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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES
卷 122, 期 3, 页码 284-291出版社
US DEPT HEALTH HUMAN SCIENCES PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307429
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Environmental Health Sciences through a pilot project under National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) [P30 ES002109]
- University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility through NIEHS [P30 ES010126]
- University of Georgia College of Public Health
BACKGROUND: The human intestine is host to an enormously complex, diverse, and vast microbial community-the gut microbiota. The gut microbiome plays a profound role in metabolic processing, energy production, immune and cognitive development, epithelial homeostasis, and so forth. However, the composition and diversity of the gut microbiome can be readily affected by external factors, which raises the possibility that exposure to toxic environmental chemicals leads to gut microbiome alteration, or dysbiosis. Arsenic exposure affects large human populations worldwide and has been linked to a number of diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disorders. OBJECTIVES: We investigated the impact of arsenic exposure on the gut microbiome composition and its metabolic profiles. METHODS: We used an integrated approach combining 16S rRNA gene sequencing and mass spectrometry-based metabolomics profiling to examine the functional impact of arsenic exposure on the gut microbiome. RESULTS: 16S rRNA gene sequencing revealed that arsenic significantly perturbed the gut microbiome composition in C57BL/6 mice after exposure to 10 ppm arsenic for 4 weeks in drinking water. Moreover, metabolomics profiling revealed a concurrent effect, with a number of gut microflora-related metabolites being perturbed in multiple biological matrices. CONCLUSIONS: Arsenic exposure not only alters the gut micro-biome community at the abundance level but also substantially disturbs its metabolic profiles at the function level. These findings may provide novel insights regarding perturbations of the gut microbiome and its functions as a potential new mechanism by which arsenic exposure leads to or exacerbates human diseases.
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