Project description:We recruited 24 Mongolian volunteers,6 of which were T2D cases(sample T1-T6), 6 were prediabetes cases(sample P1-P6), and 12 were health cases(sample C1-C12). The metagenomic analysis of gut microbiota from the volunteers’ fecal samples was performed. We compared the microbial differences in the three groups, and analyzed the differences of the stool microbial function.
Project description:Aging is associated with declining immunity and inflammation as well as alterations in the gut microbiome with a decrease of beneficial microbes and increase in pathogenic ones. The aim of this study was to investigate aging associated gut microbiome in relation to immunologic and metabolic profile in a non-human primate (NHP) model. 12 old (age>18 years) and 4 young (age 3-6 years) Rhesus macaques were included in this study. Immune cell subsets were characterized in PBMC by flow cytometry and plasma cytokines levels were determined by bead based multiplex cytokine analysis. Stool samples were collected by ileal loop and investigated for microbiome analysis by shotgun metagenomics. Serum, gut microbial lysate and microbe-free fecal extract were subjected to metabolomic analysis by mass-spectrometry. Our results showed that the old animals exhibited higher inflammatory biomarkers in plasma and lower CD4 T cells with altered distribution of naïve and memory T cell maturation subsets. The gut microbiome in old animals had higher abundance of Archaeal and Proteobacterial species and lower Firmicutes than the young. Significant enrichment of metabolites that contribute to inflammatory and cytotoxic pathways was observed in serum and feces of old animals compared to the young. We conclude that aging NHP undergo immunosenescence and age associated alterations in the gut microbiome that has a distinct metabolic profile.
Project description:Kunming mice were total body irradiated by 0.5Gy and 2Gy carbon ions radaition. After 24 hours, blood was collected and serum was isolated. Total RNA of serum sample was extracted by miRNeasy Serum/Plasma Kit (Qiagen, Germany). Then, miRCURY LNA™ Universal RT microRNA PCR, Ready-to-Use Mouse&Rat Panel I V3 (Exiqon, Denmark) containing 384 assays was performed to profile miRNAs differential expression in these serum sample.
Project description:Over the last two decades, EDTA-plasma has been used as the preferred sample matrix for human blood proteomic profiling. Serum has also been employed widely. Only a few studies have assessed the difference and relevance of the proteome profiles obtained from plasma samples, such as EDTA-plasma or lithium-heparin-plasma, and serum. A complete evaluation of the use of EDTA-plasma, heparin-plasma, and serum would greatly expand the comprehensiveness of shotgun proteomics of blood samples. In this study, we evaluated the use of heparin-plasma with respect to EDTA-plasma and serum to profile blood proteomes using a scalable automated proteomic pipeline (ASAP2). The use of plasma and serum for mass spectrometry-based shotgun proteomics was tested with commercial pooled samples. The proteome coverage consistency and the quantitative performance were compared.
Project description:Fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) detecting hemoglobin in stool are widely used for non-invasive colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, but their sensitivity leaves room for improvement. Our aim is to identify novel protein biomarkers in stool that outperform or complement hemoglobin in detecting CRCs and advanced adenomas (AAs). Stool samples (one series of 12 CRCs and 10 controls, and a second series of 81 CRCs, 40 AAs, 43 non-advanced adenomas and 129 controls) were analyzed by mass-spectrometry and searched for human proteins. Classification and regression tree and logistic regression analyses were performed to identify protein combinations that differentiated CRCs and/or AAs from controls. Antibody-based assays for four selected proteins were performed on an independent series of FIT samples (14 CRCs, 16 AAs, 18 non-advanced adenomas and 24 controls) Results: In total, 834 human proteins were identified, of which 29 were significantly enriched in CRCs versus controls in both stool sample series. Combinations of four proteins reached sensitivities of 80% and 45% for detecting CRCs and AAs, at 95% specificity, which was higher than hemoglobin alone.