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Proteomic and Metabolomic Profiling of Archaeal Extracellular Vesicles from the Human Gut

Weinberger, V.; Darnhofer, B.; Mertelj, P.; Stentz, R.; Thapa, H. B.; Jones, E.; Grabmann, G.; Mohammadzadeh, R.; Shinde, T.; Juodeikis, R.; Pernitsch, D.; Hingerl, K.; Zurabishvili, T.; Kumpitsch, C.; Kuehnast, T.; Kolb, D.; Gotts, K.; Weihhart, T.; Köcher, T.; Koefeler, H.; Carding, S.; Schild, S.; Moissl-Eichinger, C.

2024-06-22 microbiology
10.1101/2024.06.22.600174 bioRxiv
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One potential mechanism for microbiome-host, and microbiome constituents interaction and communication involves extracellular vesicles (EVs). Here, for the first time, we report the capability of two M. smithii strains (ALI and GRAZ-2), Candidatus M. intestini, and Methanosphaera stadtmanae, as underrepresented components of the gut microbiome, to produce EVs. Interesting, size, morphology, and composition of AEVs were comparable to bacterial EVs, as indicated by ultrastructure, composition, proteomic and metabolomic analyses; however, EVs were substantially less prevalent in the studied Archaea. When looking at the proteomics more precisely, although AEVs from M. smithii ALI and M. intestini were found to be carrying unique proteins (n=135 and n=30, respectively), the shared proteins in AEVs within this genus (n=229), were mostly adhesins(/like) proteins, or proteins with IG-like domains. One remarkable observation was the uptake of AEVs obtained from Methanosphaera stadtmanae and the studied Methanobrevibacter species by human monocytes and the subsequent IL-8 secretion.

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