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ArticleScientific reports2021

Reactive oxygen species limit intestinal mucosa-bacteria homeostasis in vitro.

Joshua Luchan, Christian Choi, Rebecca L Carrier

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joshua LuchanDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Christian ChoiDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Rebecca L CarrierDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. r.carrier@northeastern.edu.
Northeastern University · US

Funding

GuMI: New In Vitro Platforms to Parse the Human Gut Epithelial-Microbiome-Immune AxisR01EB021908 · NIBIB · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI CARRIER, REBECCA L, GRIFFITH, LINDA G · 2016 to 2020
$5.2M
Impact of Lipids on Compound Absorption: Mechanistic Studies and ModelingR01GM098117 · NIGMS · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI CARRIER, REBECCA L · 2012 to 2021
$3.3M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB021908NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM098117
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interactions between epithelial and immune cells with the gut microbiota have wide-ranging effects on many aspects of human health. Therefore, there is value in developing in vitro models capable of performing highly controlled studies of such interactions. However, several critical factors that enable long term homeostasis between bacterial and mammalian cultures have yet to be established. In this study, we explored a model consisting of epithelial and immune cells, as well as four different bacterial species (Bacteroides fragilis KLE1958, Escherichia coli MG1655, Lactobacillus rhamnosus KLE2101, or Ruminococcus gnavus KLE1940), over a 50 hour culture period. Interestingly, both obligate and facultative anaerobes grew to similar extents in aerobic culture environments during the co-culture period, likely due to measured microaerobic oxygen levels near the apical surface of the epithelia. It was demonstrated that bacteria elicited reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, and that the resulting oxidative damage heavily contributed to observed epithelial barrier damage in these static cultures. Introduction of a ROS scavenger significantly mitigated oxidative damage, improving cell monolayer integrity and reducing lipid peroxidation, although not to control (bacteria-free culture) levels. These results indicate that monitoring and mitigating ROS accumulation and oxidative damage can enable longer term bacteria-intestinal epithelial cultures, while also highlighting the significance of additional factors that impact homeostasis in mammalian cell-bacteria systems.

Indexed as

Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeHomeostasisAnimalsBiomarkersCell LineCytokinesHumansIntestinal MucosaLipid PeroxidationOxygenReactive Oxygen SpeciesBiomarkersCytokinesOxygenReactive Oxygen Species

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PMID34887444
PMCPMC8660821
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