Products of gut microbial Toll/interleukin-1 receptor domain NADase activities in gnotobiotic mice and Bangladeshi children with malnutrition
James S Weagley, Mark Zaydman, Siddarth Venkatesh, Yo Sasaki, Neha Damaraju, Alex Yenkin, William Buchser, Dmitry A Rodionov, Andrei Osterman, Tahmeed Ahmed, Michael J Barratt, Aaron DiAntonio, Jeffrey Milbrandt, Jeffrey I Gordon, James S Weagley, Mark Zaydman, Siddarth Venkatesh, Yo Sasaki, Neha Damaraju, Alex Yenkin, William Buchser, Dmitry A Rodionov, Andrei Osterman, Tahmeed Ahmed, Michael J Barratt, Aaron DiAntonio, Jeffrey Milbrandt, Jeffrey I Gordon
Abstract
Perturbed gut microbiome development has been linked to childhood malnutrition. Here, we characterize bacterial Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) protein domains that metabolize nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), a co-enzyme with far-reaching effects on human physiology. A consortium of 26 human gut bacterial strains, representing the diversity of TIRs observed in the microbiome and the NAD hydrolase (NADase) activities of a subset of 152 bacterial TIRs assayed in vitro, was introduced into germ-free mice. Integrating mass spectrometry and microbial RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) with consortium membership manipulation disclosed that a variant of cyclic-ADPR (v-cADPR-x) is a specific product of TIR NADase activity and a prominent, colonization-discriminatory, taxon-specific metabolite. Guided by bioinformatic analyses of biochemically validated TIRs, we find that acute malnutrition is associated with decreased fecal levels of genes encoding TIRs known or predicted to generate v-cADPR-x, as well as decreased levels of the metabolite itself. These results underscore the need to consider microbiome TIR NADases when evaluating NAD metabolism in the human holobiont.
Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01889329.
Keywords: CP: Microbiology; NAD metabolism; TIR domain structure/activity relationships; childhood malnutrition; defined microbial communities; gnotobiotic mice; human gut microbiome development/functional profiling.
Conflict of interest statement
Declaration of interests A.O. and D.A.R. are co-founders of Phenobiome, Inc., a company pursuing development and biomedical applications of computational tools for predictive phenotype profiling of microbial communities. A.D. and J.M. are co-founders of, and Y.S. served as a consultant to, Disarm Therapeutics, a company dedicated to developing therapeutics for neurodegenerative conditions that is now part of Eli Lilly and Company.
Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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