Long-term Prednisone Treatment Causes Fungal Microbiota Dysbiosis and Alters the Ecological Interaction Between Gut Mycobiome and Bacteriome in Rats

Overview

Journal Front Microbiol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2023 Jun 21

PMID 37342562

Authors

Wenyan Li

Yun Shu

Jing Zhang

Mengmeng Wu

Guang-Hua Zhu

Wen-Yan Huang

Li Shen

Yulin Kang

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Abstract

Glucocorticoids (GCs) are widely used in the treatment of immune-mediated diseases due to their anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive effects. Prednisone is one of the most commonly used GCs. However, it is still unknown whether prednisone affects gut fungi in rats. Herein we investigated whether prednisone changed the composition of gut fungi and the interactions between gut mycobiome and bacteriome/fecal metabolome in rats. Twelve male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to a control group and a prednisone group which received prednisone daily by gavage for 6 weeks. ITS2 rRNA gene sequencing of fecal samples was performed to identify differentially abundant gut fungi. The associations between gut mycobiome and bacterial genera/fecal metabolites obtained from our previously published study were explored by using Spearman correlation analysis. Our data showed that there were no changes in the richness of gut mycobiome in rats after prednisone treatment, but the diversity increased significantly. The relative abundance of genera and decreased significantly. At the species level, the relative abundance of increased significantly, while and sp. decreased. In addition, prednisone altered the gut fungi-bacteria interkingdom interactions in rats after prednisone treatment. Additionally, the genus was negatively correlated with m-aminobenzoic acid, but positively correlated with hydrocinnamic acid and valeric acid. was negatively correlated with phenylalanine and homovanillic acid, but positively correlated with 2-Phenylpropionate, hydrocinnamic acid, propionic acid, valeric acid, isobutyric acid, and isovaleric acid. In conclusion, long-term prednisone treatment caused fungal microbiota dysbiosis and might alter the ecological interaction between gut mycobiome and bacteriome in rats.

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