Project description:Although composition and functional potential of the human gut microbiota evolve over lifespan, kinship has been identified as a key covariate of microbial community diversification. To date, sharing of microbiota features within families has however mostly been assessed between parents and their direct offspring. Here, we investigate potential transmission and persistence of familial microbiome patterns and microbial genotypes in a family cohort (N=102) spanning three to five generations over the same female bloodline. We observe microbiome community composition to be associated with kinship, with seven (low-abundant) genera displaying familial distribution patterns. While kinship and current cohabitation emerged as closely entangled variables, our explorative analyses of microbial genotype distribution and transmission estimates point at the latter as a key covariate of strain dissemination. Highest potential transmission rates are estimated between sisters and mother-daughter pairs, decreasing with increasing daughter’s age, and being higher among cohabiting pairs than those living apart. Although rare, we do detect potential transmission events spanning three and four generations, primarily involving species of the genera Alistipes and Bacteroides. Overall, while our analyses confirm the existence of family-bound microbiome community profiles, transmission or co-acquisition of bacterial strains appears to be strongly linked to cohabitation.
Project description:Although composition and functional potential of the human gut microbiota evolve over lifespan, kinship has been identified as a key covariate of microbial community diversification. To date, sharing of microbiota features within families has however mostly been assessed between parents and their direct offspring. Here, we investigate potential transmission and persistence of familial microbiome patterns and microbial genotypes in a family cohort (N=102) spanning three to five generations over the same female bloodline. We observe microbiome community composition to be associated with kinship, with seven (low-abundant) genera displaying familial distribution patterns. While kinship and current cohabitation emerged as closely entangled variables, our explorative analyses of microbial genotype distribution and transmission estimates point at the latter as a key covariate of strain dissemination. Highest potential transmission rates are estimated between sisters and mother-daughter pairs, decreasing with increasing daughter’s age, and being higher among cohabiting pairs than those living apart. Although rare, we do detect potential transmission events spanning three and four generations, primarily involving species of the genera Alistipes and Bacteroides. Overall, while our analyses confirm the existence of family-bound microbiome community profiles, transmission or co-acquisition of bacterial strains appears to be strongly linked to cohabitation.
Project description:To explore the effects of gut microbiota of young (8 weeks) or old mice (18~20 months) on stroke, feces of young (Y1-Y9) and old mice (O6-O16) were collected and analyzed by 16s rRNA sequencing. Then stroke model was established on young mouse receive feces from old mouse (DOT1-15) and young mouse receive feces from young mouse (DYT1-15). 16s rRNA sequencing were also performed for those young mice received feces from young and old mice.
Project description:The aim of study is to evaluate whether salidroside (S), tyrosol (T) and hydroxytyrosol (H) which are dietary phenylethanoids of natural origins have an influence on reversing gut dysbiosis induced by metabolic syndrome (MetS) mice. C57 BL/6J female mice induced by high fructose diet were established. All mice were adapted to the environment for 7 days with normal diet and sterile drinking water (DW), and randomly divided into 6 groups. Mice in the ND group are fed with ND and treated with normal saline. Other groups were fed with high fructose (HFru) by administration of normal saline, salidroside (S), tyrosol (T) or hydroxytyrosol (H) for 12 weeks by intragastric gavage. Fresh feces from each mouse were collected one days before the end of the experiment and temporarily placed in sterile tubules, and then snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen. Total DNA from stool bacteria was extracted using QIAamp DNA stool mini kit from Qiagen (Germantown, MD, USA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Illumina HiSeq sequencing analysis of the DNA samples.16S rRNA gene sequence data further revealed that S, T and H could enhance the diversity of gut microbiota. In general, the abundance of Shigella, Acinetobacter, Lactobacillus, Staphylococcus and Sporosarcina had changed significantly. These findings suggest that S, T and H probably suppress lipid accumulation and to hepatoprotective effect and improve intestinal microflora disorders to attenuate metabolic syndromes.