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Modeling-Enabled Systems Nutritional Immunology REVIEW published: 16 February 2016 doi: 10.3389/fnut.2016.00005 Modeling-Enabled Systems Nutritional Immunology Meghna Verma1,2 , Raquel Hontecillas1,2 , Vida Abedi1,2 , Andrew Leber1,2 , Nuria Tubau-Juni1,2 , Casandra Philipson3 , Adria Carbo3 and Josep Bassaganya-Riera1,2* 1 Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory (www.nimml.org), Biocomplexity Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA, 2 The Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens, Biocomplexity Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA, 3 BioTherapeutics Inc, Blacksburg, VA, USA This review highlights the fundamental role of nutrition in the maintenance of health, the immune response, and disease prevention. Emerging global mechanistic insights in the field of nutritional immunology cannot be gained through reductionist methods alone or by analyzing a single nutrient at a time. We propose to investigate nutritional immunology as a massively interacting system of interconnected multistage and multiscale networks that encompass hidden mechanisms by which nutrition, microbiome, metabolism, genetic predisposition, and the immune system interact to delineate health and disease. The review sets an unconventional path to apply complex science methodologies to nutritional immunology research, discovery, and development through “use cases” Edited by: centered around the impact of nutrition on the gut microbiome and immune responses. Philip Calder, University of Southampton, UK Our systems nutritional immunology analyses, which include modeling and informatics Reviewed by: methodologies in combination with pre-clinical and clinical studies, have the potential S. Raza Shaikh, to discover emerging systems-wide properties at the interface of the immune system, East Carolina University, USA Kate J. Claycombe, nutrition, microbiome, and metabolism. United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Keywords: nutritional immunology, nutrition, systems biology, informatics, computational modeling, big data, Service, USA complex systems *Correspondence: Josep Bassaganya-Riera [email protected] INTRODUCTION Specialty section: The knowledge that food affects health was first mentioned in the writings of ancient Egyptians and This article was submitted to Indians (1–3). Around 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates, stated “Let food be your medicine and medicine Nutritional Immunology, be your food” (4). Modern nutritional immunology dates back to the eighteenth century, when the a section of the journal explanation of lymphoid tissue atrophy in malnourished population in England (1, 3) suggested an Frontiers in Nutrition association between nutritional status and immune function. Epidemiological and clinical data also Received: 23 October 2015 suggest that nutritional deficiencies of essential dietary components, such as vitamins and micro- Accepted: 01 February 2016 nutrients, alter immune competence and increase the risk of infection. The deficiency of adequate Published: 16 February 2016 macronutrients and selected micronutrients, such as zinc, selenium, iron, copper, and vitamins A, Citation: B-6, C, E, leads to immune deficiency-related infections in children (5, 6). Micronutrient deficiencies Verma M, Hontecillas R, Abedi V, affect innate immune responses as well as adaptive cellular immune responses 7( ). The immune Leber A, Tubau-Juni N, Philipson C, response is dependent on the nutritional components of food intake, which modulates the induction Carbo A and Bassaganya-Riera J (2016) Modeling-Enabled Systems of regulatory versus effector response at the gut mucosal level (3). However, recent studies (3) suggest Nutritional Immunology. that the current immune deficiency cases are also the result of increased stress, increased caloric Front. Nutr. 3:5. intake, obesity, autoimmunity, allergic disorders, and an aging population, which do not necessarily doi: 10.3389/fnut.2016.00005 relate to under-nutrition. Thus, unbalanced nutrition, unhealthy lifestyle choices, limited physical Frontiers in Nutrition | www.frontiersin.org 1 February 2016 | Volume 3 | Article 5 Verma et al. Modeling-Enabled Systems Nutritional Immunology activity, and the effect of the environment, in general, compro- necessitates the need for devising methods that not only meet mise the host immune response, thereby increasing susceptibility the demand but also ensure continuous wholesome food supply to a wide range of diseases. The field of nutritional immunology (10). Therefore, understanding the relationship between immune primarily focuses on the role of diet and its nutritional contents system, microbiome, and metabolism regulated by nutrition (as in disease prevention. However, advancement in the field of shown in Figure 1) will assist in targeting one component at a nutritional immunology has not been investigated through the time, while recognizing their systems-wide effects. This would point of view of a massively interacting system of interconnected lead to identification of emerging properties of this complex networks, which includes four key players – nutrition, microbi- system and utilization of the newly derived information and ome, metabolism, and the immune system. Recent evidence (8) knowledge for improved health outcomes. also suggests the involvement of diet and the role of composition of microbiota in reduced risk of Parkinson’s disease (PD). There Microbiome, and Its Interaction with are findings that support the role of altered gut microbiome Nutrition, Immune Response, and involved in influencing the activity of enteric neurons in PD patients (8). Although it is still unclear, the neuroendocrine Metabolism system can be considered as an important part of the massively Microbes are important components of the human ecosystem, interacting multistage networks that define health and wellness. and they account for approximately 100 trillion, including both An understanding of the interaction between networks can help the ones residing outside as well as inside the human body (11, design better strategies for primary prevention for diseases, 12). The gut microbiome is a key player in regulating the defense such as PD, which show the involvement of gut–brain axis in responses and metabolism, thereby contributing toward shaping the disease pathogenesis (8). The investigation from the above- the immune responses (regulatory or effector) and aiding in the mentioned point of view requires modeling tools, informatics maturation of the immune system. The various physiological techniques, and major computational resources in order to gain factors responsible for differences in genetic elements of the a better understanding of the mechanisms by which the four key microbiome within a host include diet, geographical location, players interact, to delineate health and disease. The vast aspects and environmental interaction (13). The interactions between the of this interconnected network operate on the basis of complex gut microbiome, immune system, metabolism, and nutrition are regulatory networks that can be analyzed in a well-defined man- crucial determinants of health outcomes. However, their systems- ner using mathematical and computational modeling. The recent wide mechanisms of interaction remain largely unknown. The modeling frameworks applied include the use of (1) ordinary dif- advent of computational modeling and informatics provides the ferential equations (ODEs) that are used for cancer immunology, technology to integrate and comprehensively analyze the mul- natural killer cell responses, B cell responses (naïve and memory), tiscale interactions within such networks. Thus, a systems-wide T regulatory cell dynamics and T cell responses; (2) partial dif- approach can provide significant insights into nutritional regula- ferential equations are used for modeling age-structured and spa- tion of this holistic network, without unnecessarily resorting to tiotemporal models; (3) stochastic differential equations account reductionism. for noise and sporadic events, (4) agent-based models account for probabilistic uncertainty in biological interaction (9), and (5) Interplay between Microbiome and Nutrition advanced machine-learning algorithms that correlate cellular Diet and nutritional status are the key players in defining the and molecular events to changes in health and disease outcomes. composition and function of the gut microbiome as well as the In the following sections, we dissect the essence of interactions host immune response. The nutritional value of food is influenced between the four key players following with the review of techno- by microbial content inside a person’s gut. A study by Turnbaugh logical advances in the field of nutritional immunology research et al. (14) demonstrated that transfer of microbiota from mice with and development. diet-induced obesity to lean germ-free mice, showed a greater fat deposition in the lean mice versus the lean ones with transplants from the lean donors. Another study by Turnbaugh et al. (15) THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN DIET, explored the use of humanized gnotobiotic mice wherein adult MICROBIOME, METABOLISM, AND human fecal microbial communities were transplanted into IMMUNE RESPONSE germ-free mice to show the effect of Western diet on the varying bacterial colonization in adult mice. The switch from regular to The proper nutritional supply during the period of gestation, Western diet showed the colonization of Firmicutes Bacilli along neonatal maturation, and weaning contributes toward the devel- the length of the gut,
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