Stress triggers gut dysbiosis via CRH-CRHR1-mitochondria pathway.

NPJ biofilms and microbiomes 2024

Zhang Y, Li X, Lu S, Guo H, Zhang Z, Zheng H, Zhang C, Zhang J, Wang K, Pei F, Duan L

Abstract

Stress can lead to gut dysbiosis in brain-gut axis disordered diseases as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), yet the mechanisms how stress transfer from the brain to the gut and disrupt gut microbiota remain elusive. Here we describe a stress-responsive brain-to-gut axis which impairs colonocytes’ mitochondria to trigger gut dysbiosis. Patients with IBS exhibit significantly increased facultative anaerobes and decreased obligate anaerobes, related to increased serum corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) level and defected colonocytes’ mitochondria ultrastructure. Mice exposed to acute stress experienced enhanced CRH-CRH receptor type 1 (CRHR1) signaling, which impaired mitochondria and epithelium hypoxia in the colon, subsequently triggered gut dysbiosis. Antagonizing CRHR1 expression to inhibit cAMP/Ras/MAPK signaling or activating mitochondria respiration conferred resilience against stress-induced mitochondria damaging and epithelium hypoxia impairment, ultimately improving gut dysbiosis. These results suggest that the CRH-CRHR1-mitochondria pathway plays a pivotal role in stress-induced gut dysbiosis that could be therapeutically targeted for stress-induced gastrointestinal diseases. Yiming Zhang et.al report that psychological stress activated Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH)-CRH receptor type 1 (CRHR1)-mitochondria pathway to trigger gut dysbiosis and reveal CRHR1 upregulation damages mitochondria via cAMP/Ras/MAPK signaling in colonocytes.

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