Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-9-2023
Keywords
Crohn’s disease; cruciferous vegetables; sulforaphane; glucoraphanin; gut microbiota; dietary bioactives; 16S rDNA; interleukin-10 knockout
Abstract
Crohn’s disease (CD) is a presentation of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that manifests in childhood and adolescence and involves chronic and severe enterocolitis, immune and gut microbial dysregulation, and other complications. Diet and gut-microbiota-produced metabolites are sources of anti-inflammatories that could ameliorate symptoms. However, questions remain on how IBD influences biogeographic patterns of microbial location and function in the gut, how early life transitional gut communities are affected by IBD and diet interventions, and how disruption to biogeography alters disease mediation by diet components or microbial metabolites. Many studies on diet and IBD use a chemically induced ulcerative colitis model, despite the availability of an immune-modulated CD model. Interleukin-10-knockout (IL-10-KO) mice on a C57BL/6 background, beginning at age 4 or 7 weeks, were fed a control diet or one containing 10% (wt/wt) raw broccoli sprouts, which was high in the sprout-sourced anti-inflammatory sulforaphane. Diets began 7 days prior to, and for 2 weeks after inoculation with Helicobacter hepaticus, which triggers Crohn’s-like symptoms in these immune-impaired mice. The broccoli sprout diet increased sulforaphane in plasma; decreased weight stagnation, fecal blood, and diarrhea associated; and increased microbiota richness in the gut, especially in younger mice. Sprout diets resulted in some anatomically specific bacteria in younger mice and reduced the prevalence and abundance of pathobiont bacteria which trigger inflammation in the IL-10-KO mouse, for example, Escherichia coli and Helicobacter. Overall, the IL-10-KO mouse model is responsive to a raw broccoli sprout diet and represents an opportunity for more diet-host-microbiome research.
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© 2023 Holcomb et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Recommended Citation
Holcomb, Lola; Holman, Johanna M.; Hurd, Molly; Lavoie, Brigitte; Colucci, Louisa; Hunt, Benjamin; Hunt, Timothy; Kinney, Marissa; Pathak, Jahnavi; Mawe, Gary M.; Moses, Peter L.; Perry, Emma; Stratigakis, Allesandra; Zhang, Tao; Chen, Grace; Ishaq, Suzanne L.; and Li, Yanyan, "Early life exposure to broccoli sprouts confers stronger protection against enterocolitis development in an immunological mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease" (2023). Pharmacy Faculty Scholarship. 6.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/pharmacy_fac/6
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https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00688-23