Luecke Sarah M, Holman Devin B, Schmidt Kaycie N, Gzyl Katherine E, Hurlbert Jennifer L, Menezes Ana Clara B, Bochantin Kerri A, Kirsch James D, Baumgaertner Friederike, Sedivec Kevin K, Swanson Kendall C, Dahlen Carl R, Amat Samat
Department of Microbiological Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States.
Lacombe Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lacombe, AB, Canada.
Front Microbiol. 2023 Jun 26;14:1207601. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1207601. eCollection 2023.
Early life microbial colonization and factors affecting colonization patterns are gaining interest due to recent developments suggesting that early life microbiome may play a role in Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. In cattle, limited information exists on the early microbial colonization of anatomical sites involved in bovine health beyond the gastrointestinal tract. Here, we investigated 1) the initial microbial colonization of seven different anatomical locations in newborn calves and 2) whether these early life microbial communities and 3) serum cytokine profiles are influenced by prenatal vitamin and mineral (VTM) supplementation. Samples were collected from the hoof, liver, lung, nasal cavity, eye, rumen (tissue and fluid), and vagina of beef calves that were born from dams that either received or did not receive VTM supplementation throughout gestation ( = 7/group). Calves were separated from dams immediately after birth and fed commercial colostrum and milk replacer until euthanasia at 30 h post-initial colostrum feeding. The microbiota of all samples was assessed using 16S rRNA gene sequencing and qPCR. Calf serum was subjected to multiplex quantification of 15 bovine cytokines and chemokines. Our results indicated that the hoof, eye, liver, lung, nasal cavity, and vagina of newborn calves were colonized by site-specific microbiota, whose community structure differed from the ruminal-associated communities (0.64 ≥ ≥ 0.12, ≤ 0.003). The ruminal fluid microbial community was the only one that differed by treatment ( 0.01). However, differences ( < 0.05) by treatment were detected in microbial richness (vagina); diversity (ruminal tissue, fluid, and eye); composition at the phylum and genus level (ruminal tissue, fluid, and vagina); and in total bacterial abundance (eye and vagina). From serum cytokines evaluated, concentration of chemokine IP-10 was greater ( = 0.02) in VTM calves compared to control calves. Overall, our results suggest that upon birth, the whole-body of newborn calves are colonized by relatively rich, diverse, and site-specific bacterial communities. Noticeable differences were observed in ruminal, vaginal, and ocular microbiota of newborn calves in response to prenatal VTM supplementation. These findings can derive future hypotheses regarding the initial microbial colonization of different body sites, and on maternal micronutrient consumption as a factor that may influence early life microbial colonization.
由于最近的研究进展表明早期生命微生物群可能在健康与疾病的发育起源中发挥作用,早期生命的微生物定殖以及影响定殖模式的因素正日益受到关注。在牛身上,除胃肠道外,关于参与牛健康的解剖部位的早期微生物定殖的信息有限。在此,我们研究了1)新生犊牛七个不同解剖部位的初始微生物定殖情况,以及2)这些早期生命微生物群落和3)血清细胞因子谱是否受到产前维生素和矿物质(VTM)补充的影响。样本取自于在整个妊娠期接受或未接受VTM补充的母牛所产的肉用犊牛的蹄、肝脏、肺、鼻腔、眼睛、瘤胃(组织和液体)及阴道(每组n = 7)。犊牛出生后立即与母牛分开,并饲喂商业初乳和代乳品,直至初次饲喂初乳后30小时实施安乐死。使用16S rRNA基因测序和qPCR对所有样本的微生物群进行评估。对犊牛血清进行15种牛细胞因子和趋化因子的多重定量分析。我们的结果表明,新生犊牛的蹄、眼睛、肝脏、肺、鼻腔和阴道被位点特异性微生物群定殖,其群落结构与瘤胃相关群落不同(0.64≥β≥0.12,P≤0.003)。瘤胃液微生物群落是唯一因处理方式而异的群落(P = 0.01)。然而,在微生物丰富度(阴道)、多样性(瘤胃组织、液体和眼睛)、门和属水平的组成(瘤胃组织、液体和阴道)以及总细菌丰度(眼睛和阴道)方面检测到了处理方式引起的差异(P < 0.05)。在所评估的血清细胞因子中,与对照犊牛相比,VTM犊牛的趋化因子IP - 10浓度更高(P = 0.02)。总体而言,我们的结果表明,出生时,新生犊牛的全身被相对丰富、多样且位点特异性的细菌群落定殖。在产前VTM补充的情况下,观察到新生犊牛瘤胃、阴道和眼部微生物群存在明显差异。这些发现可以得出关于不同身体部位初始微生物定殖以及母体微量营养素摄入作为可能影响早期生命微生物定殖的一个因素的未来假设。