Enteric nervous system damage caused by abnormal intestinal butyrate metabolism may lead to functional constipation

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Authors
Wang L, Lv WQ, Yang JT, Lin X, Liu HM, Tan HJ, Quan RP, Long PP, Shen H, Shen J, Deng HW, Xiao HM
Journal
Frontiers in microbiology
Year
2023
Keywords:
Fusobacterium, butyrate, enteric nervous system, functional constipation, metagenomics
Functional constipation (FC) is a high morbidity gastrointestinal disease for which dysfunction in the enteric nervous system is a major pathogenesis mechanism. To enhance our understanding of the involvement of intestinal microbiota and its metabolites in the pathogenesis of FC, we conducted a shotgun metagenomic sequencing analysis of gut microbiota and serum short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) analysis in 460 Chinese women with different defecation frequencies. We observed that the abundance ofFusobacterium_varium, a butyric acid-producing bacterium, was positively correlated (P = 0.0096) with the frequency of defecation; however, the concentrations of serum butyric acid was negatively correlated (P = 3.51E-05) with defecation frequency. These results were verified in an independent cohort (6 patients with FC and 6 controls). To further study the effects of butyric acid on intestinal nerve cells, we treated mouse intestinal neurons in vitro with various concentrations of butyrate (0.1, 0.5, 1, and 2.5 mM). We found that intestinal neurons treated with 0.5 mM butyrate proliferated better than those in the other treatment groups, with significant differences in cell cycle and oxidative phosphorylation signal pathways. We suggest that the decreased butyrate production resulting from the reduced abundance of Fusobacterium in gut microbiota affects the proliferation of intestinal neurons and the energy supply of intestinal cells. However, with FC disease advancing, the consumption and excretion of butyric acid reduce, leading to its accumulation in the intestine. Moreover, the accumulation of an excessively high amount of butyric acid inhibits the proliferation of nerve cells and subsequently exacerbates the disease.

Experiment 1


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Curator: Tosin

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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
Chronic constipation Chronic constipation,Infrequent bowel movements,chronic constipation
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
Group 1
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
Group 2
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Low risk people for Functional constipation (FC) whose defecation frequency was 1 time/day
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
38
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
360

Lab analysis

Sequencing type
WMS
16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene
Not specified
Sequencing platform Manufacturer and experimental platform used for quantifying microbial abundance
BGISEQ-500 Sequencing

Statistical Analysis

Data transformation Data transformation applied to microbial abundance measurements prior to differential abundance testing (if any).
raw counts
Statistical test
DESeq2
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)?
Yes

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
unchanged
Simpson Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species evenness
unchanged

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Source: Figure 1E, Table S4, Figure S3a, Figure S5e, Figure S5f

Description: Significant different bacteria genus, species among the four groups obtained via Deseq2 in the comparison between groups 1 and 2

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Group 2

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Acidaminococcus
Acidaminococcus sp. CAG:542
Akkermansia
Akkermansia muciniphila
Akkermansia muciniphila CAG:154
Alistipes sp. CAG:29
Anaerotruncus sp. CAG:528
Azospirillum
Azospirillum sp. CAG:239
Azospirillum sp. CAG:260
Bacteroides sp. CAG:927
Bifidobacterium
Bifidobacterium bifidum
Bifidobacterium longum
Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum
Candidatus Apopatosoma intestinale
Clostridiales bacterium VE202-14
Clostridium sp. CAG:138
Clostridium sp. CAG:217
Clostridium sp. CAG:226
Clostridium sp. CAG:302
Clostridium sp. CAG:343
Clostridium sp. CAG:349
Clostridium sp. CAG:352
Clostridium sp. CAG:417
Clostridium sp. CAG:440
Clostridium sp. CAG:492
Clostridium sp. CAG:571
Clostridium sp. CAG:62
Clostridium sp. CAG:678
Clostridium sp. CAG:780
Clostridium sp. CAG:798
Dialister invisus
Dialister succinatiphilus
Escherichia fergusonii
Eubacterium sp. CAG:202
Eubacterium sp. CAG:38
Eubacterium sp. CAG:581
Faecalibacterium sp. CAG:74
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:114
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:129
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:238
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:240
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:321
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:341
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:41
Megamonas
Megamonas hypermegale
Megamonas rupellensis
Odoribacter splanchnicus
Odoribacter splanchnicus CAG:14
Phascolarctobacterium succinatutens
Phocaeicola plebeius CAG:211
Prevotella sp. CAG:1031
Prevotella sp. CAG:255
Prevotella sp. CAG:279
Prevotella sp. CAG:485
Prevotella sp. CAG:873
Prevotella sp. CAG:891
Roseburia sp. CAG:380
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:177
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:254
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:55
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:90
Streptococcus parasanguinis
Streptococcus salivarius
Streptococcus thermophilus
Subdoligranulum sp. 4_3_54A2FAA
Succinatimonas
Succinatimonas sp. CAG:777
Sutterella sp. CAG:397
Sutterella sp. CAG:521
Sutterella wadsworthensis CAG:135
Veillonella atypica
Veillonella magna
Veillonella parvula
[Clostridium] leptum
unclassified Acidaminococcus
unclassified Akkermansia
unclassified Bifidobacterium
unclassified Enterobacter
unclassified Odoribacter
unclassified Streptococcus
unclassified Sutterella
unclassified Veillonella
Prevotella pectinovora

Revision editor(s): Tosin, Victoria

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Source: Figure 1E, Table S4, Figure S3a, Figure S5e, Figure S5f

Description: Significant different bacteria genus, species among the four groups obtained via Deseq2 in the comparison between groups 1 and 2

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Group 2

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Bacteroides graminisolvens
Bacteroides sp. CAG:98
Clostridium sp. CAG:127
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:56
Fusobacterium
Fusobacterium nucleatum
Fusobacterium ulcerans
Fusobacterium varium
Holdemanella
Holdemanella biformis
Phocaeicola massiliensis
Phocaeicola sartorii
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:254
Schaedlerella arabinosiphila
[Clostridium] clostridioforme CAG:132
unclassified Erysipelotrichaceae
Clostridium sp. ASF502Clostridium sp. ASF502

Revision editor(s): Tosin, Victoria

Experiment 2


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Differences from previous experiment shown

Subjects

Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
Group 2
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
Group 3
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
High risk people for Functional constipation (FC) whose defecation frequency was 1 time/2 days
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
360
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
52

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
increased
Simpson Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species evenness
increased

Signature 1

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Curator: Tosin

Revision editor(s): Tosin, Victoria

Source: Figure 1E, Table S4, Figure S3b

Description: Significant different bacteria genus, species among the four groups obtained via Deseq2 in the comparison between groups 2 and 3

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Group 3

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Alistipes ihumii
Alistipes indistinctus
Alistipes timonensis
Anaerotruncus colihominis
Anaerotruncus sp. CAG:390
Anaerotruncus sp. G3(2012)
Candidatus Soleaferrea massiliensis
Clostridiales bacterium NK3B98
Clostridiales bacterium VE202-13
Clostridiales bacterium VE202-21
Clostridium sp. CAG:1013
Clostridium sp. CAG:1024
Clostridium sp. CAG:138
Clostridium sp. CAG:169
Clostridium sp. CAG:217
Clostridium sp. CAG:226
Clostridium sp. CAG:269
Clostridium sp. CAG:277
Clostridium sp. CAG:302
Clostridium sp. CAG:349
Clostridium sp. CAG:352
Clostridium sp. CAG:389
Clostridium sp. CAG:413
Clostridium sp. CAG:417
Clostridium sp. CAG:470
Clostridium sp. CAG:571
Clostridium sp. CAG:678
Clostridium sp. CAG:798
Desulfovibrio piger
Dialister sp. CAG:486
Eubacterium sp. CAG:202
Eubacterium sp. CAG:841
Faecalibacterium sp. CAG:74
Firmicutes bacterium ASF500
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:103
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:110
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:114
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:124
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:129
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:137
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:145
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:170
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:176
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:238
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:240
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:321
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:555
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:56
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:83
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:94
Intestinimonas butyriciproducens
Mycoplasma
Oscillibacter ruminantium
Oscillibacter sp. 1-3
Oscillibacter sp. CAG:155
Oscillibacter sp. CAG:241
Oscillibacter sp. ER4
Oscillibacter sp. KLE 1728
Oscillibacter valericigenes
Oscillospiraceae bacterium VE202-24
Pseudoflavonifractor capillosus
Ruminococcus albus
Ruminococcus bicirculans (ex Wegman et al. 2014)
Ruminococcus champanellensis
Ruminococcus flavefaciens
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:177
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:353
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:403
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:488
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:579
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:9
[Clostridium] innocuum
[Clostridium] leptum
[Clostridium] leptum CAG:27
[Clostridium] methylpentosum
[Eubacterium] siraeum
[Eubacterium] siraeum CAG:80
unclassified Oscillibacter
unclassified Ruminococcus
Bacteroidales bacterium ph8Bacteroidales bacterium ph8
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:724Ruminococcus sp. CAG:724
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:272Firmicutes bacterium CAG:272

Revision editor(s): Tosin, Victoria

Signature 2

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Curated date: 2025/04/17

Curator: Tosin

Revision editor(s): Tosin, Victoria

Source: Figure 1E, Table S4, Figure S3b

Description: Significanf different bacteria genus, species among the four groups obtained via Deseq2 in the comparison between groups 2 and 3

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Group 3

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Acidaminococcus
Acidaminococcus sp. CAG:542
Alistipes sp. CAG:435
Alistipes sp. CAG:831
Anaerobutyricum hallii
Anaerostipes caccae
Anaerostipes hadrus
Azospirillum
Azospirillum sp. CAG:239
Azospirillum sp. CAG:260
Bacteroides cellulosilyticus
Bacteroides cellulosilyticus CAG:158
Bacteroides eggerthii
Bacteroides eggerthii CAG:109
Bacteroides faecis CAG:32
Bacteroides finegoldii
Bacteroides finegoldii CAG:203
Bacteroides fragilis
Bacteroides fragilis CAG:47
Bacteroides fragilis CAG:558
Bacteroides gallinarum
Bacteroides helcogenes
Bacteroides nordii
Bacteroides oleiciplenus
Bacteroides ovatus
Bacteroides ovatus CAG:22
Bacteroides pyogenes
Bacteroides reticulotermitis
Bacteroides salyersiae
Bacteroides sp. 14(A)
Bacteroides sp. 1_1_30
Bacteroides sp. 2_1_22
Bacteroides sp. 2_2_4
Bacteroides sp. 3_1_23
Bacteroides sp. 3_1_33FAA
Bacteroides sp. 3_1_40A
Bacteroides sp. 4_1_36
Bacteroides sp. 4_3_47FAA
Bacteroides sp. 9_1_42FAA
Bacteroides sp. CAG:189
Bacteroides sp. CAG:462
Bacteroides sp. CAG:530
Bacteroides sp. CAG:598
Bacteroides sp. CAG:633
Bacteroides sp. CAG:702
Bacteroides sp. CAG:714
Bacteroides sp. CAG:754
Bacteroides sp. CAG:875
Bacteroides sp. CAG:98
Bacteroides sp. D1
Bacteroides sp. D2
Bacteroides sp. D20
Bacteroides sp. D22
Bacteroides sp. HPS0048
Bacteroides stercorirosoris
Bacteroides stercoris
Bacteroides stercoris CAG:120
Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
Bacteroides timonensis
Bacteroides uniformis
Bacteroides uniformis CAG:3
Bacteroides xylanisolvens
Barnesiella viscericola
Bifidobacterium bifidum
Bifidobacterium breve
Bifidobacterium catenulatum subsp. kashiwanohense
Bifidobacterium longum
Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum
Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum CAG:263
Blautia hansenii
Blautia obeum
Blautia producta
Blautia sp. CAG:257
Blautia sp. CAG:37
Blautia sp. CAG:52
Blautia sp. KLE 1732
Campylobacter jejuni
Catonella morbi
Clostridiales bacterium 1_7_47FAA
Clostridiales bacterium VE202-06
Clostridiales bacterium VE202-14
Clostridiales bacterium VE202-26
Clostridiales bacterium VE202-28
Clostridium botulinum
Clostridium butyricum
Clostridium sp. CAG:230
Clostridium sp. CAG:253
Clostridium sp. CAG:299
Clostridium sp. CAG:411
Clostridium sp. CAG:505
Clostridium sp. CAG:7
Clostridium sp. CAG:81
Clostridium sp. CAG:91
Clostridium sp. SS2/1
Coprobacillus sp. CAG:235
Coprobacter fastidiosus
Coprococcus comes
Coprococcus sp. HPP0048
Coprococcus sp. HPP0074
Cutibacterium acnes
Dialister invisus
Dorea formicigenerans
Dorea longicatena
Dorea longicatena CAG:42
Dorea sp. 5-2
Dorea sp. AGR2135
Dorea sp. CAG:317
Enterocloster bolteae
Enterocloster bolteae CAG:59
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
Escherichia
Escherichia coli
Escherichia fergusonii
Eubacterium ramulus
Eubacterium sp. 3_1_31
Eubacterium sp. CAG:248
Eubacterium sp. CAG:252
Eubacterium sp. CAG:274
Eubacterium sp. CAG:38
Eubacterium sp. CAG:76
Eubacterium sp. CAG:86
Eubacterium ventriosum
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:212
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:227
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:41
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:424
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:882
Fusobacterium
Fusobacterium mortiferum
Fusobacterium nucleatum
Fusobacterium ulcerans
Fusobacterium varium
Haemophilus
Haemophilus parainfluenzae
Hallella bergensis
Hallella multisaccharivorax
Hallella seregens
Halobacillus trueperi
Hoylesella buccalis
Hoylesella timonensis
Intestinibacter bartlettii
Klebsiella aerogenes
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Klebsiella sp. MS 92-3
Klebsiella variicola
Lachnospiraceae bacterium 1 4 56FAA
Lachnospiraceae bacterium 2 1 46FAA
Lachnospiraceae bacterium 2_1_58FAA
Lachnospiraceae bacterium 5_1_63FAA
Lachnospiraceae bacterium 6_1_37FAA
Lachnospiraceae bacterium 9_1_43BFAA
Lachnospiraceae bacterium A2
Lachnospiraceae bacterium A4
Lachnospiraceae bacterium CAG:25
Lactobacillus delbrueckii
Ligilactobacillus ruminis
Mediterraneibacter gnavus
Mediterraneibacter gnavus CAG:126
Megamonas
Megamonas funiformis
Megamonas funiformis CAG:377
Megamonas hypermegale
Megamonas rupellensis
Megasphaera elsdenii
Mitsuokella multacida
Odoribacter laneus
Parabacteroides sp. CAG:409
Parabacteroides sp. HGS0025
Parvimonas micra
Phascolarctobacterium sp. CAG:207
Phascolarctobacterium sp. CAG:266
Phocaeicola barnesiae
Phocaeicola coprophilus
Phocaeicola coprophilus CAG:333
Phocaeicola dorei
Phocaeicola dorei CAG:222
Phocaeicola massiliensis
Phocaeicola plebeius
Phocaeicola plebeius CAG:211
Phocaeicola salanitronis
Phocaeicola sartorii
Phocaeicola vulgatus
Phocaeicola vulgatus CAG:6
Prevotella amnii
Prevotella bivia
Prevotella dentalis
Prevotella disiens
Prevotella histicola
Prevotella sp. AGR2160
Prevotella sp. BV3P1
Prevotella sp. CAG:1092
Prevotella sp. CAG:1124
Prevotella sp. CAG:1185
Prevotella sp. CAG:1320
Prevotella sp. CAG:255
Prevotella sp. CAG:386
Prevotella sp. CAG:474
Prevotella sp. CAG:5226
Prevotella sp. CAG:604
Prevotella sp. CAG:732
Prevotella sp. CAG:891
Prevotella sp. CAG:924
Prevotella sp. S7-1-8
Roseburia intestinalis
Roseburia inulinivorans
Roseburia inulinivorans CAG:15
Roseburia sp. CAG:303
Roseburia sp. CAG:45
Roseburia sp. CAG:50
Ruminiclostridium papyrosolvens
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:17
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:55
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:60
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:90
Ruminococcus sp. SR1/5
Salmonella enterica
Segatella albensis
Segatella baroniae
Segatella buccae
Segatella copri
Segatella copri CAG:164
Segatella maculosa
Segatella oris
Segatella paludivivens
Segatella salivae
Shigella
Shigella dysenteriae
Shigella flexneri
Staphylococcus aureus
Streptococcus agalactiae
Streptococcus parasanguinis
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Streptococcus salivarius
Streptococcus thermophilus
Succinatimonas
Succinatimonas sp. CAG:777
Sutterella parvirubra
Sutterella wadsworthensis
Sutterella wadsworthensis CAG:135
Tannerella sp. 6_1_58FAA_CT1
Tannerella sp. CAG:51
Thermobrachium celere
Veillonella atypica
Veillonella magna
Veillonella parvula
Xylanibacter oryzae
Xylanibacter ruminicola
[Bacteroides] pectinophilus
[Clostridium] clostridioforme CAG:132
[Clostridium] nexile
[Clostridium] nexile CAG:348
[Clostridium] scindens
[Ruminococcus] lactaris
[Ruminococcus] torques
bacterium LF-3
butyrate-producing bacterium SS3/4
unclassified Acidaminococcus
unclassified Bacteria
unclassified Bacteroidales
unclassified Bacteroides
unclassified Dorea
unclassified Enterobacter
unclassified Enterobacteriaceae
unclassified Erysipelotrichaceae
unclassified Escherichia
unclassified Lachnoclostridium
unclassified Megamonas
unclassified Megasphaera
unclassified Porphyromonadaceae
unclassified Prevotella
unclassified Roseburia
unclassified Streptococcus
unclassified Sutterella
unclassified Veillonella
unclassified sequences
uncultured bacterium
Bacteroides sp. 2_1_56FAABacteroides sp. 2_1_56FAA
Bacteroides sp. 2_1_16Bacteroides sp. 2_1_16
Prevotella sp. P4-76Prevotella sp. P4-76
Clostridium sp. JCCClostridium sp. JCC
Prevotella sp. P5-60Prevotella sp. P5-60

Revision editor(s): Tosin, Victoria

Experiment 3


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Curated date: 2025/04/17

Curator: Tosin

Revision editor(s): Tosin

Differences from previous experiment shown

Subjects

Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
Group 3
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
Group 4
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Patients with Functional constipation (FC) whose defecation frequency was 1 time/3 days
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
52
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
10

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
unchanged
Simpson Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species evenness
unchanged

Signature 1

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by KateRasheed on 2025-7-10

Curated date: 2025/04/17

Curator: Tosin

Revision editor(s): Tosin, Victoria

Source: Figure 1E, Table S4, Figure S3C

Description: Significant different bacteria genus, species among the four groups obtained via Deseq2 in the comparison between groups 3 and 4

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Group 4

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Alistipes sp. CAG:435
Dorea sp. CAG:317
Eubacterium sp. CAG:76
Faecalibacterium sp. CAG:82
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:65
Megamonas
Megamonas hypermegale
Prevotella
Prevotella amnii
Prevotella histicola
Prevotella sp. CAG:891
Prevotella sp. S7-1-8
Segatella maculosa
Streptococcus agalactiae
uncultured bacterium
Clostridium sp. KNHs209Clostridium sp. KNHs209

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Signature 2

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Curated date: 2025/04/17

Curator: Tosin

Revision editor(s): Tosin, Victoria

Source: Figure 1E, Table S4, Figure S3C

Description: Significant different bacteria genus, species among the four groups obtained via Deseq2 in the comparison between groups 3 and 4

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Group 4

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Acetobacter
Akkermansia
Akkermansia muciniphila
Akkermansia sp. CAG:344
Azospirillum
Azospirillum sp. CAG:239
Bifidobacterium adolescentis
Candidatus Soleaferrea massiliensis
Citrobacter
Clostridium sp. CAG:138
Clostridium sp. CAG:226
Clostridium sp. CAG:242
Clostridium sp. CAG:245
Clostridium sp. CAG:264
Clostridium sp. CAG:269
Clostridium sp. CAG:349
Clostridium sp. CAG:389
Clostridium sp. CAG:413
Clostridium sp. CAG:417
Clostridium sp. CAG:470
Clostridium sp. CAG:798
Dialister succinatiphilus
Eubacterium sp. CAG:115
Eubacterium sp. CAG:581
Eubacterium sp. CAG:786
Eubacterium sp. CAG:841
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:110
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:176
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:341
Mycoplasma
Oscillibacter sp. CAG:241
Prevotella sp. CAG:873
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:177
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:488
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:579
Shigella
unclassified Enterobacteriaceae
Ruminococcus sp. CAG:724Ruminococcus sp. CAG:724
Firmicutes bacterium CAG:272Firmicutes bacterium CAG:272

Revision editor(s): Tosin, Victoria

Experiment 4


Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by KateRasheed on 2025-7-10

Curated date: 2025/04/17

Curator: Tosin

Revision editor(s): Tosin

Differences from previous experiment shown

Subjects

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
Functional constipation (FC) group
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Patients with Functional constipation (FC)
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
6
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
6

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Data transformation Data transformation applied to microbial abundance measurements prior to differential abundance testing (if any).
relative abundances
Statistical test
LEfSe
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
2.5

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
unchanged
Simpson Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species evenness
unchanged

Signature 1

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Curated date: 2025/04/17

Curator: Tosin

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Source: Figure 3E, Table S5

Description: Significant differential taxa between Healthy controls (HC) and Functional Constipation (FC) group using LeFse analysis

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Functional constipation (FC) group

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Anaerostipes caccae
Clostridium sp. AF34-10BH
Clostridium sp. AF36-18BH
Clostridium sp. TF08-15
Coprococcus eutactus
Eubacterium
Eubacterium ventriosum
Lachnospira eligens
Lachnospiraceae bacterium GAM79
Odoribacter splanchnicus
Phascolarctobacterium faecium
Roseburia hominis
unclassified Bacteria
unclassified Eubacterium
Bacteroides fluxus
Bacteroides sp. AM54-2NS
Bacteroides sp. 4_1_36
Clostridium sp. AM34-9AC

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Curated date: 2025/04/18

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Source: Figure 3E, Table S5

Description: Significant differential taxa between Healthy controls (HC) and Functional Constipation (FC) group using LeFse analysis

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Functional constipation (FC) group

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Clostridium paraputrificum
Fusobacterium ulcerans
Fusobacterium mortiferum
Eubacterium sp. CAG:38
Clostridium disporicum

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Experiment 5


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Curated date: 2025/04/20

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Differences from previous experiment shown

Subjects

Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
Group 2
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
FCHR (Functional constipation high-risk) group
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Combination of High risk people for Functional constipation (FC) whose defecation frequency was 1 time/2 days and High risk people for Functional constipation (FC) whose defecation frequency was 1 time/3 days.
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
360
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
62

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Data transformation Data transformation applied to microbial abundance measurements prior to differential abundance testing (if any).
raw counts
Statistical test
DESeq2
MHT correction Have statistical tests be corrected for multiple hypothesis testing (MHT)?
Yes
LDA Score above Threshold for the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) score for studies using the popular LEfSe tool
Not specified


Signature 1

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Curated date: 2025/04/20

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Source: Figure S5e, Figure S5f

Description: Significant different bacterias among the three groups obtained by Deseq2, FC=log2 fold change at the genus and species levels.

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in FCHR (Functional constipation high-risk) group

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Clostridium sp. CAG:226
Clostridium sp. CAG:417
Clostridium sp. CAG:798
Mycoplasma

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Curated date: 2025/04/20

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Source: Figure S5e, Figure S5f

Description: Significant different bacterias among the three groups obtained by Deseq2, FC=log2 fold change at the genus and species levels.

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in FCHR (Functional constipation high-risk) group

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Azospirillum
Escherichia
Escherichia fergusonii
Fusobacterium
Fusobacterium mortiferum
Fusobacterium ulcerans
Fusobacterium varium
Haemophilus
Megamonas
Megamonas funiformis CAG:377
Shigella
Succinatimonas
unclassified Acidaminococcus
unclassified Enterobacteriaceae
unclassified Veillonella

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