School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China.
School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China; Southern Marine Sciences and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China; State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
Sci Total Environ. 2024 Aug 15;938:173384. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173384. Epub 2024 May 28.
The interaction between the gut and the liver plays a significant role in individual health and diseases. Mounting evidence supports that bile acids are important metabolites in the bidirectional communication between the gut and the liver. Most of the current studies on the "gut-liver axis" have focused on higher vertebrates, however, few was reported on lower invertebrates such as shrimp with an open circulatory system. Here, microbiomic and metabolomic analyses were conducted to investigate the bacterial composition and bile acid metabolism in intestine, hemolymph and hepatopancreas of Penaeus vannamei fed diets supplemented with octanoic acid and oleic acid. After six days of feeding, the bacterial composition in intestine, hemolymph and hepatopancreas changed at different stages, with significant increases in the relative abundance of several genera such as Pseudomonas and Rheinheimera in intestine and hepatopancreas. Notably, there was a more similar bacterial composition in intestine and hepatopancreas at the genus level, which indicated the close communication between shrimp intestine and hepatopancreas. Meanwhile, higher content of some bile acids such as lithocholic acid (LCA) and α-muricholic acid (α-MCA) in intestine and lower content of some bile acids such as taurohyocholic acids (THCA) and isolithocholic acid (IsoLCA) in hepatopancreas were detected. Furthermore, Spearman correlation analysis revealed a significant correlation between bacterial composition and bile acid metabolism in intestine and hepatopancreas. The microbial source tracking analysis showed that there was a high proportion of intestine and hepatopancreas bacterial community as the source of each other. Collectively, these results showed a strong crosstalk between shrimp intestine and hepatopancreas, which suggests a unique potential "intestine-hepatopancreas axis" in lower invertebrate shrimp with an open circulatory system. Our finding contributed to the understanding of the interplay between shrimp intestine and hepatopancreas in the view of microecology and provided new ideas for shrimp farming and disease control.
肠-肝相互作用在个体健康和疾病中起着重要作用。越来越多的证据表明,胆汁酸是肠-肝双向通讯的重要代谢物。目前大多数关于“肠-肝轴”的研究都集中在高等脊椎动物上,然而,关于具有开放式循环系统的虾等低等无脊椎动物的研究却很少。在这里,我们进行了微生物组和代谢组学分析,以研究补充辛酸和油酸的饲料对凡纳滨对虾肠道、血淋巴和肝胰腺中细菌组成和胆汁酸代谢的影响。喂养六天后,肠道、血淋巴和肝胰腺中的细菌组成在不同阶段发生变化,肠道和肝胰腺中几种属如假单胞菌和莱茵海默氏菌的相对丰度显著增加。值得注意的是,在属水平上,肠道和肝胰腺的细菌组成更为相似,这表明虾肠道和肝胰腺之间存在密切的通讯。同时,在肠道和肝胰腺中检测到一些胆汁酸(如石胆酸(LCA)和α-鼠胆酸(α-MCA))的含量较高,而在肝胰腺中检测到一些胆汁酸(如牛磺胆酸(THCA)和异石胆酸(IsoLCA))的含量较低。此外,Spearman 相关分析显示肠道和肝胰腺中细菌组成与胆汁酸代谢之间存在显著相关性。微生物源追踪分析表明,肠道和肝胰腺细菌群落的比例很高,可以作为彼此的来源。总的来说,这些结果表明,具有开放式循环系统的低等无脊椎动物虾的肠道和肝胰腺之间存在强烈的相互作用,提示存在独特的潜在“肠-肝胰腺轴”。我们的发现有助于从微生态学的角度理解虾肠道和肝胰腺之间的相互作用,并为虾养殖和疾病控制提供了新的思路。