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FASEB JOURNAL
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 645-655Publisher
FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL
DOI: 10.1096/fj.12-216861
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intestine; microbiota; proliferation; germ-free rat; transporters
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (Jouy-en-Josas, France)
- French Ministry of Education and Research
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Interaction between the gut microbiota and the host starts immediately after birth with the progressive colonization of the sterile intestine. Our aim was to investigate the interactions taking place in the colonic epithelium after the first exposure to gut microbiota. Germ-free (GF) rats were inoculated with two different microbiotas: the first, obtained from suckling rats, was rich in primocolonizing bacteria and the second, obtained from adult rats, was representative of a mature microbiota. Once transferred into GF rats, these two microbiotas evolved such that they converged, and recapitulated the primocolonization pattern, mimicking the chronological scheme of implantation following birth. The two microbiotas induced common responses in the colonic epithelium: a transitory proliferative phase followed by a compensatory phase characterized by increases in the abundance of p21(Cip1) and p27(Kip1) and in the number of goblet cells. The effects of the two microbiotas diverged only through their effects on colonic transporters. Analyses of solute carriers and aquaporins revealed that functional maturation was more pronounced following exposure to adult microbiota than suckling microbiota. The colon matured in parallel with the evolution of the microbiota composition, and we therefore suggest a link between intestinal events regulating homeostasis of the colon and modulation of microbial composition.-Tomas, J., Wrzosek, L., Bouznad, N., Bouet, S., Mayeur, C., Noordine, M.-L., Honvo-Houeto, E., Langella, P., Thomas, M., Cherbuy, C. Primocolonization is associated with colonic epithelial maturation during conventionalization. FASEB J. 27, 645-655 (2013). www.fasebj.org
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