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Chin-Chung ShuDepartment of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Young-Mao ChenBachelor Degree Program in Marine Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan.
Jang-Jih LuDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Ting-Shu WuDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Wei-Fan LaiDepartment of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Chi-Meng TzengSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
Hsin-Chih LaiDepartment of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Chia-Chen LuDepartment of Chest Medicine, Internal Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University Hospital, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Chang Gung University · TWLinkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital · TWFu Jen Catholic University · TWNational Taiwan Ocean University · TWNational Taiwan University Hospital · TWXiamen Chang Gung Hospital · CNXiamen University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gut microbiome maintains local gut integrity and systemic host homeostasis, where optimal control of intestinal lipopolysaccharides (LPS) activity may play an important role. LPS mainly produced from gut microbiota are a group of lipid-polysaccharide chemical complexes existing in the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. Traditionally, LPS mostly produced from Proteobacteria are well known for their ability in inducing strong inflammatory responses (proinflammatory LPS, abbreviated as P-LPS), leading to septic shock or even death in animals and humans. Although the basic structures and chemical properties of P-LPS derived from different bacterial species generally show similarity, subtle and differential immune activation activities are observed. On the other hand, frequently ignored, a group of LPS molecules mainly produced by certain microbiota bacteria such as Bacteroidetes show blunt or even antagonistic activity in initiating pro-inflammatory responses (anti-inflammatory LPS, abbreviated as A-LPS). In this review, besides the immune activation properties of P-LPS, we also focus on the description of anti-inflammatory effects of A-LPS, and their potential antagonistic mechanism. We address the possibility of using native or engineered A-LPS for immune modulation in prevention or even treatment of P-LPS induced chronic inflammation related diseases. Understanding the exquisite interactive relationship between structure-activity correlation of P- and A-LPS not only contributes to molecular understanding of immunomodulation and homeostasis, but also re-animates the development of novel LPS-based pharmacological strategy for prevention and therapy of chronic inflammation related diseases.

Indexed as

bacteroidetesimmune modulationlipopolysaccharidesmicrobiotaproteobacteriaTLR4

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PMID32425790
PMCPMC7212368
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