Exclusive enteral nutrition mediates gut microbial and metabolic changes that are associated with remission in children with Crohn’s disease

Kay Diederen, Jia V. Li, Gillian E. Donachie, Tim G. de Meij, Dirk R. de Waart, Theodorus B. M. Hakvoort, Angelika Kindermann, Josef Wagner, Victoria Auyeung, Anje A. te Velde, Sigrid E. M. Heinsbroek, Marc A. Benninga, James Kinross, Alan W. Walker, Wouter J. de Jonge, Jurgen Seppen* (Corresponding Author)

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Abstract

A nutritional intervention, exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN) can induce remission in patients with pediatric Crohn’s disease (CD). We characterized changes in the fecal microbiota and metabolome to identify the mechanism of EEN. Feces of 43 children were collected prior, during and after EEN. Microbiota and metabolites were analyzed by 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and NMR. Selected metabolites were evaluated in relevant model systems. Microbiota and metabolome of patients with CD and controls were different at all time points. Amino acids, primary bile salts, trimethylamine and cadaverine were elevated in patients with CD. Microbiota and metabolome differed between responders and non-responders prior to EEN. EEN decreased microbiota diversity and reduced amino acids, trimethylamine and cadaverine towards control levels. Patients with CD had reduced microbial metabolism of bile acids that partially normalized during EEN. Trimethylamine and cadaverine inhibited intestinal cell growth. TMA and cadaverine inhibited LPS-stimulated TNF-alpha and IL-6 secretion by primary human monocytes. A diet rich in free amino acids worsened inflammation in the DSS model of intestinal inflammation. Trimethylamine, cadaverine, bile salts and amino acids could play a role in the mechanism by which EEN induces remission. Prior to EEN, microbiota and metabolome are different between responders and non-responders.
Original languageEnglish
Article number18879
Pages (from-to)18879
Number of pages17
JournalScientific Reports
Volume10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Nov 2020

Bibliographical note

GD and AWW receive core funding support from the Scottish Government’s Rural and Environmental Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) Division. JW was funded by the Wellcome Trust [Grant No. 098051]. JVL is funded by MRC New Investigator Grant (MR/P002536/1) and ERC Starting Grant (715662). JK is funded by NIHR: II-OL-1116-10027, NIH: R01-CA204403-01A1, Horizon H2020: ITN GROWTH. Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, SAGES research grant. Infrastructure support for this research was provided by the NIHR Imperial biomedical Research Centre (BRC). Microbiota analyses were carried out using the Maxwell computer cluster at the University of Aberdeen. We thank the Illumina MiSeq team at the Wellcome Sanger Institute for their assistance. This work was partially described in the Ph.D. thesis of KD (Retrieved 2020, Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease Monitoring, nutrition and surgery, https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/23176012/Thesis_complete_.pdf).

Keywords

  • gastronenterology
  • gastrointestinal diseases
  • microbiology
  • DEXTRAN SULFATE SODIUM
  • INTESTINAL MICROBIOTA
  • NMR-SPECTROSCOPY
  • RECEPTOR
  • TGR5
  • L-CARNITINE
  • INFLAMMATORY-BOWEL-DISEASE
  • COLITIS
  • CORTICOSTEROIDS

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