Hong-Zhe Li, Nan Li, Jing-Jing Wang, Heng Li, Xing Huang, Lei Guo, Hui-Wen Zheng, Zhan-Long He, Yuan Zhao, Ze-Ning Yang, Hai-Tao Fan, Man-Man Chu, Jin-Xi Yang, Qiong-Wen Wu, Long-Ding Liu. 2020: Dysbiosis of gut microbiome affecting small intestine morphology and immune balance: a rhesus macaque model. Zoological Research, 41(1): 20-31. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2020.004
Citation: Hong-Zhe Li, Nan Li, Jing-Jing Wang, Heng Li, Xing Huang, Lei Guo, Hui-Wen Zheng, Zhan-Long He, Yuan Zhao, Ze-Ning Yang, Hai-Tao Fan, Man-Man Chu, Jin-Xi Yang, Qiong-Wen Wu, Long-Ding Liu. 2020: Dysbiosis of gut microbiome affecting small intestine morphology and immune balance: a rhesus macaque model. Zoological Research, 41(1): 20-31. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2020.004

Dysbiosis of gut microbiome affecting small intestine morphology and immune balance: a rhesus macaque model

  • There is a growing appreciation for the specific health benefits conferred by commensal microbiota on their hosts. Clinical microbiota analysis and animal studies in germ-free or antibiotic-treated mice have been crucial for improving our understanding of the role of the microbiome on the host mucosal surface; however, studies on the mechanisms involved in microbiome-host interactions remain limited to small animal models. Here, we demonstrated that rhesus monkeys under short-term broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment could be used as a model to study the gut mucosal host-microbiome niche and immune balance with steady health status. Results showed that the diversity and community structure of the gut commensal bacteria in rhesus monkeys were both disrupted after antibiotic treatment. Furthermore, the 16S rDNA amplicon sequencing results indicated that Escherichia-Shigella were predominant in stool samples 9 d of treatment, and the abundances of bacterial functional genes and predicted KEGG pathways were significantly changed. In addition to inducing aberrant morphology of small intestinal villi, the depletion of gut commensal bacteria led to increased proportions of CD3+ T, CD4+ T, and CD16+ NK cells in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), but decreased numbers of Treg and CD20+ B cells. The transcriptome of PBMCs from antibiotic-treated monkeys showed that the immune balance was affected by modulation of the expression of many functional genes, including IL-13, VCAM1, and LGR4.
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