5th Better Food for Better Health Microbiota & Health: The Challenges of a Promising Approach Les Pensières, Veyrier-du-Lac, April 6-8, 2016 Gut Microbial Metabolism of Plant-Food Bioactives: Impact on Dietary Exposure and Cancer Risk Johanna W. Lampe, PhD, RD Cancer Prevention Program, Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Dept of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Microbes and Cancer Microbes as infectious agents Account for ~20% of cancers worldwide Cervical, hepatic, oropharyngeal, and gastric cancers Direct effects Microbes as modifiers of exposures Metabolizing carcinogens, chemopreventive agents Affecting energetics Indirect metabolic effects
Experimental Human Nutrition Research Questions How are biomarkers of cancer susceptibility in humans modulated by constituents of diet? What differences among individuals influence response to diet? GENOTYPE-DIET INTERACTIONS HOST MICROBIOME-DIET INTERACTIONS
Number of Contigs Substantial Component of Microbial Genome Dedicated to Xenobiotic Metabolism Xenobiotics phytochemicals pyrolysis products drugs Qin et al., Nature, 464:59, 2010.
Dietary Bioactive Phytochemicals Phenolics Phenolic acids Stilbenes Curcuminoids Chalcones Lignans Flavonoids Isoflavones Terpenoids Organosulfurs N-containing compounds Phenolic terpenes Carotenoids Saponins Phytosterols Thiosulfinates Glucosinolates Indoles Adapted from Scalbert et al, J. Agric. Food Chem. 2011, 59, 4331 48
Cruciferous Vegetables and Cancer Cruciferous vegetable intake shows most consistent association with lower risk of certain cancers: lung, colorectal, breast, prostate, pancreatic cancer Isothiocyanates and indoles: Are chemopreventive in animal models Decrease inflammation and oxidative stress Induce cell differentiation and apoptosis Improve carcinogen metabolizing capacity SL Navarro et al, Food Funct, 2:579-87, 2011
Isothiocyanates from Glucosinolates in Cruciferous Vegetables S-D-Glucose R C N O - SO3 Glucosinolate Glucose R C.. SH Thioglucosidase (Myrosinase) N O SO 3 - HSO 4 - R N C S Isothiocyanate Yuesheng Zhang, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
Availability of Isothiocyanates from Broccoli Sprouts % of dose 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Chewed Uncooked Unchewed Cooked Myrosinasepretreated Shapiro et al, Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 2001
Urinary ITC Excretion Highly Variable Across Cruciferous Vegetable Doses Urinary ITC excretion (umol/24 h) 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 R=0.66 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 Dose (g/d) 7 g crucifer/kg BW 14 g crucifer/kg BW 7 g crucifer + 4 g apiaceous /kg BW Single-dose Double-dose Single plus apiaceous SL Navarro et al, J Nutr. 2014;144:1850-7.
Fecal Bacterial Degradation of Glucosinolates In Vitro Differs by ITC-Excreter Status Low- and high-itc excreters identified with broccoli dose Fecal bacteria incubated with glucoraphanin for 48 h Urine ITC recovery ranged from 1-28% Glucoraphanin degradation higher in high-itc excreters 100 Adjusted remaining glucoraphanin (%) 95 90 85 80 1H 4L 6L 8H 11H 12H 13L 14H 15L 18L % ITC in urine after 200 g broccoli 75 0 24 48 Incubation time (h) Li et al., Br J Nutr, 106:408-16, 2011.
Plant Lignans and Microbially-Derived Enterolignans and Cancer Risk Prospective case-control studies Support for reduced risk of colon and breast cancer Less clear for prostate cancer Experimental human studies Changes in estrogen metabolite profiles in women Decrease in inflammation biomarkers Experimental animal studies Flax lignans reduce colon, lung and mammary tumorigenesis Mechanisms of action Anti-inflammatory Anti-proliferative Pro-apoptotic Reviewed by Yoder, Lampe et al, in Diet-Microbe Interactions in the Gut, 2015
Gut Bacterial Metabolism of Plant Lignans to Enterolignans, Enterodiol and Enterolactone SDG SECO END MeO CH 2 O-glc MeO CH 2 OH HO CH 2 OH Hydrolysis of glucosides HO CH 2 O-glc HO CH 2 OH CH 2 OH -2 Glc - 2 Me - 2 OH Demethylation OMe OMe OH OH OH - OH Dehydroxylation MeO O MeO O HO O O O O HO HO - Glc - 2 Me - 2 OH OMe OMe OH O-glc OH MAT-glc MAT ENL
Large interindividual differences in enterodiol and enterlactone pharmacokinetics with dose of secoisolariciresinol diglycoside Kuijsten et al, J Nutr, 2005
Is There a Unique Gut Microbial Community Structure Associated with Lignan Metabolism?
Gut Microbial Community and Lignan Excretion in Premenopausal Women 107 women, 40-45 y Participants clustered by dominant bacterial genera (enterotypes). No relationship between enterotypes and lignan metabolite phenotypes. Gut microbial diversity higher with higher ENL excretion. Hullar et al, Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 24: 546-54, 2015
Gut Microbiome Associated with Urinary Enterolactone (ENL) Excretion Low ENL GMC composition is significantly different between high and low ENL excreters (MRPP, p<0.0005). Association remains significant with adjustment for fiber intake and adiposity. High ENL Low ENL clusters together Hullar et al, Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 24: 546-54, 2015
Phylogenetic Distribution of Microbiome in High-ENL Excreters Unique genera high ENL excreters Firmicutes Distributed across Phyla
Lignans, Gut Microbiome and Colonocyte Cell-Signaling Pathways In Vivo Plant lignans Gut Microbial Community Metabolism Enterolignans Normal Colon Cell Cell-Signaling Pathways Inflammation Proliferation, Apoptosis DNA damage Angiogenesis Randomized, controlled, crossover trial in healthy subjects: Lignan capsules (50 mg secoisolariciresinol diglucoside) Placebo capsules Measuring effects of lignan supplementation on: colonic mucosal mrna expression (stroma and epithelium) gut microbiome structure
Summary Gut microbes modify a variety of dietary constituents to bioactive compounds not found in diet. Phytochemicals as consumed are not necessarily as experienced by the host. Usual approaches of characterizing diet in epidemiologic studies are unlikely to capture exposure accurately. Application of metabolite biomarkers and gut microbial characterization may better explain dietary exposures in relation to risk of cancer and other chronic diseases.
J Lampe Lab * Meredith Hullar Jessica Citronberg Benjamin Fu Lisa Levy Sandi Navarro Wendy Thomas Seth Yoder FHCRC collaborators Susan Reed Tim Randolph George Mason U Cara Frankenfeld Texas A&M University Robert Chapkin Ivan Ivanov Group Health Katherine Newton University of Bristol Charlotte Atkinson University of Helsinki Kristiina Wähälä Supported by: US National Cancer Institute Kellogg Corporate Citizens Fund Fred Hutch