Prebiotic intervention changes host and microbe proteomes in plasma extracellular vesicles of Parkinson’s disease
摘要
We hypothesize that intestinal microbiome dysbiosis may contribute to Parkinson’s disease (PD) pathogenesis. Our prior proof-of-concept clinical trial demonstrated that a precision prebiotic intervention improved microbiota dysbiosis and alleviated gastrointestinal and motor symptoms in PD patients. Building on this, we analyzed plasma extracellular vesicles (EVs) from participants to explore EVs as a dynamic PD biomarker and to assess the systemic effects of a microbiota-directed intervention. Using mass spectrometry-based proteomics of EVs from PD and healthy control (HC) participants, we identified distinct human and bacterial proteins in plasma-derived EV. Crucially, this offers a holistic systemic readout of the microbiota-gut-brain axis by quantifying both host and microbial components. We found that EV proteomic profiles differed between PD and HC samples as well as between unmedicated/mild and medicated/moderate PD participants. Furthermore, the microbiota-directed prebiotic intervention induced an acutely modifiable PD signature, shifting host and microbial EV proteomic profiles toward the HC profile. Using a combined 16-feature host-microbe signature, we built a multiple linear regression model that accurately distinguishes PD status from HC (R2 = 0.88) and successfully stratified disease severity (R2 = 0.72). Based on these findings, we suggest that: (1) a precision prebiotic mixture can modulate PD-associated proteomic signatures and (2) plasma EV proteomics may be a platform to capture these biological responses and to explore potential diagnostic and staging biomarkers in the context of microbiome-targeted interventions.