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Nature ; 535(7610): 94-103, 2016 07 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27383984

RESUMO

Rapid advances in DNA sequencing, metabolomics, proteomics and computational tools are dramatically increasing access to the microbiome and identification of its links with disease. In particular, time-series studies and multiple molecular perspectives are facilitating microbiome-wide association studies, which are analogous to genome-wide association studies. Early findings point to actionable outcomes of microbiome-wide association studies, although their clinical application has yet to be approved. An appreciation of the complexity of interactions among the microbiome and the host's diet, chemistry and health, as well as determining the frequency of observations that are needed to capture and integrate this dynamic interface, is paramount for developing precision diagnostics and therapies that are based on the microbiome.


Assuntos
Bactérias/patogenicidade , Suscetibilidade a Doenças , Doença , Consórcios Microbianos , Animais , Bactérias/classificação , Bactérias/efeitos dos fármacos , Bactérias/metabolismo , Biomarcadores , Suscetibilidade a Doenças/terapia , Saúde , Humanos , Metaboloma , Prognóstico
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 46(22): 12109-12125, 2018 12 14.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30295819

RESUMO

Post-transcriptional gene regulation controls the amount of protein produced from a specific mRNA by altering both its decay and translation rates. Such regulation is primarily achieved by the interaction of trans-acting factors with cis-regulatory elements in the untranslated regions (UTRs) of mRNAs. These interactions are guided either by sequence- or structure-based recognition. Similar to sequence conservation, the evolutionary conservation of a UTR's structure thus reflects its functional importance. We used such structural conservation to identify previously unknown cis-regulatory elements. Using the RNA folding program Dynalign, we scanned all UTRs of humans and mice for conserved structures. Characterizing a subset of putative conserved structures revealed a binding site of the RNA-binding protein Roquin. Detailed functional characterization in vivo enabled us to redefine the binding preferences of Roquin and identify new target genes. Many of these new targets are unrelated to the established role of Roquin in inflammation and immune responses and thus highlight additional, unstudied cellular functions of this important repressor. Moreover, the expression of several Roquin targets is highly cell-type-specific. In consequence, these targets are difficult to detect using methods dependent on mRNA abundance, yet easily detectable with our unbiased strategy.


Assuntos
Biologia Computacional/métodos , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Dobramento de RNA , Proteínas de Ligação a RNA/química , Ubiquitina-Proteína Ligases/química , Regiões 3' não Traduzidas , Animais , Sítios de Ligação , Linhagem Celular , Simulação por Computador , Análise Mutacional de DNA , Células HEK293 , Células HeLa , Humanos , Camundongos , Conformação de Ácido Nucleico , Nucleotídeos/genética , Ligação Proteica , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Proteínas de Ligação a RNA/genética , Transcrição Gênica , Ubiquitina-Proteína Ligases/genética
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Nat Commun ; 10(1): 1406, 2019 03 29.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30926798

RESUMO

The presence of cirrhosis in nonalcoholic-fatty-liver-disease (NAFLD) is the most important predictor of liver-related mortality. Limited data exist concerning the diagnostic accuracy of gut-microbiome-derived signatures for detecting NAFLD-cirrhosis. Here we report 16S gut-microbiome compositions of 203 uniquely well-characterized participants from a prospective twin and family cohort, including 98 probands encompassing the entire spectrum of NAFLD and 105 of their first-degree relatives, assessed by advanced magnetic-resonance-imaging. We show strong familial correlation of gut-microbiome profiles, driven by shared housing. We report a panel of 30 features, including 27 bacterial features with discriminatory ability to detect NAFLD-cirrhosis using a Random Forest classifier model. In a derivation cohort of probands, the model has a robust diagnostic accuracy (AUROC of 0.92) for detecting NAFLD-cirrhosis, confirmed in a validation cohort of relatives of proband with NAFLD-cirrhosis (AUROC of 0.87). This study provides evidence for a fecal-microbiome-derived signature to detect NAFLD-cirrhosis.


Assuntos
Microbioma Gastrointestinal , Cirrose Hepática/microbiologia , Hepatopatia Gordurosa não Alcoólica/microbiologia , Bactérias/classificação , Família , Fezes/microbiologia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Curva ROC
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Genome Biol ; 20(1): 226, 2019 10 31.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31672156

RESUMO

As metagenomic studies move to increasing numbers of samples, communities like the human gut may benefit more from the assembly of abundant microbes in many samples, rather than the exhaustive assembly of fewer samples. We term this approach leaderboard metagenome sequencing. To explore protocol optimization for leaderboard metagenomics in real samples, we introduce a benchmark of library prep and sequencing using internal references generated by synthetic long-read technology, allowing us to evaluate high-throughput library preparation methods against gold-standard reference genomes derived from the samples themselves. We introduce a low-cost protocol for high-throughput library preparation and sequencing.


Assuntos
Biblioteca Genômica , Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala , Metagenômica/métodos , Animais , Benchmarking , Microbioma Gastrointestinal , Humanos , Camundongos
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Nat Commun ; 10(1): 5477, 2019 12 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31792218

RESUMO

Rapid growth of genome data provides opportunities for updating microbial evolutionary relationships, but this is challenged by the discordant evolution of individual genes. Here we build a reference phylogeny of 10,575 evenly-sampled bacterial and archaeal genomes, based on a comprehensive set of 381 markers, using multiple strategies. Our trees indicate remarkably closer evolutionary proximity between Archaea and Bacteria than previous estimates that were limited to fewer "core" genes, such as the ribosomal proteins. The robustness of the results was tested with respect to several variables, including taxon and site sampling, amino acid substitution heterogeneity and saturation, non-vertical evolution, and the impact of exclusion of candidate phyla radiation (CPR) taxa. Our results provide an updated view of domain-level relationships.


Assuntos
Archaea/classificação , Bactérias/classificação , Evolução Molecular , Genoma Arqueal , Genoma Bacteriano , Filogenia , Archaea/genética , Bactérias/genética
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Nat Commun ; 9(1): 2872, 2018 07 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30030441

RESUMO

Antibiotic-induced microbiome depletion (AIMD) has been used frequently to study the role of the gut microbiome in pathological conditions. However, unlike germ-free mice, the effects of AIMD on host metabolism remain incompletely understood. Here we show the effects of AIMD to elucidate its effects on gut homeostasis, luminal signaling, and metabolism. We demonstrate that AIMD, which decreases luminal Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes species, decreases baseline serum glucose levels, reduces glucose surge in a tolerance test, and improves insulin sensitivity without altering adiposity. These changes occur in the setting of decreased luminal short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), especially butyrate, and the secondary bile acid pool, which affects whole-body bile acid metabolism. In mice, AIMD alters cecal gene expression and gut glucagon-like peptide 1 signaling. Extensive tissue remodeling and decreased availability of SCFAs shift colonocyte metabolism toward glucose utilization. We suggest that AIMD alters glucose homeostasis by potentially shifting colonocyte energy utilization from SCFAs to glucose.


Assuntos
Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Colo/microbiologia , Microbioma Gastrointestinal/efeitos dos fármacos , Obesidade/microbiologia , Anfotericina B/administração & dosagem , Ampicilina/administração & dosagem , Animais , Ácidos e Sais Biliares/química , Glicemia/metabolismo , Composição Corporal , Peso Corporal , Ceco/metabolismo , Colo/efeitos dos fármacos , Colo/metabolismo , Ácidos Graxos Voláteis/química , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Glucose/metabolismo , Homeostase , Insulina/metabolismo , Resistência à Insulina , Masculino , Metronidazol/administração & dosagem , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Neomicina/administração & dosagem , Obesidade/tratamento farmacológico , Obesidade/metabolismo , RNA Ribossômico 16S/metabolismo , Vancomicina/administração & dosagem
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Nat Rev Microbiol ; 16(7): 410-422, 2018 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29795328

RESUMO

Complex microbial communities shape the dynamics of various environments, ranging from the mammalian gastrointestinal tract to the soil. Advances in DNA sequencing technologies and data analysis have provided drastic improvements in microbiome analyses, for example, in taxonomic resolution, false discovery rate control and other properties, over earlier methods. In this Review, we discuss the best practices for performing a microbiome study, including experimental design, choice of molecular analysis technology, methods for data analysis and the integration of multiple omics data sets. We focus on recent findings that suggest that operational taxonomic unit-based analyses should be replaced with new methods that are based on exact sequence variants, methods for integrating metagenomic and metabolomic data, and issues surrounding compositional data analysis, where advances have been particularly rapid. We note that although some of these approaches are new, it is important to keep sight of the classic issues that arise during experimental design and relate to research reproducibility. We describe how keeping these issues in mind allows researchers to obtain more insight from their microbiome data sets.


Assuntos
Bactérias/genética , Metagenômica/métodos , Microbiota/genética , Animais , Microbiologia Ambiental , Humanos , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes
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Trends Biotechnol ; 35(9): 814-823, 2017 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28366290

RESUMO

Microbes are present at every crime scene and have been used as physical evidence for over a century. Advances in DNA sequencing and computational approaches have led to recent breakthroughs in the use of microbiome approaches for forensic science, particularly in the areas of estimating postmortem intervals (PMIs), locating clandestine graves, and obtaining soil and skin trace evidence. Low-cost, high-throughput technologies allow us to accumulate molecular data quickly and to apply sophisticated machine-learning algorithms, building generalizable predictive models that will be useful in the criminal justice system. In particular, integrating microbiome and metabolomic data has excellent potential to advance microbial forensics.


Assuntos
Algoritmos , Ciências Forenses/métodos , Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala , Aprendizado de Máquina , Microbiota , Animais , Ciências Forenses/tendências , Humanos
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