Project description:Microbiome sample-material model is a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model that identifies and annotates the material of microbiome samples in texts. This is the final model version used to annotate metagenomics publications in Europe PMC and enrich metagenomics studies in MGnify with sample-material metadata from literature.
For more information, please refer to the following blogs:
http://blog.europepmc.org/2020/11/europe-pmc-publications-metagenomics-annotations.html
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/service-news/enriched-metadata-fields-mgnify-based-text-mining-associated-publications
2022-02-21 | MODEL2202170001 | BioModels
Project description:Whole Genome Metagenomics of Human Fecal Sample: Melioidosis
Project description:Microbiota dysbiosis and mucosa-associated bacteria are involved in colorectal cancer progression. We hypothesized that a time-specific interaction between dysbiotic pathobionts and host responses promote tumor growth. This study aimed to elucidate the dysfunctional host-microbe interplay in colon tumorigenesis by using a time-series metagenomics approach. A transient surge in fecal microbial richness was linked to a unique transcriptome profile in the mouse colon during carcinoma transformation. Monitoring gut microbiome may help identifying the window-of-opportunity to induce tumor regression using bacteria-targeted precision medicine.
Project description:Microbiota dysbiosis and mucosa-associated bacteria are involved in colorectal cancer progression. We hypothesized that a time-specific interaction between dysbiotic pathobionts and host responses promote tumor growth. This study aimed to elucidate the dysfunctional host-microbe interplay in colon tumorigenesis by using a time-series metagenomics approach. A transient surge in fecal microbial richness was linked to a unique transcriptome profile in the mouse colon during carcinoma transformation. Monitoring gut microbiome may help identifying the window-of-opportunity to induce tumor regression using bacteria-targeted precision medicine.
Project description:The deleterious impact of antibiotics (ATB) on the microbiome negatively impacts immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) response. We assessed the efficacy of DAV132, a colon-targeted adsorbent in 70 healthy volunteers (HV) randomized to receive ceftazidime-avibactam or piperacillin-tazobactam alone or in combination with oral administration of DAV132. DAV132 significantly decreased fecal but not plasma ATB concentration. When coadministered with either ATB, DAV132 prevented loss of microbiome diversity and induced rapid recovery of the baseline microbiota composition. Moreover, bacterial probe set qPCR-based assay confirmed metagenomics results that DAV132 preserved several commensals such as Alistipes shahii, Blautia obeum and Faecalibacterium praunsnitzii. Fecal microbiota transplantation in murine tumor models from HV treated with ATB alone reduced antitumor responses to anti-PD-1, while transplanted samples from HV treated with ATB+DAV132 circumvented resistance to anti-PD-1. This anti-tumor response in mice was associated with tumor microenvironment increased the ratio of total CD8+ T cells/ regulatory T cells, and three distinct activated CD8+ T cell population whiting the tumor within the tumor, as well as gene expression of interferon gamma (INFγ) in the mesenteric lymph nodes. In addition, a unique gene signature with downregulation of IL-6 and reactive oxygen pathways was found in the mice treated with FMT from ATB+DAV132 sample and treated with anti-PD-1. DAV132 represents a new strategy for overcoming ATB-related dysbiosis and further studies are warranted to evaluate its efficacy in cancer patients on ICI.
2024-08-12 | GSE251922 | GEO
Project description:Metagenomics of Enterobacteriaceae from wild owls
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:Aconitate decarboxylase 1 (ACOD1) is the enzyme synthesizing itaconate, an immuno-regulatory metabolite tuning host-pathogen interactions. Such functions are achieved by affecting metabolic pathways regulating inflammation and microbe survival. However, at the whole-body level, metabolic roles of itaconate remain largely unresolved. By using multiomics-integrated approaches, here we show that ACOD1 responds to high-fat diet consumption in mice by promoting gut microbiota alterations supporting metabolic disease. Genetic disruption of itaconate biosynthesis protects mice against obesity, alterations in glucose homeostasis and liver metabolic dysfunctions by decreasing meta-inflammatory responses to dietary lipid overload. Mechanistically, fecal metagenomics and microbiota transplantation experiments demonstrate such effects are dependent on an amelioration of the intestinal ecosystem composition, skewed by high-fat diet feeding towards obesogenic phenotype. In particular, unbiased fecal microbiota profiling and axenic culture experiments point towards a primary role for itaconate in inhibiting growth of Bacteroidaceae and Bacteroides, family and genus of Bacteroidetes phylum, the major gut microbial taxon associated with metabolic health. Specularly to the effects imposed by Acod1 deficiency on fecal microbiota, oral itaconate consumption enhances diet-induced gut dysbiosis and associated obesogenic responses in mice. Unveiling an unrecognized role of itaconate, either endogenously produced or exogenously administered, in supporting microbiota alterations underlying diet-induced obesity in mice, our study points ACOD1 as a target against inflammatory consequences of overnutrition.