Dietary iron depletion at weaning imprints low microbiome diversity and this is not recovered with oral nano Fe(III)

Pereira, D. I. A., Aslam, M. F., Frazer, D. M., Schmidt, A., Walton, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5426-5635, McCartney, A. L., Gibson, G. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0566-0476, Anderson, G. J. and Powell, J. J. (2015) Dietary iron depletion at weaning imprints low microbiome diversity and this is not recovered with oral nano Fe(III). MicrobiologyOpen, 4 (1). pp. 12-27. ISSN 2045-8827 doi: 10.1002/mbo3.213

Abstract/Summary

Alterations in the gut microbiota have been recently linked to oral iron. We conducted two feeding studies including an initial diet-induced iron-depletion period followed by supplementation with nanoparticulate tartrate-modified ferrihydrite (Nano Fe(III): considered bioavailable to host but not bacteria) or soluble ferrous sulfate (FeSO4: considered bioavailable to both host and bacteria). We applied denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and fluorescence in situ hybridization for study-1 and 454-pyrosequencing of fecal 16S rRNA in study-2. In study-1, the within-community microbial diversity increased with FeSO4 (P = 0.0009) but not with Nano Fe(III) supplementation. This was confirmed in study-2, where we also showed that iron depletion at weaning imprinted significantly lower within- and between-community microbial diversity compared to mice weaned onto the iron-sufficient reference diet (P < 0.0001). Subsequent supplementation with FeSO4 partially restored the within-community diversity (P = 0.006 in relation to the continuously iron-depleted group) but not the between-community diversity, whereas Nano Fe(III) had no effect. We conclude that (1) dietary iron depletion at weaning imprints low diversity in the microbiota that is not, subsequently, easily recovered; (2) in the absence of gastrointestinal disease iron supplementation does not negatively impact the microbiota; and (3) Nano Fe(III) is less available to the gut microbiota.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/38582
Identification Number/DOI	10.1002/mbo3.213
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy > Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences > Food Microbial Sciences Research Group
Publisher	Wiley
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