Simon Deusch1, Sergio Serrano-Villar2, David Rojo3, Mónica Martínez-Martínez4, Rafael Bargiela4, Jorge F Vázquez-Castellanos5,6, Talía Sainz7, Coral Barbas3, Andrés Moya5,6, Santiago Moreno2, María J Gosalbes5,6, Vicente Estrada8, Jana Seifert1, Manuel Ferrer4. 1. Institute of Animal Science, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. 2. Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Alcalá (IRYCIS). 3. Centro de Metabolómica y Bioanálisis (CEMBIO), Facultad de Farmacia, CEU San Pablo University. 4. Institute of Catalysis, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid. 5. Unidad Mixta de Investigación en Genómica y Salud de la Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de la Comunidad Valenciana (FISABIO-Salud Pública) y el Instituto de Biología Integrativa de Sistemas (Universidad de Valencia y CSIC), Valencia. 6. CIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP). 7. Department of Pediatrics, Tropical and Infectious Diseases Unit, Hospital La Paz and La Paz Research Institute (IdiPAZ). 8. HIV Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: In a recent blinded randomized study, we found that in HIV-infected individuals a short supplementation with prebiotics (scGOS/lcFOS/glutamine) ameliorates dysbiosis of total gut bacteria, particularly among viremic untreated patients. Our study goal was to determine the fraction of the microbiota that becomes active during the intervention and that could provide additional functional information. DESIGN: A total of six healthy individuals, and 16 HIV-infected patients comprising viremic untreated patients (n = 5) and antiretroviral therapy-treated patients that are further divided into immunological responders (n = 7) and immunological nonresponders (n = 4) completed the 6-week course of prebiotic treatment, including six patients receiving a placebo. METHODS:Alpha and beta diversity of potentially active and total gut microbiota was evaluated using shotgun proteomics and 16S rRNA gene sequencing. RESULTS: HIV infection decreased dormancy and increased alpha diversity of active bacteria in comparison with the healthy controls, whose richness was not further influenced by the prebiotic intervention. The effect of the prebiotics was most evident at the beta-diversity of active bacteria, particularly within viremic untreated patients. We found that the prebiotics did not only ameliorate dysbiosis of total bacteria in viremic untreated patients but also increased the abundance of active bacteria with strong immunomodulatory properties and amino acids metabolism, namely Bifidobacteriaceae, at similar levels to those in healthy individuals. This effect was attenuated in ART-treated individuals. CONCLUSION: The effect of prebiotics was greater among ART-naive HIV-infected individuals than in ART-treated patients and healthy controls. This highlights the importance of therapies aimed at manipulating the microbiome in this group of patients.
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OBJECTIVE: In a recent blinded randomized study, we found that in HIV-infected individuals a short supplementation with prebiotics (scGOS/lcFOS/glutamine) ameliorates dysbiosis of total gut bacteria, particularly among viremic untreated patients. Our study goal was to determine the fraction of the microbiota that becomes active during the intervention and that could provide additional functional information. DESIGN: A total of six healthy individuals, and 16 HIV-infectedpatients comprising viremic untreated patients (n = 5) and antiretroviral therapy-treated patients that are further divided into immunological responders (n = 7) and immunological nonresponders (n = 4) completed the 6-week course of prebiotic treatment, including six patients receiving a placebo. METHODS: Alpha and beta diversity of potentially active and total gut microbiota was evaluated using shotgun proteomics and 16S rRNA gene sequencing. RESULTS:HIV infection decreased dormancy and increased alpha diversity of active bacteria in comparison with the healthy controls, whose richness was not further influenced by the prebiotic intervention. The effect of the prebiotics was most evident at the beta-diversity of active bacteria, particularly within viremic untreated patients. We found that the prebiotics did not only ameliorate dysbiosis of total bacteria in viremic untreated patients but also increased the abundance of active bacteria with strong immunomodulatory properties and amino acids metabolism, namely Bifidobacteriaceae, at similar levels to those in healthy individuals. This effect was attenuated in ART-treated individuals. CONCLUSION: The effect of prebiotics was greater among ART-naive HIV-infected individuals than in ART-treated patients and healthy controls. This highlights the importance of therapies aimed at manipulating the microbiome in this group of patients.
Authors: Talía Sainz; Laura Diaz; David Rojo; María Isabel Clemente; Coral Barbas; María José Gosalbes; Nuria Jimenez-Hernandez; Luis Escosa; Sara Guillen; José Tomás Ramos; María Ángeles Muñoz-Fernández; María Luisa Navarro; María José Mellado; Sergio Serrano-Villar Journal: Nutrients Date: 2022-02-26 Impact factor: 5.717