Gut Microbiota Composition and Fecal Metabolic Phenotype in Patients With Acute Anterior Uveitis

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Citation
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Authors
Huang X, Ye Z, Cao Q, Su G, Wang Q, Deng J, Zhou C, Kijlstra A, Yang P
Journal
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
Year
2018
PURPOSE: To investigate gut microbiota composition and fecal metabolic phenotype in patients with acute anterior uveitis. METHODS: Fecal DNA was extracted from 78 fecal samples (38 acute anterior uveitis (AAU) patients and 40 family members of patients or sex- and age-matched healthy controls) and then sequenced by high-throughput 16S rDNA analysis. Gas chromatographic mass spectrometry (GC-MS) based metabolomics was performed on 60 fecal samples (30 AAU patients and 30 healthy controls). RESULTS: A significant difference was observed in beta diversity between AAU patients and healthy controls. Eight genera including Roseburia were reduced in AAU patients, and Veillonella was increased in AAU patients as compared with healthy controls. Significance was however lost after false discovery rate (FDR) correction. The expression of seven fecal metabolites including 6-deoxy-D-glucose 1, linoleic acid, N-Acetyl-beta-D-mannosamine 3, shikimic acid, azelaic acid, isomaltose 1 and palmitoleic acid was increased in AAU patients. Linoleic acid showed a significant correlation with Roseburia and Veillonella according to Spearman correlation analysis. CONCLUSIONS: Our results did not reveal a difference in gut microbiota composition, but did show that the fecal metabolic phenotype in AAU patients was significantly different from healthy controls.

Experiment 1


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Subjects

Location of subjects
China
Host species Species from which microbiome was sampled. Contact us to have more species added.
Homo sapiens
Body site Anatomical site where microbial samples were extracted from according to the Uber Anatomy Ontology
Feces Cow dung,Cow pat,Droppings,Dung,Excrement,Excreta,Faeces,Fecal material,Fecal matter,Fewmet,Frass,Guano,Matières fécales@fr,Merde@fr,Ordure,Partie de la merde@fr,Piece of shit,Porción de mierda@es,Portion of dung,Portion of excrement,Portion of faeces,Portion of fecal material,Portion of fecal matter,Portion of feces,Portion of guano,Portion of scat,Portionem cacas,Scat,Spoor,Spraint,Stool,Teil der fäkalien@de,Feces,feces
Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology
Anterior uveitis anterior uveitis,anterior uveitis (disease),Anterior uveitis [Ambiguous],Anterior uveitis, NOS,iridocyclitis,Uveitis, Anterior,Anterior uveitis
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
N (Healthy Controls)
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
AAU (Acute Anterior Uveitis Patients)
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Patients diagnosed with Acute Anterior Uveitis (AAU)
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
40
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
38
Antibiotics exclusion Number of days without antibiotics usage (if applicable) and other antibiotics-related criteria used to exclude participants (if any)
3 months

Lab analysis

Sequencing type
16S
16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene
V3-V4
Sequencing platform Manufacturer and experimental platform used for quantifying microbial abundance
Illumina

Statistical Analysis

Data transformation Data transformation applied to microbial abundance measurements prior to differential abundance testing (if any).
relative abundances
Statistical test
LEfSe
Significance threshold p-value or FDR threshold used for differential abundance testing (if any)
0.05
MHT correction Have statistical tests be corrected for multiple hypothesis testing (MHT)?
No
LDA Score above Threshold for the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) score for studies using the popular LEfSe tool
2
Matched on Factors on which subjects have been matched on in a case-control study
age, sex, ethnic group

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
unchanged
Chao1 Abundance-based estimator of species richness
unchanged

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Source: Figure 2, 3

Description: Taxa difference between AAU patients and healthy controls

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in AAU (Acute Anterior Uveitis Patients)

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Bacteria
Burkholderia
Deinococci
Halomonadaceae
Halomonas
Negativicutes
Oceanospirillales
Paraprevotella
Pseudoxanthomonas
Selenomonadales
Selenomonas
Tissierellia
Veillonella
Deinococcus_ThermusDeinococcus_Thermus

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Source: Figure 2, 3

Description: Taxa difference between AAU patients and healthy controls

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in AAU (Acute Anterior Uveitis Patients)

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Alcaligenaceae
Archaea
Barnesiella
Blautia
Carnobacteriaceae
Caryophanaceae
Chelativorans
Clostridium
Desemzia
Desulfobacterales
Desulfobulbaceae
Desulfobulbus
Dorea
Erysipelotrichaceae incertae sedis
Granulicatella
Halanaerobiaceae
Halanaerobiales
Halocella
Lachnospiraceae
Lachnospiraceae incertae sedis
Methanobacteriota
Methanomicrobiales
Odoribacter
Peptostreptococcaceae
Pseudomonadaceae
Pseudomonas
Pusillimonas
Roseburia
Sporosarcina
Symbiobacterium
Tepidanaerobacter
Tepidimicrobium
Ureibacillus
ClostridiumXIClostridiumXI
Clostridiaceae1Clostridiaceae1
ClostridiumXVIIIClostridiumXVIII
ClostridiumIIIClostridiumIII
Eubacteriales Family III. Incertae Sedis
Symbiobacteriaceae

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Experiment 2


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Differences from previous experiment shown

Subjects

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Statistical test
Kruskall-Wallis
LDA Score above Threshold for the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) score for studies using the popular LEfSe tool
Not specified

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
unchanged
Chao1 Abundance-based estimator of species richness
unchanged

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Source: Table S1

Description: List of significantly different gut microbiota between AAU patients and healthy controls

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in AAU (Acute Anterior Uveitis Patients)

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Negativicutes
Selenomonadales
Veillonella

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Source: Table S1

Description: List of significantly different gut microbiota between AAU patients and healthy controls

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in AAU (Acute Anterior Uveitis Patients)

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Peptostreptococcaceae
Lachnospiraceae
Clostridiaceae1Clostridiaceae1
Roseburia
Lachnospiraceae incertae sedis
Dorea
Blautia
ClostridiumXIClostridiumXI
Clostridium
Odoribacter

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Experiment 3


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Differences from previous experiment shown

Subjects

Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology
Anterior uveitis , Ankylosing spondylitis anterior uveitis,anterior uveitis (disease),Anterior uveitis [Ambiguous],Anterior uveitis, NOS,iridocyclitis,Uveitis, Anterior,Anterior uveitis,Ankylosing Spondylarthritides,Ankylosing Spondylarthritis,ankylosing spondylitis,Ankylosing Spondyloarthritides,Ankylosing Spondyloarthritis,BECHTEREW DIS,Bechterew Disease,Bechterew's Disease,BECHTEREWS DIS,Bechterews Disease,Bekhterev syndrome,Bekhterev's disease,MARIE STRUEMPELL DIS,Marie Struempell Disease,Marie-Struempell Disease,Marie-Strumpell disease,Rheumatoid Spondylitis,Spondylarthritides, Ankylosing,Spondylarthritis Ankylopoietica,Spondylarthritis, Ankylosing,Spondylitis, Ankylosing,Spondylitis, Rheumatoid,Spondyloarthritides, Ankylosing,Spondyloarthritis, Ankylosing,Ankylosing spondylitis
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
Healthy Controls
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
AAU+ AS+ (Acute Anterior Uveitis Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis)
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Patients diagnosed with Acute Anterior Uveitis (AAU) and Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS)
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
17

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Signature 1

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Source: Table S2

Description: List of significantly different gut microbiota between AAU+ AS+ patients and healthy controls

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in AAU+ AS+ (Acute Anterior Uveitis Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis)

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Veillonella

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Signature 2

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Source: Table S2

Description: List of significantly different gut microbiota between AAU+ AS+ patients and healthy controls

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in AAU+ AS+ (Acute Anterior Uveitis Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis)

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Odoribacter
Dorea

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Experiment 4


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Curator: Anne-mariesharp

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Differences from previous experiment shown

Subjects

Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology
Anterior uveitis anterior uveitis,anterior uveitis (disease),Anterior uveitis [Ambiguous],Anterior uveitis, NOS,iridocyclitis,Uveitis, Anterior,Anterior uveitis
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
AAU+ AS- (Acute Anterior Uveitis Patients without Ankylosing Spondylitis)
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Patients diagnosed with Acute Anterior Uveitis (AAU) and who do not have Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS)
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
21

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Signature 1

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Source: Table S3

Description: List of significantly different gut microbiota between AAU+ AS- patients and healthy controls

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in AAU+ AS- (Acute Anterior Uveitis Patients without Ankylosing Spondylitis)

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ClostridiumXIClostridiumXI
Roseburia
Clostridium
Lachnospiraceae incertae sedis
Blautia
Barnesiella

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Experiment 5


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Differences from previous experiment shown

Subjects

Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
HLA-B27- (Human Leukocyte Antigen B27 negative) patients
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
HLA-B27+ (Human Leukocyte Antigen B27 positive) patients
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Acute Anterior Uveitis patients that tested positive for Human Leukocyte Antigen B27 (HLA-B27)
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
8
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
28

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Matched on Factors on which subjects have been matched on in a case-control study
Not specified


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Source: Table S4

Description: List of significantly different gut microbiota between HLA-B27+ patients and HLA-B27- patients

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in HLA-B27+ (Human Leukocyte Antigen B27 positive) patients

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Bifidobacterium
Blautia
Collinsella

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