Microbiota Diurnal Rhythmicity Programs Host Transcriptome Oscillations

Christoph A. Thaiss, Maayan Levy, Tal Korem, Lenka Dohnalová, Hagit Shapiro, Diego A. Jaitin, Eyal David, Deborah R. Winter, Meital Gury-BenAri, Evgeny Tatirovsky, Timur Tuganbaev, Sara Federici, Niv Zmora, David Zeevi, Mally Dori-Bachash, Meirav Pevsner-Fischer, Elena Kartvelishvily, Alexander Brandis, Alon Harmelin, Oren ShiboletZamir Halpern, Kenya Honda, Ido Amit, Eran Segal*, Eran Elinav

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Abstract

The intestinal microbiota undergoes diurnal compositional and functional oscillations that affect metabolic homeostasis, but the mechanisms by which the rhythmic microbiota influences host circadian activity remain elusive. Using integrated multi-omics and imaging approaches, we demonstrate that the gut microbiota features oscillating biogeographical localization and metabolome patterns that determine the rhythmic exposure of the intestinal epithelium to different bacterial species and their metabolites over the course of a day. This diurnal microbial behavior drives, in turn, the global programming of the host circadian transcriptional, epigenetic, and metabolite oscillations. Surprisingly, disruption of homeostatic microbiome rhythmicity not only abrogates normal chromatin and transcriptional oscillations of the host, but also incites genome-wide de novo oscillations in both intestine and liver, thereby impacting diurnal fluctuations of host physiology and disease susceptibility. As such, the rhythmic biogeography and metabolome of the intestinal microbiota regulates the temporal organization and functional outcome of host transcriptional and epigenetic programs.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1495-1510.e12
JournalCell
Volume167
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2016

Funding

FundersFunder number
Rising Tide Foundation
Yael and Rami Ungar, Israel
Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung
Israel Science Foundation
John L. and Vera Schwartz
German-Israel Binational Foundation
Benoziyo Endowment Fund for the Advancement of Science
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Ministry of Science, Technology and Space
Gilead Sciences
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
Crown Human Genome Center
Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology
Alcon Foundation
Crown Endowment Fund for Immunological Research
Lydia Hershkovich
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Minerva Foundation
European Research Council
Achelis Foundation
European Commission615265

    Keywords

    • biogeography
    • chronopharmacology
    • circadian clock
    • diurnal rhythm
    • metabolome
    • metagenome
    • microbiome
    • transcriptome

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