title: Three-stage continuous culture system with a self-generated anaerobia to study the regionalized metabolism of the human gut microbiota.
abstract: The technical and ethical difficulties in studying the gut microbiota in vivo warrant the development and improvement of in vitro systems able to simulate and control the physicochemical factors of the gut biology. Moreover, the functional regionalization of this organ implies a model simulating these differences. Here we propose an improved and alternative three-stage continuous bioreactor called 3S-ECSIM (three-stage Environmental Control System for Intestinal Microbiota) to study the human large intestine. Its main feature compared with other in vitro systems is the anaerobic atmosphere originating directly from the microbiota metabolism, leading to different gas ratios of CO2 and H2 in each compartment. Analyses of the metabolic and microbiological profiles (LC-MS and a phylogenetic microarray) show different profiles together with a maintenance of this differentiation between the three compartments, simulating respectively a proximal, a transversal and a distal colon. Moreover, the last reactor presents a high similarity with the initial fecal sample, at the microbiological diversity level. Based on our results, this in-vitro process improvement is a valuable alternative tool to dynamically study the structure and metabolism of gut microbiota, and its response to nutrients, prebiotics, probiotics, drugs or xenobiotics.
authors: EA 4678 CIDAM, Clermont-Université, Université d'Auvergne, BP 10448, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Feria-Gervasio
authors: EA 4678 CIDAM, Clermont-Université, Université d'Auvergne, BP 10448, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
authors: William
authors: W
authors: Tottey
authors: EA 4678 CIDAM, Clermont-Université, Université d'Auvergne, BP 10448, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
authors: Nadia
authors: N
authors: Gaci
authors: EA 4678 CIDAM, Clermont-Université, Université d'Auvergne, BP 10448, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
authors: Monique
authors: M
authors: Alric
authors: EA 4678 CIDAM, Clermont-Université, Université d'Auvergne, BP 10448, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
authors: Jean-Michel
authors: JM
authors: Cardot
authors: EA 4678 CIDAM, Clermont-Université, Université d'Auvergne, BP 10448, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
authors: Pierre
authors: P
authors: Peyret
authors: INRA, UMR 1019, Plateforme d'Exploration du Métabolisme, Nutrition Humaine, F-63122 Saint Genès Champanelle, France.
authors: Jean-François
authors: JF
authors: Martin
authors: INRA, UMR 1019, Plateforme d'Exploration du Métabolisme, Nutrition Humaine, F-63122 Saint Genès Champanelle, France.
authors: Estelle
authors: E
authors: Pujos
authors: INRA, UMR 1019, Plateforme d'Exploration du Métabolisme, Nutrition Humaine, F-63122 Saint Genès Champanelle, France.
authors: Jean-Louis
authors: JL
authors: Sébédio
authors: EA 4678 CIDAM, Clermont-Université, Université d'Auvergne, BP 10448, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France. Electronic address: jf.brugere@udamail.fr.
authors: Jean-François
authors: JF
authors: Brugère
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000693:Anaerobiosis; D019149:Bioreactors / Q000382:microbiology; D058448:Biota; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007420:Intestine, Large / Q000382:microbiology*; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D046228:Microarray Analysis; D064307:Microbiota; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014838:Volunteers
keywords: 3S-ECSIM; Fermentation gas; Gut microbiota; HuGChip; In-vitro simulation of the colon