Longitudinal multi-omics analysis of host microbiome architecture and immune responses during short-term spaceflight.

ABSTRACT: Maintenance of astronaut health during spaceflight will require monitoring and potentially modulating their microbiomes. However, documenting microbial shifts during spaceflight has been difficult due to mission constraints that lead to limited sampling and profiling. Here we executed a six-month longitudinal study to quantify the high-resolution human microbiome response to three days in orbit for four individuals. Using paired metagenomics and metatranscriptomics alongside single-nuclei immune cell profiling, we characterized time-dependent, multikingdom microbiome changes across 750 samples and 10 body sites before, during and after spaceflight at eight timepoints. We found that most alterations were transient across body sites; for example, viruses increased in skin sites mostly during

SUBMITTER: Tierney BT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11222149 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature