PMID- 29214487 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180607 LR - 20211204 IS - 1976-3794 (Electronic) IS - 1225-8873 (Linking) VI - 55 IP - 12 DP - 2017 Dec TI - Effects of dietary poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) on microbiota composition and the mTOR signaling pathway in the intestines of litopenaeus vannamei. PG - 946-954 LID - 10.1007/s12275-017-7273-y [doi] AB - Poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a natural polymer of the short chain fatty acid beta-hydroxybutyrate, which acts as a microbial control agent. The mammalian target of the rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway plays a crucial role in intestine inflammation and epithelial morphogenesis. In this study, we examined the composition of intestine microbiota, and mTOR signaling-related gene expression in Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei fed diets containing different levels of PHB: 0% (Control), 1% (PHB1), 3% (PHB3), and 5% (PHB5) (w/w) for 35 days. High-throughput sequencing analysis revealed that dietary PHB altered the composition and diversity of intestine microbiota, and that the microbiota diversity decreased with the increasing doses of PHB. Specifically, dietary PHB increased the relative abundance of Proteobacteria and Tenericutes in the PHB1 and PHB5 groups, respectively, and increased that of Gammaproteobacteria in the three PHB groups. Alternatively, PHB decreased Alphaproteobacteria in the PHB3 and PHB5 groups. At the genus level, dietary PHB increased the abundance of beneficial bacteria, such as Bacillus, Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Clostridium, and Bdellovibrio. The relative mRNA expression levels of the mTOR signaling-related genes TOR, 4E-BP, eIF4E1alpha, and eIF4E2 all increased in the three PHB treatment groups. These results revealed that dietary PHB supplementation had a beneficial effect on intestine health of L. vannamei by modulating the composition of intestine microbiota and activating mTOR signaling. FAU - Duan, Yafei AU - Duan Y AD - Key Laboratory of South China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation & Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510300, P. R. China. FAU - Zhang, Yue AU - Zhang Y AD - Key Laboratory of South China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation & Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510300, P. R. China. FAU - Dong, Hongbiao AU - Dong H AD - Key Laboratory of South China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation & Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510300, P. R. China. FAU - Wang, Yun AU - Wang Y AD - Key Laboratory of South China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation & Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510300, P. R. China. FAU - Zhang, Jiasong AU - Zhang J AD - Key Laboratory of South China Sea Fishery Resources Exploitation & Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510300, P. R. China. jiasongzhang@hotmail.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20171207 PL - Korea (South) TA - J Microbiol JT - Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) JID - 9703165 RN - 0 (Arthropod Proteins) RN - 0 (Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-4E) RN - 0 (Food Additives) RN - 0 (Hydroxybutyrates) RN - 0 (Polyesters) RN - 26063-00-3 (poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases) SB - IM MH - Animal Feed/analysis MH - Animals MH - Arthropod Proteins/genetics/metabolism MH - Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-4E/genetics/metabolism MH - Food Additives/metabolism MH - *Gastrointestinal Microbiome MH - Hydroxybutyrates/*metabolism MH - Intestinal Mucosa/metabolism MH - Intestines/microbiology MH - Penaeidae/genetics/*metabolism/*microbiology MH - Polyesters/*metabolism MH - Signal Transduction MH - TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/genetics/*metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - Litopenaeus vannamei OT - intestine microbiota OT - mTOR signaling OT - poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) OT - prebiotic EDAT- 2017/12/08 06:00 MHDA- 2018/06/08 06:00 CRDT- 2017/12/08 06:00 PHST- 2017/06/22 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/11/01 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/09/23 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/12/08 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2017/12/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/06/08 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/s12275-017-7273-y [pii] AID - 10.1007/s12275-017-7273-y [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Microbiol. 2017 Dec;55(12):946-954. doi: 10.1007/s12275-017-7273-y. Epub 2017 Dec 7.