Fructose malabsorption induces cholecystokinin expression in the ileum and cecum by changing microbiota composition and metabolism

Xufei Zhang (1) , Alexandra Grosfeld (2) , Edek Williams (3) , Daniel Vasiliauskas (4) , Sharon Barretto (5) , Lorraine Smith (6) , Mahendra Mariadassou (7) , Catherine Philippe (1) , Fabienne Devime (1) , Chloé Melchior (8, 9, 10, 11) , Guillaume Gourcerol (8, 9, 10, 12) , Nathalie Dourmap (13) , Nicolas Lapaque (1) , Pierre Larraufie (1) , Hervé Blottiere (1) , Christine Herberden (1) , Philippe Gerard (1) , Jens F. Rehfeld (14) , Ronaldo Ferraris (15) , J Christopher Fritton (3) , Sandrine Ellero-Simatos (6) , Véronique Douard (1)

1 MICALIS - MICrobiologie de l'ALImentation au Service de la Santé
2 CRC - UMR_S 1138 - Métabolisme et physiologie rénale
3 NJMS - Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
4 NeuroPSI - Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay
5 ToxAlim - ToxAlim
6 ToxAlim-TIM - Toxicologie Intégrative & Métabolisme
7 MaIAGE - Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées du Génome à l'Environnement [Jouy-En-Josas]
8 ADEN - Nutrition, inflammation et dysfonctionnement de l'axe intestin-cerveau
9 IRIB - Institute for Research and Innovation in Biomedicine
10 UNIROUEN UFR Santé - UNIROUEN - UFR Santé
11 Service d'Hépato-Gastroentérologie [CHU Rouen]
12 Service de Physiologie Digestive, Urinaire, Respiratoire et de l'Exercice [CHU Rouen]
13 GPMCND - Génomique et Médecine Personnalisée du Cancer et des Maladies Neuropsychiatriques
14 Department of Clinical Biochemistry [Rigshospitalet]
15 Rutgers University [Newark]

Current fructose consumption levels often overwhelm the intestinal capacity to absorb fructose. We investigated the impact of fructose malabsorption on intestinal endocrine function and addressed the role of the microbiota in this process. To answer this question, a mouse model of moderate fructose malabsorption [ketohexokinase mutant (KHK)-/-] and wild-type (WT) littermate mice were used and received a 20%-fructose (KHK-F and WT-F) or 20%-glucose diet. Cholecystokinin (Cck) mRNA and protein expression in the ileum and cecum, as well as preproglucagon (Gcg) and neurotensin (Nts) mRNA expression in the cecum, increased in KHK-F mice. In KHK-F mice, triple-label immunohistochemistry showed major up-regulation of CCK in enteroendocrine cells (EECs) that were glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)+/Peptide YY (PYY-) in the ileum and colon and GLP-1-/PYY- in the cecum. The cecal microbiota composition was drastically modified in the KHK-F in association with an increase in glucose, propionate, succinate, and lactate concentrations. Antibiotic treatment abolished fructose malabsorption-dependent induction of cecal Cck mRNA expression and, in mouse GLUTag and human NCI-H716 cells, Cck mRNA expression levels increased in response to propionate, both suggesting a microbiota-dependent process. Fructose reaching the lower intestine can modify the composition and metabolism of the microbiota, thereby stimulating the production of CCK from the EECs possibly in response to propionate.-Zhang, X., Grosfeld, A., Williams, E., Vasiliauskas, D., Barretto, S., Smith, L., Mariadassou, M., Philippe, C., Devime, F., Melchior, C., Gourcerol, G., Dourmap, N., Lapaque, N., Larraufie, P., Blottière, H. M., Herberden, C., Gerard, P., Rehfeld, J. F., Ferraris, R. P., Fritton, J. C., Ellero-Simatos, S., Douard, V. Fructose malabsorption induces cholecystokinin expression in the ileum and cecum by changing microbiota composition and metabolism.

Mots clés: propionate; KHK; CCK

Domaines: Neurobiologie; Psychologie et comportements; Sciences cognitives

Xufei Zhang, Alexandra Grosfeld, Edek Williams, Daniel Vasiliauskas, Sharon Barretto, et al.. Fructose malabsorption induces cholecystokinin expression in the ileum and cecum by changing microbiota composition and metabolism. FASEB Journal, 2019, 33 (6), pp.7126-7142. ⟨10.1096/fj.201801526RR⟩. ⟨hal-02191008⟩