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ArticleCell reports2025

Live bacteria in gut microbiome dictate asthma onset triggered by environmental particles via modulation of DNA methylation in dendritic cells.

Mohankumar Ramar, Rosana Wiscovitch-Russo, Naohiro Yano, Harinder Singh, Edward Lamere, Michael Short, Norberto Gonzalez-Juarbe, Alexey V Fedulov

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Article in Cell reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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8 authors.

Mohankumar RamarDepartment of Surgery, Division of Surgical Research, Rhode Island Hospital, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Rosana Wiscovitch-RussoDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Genomic Medicine, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.
Naohiro YanoDepartment of Surgery, Division of Surgical Research, Rhode Island Hospital, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Harinder SinghDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Genomic Medicine, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.
Edward LamereDepartment of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Michael ShortDepartment of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Norberto Gonzalez-JuarbeDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Genomic Medicine, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA; Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. Electronic address: ngonzale@jcvi.org.
Alexey V FedulovDepartment of Surgery, Division of Surgical Research, Rhode Island Hospital, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. Electronic address: alexey@brown.edu.

Funding

Microbiome in Asthma Induced by Environmental Particle ExposureR01ES030227 · NIEHS · J. CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE, INC. · PI FEDULOV, ALEXEY V, GONZALEZ-JUARBE, NORBERTO · 2019 to 2023
$3.4M
NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES030227
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite broad knowledge of the pathogenesis, our understanding of the origin of allergy and asthma remains poor, preventing etiotropic treatments. The gut microbiome is seen to be altered in asthmatics; however, proof of causality of the microbiome alterations is lacking. We report on gut microbiome transplantation (GMT) from mice predisposed to asthma by maternal exposure to pro-allergy environmental particles into naive recipients. This GMT confers asthma predisposition, and the effect is abrogated by gamma sterilization of the transplant material or by co-administration of antibacterials, indicating that viable bacteria are mediating the effect. Metagenomics identifies key changes in the "pro-asthma" microbiome, and metabolomics links the identified species to altered production of butyrate known to act on immune cells and epigenetic mechanisms. We further show that transplant recipients develop DNA methylation alterations in dendritic cells. Finally, dendritic cells with an altered methylome present allergen to T cells, and this effect is abrogated by an epigenetically acting drug in vitro.

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AsthmaBacteriaDendritic CellsDNA MethylationGastrointestinal MicrobiomeParticulate MatterAnimalsEpigenesis, GeneticFemaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLParticulate MatterallergyantibioticsasthmaCAPconcentrated urban air particlesCP: ImmunologyCP: Microbiologydendritic cellsDEPdiesel exhaust particlesDNA methylationepigeneticsGMTgut microbiome transplantradiation sterilization

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PMID40372916
PMCPMC12172552

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