A Comparative Review on Microbiota Manipulation: Lessons From Fish, Plants, Livestock, and Human Research
Sylvia Brugman1* 
Wakako Ikeda-Ohtsubo2 
Saskia Braber3 
Gert Folkerts3 
Corné M. J. Pieterse4 
Peter A. H. M. Bakker4- 1Cell Biology and Immunology Group, Animal Sciences Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
- 2Food and Feed Immunology Group, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- 3Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- 4Plant-Microbe Interactions, Department of Biology, Science4Life, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
During recent years the impact of microbial communities on the health of their host (being plants, fish, and terrestrial animals including humans) has received increasing attention. The microbiota provides the host with nutrients, induces host immune development and metabolism, and protects the host against invading pathogens (1–6). Through millions of years of co-evolution bacteria and hosts have developed intimate relationships. Microbial colonization shapes the host immune system that in turn can shape the microbial composition (7–9). However, with the large scale use of antibiotics in agriculture and human medicine over the last decades an increase of diseases associated with so-called dysbiosis has emerged. Dysbiosis refers to either a disturbed microbial composition (outgrowth of possible pathogenic species) or a disturbed interaction between bacteria and the host (10). Instead of using more antibiotics to treat dysbiosis there is a need to develop alternative strategies to combat disturbed microbial control. To this end, we can learn from nature itself. For example, the plant root (or “rhizosphere”) microbiome of sugar beet contains several bacterial species that suppress the fungal root pathogen Rhizoctonia solani, an economically important fungal pathogen of this crop (11). Likewise, commensal bacteria present on healthy human skin produce antimicrobial molecules that selectively kill skin pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. Interestingly, patients with atopic dermatitis (inflammation of the skin) lacked antimicrobial peptide secreting commensal skin bacteria (12). In this review, we will give an overview of microbial manipulation in fish, plants, and terrestrial animals including humans to uncover conserved mechanisms and learn how we might restore microbial balance increasing the resilience of the host species.
The Impact of the Microbiota on Host Health
Each organism on earth needs to interact with the vast amount of microbes in its environment. From the moment of exposure both microbes and host interact and react to each other's presence. The current dogma holds that in early life the composition of the microbiota successively leads to the most optimal, healthy, and stable community that strengthens itself and the host. However, when disturbances occur in early life, for example due to antibiotic use, host's inability to interact properly with the microbiota, a mismatch between the environment of parent and offspring, non-optimized feeding conditions or infections, organisms might be more susceptible to disease early and later in life (Figure 1). In this same issue of Frontiers in Microbiology, Ikeda-Ohtsubo et al. describe what is currently known to be the most optimal microbiota in different species and will describe how microbes influence the host in more detail. In this section, we briefly highlight the impact of the microbial composition in relation to host health and continue to discuss manipulation of this composition in subsequent sections. In this review, we decided to focus on less well-reviewed species and did not include studies on rodents. For detailed reviews on (human and) mouse studies we would kindly refer to other reviews (1, 2, 13–15).
Figure 1. Early life establishment of the microbiota and possible disturbances.
Fish
Since most fish develop from eggs, fish are exposed to the microbial world around them from the moment of hatching. Members of the commensal microbiota present on the outside of the eggs can protect against pathogens, such as Saprolegnia (an oomycete that can infect eggs as well as the skin of fish) (16). Furthermore, colonization of the skin and gills by beneficial bacteria prevents colonization of pathogens through competitive exclusion and their ability to produce antimicrobial compounds specifically targeting certain pathogens (17, 18). An important recent contribution to the field of fish microbiology was made by Sullam et al. They assessed 25 bacterial 16S rRNA data sets from the intestines of several fish species and co-referenced these to free-living and host-associated bacterial communities to understand what factors determine composition (19). In this study Aeromonadales was found to be most abundant in the gut of freshwater species, while Vibrionales dominated salt water species, suggesting that salinity influences microbiota composition. Interestingly, the microbiota of fish herbivores are closely related to those of mammals suggesting that trophic level is of importance. In comparison with free-living bacteria the authors showed that fish gut communities bear resemblance to vertebrate and invertebrate communities strongly suggesting that the intestinal habitat selects those species from the environment that feed of luminal content (specialists).
Upon colonization of the intestines, bacteria increase the renewal rate of the epithelial cell layer lining the gut, and induce a transcriptional program that includes genes involved in nutrient metabolism and immunity (20). Interestingly, several of these induced genes observed in zebrafish upon colonization, are also found when mice are colonized, indicating that the response to bacterial colonization is evolutionary very conserved. Activation of immune cell responses can in turn shape the microbiota. For example, in a small study, it was observed that upon development of adaptive immunity in zebrafish, Vibrionales were specifically repressed by T lymphocytes (8). Research into effects of host genetics on the composition of the microbiota is still in its infancy. However, recent studies performed in zebrafish reveals that host factors can act as an ecological filter, but this can be overwhelmed by other factors, including transmission of microbes among hosts (21, 22).
Several recent studies have made the case that changes in microbial composition (due to antibiotic treatment or changes in feed) might cause disturbance of the microbial community and increase the susceptibility of fish to different pathogens or chemically/feed-induced inflammation (23–26). For example, zebrafish that were pretreated with either colistin sulfate or vancomycine displayed a difference in susceptibility toward chemically-induced intestinal inflammation. Fish that harbored an abundance of Fusobacterial species due to vancomycin pretreatment showed low histological damage to the gut and decreased recruitment of neutrophils to the intestines (23). Piazzon et al. showed that vegetable oil diets fed to gilthead sea bream induced high parasite infection levels decreased growth performance, and decreased intestinal microbiota diversity, while addition of butyrate slightly decreased cumulative mortality after bacterial challenge, did not show the decrease in growth and increased intestinal microbiota diversity (26). Likewise, exposure of catfish to potassium permanganate (PP), a disinfectants used to treat external infections, disturbed the external microbiomes (skin and gills), and increased catfish mortality following experimental challenge with Flavobacterium columnare (Columnaris disease) (24). Since, the microbial community of fish appears to be so closely linked to disease resistance and the aquaculture industry is growing rapidly, more research on the influence of microbial populations on fish health is expected to be performed in the near future.
Plants
The microbiota associated with plants originate from the soil in which the seed germinates and seedlings start to grow (27), but also the seed itself harbors microbes that will colonize the emerging plant (28). Compared to the soil microbiome, the so called rhizosphere microbiome that is associated with the plant roots, contains much higher microbial cell densities and shows higher activity, a phenomenon known as the rhizosphere effect (29). Root exudates create this hotspot for microbial activity (30). The plant microbiome is extremely diverse and the four main associated bacterial phyla are the Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, and Proteobacteria (31). The functional repertoire of plants is greatly extended by the rhizosphere microbiota, including vital functions like increasing nutrient availability, improvement of root architecture, and protection against biotic and abiotic stresses (32). Specific members of the rhizosphere microbiota can protect plants against infectious diseases and mechanisms involved are the production of antimicrobial metabolites and eliciting induced systemic resistance (ISR), in which the plant is primed for enhanced defense (33, 34). The protective effect of the root microbiome against infectious diseases is most obvious in so called disease suppressive soils in which susceptible plants remain healthy despite the presence of a virulent pathogen (35). It was recently demonstrated that the rhizosphere of disease resistant common bean is enriched for plant beneficial bacteria and bacterial biosynthetic genes that encode antifungal traits as compared to disease susceptible bean (36), suggesting that a first line of defense in resistant cultivars is based on the microbiome that they assemble.
Livestock
Pigs
Pork meat is the most consumed meat worldwide with 40,000 tons produced in 2017 (source: OECD, https://data.oecd.org/agroutput/meat-consumption.htm). Raising healthy piglets is of great economic importance. In neonatal piglets before weaning Firmicutes (54%), Bacteroidetes (39%), and Proteobacteria (4%) dominate the fecal microbiota (37). Weaning is a critical period in the piglets life, in which stress and sudden change in diet suppresses their health or can even lead to disease (38, 39). Pigs are generally weaned between 3 and 4 weeks of age (which is much shorter than the natural weaning which occurs around 17 weeks of age). As extensively reviewed by Gresse et al. most studies report a general decrease in diversity as well as a specific decrease in Lactobacilli and increase of Clostridium, Prevotella, and Proteobacteriacaea around weaning-associated with dietary changes (39). Low levels of antibiotics in feed have been used as growth promotors which also impact the microbiota around this critical weaning period and thereafter (40). Additionally, antibiotic resistance genes derived from phages within the pig microbiota pose a serious problem not only for pig health but also that of humans (41). Post-weaning diarrhea caused by Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) as well as Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a major cause of death of piglets. Outgrowth of these pathogenic species coincides with the reduced diversity of the microbiota observed around weaning possibly enabling pathogens to take up the available niches. Furthermore, increased permeability of the intestines observed around weaning, supplying pathogens with an opportunity to infect (42). Preventing pathogens from colonizing, by providing beneficial bacterial at early age, might improve health of piglets.
Ruminants
In ruminants such as cows, a lot of research into microbial manipulation has been geared toward modifying the microbiota to reduce methane emission. Methane emission, partly responsible for climate change, results from digestion of plant-material by methanogenic archaea in the ruminants intestines. Changing the microbiota to increase bacteria that can utilize the methane (such as Methanobrevibacter species) might reduce emission (43). The intestinal community of calves changes rapidly after birth and is dynamic during the first 12 weeks of life. Bacteroides–Prevotella and Clostridium coccoides–Eubacterium rectale species dominate the calves microbiota in this period (44, 45). After weaning, the microbiota changes, and this unstable populations has to cope with a sudden change in diet. As in pigs and other mammals, weaning is considered a critical period, where numerous factors can affect the microbiota as well as health. In calves it was shown that upon weaning Bacteroidetes decreased (still remaining the dominant phyla), while Proteobacteria and Firmicutes increased (46). A change in diet and subsequent change in microbiota has been associated with development of sub-acute ruminal acidosis (SARA) (47). SARA (a reduced ruminal pH; < 5.6 for more than 3 h/day) is the result of dietary shifts, leading to accumulation of volatile fatty acids generated by microbial digestive processes (48, 49).
Poultry
The ceca are the gastrointestinal organs that contain the highest microbial density and perform most of the fermentation in chicken. Mainly Firmicutes, Bacteroides, and Proteobacteria (Clostridial species) are found in the ceca of chicken [reviewed in Oakley et al. (50)]. Since eggs are separated from the hens before hatching the specific farm environment in which the eggs hatch supplies the environmental microbes for colonization. Already in the 70s and 80s of the last century it was shown that chicks receiving adult microbiota were resistant toward colonization by Salmonella (51). This competitive exclusion concept has helped our understanding of colonization processes of possible pathogenic (pathobionts) species, although fundamental knowledge on the mechanisms are still unclear. Other pathogens in chicken broilers are Eimeria and Clostridium perfringes. Clostridium perfringes is the causative agent in necrotic enteritis (NE) in poultry. Necrotic enteritis causes tremendous losses in the poultry industry (52). As holds true for most pathobionts like C. perfringens, it is clearly involved in the onset of NE, but development of the disease is a multifactorial, multistep process (53). Studies report that co-infection with Eimeria increases the chance of NE, since Eimeria induce mucogenesis, providing C. perfringens with a substrate on which it can grow (54, 55).
Humans
The human gut microbiota, composed of trillions of individual microbes, is a complex and dynamic system crucial for the development and maturation of both systemic and mucosal immune responses. The early postnatal life is an important period for the colonization of the host microbiota impacting on host health during infancy and even throughout the entire lifespan (56–58). Colonization even starts before birth, possibly via prenatal maternal microbial transmission (59). This initial colonization does not only influence immune development, but also gut maturation, brain, and metabolic development (1).
The development and composition of the infant gut microbiota is shaped by host genetics and different environmental factors, including gestational age, delivery mode (cesarean vs. vaginal delivery), antibiotic use, stress, and diet (breast vs. formula) (60).
Dysbiosis, may drive predisposition to diseases later in life and has been linked to the pathogenesis of several gastrointestinal diseases, like irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, and celiac disease, indicating that a balanced and diverse microbial community is essential for human health (61). A variety of other inflammatory or immune-mediated diseases, including diabetes, obesity, atopic diseases, and chronic kidney diseases, might largely originate from changes in gut microbiota as well (62, 63).
The microbiota and the immune system are involved in a complex crosstalk and the importance of the elaboration of gut microbiota-generated metabolites and recognition of bacterial epitopes by both intestinal epithelial and mucosal immune cells is clearly described. However, the complete mechanisms by which intestinal microbiota regulates host immunity remain undefined (64, 65).
Pro- and Prebiotics
Probiotics are defined by the World Health Organization's (WHO) to be live micro-organisms that when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit to the host. Prebiotics are ingredients in food such as fibers and oligosaccharides that induce the growth or activity of beneficial microorganisms. In the following section, we will give some highlights of the use of pre- and probiotics in fish, plants, live-stock animals, and humans.
Fish
Prebiotics
Prebiotics are indigestible fibers that are mainly fermented by the microbes in the intestines. The effect of mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), derived from the cell wall of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) has been studied in different fish species. In common carp fingerlings, feed containing different inclusion levels of MOS (0, 0.05, 0.10, and 0.20%) were evaluated. Total intestinal bacterial counts were not affected, however, there was an increased abundance of lactic acid bacteria levels in fish fed with MOS supplemented feed at the 0.20% inclusion level after 8 weeks of feeding, which might be beneficial to the fish (66). In European sea bass, inclusion of 0.40% of MOS reduced mortality after anally inoculated V. anguillarum from 66 to 12.5%, compared to fish fed control diet (67). Likewise, MOS enhanced innate immune responses, led to increased gut mucus production and increased the density of eosinophils in the gut mucosa of European sea bass (68, 69). A study performed in hybrid striped bass revealed that supplementation with MOS changed the microbiota. This study, although small and DGGE based, showed that the dominant species detected in control fish is Clostridium botulinum which was not detected in fish fed MOS and other prebiotics, which indicates that prebiotics can reduce the abundance of a specific pathogens (70). Furthermore, 0.2% MOS supplementation in juvenile trout significantly reduced the levels of health threatening Aeromonas/Vibrio spp. (from 37 to 9%) (71). For an extensive review of studies on the use of MOS and Galacto-oligosaccharide (GOS) in Gilthead seabream and European seabass we refer to Carbone and Faggio (72).
Artemia (live feed for fish larvae) fed a combination of Fructo-oligosaccharide (FOS) with probiotic Pediococcus acidilactici (synbiotics: Pre + Pro), also increased the abundance of lactic acid bacteria in Angelfish after 7 weeks of feeding (73). Likewise, Hoseinifar et al. observed an increase in the heterotrophic aerobic bacteria and lactic acid bacteria in fish fed diets supplemented with 2 and 3% FOS (74). An increase in Lactobacillus levels was also observed in stellate sturgeon fed diets containing 1% FOS (75).
Some essential oils from plants might have an impact on the microbiota and host health and might therefore also be termed prebiotic. For example, when juvenile hybrid tilapia were fed 200 mg/kg Next Enhance feed 150 (NE) containing equal levels of thymol and carvacrol (essential oils of oregano) for 6 weeks, the phagocytosis activity of head kidney macrophages was enhanced as well as plasma lysozyme activity (76). Interestingly, when germ free zebrafish were colonized with the microbiota from these NE fed tilapia, they showed attenuated induction of immune response marker genes serum amyloid a, interleukin 1β, and interleukin 8, indicating that these essential oils might change the microbiota and subsequently influence host' immune responses.
Probiotics
Although most studies associate the change in microbiota levels (increased Lactobacillus abundance) with improved health outcomes, the mechanism by which increases in Lactobacilli ameliorate fish health still needs to be demonstrated. However, most probiotics currently used in aquaculture belong to the lactic acid bacteria group such as Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus rhamnosis, and Lactobacillus lactis [reviewed in Banerjee and Ray (77)]. Interestingly, Phaeobacter inhibens fed Artemia decrease mortality in sea bass larvae, and the probiotic fed sea bass larvae were more resistant toward Vibrio harveyi infection (78, 79). Phaeobacter produces Tropodithietic Acid (TDA), which in vitro has been shown to inhibit the growth of several pathogenic bacteria, such as Pseudomonas and Aeromonas. In vivo, P. inhibens appears to specifically inhibit Vibrio species in the aforementioned sea bass larvae, but also in copepod cultures (78, 79).
In conclusion, pre- and probiotic supplementation of fish feed is a promising alternative for antibiotic treatment in aquaculture. However, a cautionary note on these data are the findings of Cerezuela et al. showing that diets supplemented with probiotic Bacteroides subtilis together with prebiotic inulin caused intestinal edema and inflammation in gilthead sea bream (80). This last example, clearly shows the need for in depth studies into the effects of known pro- and prebiotics in the different (aquaculture and model) fish species.
Plants
Prebiotics
The use of organic soil amendments to promote plant growth is common practice in agriculture (81). Apart from adding nutrients that are essential for plant growth, microbiota associated with these amendments and effects of the amendments on the resident microflora are suggested to govern beneficial effects of such additives (82). In a recent study it was demonstrated that addition of broccoli residues or crab meal amendments to soil resulted in a transition of disease conducive to suppressive soil (83). Eggplant is susceptible to wilting caused by the fungus Verticillium dahliae, but when grown in soil amended with green manure (broccoli residues) or the chitin containing crab shell meal, it was protected against the disease. In the amended soils bacterial genera with antifungal activity were more abundant and chitinase activity was increased (83). These results show that organic amendments can modify the soil microbiome and support microbiome activities that effectively suppress soil borne disease.
Thermal degradation of organic material by pyrolysis results in the production of biochar, a possible means to sequester carbon and to mitigate climate change (84). Soil amendment with biochar can improve soil fertility and has been reported to influence diseases caused by soil borne plant pathogens. Addition of biochar significantly impacts the soil microbiome and functions (85), suggesting that it may modulate the rhizosphere microbiome of plants grown on this soil and thereby affect disease incidence and severity. Indeed biochar amendments have been shown to reduce disease, but if this is due to the ISR eliciting activity of biochar itself or if it results from modulation of the microbiome remains to be elucidated (86).
Thus, addition of prebiotics to control plant diseases follows as yet a trial and error approach. Discovering new prebiotics may result from studies in which effects of specific plant produced compounds on beneficial microbes are recorded. Recently it was suggested that scopoletin, a compound excreted by Arabidopsis roots upon colonization by beneficial bacteria, can support the beneficial bacteria (87). Application of such plant derived prebiotics may lead to stimulation of beneficial microbes within the resident microbiota or may be used to sustain populations and activities of introduced biocontrol agents.
Probiotics
A wealth of literature is available of studies on application of so called biological control agents that can benefit plant growth by suppressing diseases, and their modes of action have been studied in detail (88, 89). The best studied bacterial biological control agents are Bacillus and Pseudomonas. When applied to seed or as a soil drench, specific strains of Bacillus and Pseudomonas spp. can protect plants against soil borne pathogens (33, 90–92) Effects of these biological control agents can be based on direct inhibition of the pathogen through the production of antimicrobial compounds, eliciting ISR, or a combination of both modes of action (33, 34). The ability of the bacteria to colonize the plant root, also referred to as rhizosphere competence, is crucial for their biocontrol efficacy (93). Inconsistency in the performance of biological control agents is often related to poor establishment of the bacteria in the rhizosphere, resulting in population densities that are below the threshold levels needed for effective biocontrol. As a result many potential biological control agents have been identified over the last decades but relatively few have been developed into commercial products. Commercialized bacterial biocontrol agents include well-studied Bacillus and Pseudomonas spp. (94). In view of the urgent need of alternatives for chemical control of plant diseases companies have great interest in developing new and innovative commercial products. Recent insights from metagenomic studies suggest that microbial consortia are involved in soil suppressiveness (11, 95, 96), and thus mixed inocula are more likely to be effective in plant protection than single inocula. Moreover, it has been hypothesized that domestication of our crop plants has resulted in degradation of their root microbiome composition and function (5, 97) and thus breeding programs that also focus on a healthy microbiome are crucial to further develop sustainable crop production.
Livestock
Pigs
Prebiotics
Especially with realization that use of in-feed antibiotics as growth promotors can greatly disturb the microbiota in post-wean piglets, studies are aimed at providing prebiotics that can restore beneficial microbes in the gut of piglets. As with most species studied, prebiotics used in pigs are GOS, FOS, MOS, and Cello-oligosaccharides (COS). It was shown that COS increased lactobacilli in jejunal and colonic contents (98). Furthermore, COS increased epithelial barrier function shown by decreased leakage of fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC-) dextran 4 kDa in jejunum and colon and increased trans-epithelial electrical resistance (TEER) in Ussing chamber experiments. In line with this several tight junction proteins were increased (98).
Alizadeh et al. investigated the effect of GOS in early life. Piglets received a milk replacer with or without the addition of GOS for 3 or 26 days. Dietary GOS increased Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria numbers at day 26. Addition of GOS to the diet of piglets increased defensin porcine β-defensin-2 in the colon and secretory IgA levels in saliva (99). In contrast, in another study were neonatal piglets were given formula supplemented with GOS and polydextrose (PDX) Lactobacillus spp. were not increased (100). In all of these studies age of the piglets and duration of the supplementation is different, therefore it is difficult to compare the outcomes. Interestingly, a recent study evaluated the effects of maternal prebiotic consumption on offspring intestinal defenses and immune system responsiveness. The authors showed that maternal short chain FOS supplementation improved ileal cytokine secretions and increased IgA vaccine response to Lawsonia intracellularis in the serum and ileal mucosa (101).
In a study assessing the synbiotic effect of FOS and Bifidobacterium animalis, Trevisi et al. observed in 21–35 day old piglets that B. animalis fed together with FOS (2%) increased TLR2 expression in the lymph node, but did not reduce bacterial translocation (102).
Probiotics
In order to reverse deleterious effects of weaning on microbiota stability there have been numerous studies performed using probiotics in post-weaning piglets. The most frequently used probiotics are members of Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, Enterococcus, or Streptococcus. However, studies are difficult to compare and results may differ from farm to farm. For a comprehensive review on probiotic use and its challenges in pigs we refer to Barba-Vidal et al. that critically reviews the most recent literature on this topic (103).
Ruminants
Prebiotics
Similar to pigs, in calves several types of oligosaccharides have been tested for their health increasing or disease preventing activities (by prevention of pathogen binding to epithelial cells). MOS addition to the diet of 5 day old calves (4 g/calf/day up to 2 months of age) improved growth and decreased the number of coliforms in feces (104). GOS added to the diet of calves promoted Lactobacillus and Bifidobacteria, but due to its laxative effects had lower growth performance (105). Addition of short chain fructo-oligosaccharides (scFOS) to the diet of 8–10 day old calves increased butyrate production while reducing acetate production, which might have health effects, although only growth was assessed in this study (106). Few studies assessed immunological parameters to investigate whether prebiotics convey health effects. Fleige et al. assessed whether long-term lactulose feeding combined with Enterococcus faecium affected immune cell activation markers, cytokine responses and IgA Fc-receptor (107). Supplementation of calf feed with 3% lactulose increased the number of blood lymphocytes. Also a small increase in the expression of IgA Fc-receptor was observed in the ileal mucosa in male calves receiving 1% lactulose, but this was not significantly different in the 3% group. Furthermore, the authors report effects on CD4+ (lower in ileum in lactulose group) and CD8+ (higher in blood of females) T cells as well as decreased levels of IL10 and Interferon gamma in the ileum. Feeding calves COS increased the proportion of C. coccoides–E. rectale group, while it had no effect on Bifidobacteria and Lactobacilli, but did increase butyrate levels, which could have beneficial effects (108, 109).
Probiotics
To counteract low ruminal pH that might cause SARA, species that keep lactate levels stable such as Enterococcus and Lactobacillus, or that feed on lactate (Megasphaella or Propionibacteria) are used (110–113). In addition yeast is given to aid the digestion of cellulose. Besides studies that show a beneficial effects of pre- or probiotics on the health of calves, there is an equal amount not showing effects [summarized in Uyeno et al. (114)]. This discrepancy in the data might result from farm to farm differences and the health status of the calves at baseline.
Poultry
Prebiotics and probiotics
For an overview on the effects of prebiotic supplementation on the microbiota and health of chicken we refer to an excellent recent review by Pourabedin and Zhao (115). In summary, research has been done on the prebiotic effects of MOS, FOS, XOS (xylooligosaccharides; degradation products of lignocellulose materials), GOS, SMO (soybean meal oligosacchahides), and mainly found, or investigated effects on Lactobacillus and Bifidobacteria. Future research will focus more on metabolites such as short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) and other possible beneficial microbes that can be discovered as more in depth sequencing of chicken microbiota is undertaken.
Humans
Prebiotics
There is growing recognition of the role of nutritional and therapeutic strategies, including pro- and prebiotics, in targeting the composition and the metabolic activity of the gut microbiota, which can in turn impact human health.
Human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) are the first prebiotics in humans that are essential for postnatal growth and development of the gastrointestinal and immune system as demonstrated by comparing breast-fed infants with formula-fed infants (116). HMO facilitate the establishment of the microbiota, stimulate intestinal development, promote intestinal development and prevent pathogenic infections, as reviewed by Donovan and Comstock (117). Alternatives for HMO, including GOS and FOS, are used in infant formula. These non-digestible oligosaccharides (NDO) have several beneficial health effects. NDO are known to reduce the incidence of allergic manifestations (118–120), stimulate the vaccine-specific immune response (121) and protect against infections (122, 123). GOS are also effective in alleviating symptoms of chronic inflammatory diseases, like irritable bowel syndrome (124) and reduce the prevalence of diarrhea (125), while FOS can promote satiety and weight loss in obese patients (126). There is also evidence that prebiotics can impact various biomarkers of colorectal cancer (127, 128) and Abrams et al., showed that inulin-type fructans enhances mineral absorption, including calcium, and bone mineralization [Abrams et al. (129), also reviewed by Slavin (130)].
These health effects were related to their prebiotic effect, including changes in microbiota composition and stimulation of growth and activity of health-promoting Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria (131–134), but can also be caused by fermentation products of these bacteria, such as SCFAs (135–137). Moreover, oligosaccharides inhibit the adhesion of pathogens on the epithelial surface (138–140).
The impact of prebiotics on the microbiota influence immune signaling as shown by beneficial effects on the mucosal immune system and gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT), increased secretory IgA and mucosal Ig, increasing anti-inflammatory cytokines, decreasing pro-inflammatory cytokines and altering lymphocyte expression [reviewed by Shokryazdan et al. (141) and Wilson and Whelan (142)]. However, there are also microbiota-independent effects of NDOs. Epithelial cells and immune cells can directly interact with oligosaccharides to modulate an immune response, for example via activation of peptidoglycan recognition protein 3 (PGlyRP3) and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ), carbohydrate receptors, such as C-type lectin or Toll-like receptors (TLRs), including TLR4, nucleotide oligomerization domain containing proteins (NODs), 2 and via galectins (143–145). Although, one should take care that, when investigating receptor-mediated signaling of oligosaccharides that the preparations are devoid of LPS contamination, since already small amounts can have effects on immune cells (146). In addition, prebiotics have stabilizing effects on the intestinal barrier and protect against barrier impairment (147–150). The structure, chain length, solubility, fermentability, and viscosity of oligosaccharides are important characteristics that possibly determine the health effect in the host (150–152). Among different dietary compounds, omega-3 (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in the diet have demonstrated a beneficial impact on the intestinal microbiota composition and development (153–155). Polyphenols (e.g., flavonols and quercetin) are a hot topic for future nutritional strategies related to their biological activities, including antimicrobial, antioxidant, or anticarcinogenic activities, and modulation of the gut microbiota by stimulation of beneficial bacteria (156–158). Besides polyphenols, other minor food compounds, including zinc, conjugated linoleic acid, L-carnitine, choline, sphingomyelin, or ellagitannins have been reviewed by Roca-Saavedra et al. (159) to modify the intestinal microbiota and consequently, impact human health.
Probiotics
The complex microbial communities that colonize the human gastrointestinal tract are important in human health and modulation of the intestinal microbiota composition is one of the potential health-beneficial effects of probiotics (160). Probiotics are not only used to maintain and stimulate a healthy microbiota in healthy individuals, but there is increasing scientific evidence that probiotics can be used for prevention and treatment of a large number of disease states and intestinal disorders associated with an unbalanced intestinal microbiota (dysbiosis). The efficacy of probiotics have been demonstrated in diarrhea induced by antibiotics or infections, neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis, inflammatory bowel disease, and irritable bowel syndrome, Helicobacter pylori infection, lactose intolerance, and metabolic syndromes (161–163). Various meta-analyses and systematic reviews indicate encouraging effects of probiotics on allergy, atopic diseases, and respiratory infections (164, 165). There is strong evidence that there are interactions between the gut microbiota and the nervous system, therefore the use of pre- and probiotics in preventing or treating neurologic diseases is a topic of great interest (166, 167).
Since clinical benefits of probiotics depend on strain selection, delivery method, dosage, and duration of administration, as well as their ability to survive the stomach pH and reach the the GI tract (168) discrepancies between studies are observed.
Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, and Saccharomyces are well-known probiotics widely used and studied for improving human health. Probiotics do not always colonize the intestinal tract to exert their benefits, but can also remodel or influence the existing microbiota. Plausible mechanisms, by which probiotics are able to modify the intestinal microbiota and/or induce responses potentially beneficial to the host are: competition for nutrients (and prebiotics), reduction of the luminal pH, induction, and secretion of antimicrobial factors (e.g., bacteriocins, defensins), SCFA production, prevention of pathogen adhesion to epithelial cells, improvement of intestinal barrier function (e.g., via decreased apoptosis of epithelial cells, increased mucin production, and/or modulation of tight junction proteins), modulation of immune responses (e.g., via increasing mucosal immunity, regulating Thelper cell responses, and release of cytokines) (160, 162, 169, 170). Probiotics and/or their soluble factors can communicate with intestinal epithelial cells via TLRs, and in addition, can be transported across the intestinal epithelium by M cells and may elicit the immunomodulatory effects by activating the APCs, influencing the systemic immune responses (171).
Microbiota Transfer
Fish
Studies performed in zebrafish and mice revealed that microbial communities are assembled in predictable ways. Rawls et al. transplanted mouse intestinal content into zebrafish and vice versa to investigate whether microbial communities are shaped by the host. It was found that the transplanted community resembled its community of origin (donor) in terms of the species that were present, but the relative abundance of these species changed to resemble the normal gut microbial community composition of the recipient host. This means that microbial communities arise in part from distinct selective pressures imposed within the gut habitat of each host (7). Recent studies using large numbers of zebrafish showed that host factors can act as an ecological filter, but this can be overwhelmed by other factors, including transmission of microbes among hosts (21, 22). This suggests that microbial management in fish must be targeted at group level and that microbial transplants in fish might be a little more challenging.
Plants
A classic experiment in studies on disease suppressive soils is the transfer of tiny amounts of suppressive soil to a disease conducive soil, leading to the transfer of disease suppressiveness. One of the first documented transfer experiments was published in 1931 by Henry. In this study an amount of microbially active soil that adhered to the tip of a moist sterile platinum needle was transferred to 50 g of sterilized soil and resulted in almost complete suppression of Helminthosporium foot rot of wheat. Such transfer experiments have since then been used to study the involvement of microbes in disease suppressive soils. In disease suppressive fields plants are protected against disease, whereas in adjacent fields with similar chemical and physical soil conditions plants become diseased. The best studied example is take-all decline of wheat, in which soil that is cultivated to wheat continuously develops suppressiveness against the take-all pathogen Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici (35). Upon mixing take-all suppressive into conducive soil in a 1:9 ratio, the resulting mix was suppressive to the disease (172). Similar experiments have been reported for Rhizoctonia solani suppressive sugar beet fields (11) and Fusarium oxysporum suppressive strawberry fields (173). Using both cultivation dependent and sequencing based cultivation independent methods, microbes and functions involved in the control of the disease were identified in the above mentioned studies. Obviously transferring 10% suppressive soil into a conducive soil is unrealistic in practice, but elucidating the mechanisms underlying suppressiveness and especially deciphering how plants assemble their disease suppressive microbiomes will be instrumental in sustaining healthy plant microbiomes. For many suppressive soils a severe disease outbreak is needed for suppressiveness to develop, suggesting that both the plant and the pathogen need to be present to assemble a protective microbiome. Thus, it was postulated that plants can “cry for help” upon pathogen attack resulting in specific changes in their microbiomes. In Arabidopsis thaliana it was demonstrated that aboveground infection with the downy mildew pathogen Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis results in the assemblage of a plant beneficial bacterial consortium, and effects of the disease induced changes can protect a new population of plants growing in the same soil (96). Uncovering plant cues that govern this disease induced microbiome assemblage will facilitate directed manipulation of the rhizosphere microbiome in a sensible manner.
Livestock
In ruminants, transfaunation of ruminal contents, which contains protozoa, bacteria, and methanogenic archaea as major components, has been a common treatment to improve rumen functions and milk production (174). Studies have shown that the ciliated protozoa responsible for digestion of plant materials, can be successfully transferred, but bacterial community seems to be more resistant, which may be due to high host-specific properties (175). While an early study has shown that inoculation of fecal microbiota of healthy adult broilers could reduce the number of Salmonella infantis in newly hatched chickens (51), fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from chickens with good feed efficiency has not been proved to be effective for modulating the feed efficiently of recipient chickens (176). Similarly in pigs, both positive and negative effects of FMT have been reported. Weight gain and improved innate immunity as well as low rate of diarrhea of piglets orally inoculated with fecal microbiota suspension of healthy adult have been reported (177). In contrast, McCormack et al., have reported that FMT from highly feed-efficient pigs have not been able to deliver the donor phenotype but rather had detrimental effects on recipient sows and their piglets, while increased innate host defense signaling has also been observed, which can be attributed to the altered intestinal microbiota as has been shown in the Hu's study (178). Ribeiro et al. have made an interesting attempt to transfer rumen contents of bison, which may be efficient at digesting low-quality forages, to cattle and found increased protein digestibility and nitrogen retention, while fiber digestibility was not improved (179). This kind of wild-to-domestic microbiota transplant would be an intriguing strategy to regain “extinct” microbial members through domestication, but microbial transfer between genetically different animals should be carefully conducted, since the treatment could be resulted in disturbance of original microbiota (180). In general, the major obstacle of FMT in young livestock animals for meat production may be that FMT can interrupt normal microbial acquisition such as parental transfer. Therefore, understanding the developmental timeline of intestinal microbial community assemblage of the targeted animals would be crucial for contriving future FMT strategies (181).
Humans
In order to restore a healthy balance between human host and microbes, there has been growing interest in the use of FMT, which entails stool transfer from a healthy donor into a patient's intestine. This technique durably alters the gut microbiota of the recipient. The introduced bacterial strains are easily accepted and persist in an established microbial community in the intestine, however, individual differences of microbiota resistance and donor-recipient compatibilities are indicated after FMT (182).
The microbial community for transplantation can be instilled by various methods, including nasogastric or nasointestinal tubes, endoscopy, colonoscopy, rectal tubes, sigmoidoscopy, enema, or encapsulated formulations, or a combined approach, but there is no clear consensus regarding the optimal instillation method (183). To date, most clinical experience has focused on the use of fecal transplants in patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection and FMT has become established as a highly efficacious and safe treatment method for these patients (183, 184). It is actively studied as treatment option in inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome and metabolic syndromes, however, evidence is still limited and more randomized controlled trials are needed (184–187). FMT may also have potential applications in a variety of other conditions associated with intestinal dysbiosis, including neuropsychiatric disorders, allergic disorders, and auto-immune disorders as reviewed by Xu et al. (188).
Future work will focus on the standardization of donor screening/selection, feces preparation, clinical application, microbiome analysis, obtaining more robust (long-term) safety data, excluding unwanted co-transfer of pathogenic microbes, the understanding of the exact microbial recovery mechanism (183, 186, 189, 190). Especially, determining what constitutes a healthy microbiota that can be safely transferred will still needs more fundamental research.
Conclusion
Antibiotic resistance is on the rise, due to many years of large-scale use of antibiotics as growth enhancers in livestock and aquaculture. This poses a threat not only to the health of our production animals but to the human population as well. Legislation preventing overuse of antibiotics has led to the rapid emergence of studies into the use of pre- and probiotics in fish, plants, livestock animals, and humans. As we have tried to illustrate in this review, a lot of progress has been made. Pre- and probiotics are used to increase early life health and help reach a stable healthy microbiota and fecal transplants have been shown to successfully restore health (Figure 2). Whether pre- and probiotics can enhance health when a stable microbiota is in place still remains an open question. Although from the above mentioned studies it has emerged that oligosaccharides may stimulate certain beneficial microbes to persist or even become dominant, most of the time we do not understand the mechanism by which these species influence the health of their host, if at all. Dosing, duration, and age at which pre- and probiotics are given might all determine whether one observes effects or not. As for the effect of probiotics, are these effects transient, or do Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria need to persist for a long time to elicit their health effects. Furthermore, what determines whether a microbe is beneficial within the genera of Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria? This might as well be host-specific. Considering the interplay between the host and members of the microbiota selecting a “healthy microbiota” for fecal transplantation may not be as straightforward as we now believe. Depending on the genetic make-up of the individual, microbes might behave different in different hosts. Specifically, we need to make sure we are not copying that what works in one species directly to other species without understanding the effects. In fish for example, the ratio Bacteroidetes/Proteobacteria increases upon inflammation (191), while in humans and mice a decrease of this ratio is associated with inflammation (mainly due to an increase of gamma-Proteobacteria) (192, 193) and in plants Pseudomonas (a gamma-Proteobacterium) is considered to be beneficial (94). Furthermore, some experiments are performed in vitro in which the tissue context and immune system of the entire organism is lacking, while others are performed in vivo in which one is limited by the read-out parameters that can be investigated or controlled. However, the fact that we know that all hosts select certain species that can protect them from colonization or infection with pathogens is a strong lesson from nature we can exploit in our artificial rearing and culturing conditions in agriculture and human medicine. Furthermore, in an exciting new paper published in Science in 2018 Manfredo Vieira et al. (194) showed that translocation of the gut pathobiont, Enterococcus gallinarum, to the liver and other systemic tissues triggers autoimmune responses in a genetic background predisposing to autoimmunity in mice. This illustrates nicely, that we are still in the beginning of understanding host-microbe interaction. Therefore, more fundamental species specific research is needed to fully understand the vast network of interactions between the microbial world and their hosts. Dissecting the intimate relationship between the host and its microbial community can uncover novel mechanisms that might be exploited to restore microbial community structure in those plants and animals that suffer from dysbiosis.
Figure 2. Restoration or improvement of microbial homeostasis in disturbed (A: by pro- or prebiotics or B: Fecal Microbiota Transplant) or undisturbed states (C).
Author Contributions
SyB, WI-O, SaB, GF, CP, and PB all wrote the manuscript according to their expertise and added to different sections. SyB wrote the paragraphs on fish and livestock, WI-O wrote the FMT of livestock, SaB and GF wrote the paragraphs on humans, CP and PB wrote the paragraphs on plants.
Conflict of Interest Statement
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for funding the Frontiers in Agricultural Immunology workshop (Lorentz Center) and the Core to Core program of the Japan Society for the promotion of science (JSPS) enabling scientific collaboration between the Netherlands and Japan.
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Keywords: probiotics, prebiotics, comparative, microbiota, fish, livestock, plants, human
Citation: Brugman S, Ikeda-Ohtsubo W, Braber S, Folkerts G, Pieterse CMJ and Bakker PAHM (2018) A Comparative Review on Microbiota Manipulation: Lessons From Fish, Plants, Livestock, and Human Research. Front. Nutr. 5:80. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2018.00080
Received: 07 June 2018; Accepted: 17 August 2018;
Published: 05 September 2018.
Edited by:
Vida Abedi, Geisinger Health System, United StatesReviewed by:
Zhenhuan Zhao, University of Virginia, United StatesJulien Diana, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), France
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*Correspondence: Sylvia Brugman, sylvia.brugman@wur.nl