Disordered microbial communities in the upper respiratory tract of cigarette smokers

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study design
Citation
PMID PubMed identifier for scientific articles.
DOI Digital object identifier for electronic documents.
URI
Authors
Charlson ES, Chen J, Custers-Allen R, Bittinger K, Li H, Sinha R, Hwang J, Bushman FD, Collman RG
Journal
PloS one
Year
2010
Cigarette smokers have an increased risk of infectious diseases involving the respiratory tract. Some effects of smoking on specific respiratory tract bacteria have been described, but the consequences for global airway microbial community composition have not been determined. Here, we used culture-independent high-density sequencing to analyze the microbiota from the right and left nasopharynx and oropharynx of 29 smoking and 33 nonsmoking healthy asymptomatic adults to assess microbial composition and effects of cigarette smoking. Bacterial communities were profiled using 454 pyrosequencing of 16S sequence tags (803,391 total reads), aligned to 16S rRNA databases, and communities compared using the UniFrac distance metric. A Random Forest machine-learning algorithm was used to predict smoking status and identify taxa that best distinguished between smokers and nonsmokers. Community composition was primarily determined by airway site, with individuals exhibiting minimal side-of-body or temporal variation. Within airway habitats, microbiota from smokers were significantly more diverse than nonsmokers and clustered separately. The distributions of several genera were systematically altered by smoking in both the oro- and nasopharynx, and there was an enrichment of anaerobic lineages associated with periodontal disease in the oropharynx. These results indicate that distinct regions of the human upper respiratory tract contain characteristic microbial communities that exhibit disordered patterns in cigarette smokers, both in individual components and global structure, which may contribute to the prevalence of respiratory tract complications in this population.

Experiment 1


Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Shaimaa Elsafoury on 2021/02/09

Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: WikiWorks

Revision editor(s): Claregrieve1, WikiWorks, ChiomaBlessing

Subjects

Location of subjects
United States of America
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
Oropharynx Mesopharynx,Oral part of pharynx,Pars oralis pharyngis,Oropharynx,oropharynx
Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology
Smoking behavior smoking,Smoking behavior,smoking behavior
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
right oropharynx of nonsmokers
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
right oropharynx of smokers
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Smokers were defined as current smoking of .2 cigarettes daily for more than 6 months, and nonsmokers were defined as less than 100 cigarettes lifetime.
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
33
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
29
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
V1-V2
Sequencing platform Manufacturer and experimental platform used for quantifying microbial abundance
Roche454

Statistical Analysis

Data transformation Data transformation applied to microbial abundance measurements prior to differential abundance testing (if any).
relative abundances
Statistical test
Mann-Whitney (Wilcoxon)
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


Signature 1

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Shaimaa Elsafoury on 2021/02/09

Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: Rimsha Azhar

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks

Source: Table3 + Table S3

Description: Bacterial taxa that distinguish airway microbial communities of smokers from nonsmokers

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in right oropharynx of smokers

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Capnocytophaga
Peptostreptococcus
Fusobacterium
Acidovorax
Haemophilus
Neisseria

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks

Signature 2

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Shaimaa Elsafoury on 2021/02/09

Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: Shaimaa Elsafoury

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks

Source: Table3 + Table S4

Description: Bacterial taxa that distinguish airway microbial communities of smokers from nonsmokers

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in right oropharynx of smokers

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Megasphaera
Veillonella
Hallella
Streptococcus
Oscillospiraceae

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks

Experiment 2


Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Shaimaa Elsafoury on 2021/02/09

Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: WikiWorks

Revision editor(s): Claregrieve1, WikiWorks, ChiomaBlessing

Differences from previous experiment shown

Subjects

Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
left oropharynx of nonsmokers
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
left oropharynx of smokers

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Signature 1

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Shaimaa Elsafoury on 2021/02/09

Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: Rimsha Azhar

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks

Source: Table3 + Table S5

Description: Bacterial taxa that distinguish airway microbial communities of smokers from nonsmokers

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in left oropharynx of smokers

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Capnocytophaga
Fusobacterium
Neisseria
Aggregatibacter

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks

Signature 2

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Shaimaa Elsafoury on 2021/02/09

Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: Shaimaa Elsafoury

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks

Source: Table3 + Table S6

Description: Bacterial taxa that distinguish airway microbial communities of smokers from nonsmokers

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in left oropharynx of smokers

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Actinomyces
Eggerthella
Megasphaera
Veillonella
Streptobacillus

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks

Experiment 3


Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Shaimaa Elsafoury on 2021/02/09

Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: WikiWorks

Revision editor(s): Claregrieve1, WikiWorks, ChiomaBlessing

Differences from previous experiment shown

Subjects

Body site Anatomical site where microbial samples were extracted from according to the Uber Anatomy Ontology
Nasopharynx Nasenrachenraum,Epipharynx,Nasal part of pharynx,Pars nasalis pharyngis,Rhinopharynx,Nasopharynx,nasopharynx
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
right nasopharynx of nonsmokers
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
right nasopharynx of smokers

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Signature 1

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Shaimaa Elsafoury on 2021/02/09

Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: Rimsha Azhar

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks

Source: Table3 + Table S7

Description: Bacterial taxa that distinguish airway microbial communities of smokers from nonsmokers

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in right nasopharynx of smokers

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Actinomyces
Leuconostoc
Acinetobacter
Aquitalea
Shigella
Zoogloea

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks

Signature 2

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Shaimaa Elsafoury on 2021/02/09

Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: Rimsha Azhar

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks

Source: Table3 + Table S8

Description: Bacterial taxa that distinguish airway microbial communities of smokers from nonsmokers

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in right nasopharynx of smokers

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Eggerthella
Dorea
Eubacterium
Abiotrophia
Allobaculum
Anaerovorax
Coprococcus
Erysipelotrichaceae
Finegoldia
Gemella
Lachnospiraceae
Peptostreptococcaceae
Oscillospiraceae
Syntrophococcus
Anaerofilum

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks

Experiment 4


Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Shaimaa Elsafoury on 2021/02/09

Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: WikiWorks

Revision editor(s): Claregrieve1, WikiWorks, ChiomaBlessing

Differences from previous experiment shown

Subjects

Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
left nasopharynx of nonsmokers
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
left nasopharynx of smokers

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Signature 1

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Shaimaa Elsafoury on 2021/02/09

Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: Shaimaa Elsafoury

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks

Source: Table3 + Table S9

Description: Bacterial taxa that distinguish airway microbial communities of smokers from nonsmokers

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in left nasopharynx of smokers

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Flavobacterium
Erysipelothrix
Gemella
Shigella
Sutterella

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks

Signature 2

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Shaimaa Elsafoury on 2021/02/09

Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: Shaimaa Elsafoury

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks

Source: Table3 + Table S10

Description: Bacterial taxa that distinguish airway microbial communities of smokers from nonsmokers

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in left nasopharynx of smokers

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Eggerthella
Porphyromonas
Abiotrophia
Anaerofilum
Anaerovorax
Dorea
Erysipelotrichaceae
Eubacterium
Lachnospiraceae
Roseburia
Oscillospiraceae
Syntrophococcus
Campylobacter
Haemophilus
Stenotrophomonas

Revision editor(s): WikiWorks