A Gut Commensal, Parabacteroides distasonis, and Type 1 Diabetes Onset

Targeting Microbiota 2022 Emrah AltindisDr. Emrah Altindis, from the Biology Department Boston College, USA, will be joining us this October to discuss his latest findings on the "A Gut Commensal, Parabacteroides distasonis, and Type 1 Diabetes Onset". 

Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease characterized by the destruction of pancreatic β-cells. One of the earliest aspects of this process is development of autoantibodies and T-cells directed at an epitope in the B-chain of insulin (insB:9-23). Analysis of microbial protein sequences with homology to insB:9-23 sequence revealed 17 peptides showing >50% identity to insB:9-23. Of these, one peptide, found in the normal human gut commensal Parabacteroides distasonis, activated both human T cell clones from T1D patients and T-cell hybridomas from non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice specific to insB:9-23. Immunization of NOD mice with P. distasonis insB:9-23 peptide mimic or insB:9-23 peptide verified immune cross-reactivity. Colonization of female NOD mice with P. distasonis accelerated the development of T1D, increasing macrophages, dendritic cells and destructive CD8+ T-cells, while decreasing FoxP3+ regulatory T-cells. Western blot analysis identified P. distasonis reacting antibodies in sera of NOD mice colonized with P. distasonis and human T1D patients. Furthermore, adoptive transfer of splenocytes from P. distasonis treated mice to NOD/SCID mice enhanced disease phenotype in the recipients. Finally, analysis of human infant gut microbiome data revealed that exposure of infants to P. distasonis may modulate disease pathogenesis. Taken together, these data demonstrate the potential role for an insB:9-23-mimimetic peptide from gut microbiota as a molecular trigger or modifier of T1D pathogenesis.

Join Dr. Altindis in Targeting Microbiota 2022 to benefit from his experience and better understand the relationship between gut commensals and diabetes onset.

Targeting Microbiota 2022 Congress
October 19-21, 2022 - Paris, France
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