Project description:D-galactose orally intake ameliorate DNCB-induced atopic dermatitis by modulating microbiota composition and quorum sensing. The increased abundance of bacteroidetes and decreased abundance of firmicutes was confirmed. By D-galactose treatment, Bacteroides population was increased and prevotella, ruminococcus was decreased which is related to atopic dermatitis.
Project description:Gut microbiota participates in diverse metabolic and homeostatic functions related to health and well-being. Individual variation in its composition depends on many factors including dietary factors. We profiled enzymatic activity of fecal microbiota in 63 healthy adult individuals using metaproteomics, and identified Bacteroides and Prevotella –derived microbial CAZy (carbohydrate-active) enzymes involved in glycan foraging. One particular profile with many Bacteroides-derived CAZy was identified in one-third of subjects (n=20), and it associated with high abundancy of Bacteroides in most subjects. In other subjects (n=8) with dietary parameters similar to former, microbiota showed intense expression of Prevotella-derived CAZy including exo−beta−(1,4)−xylanase, xylan-1,4−beta−xylosidase, alpha−L−arabinofuranosidase and several other CAZy belonging to glycosyl hydrolase families involved in digestion of complex plant-derived polysaccharides. This associated invariably with robust representation of Prevotella in gut microbiota, while subjects with intermediate representation of Prevotella showed no CAZy profile. Identification of Bacteroides- and Prevotella-derived CAZy in microbiota proteome and their association with robust differences in microbiota composition, the latter with exceptionally high Prevotella abundancy in the gut, are in evidence of individual variation in metabolic adaptation of gut microbiota with an impact on colonizing competence.
Project description:We performed shotgun proteomics on the bacteria Prevotella brevis GA33 and Prevotella ruminicola 23. We did this for two types of samples (cell extract and cell membrane) and using two methods (data-dependent and data-independent acquisition).
Project description:The gut-uterus axis plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of endometrial cancer (EC). However, the correlations between the endometrial microbiome and endometrial tumor transcriptome in patients with EC and the impact of the endometrial microbiota on hematological indicators have not been thoroughly clarified. In this prospective study, endometrial tissue samples collected from EC patients (n = 30) and healthy volunteers (n = 10) were subjected to 16S rRNA sequencing of the microbiome. The 30 paired tumor and adjacent nontumor endometrial tissues from the EC group were subjected to RNAseq. Result: We found that Pelomonas and Prevotella were enriched in the EC group with a high tumor burden. Further transcriptome analysis identified 8 robust associations between Prevotella and fibrin degradation-related genes expressed within ECs. Conclusions: Our results suggest that the increasing abundance of Prevotella in endometrial tissue combined with high serum DD and FDP contents may be important factors associated with tumor burden.
Project description:Prevotella bryantii B14 was cultivated with monensin. Growth was monitored over a period of 72h including frequent sampling of cells.