The First Microbial Colonizers of the Human Gut: Composition, Activities, and Health Implications of the Infant Gut Microbiota

Author:

Milani Christian1,Duranti Sabrina1,Bottacini Francesca2,Casey Eoghan2,Turroni Francesca13,Mahony Jennifer2,Belzer Clara4,Delgado Palacio Susana5,Arboleya Montes Silvia5,Mancabelli Leonardo1,Lugli Gabriele Andrea1,Rodriguez Juan Miguel6,Bode Lars7,de Vos Willem48,Gueimonde Miguel5,Margolles Abelardo5,van Sinderen Douwe2,Ventura Marco13

Affiliation:

1. Laboratory of Probiogenomics, Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

2. APC Microbiome Institute and School of Microbiology, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland

3. Microbiome Research Hub, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

4. Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

5. Departamento de Microbiologia y Bioquimica de Productos Lacteos, IPLA-CSIC, Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain

6. Department of Nutrition, Food Science and Food Technology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

7. Department of Pediatrics and Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence, University of California—San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

8. Department of Bacteriology & Immunology, RPU Immunobiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Abstract

SUMMARY The human gut microbiota is engaged in multiple interactions affecting host health during the host's entire life span. Microbes colonize the neonatal gut immediately following birth. The establishment and interactive development of this early gut microbiota are believed to be (at least partially) driven and modulated by specific compounds present in human milk. It has been shown that certain genomes of infant gut commensals, in particular those of bifidobacterial species, are genetically adapted to utilize specific glycans of this human secretory fluid, thus representing a very intriguing example of host-microbe coevolution, where both partners are believed to benefit. In recent years, various metagenomic studies have tried to dissect the composition and functionality of the infant gut microbiome and to explore the distribution across the different ecological niches of the infant gut biogeography of the corresponding microbial consortia, including those corresponding to bacteria and viruses, in healthy and ill subjects. Such analyses have linked certain features of the microbiota/microbiome, such as reduced diversity or aberrant composition, to intestinal illnesses in infants or disease states that are manifested at later stages of life, including asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, and metabolic disorders. Thus, a growing number of studies have reported on how the early human gut microbiota composition/development may affect risk factors related to adult health conditions. This concept has fueled the development of strategies to shape the infant microbiota composition based on various functional food products. In this review, we describe the infant microbiota, the mechanisms that drive its establishment and composition, and how microbial consortia may be molded by natural or artificial interventions. Finally, we discuss the relevance of key microbial players of the infant gut microbiota, in particular bifidobacteria, with respect to their role in health and disease.

Funder

Science Foundation Ireland

Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca

Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad

Danone

EU Joint Programming Initiative “A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life”

Spanish Plan Estatal de I+D+I

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Molecular Biology,Microbiology,Infectious Diseases

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