Mahdavi Manijeh, Kim Tae-Yeon, Prévost Karine, Balthazar Philippe, Gagné-Ouellet Valérie, Hus Isabelle Fissette-Paul, Duchesne Élise, Harvey Séréna, Gagnon Cynthia, Laforest-Lapointe Isabelle, Dumont Nicolas A, Massé Eric
Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, QC J1E 4K8, Canada.
Department of microbiology, infectiology and immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 2025 Feb 19;27:733-743. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2025.02.016. eCollection 2025.
Myotonic Dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is caused by a CTG repeat expansion in the 3' untranslated region of the DMPK gene. This expansion leads to the production of toxic RNA transcripts, which accumulate in the nucleus and interfere with normal RNA processing. DM1 affects a broad range of tissues and systems such as the skeletal muscle, the central nervous system, cardiac, visual, reproductive, and gastrointestinal (GI) system. GI dysfunction is a significant but poorly understood aspect of DM1. Particularly, it is unknown if there are alterations in the intestinal microbiome in DM1. Here, we used a transgenic humanized mouse model (DMSXL) to explore how the gut microbiome may be linked to GI issues in DM1. For this purpose, 68 stool samples from Homozygous, Heterozygous, and Wild-Type (WT) mice were collected. These samples were sequenced by MiSeq and analyzed with DADA2 to generate taxonomic profiles. Our analysis indicated that the overexpression of CTG repeats significantly influences the bacterial structure of the gut microbiome in Homozygous mice samples, especially in terms of the relative abundance of the Patescibacteria and Defferibacterota Phyla. These results provide valuable information about the gut microbiota structure thus improving the understanding of the role of these changes in the pathogenicity as well as GI problems of DM1 patients.
1型强直性肌营养不良症(DM1)是由DMPK基因3'非翻译区的CTG重复序列扩增引起的。这种扩增导致产生有毒的RNA转录本,这些转录本在细胞核中积累并干扰正常的RNA加工。DM1会影响广泛的组织和系统,如骨骼肌、中枢神经系统、心脏、视觉、生殖和胃肠道(GI)系统。胃肠道功能障碍是DM1的一个重要但了解甚少的方面。特别是,目前尚不清楚DM1患者的肠道微生物群是否存在改变。在这里,我们使用转基因人源化小鼠模型(DMSXL)来探究肠道微生物群与DM1胃肠道问题之间的联系。为此,我们收集了来自纯合子、杂合子和野生型(WT)小鼠的68份粪便样本。这些样本通过MiSeq进行测序,并使用DADA2进行分析以生成分类图谱。我们的分析表明,CTG重复序列的过表达显著影响纯合子小鼠样本中肠道微生物群的细菌结构,特别是在Patescibacteria和Defferibacterota门的相对丰度方面。这些结果提供了有关肠道微生物群结构的有价值信息,从而增进了我们对这些变化在DM1患者致病性以及胃肠道问题中所起作用的理解。
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