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Public on Mar 19, 2012 |
| Title |
Mutualism between gut microbiota and the host as revealed in a comparative study of breast-fed versus formula-fed infants |
| Organism |
Homo sapiens |
| Experiment type |
Expression profiling by array
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| Summary |
On going efforts are directed at understanding the mutualism between the gut microbiota and the host in breast-fed versus formula-fed infants. Due to the lack of tissue biopsies, no investigators have performed a global transcriptional (gene expression) analysis of the developing human intestine in healthy infants. As a result, the crosstalk between the microbiome and the host transcriptome in the developing mucosal-commensal environment has not been determined. In this study, we examined the host intestinal mRNA gene expression and microbial DNA profiles in full term 3 month-old infants exclusively formula fed (FF) (n=6) or breast fed (BF) (n=6) from birth to 3 months. Host mRNA microarray measurements were performed using isolated intact sloughed epithelial cells in stool samples collected at 3 months. Microbial composition from the same stool samples was assessed by metagenomic pyrosequencing. Both the host mRNA expression and bacterial microbiome phylogenetic profiles provided strong feature sets that clearly classified the two groups of babies (FF and BF). To determine the relationship between host epithelial cell gene expression and the bacterial colony profiles, the host transcriptome and functionally profiled microbiome data were analyzed in a multivariate manner. From a functional perspective, analysis of the gut microbiota's metagenome revealed that characteristics associated with virulence differed between the FF and BF babies. Using canonical correlation analysis, evidence of multivariate structure relating eleven host immunity / mucosal defense-related genes and microbiome virulence characteristics was observed. These results, for the first time, provide insight into the integrated responses of the host and microbiome to dietary substrates in the early neonatal period. Our data suggest that systems biology and computational modeling approaches that integrate “-omic” information from the host and the microbiome can identify important mechanistic pathways of intestinal development affecting the gut microbiome in the first few months of life.
KEYWORDS: infant, breast-feeding, infant formula, exfoliated cells, transcriptome, metagenome, multivariate analysis, canonical correlation analysis
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| Overall design |
12 samples, 2 groups
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| Contributor(s) |
Schwartz S, Friedberg I, Ivanov IV, Davidson LA, Goldsby JS, Dahl DB, Herman D, Wang M, Donovan SM, Chapkin RS |
| Citation(s) |
22546241 |
| Submission date |
Jul 31, 2011 |
| Last update date |
Oct 28, 2014 |
| Contact name |
Jennifer Goldsby |
| E-mail(s) |
jsgoldsby@tamu.edu
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979-845-3908
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| Organization name |
Texas A&M University
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| Department |
Nutrition and Food Sciences
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| Street address |
112 Cater-Mattil
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| City |
College Station |
| State/province |
TX |
| ZIP/Postal code |
77845 |
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USA |
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| Platforms (1) |
| GPL2895 |
GE Healthcare/Amersham Biosciences CodeLink Human Whole Genome Bioarray |
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| Samples (12)
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| Relations |
| BioProject |
PRJNA144719 |
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Download |
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| GSE31075_RAW.tar |
86.7 Mb |
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TAR (of TXT) |
| Processed data included within Sample table |
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