Fig. 4: Murine fecal metabolites suppress activated immune cells and are enriched with hypoxanthine/inosine and glutamate/glutamine.

A Schematic illustration of in vitro fecal supernatant–immune cell cultures and stool metabolite analysis. mRNA expression for Il10 (B), Foxp3 (C), and Tnfa (D) as a ratio to Gapdh in RRV-primed hepatic MNCs cultured in the presence of fecal supernatants from neonatal mice of water- or butyrate-fed mothers (mean ± SD, two-tailed unpaired Student’s t test, n = 4 per group; *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001). E NMDS and ANOSIM of metabolites in fecal supernatants of neonatal mice from water- or butyrate-fed mothers at 14 days of age. F Volcano plot illustrating fecal metabolites with p values and fold changes between neonatal mice from water- and butyrate-fed mothers (inset depicts metabolites of lower distance). The replicate values were determined using biologically distinct samples and p values calculated using unpaired Student’s t test with two-tailed distribution. G Fecal metabolites ordered by Euclidean distance measured from the volcano plot. Source data for this figure are provided as a Source data file.