Department of Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism (AGEM) Institute, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Gut Microbes. 2023 Dec 31;15(1):2223330. doi: 10.1080/19490976.2023.2223330.
Individuals with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have an altered gut microbiota composition. Moreover, hepatic DNA methylation may be altered in the state of NAFLD. Using a fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) intervention, we aimed to investigate whether a change in gut microbiota composition relates to altered liver DNA methylation in NAFLD. Moreover, we assessed whether plasma metabolite profiles altered by FMT relate to changes in liver DNA methylation. Twenty-one individuals with NAFLD underwent three 8-weekly vegan allogenic donor ( = 10) or autologous ( = 11) FMTs. We obtained hepatic DNA methylation profiles from paired liver biopsies of study participants before and after FMTs. We applied a multi-omics machine learning approach to identify changes in the gut microbiome, peripheral blood metabolome and liver DNA methylome, and analyzed cross-omics correlations. Vegan allogenic donor FMT compared to autologous FMT induced distinct differential changes in I) gut microbiota profiles, including increased abundance of and potential probiotic ; II) plasma metabolites, including altered levels of phenylacetylcarnitine (PAC) and phenylacetylglutamine (PAG) both from gut-derived phenylacetic acid, and of several choline-derived long-chain acylcholines; and III) hepatic DNA methylation profiles, most importantly in Threonyl-TRNA Synthetase 1 ( and Zinc finger protein 57 (. Multi-omics analysis showed that and __170 positively correlated with both PAC and PAG. negatively correlated with DNA methylation of cg16885113 in . Alterations in gut microbiota composition by FMT caused widespread changes in plasma metabolites (e.g. PAC, PAG, and choline-derived metabolites) and liver DNA methylation profiles in individuals with NAFLD. These results indicate that FMTs might induce metaorganismal pathway changes, from the gut bacteria to the liver.
非酒精性脂肪性肝病 (NAFLD) 患者的肠道微生物群落组成发生改变。此外,NAFLD 状态下肝组织的 DNA 甲基化可能会发生改变。通过粪便微生物群移植 (FMT) 干预,我们旨在研究肠道微生物群落组成的变化是否与 NAFLD 中肝 DNA 甲基化的改变有关。此外,我们评估了 FMT 改变的血浆代谢物谱是否与肝 DNA 甲基化的改变相关。21 名非酒精性脂肪性肝病患者接受了三次为期 8 周的异体供体(n=10)或自体(n=11)FMT。我们从 FMT 前后的研究参与者的肝活检中获得了肝 DNA 甲基化谱。我们应用了一种多组学机器学习方法来识别肠道微生物组、外周血代谢组和肝 DNA 甲基组的变化,并分析了跨组学相关性。与自体 FMT 相比,异体供体 FMT 诱导了肠道微生物群的独特差异变化,包括丰度增加的和潜在的益生菌;II)血浆代谢物,包括来自肠道衍生的苯乙酸的苯乙酰肉碱 (PAC) 和苯乙酰谷氨酰胺 (PAG) 以及几种胆碱衍生的长链酰基胆碱的水平改变;和 III)肝 DNA 甲基化谱,最重要的是在苏氨酸 tRNA 合成酶 1 (和锌指蛋白 57 (。多组学分析表明,和__170 与 PAC 和 PAG 均呈正相关。与在 cg16885113 中的 DNA 甲基化呈负相关。FMT 引起的肠道微生物群落组成的改变导致 NAFLD 患者的血浆代谢物(如 PAC、PAG 和胆碱衍生代谢物)和肝 DNA 甲基化谱发生广泛变化。这些结果表明,FMT 可能会引起从肠道细菌到肝脏的代谢相关途径的变化。
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