Author:
Gu Fengfei,Zhu Senlin,Tang Yifan,Liu Xiaohan,Jia Minghui,Malmuthuge Nilusha,Valencak Teresa G.,McFadden Joseph W.,Liu Jian-Xin,Sun Hui-Zeng
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Postpartum dairy cows experiencing excessive lipolysis are prone to severe immunosuppression. Despite the extensive understanding of the gut microbial regulation of host immunity and metabolism, its role during excessive lipolysis in cows is largely unknown. Herein, we investigated the potential links between the gut microbiome and postpartum immunosuppression in periparturient dairy cows with excessive lipolysis using single immune cell transcriptome, 16S amplicon sequencing, metagenomics, and targeted metabolomics.
Results
The use of single-cell RNA sequencing identified 26 clusters that were annotated to 10 different immune cell types. Enrichment of functions of these clusters revealed a downregulation of functions in immune cells isolated from a cow with excessive lipolysis compared to a cow with low/normal lipolysis. The results of metagenomic sequencing and targeted metabolome analysis together revealed that secondary bile acid (SBA) biosynthesis was significantly activated in the cows with excessive lipolysis. Moreover, the relative abundance of gut Bacteroides sp. OF04 − 15BH, Paraprevotella clara, Paraprevotella xylaniphila, and Treponema sp. JC4 was mainly associated with SBA synthesis. The use of an integrated analysis showed that the reduction of plasma glycolithocholic acid and taurolithocholic acid could contribute to the immunosuppression of monocytes (CD14+MON) during excessive lipolysis by decreasing the expression of GPBAR1.
Conclusions
Our results suggest that alterations in the gut microbiota and their functions related to SBA synthesis suppressed the functions of monocytes during excessive lipolysis in transition dairy cows. Therefore, we concluded that altered microbial SBA synthesis during excessive lipolysis could lead to postpartum immunosuppression in transition cows.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
China-USA Intergovernmental Collaborative Project in S&T Innovation under the National Key R & D Program
National Key R&D Program Youth Project
Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province Outstanding Youth Fund Projec
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Microbiology (medical),Microbiology