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Carbohydrate complexity limits microbial growth and reduces the sensitivity of human gut communities to perturbations.


ABSTRACT: Dietary fibre impacts the growth dynamics of human gut microbiota, yet we lack a detailed and quantitative understanding of how these nutrients shape microbial interaction networks and responses to perturbations. By building human gut communities coupled with computational modelling, we dissect the effects of fibres that vary in chemical complexity and each of their constituent sugars on community assembly and response to perturbations. We demonstrate that the degree of chemical complexity across different fibres limits microbial growth and the number of species that can utilize these nutrients. The prevalence of negative interspecies interactions is reduced in the presence of fibres compared with their constituent sugars. Carbohydrate chemical complexity enhances the reproducibility of community assembly and resistance of the community to invasion. We demonstrate that maximizing or minimizing carbohydrate competition between resident and invader species enhances resistance to invasion. In sum, the quantitative effects of carbohydrate chemical complexity on microbial interaction networks could be exploited to inform dietary and bacterial interventions to modulate community resistance to perturbations.

SUBMITTER: Ostrem Loss E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10268929 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Carbohydrate complexity limits microbial growth and reduces the sensitivity of human gut communities to perturbations.

Ostrem Loss Erin E   Thompson Jaron J   Cheung Pak Lun Kevin PLK   Qian Yili Y   Venturelli Ophelia S OS  

Nature ecology & evolution 20230105 1


Dietary fibre impacts the growth dynamics of human gut microbiota, yet we lack a detailed and quantitative understanding of how these nutrients shape microbial interaction networks and responses to perturbations. By building human gut communities coupled with computational modelling, we dissect the effects of fibres that vary in chemical complexity and each of their constituent sugars on community assembly and response to perturbations. We demonstrate that the degree of chemical complexity acros  ...[more]

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