Gut Microbial Signatures Can Discriminate Unipolar from Bipolar Depression

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Citation
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Authors
Zheng P, Yang J, Li Y, Wu J, Liang W, Yin B, Tan X, Huang Y, Chai T, Zhang H, Duan J, Zhou J, Sun Z, Chen X, Marwari S, Lai J, Huang T, Du Y, Zhang P, Perry SW, Wong ML, Licinio J, Hu S, Xie P, Wang G
Journal
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Year
2020
Keywords:
bipolar disorder, gut microbiome, major depressive disorder, microbiota–gut–brain axis, unipolar depression
Discriminating depressive episodes of bipolar disorder (BD) from major depressive disorder (MDD) is a major clinical challenge. Recently, gut microbiome alterations are implicated in these two mood disorders; however, little is known about the shared and distinct microbial characteristics in MDD versus BD. Here, using 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequencing, the microbial compositions of 165 subjects with MDD are compared with 217 BD, and 217 healthy controls (HCs). It is found that the microbial compositions are different between the three groups. Compared to HCs, MDD is characterized by altered covarying operational taxonomic units (OTUs) assigned to the Bacteroidaceae family, and BD shows disturbed covarying OTUs belonging to Lachnospiraceae, Prevotellaceae, and Ruminococcaceae families. Furthermore, a signature of 26 OTUs is identified that can distinguish patients with MDD from those with BD or HCs, with area under the curve (AUC) values ranging from 0.961 to 0.986 in discovery sets, and 0.702 to 0.741 in validation sets. Moreover, 4 of 26 microbial markers correlate with disease severity in MDD or BD. Together, distinct gut microbial compositions are identified in MDD compared to BD and HCs, and a novel marker panel is provided for distinguishing MDD from BD based on gut microbiome signatures.

Experiment 1


Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by ChiomaBlessing on 2023-12-14

Curated date: 2023/10/29

Curator: Chinelsy

Revision editor(s): Chinelsy, Folakunmi

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
Mood disorder affective disorders,episodic mood disorder,major mood disorders,mood disorder,mood disorders,Mood disorder
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
healthy controls (HCs)
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
bipolar disorder (BD)
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Participants who suffer from depressive episodes of bipolar disorder (BD)
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
217
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
217
Antibiotics exclusion Number of days without antibiotics usage (if applicable) and other antibiotics-related criteria used to exclude participants (if any)
1 month

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

Statistical test
LEfSe
Significance threshold p-value or FDR threshold used for differential abundance testing (if any)
0.05
LDA Score above Threshold for the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) score for studies using the popular LEfSe tool
2.5
Matched on Factors on which subjects have been matched on in a case-control study
age, body mass index, sex

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
unchanged
Chao1 Abundance-based estimator of species richness
decreased
Inverse Simpson Modification of Simpsons index D as 1/D to obtain high values in datasets of high diversity and vice versa
unchanged

Signature 1

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by ChiomaBlessing on 2023-12-14

Curated date: 2023/10/29

Curator: Chinelsy

Revision editor(s): Chinelsy, ChiomaBlessing, Idiaru angela

Source: Supplementary file: Figure. S4b.

Description: Discriminative OTUs observed in the pairwise comparisons between bipolar disorder (BD) and healthy controls (HC).

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in bipolar disorder (BD)

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Bacteroides
Collinsella
Eggerthella
Fusobacterium
Lachnoclostridium
Lactobacillus
Mediterraneibacter gnavus
Oscillospiraceae
Pseudomonas
Streptococcus
Streptomyces plicatus
Subdoligranulum
Thomasclavelia
Tyzzerella sp.
Clostridium

Revision editor(s): Chinelsy, ChiomaBlessing, Idiaru angela

Experiment 2


Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by ChiomaBlessing on 2023-12-14

Curated date: 2023/10/29

Curator: Chinelsy

Revision editor(s): Chinelsy, Folakunmi

Differences from previous experiment shown

Subjects

Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
Major depressive disorder (MDD)
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Participants who suffer from depressive episodes from major depressive disorder (MDD)
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
165

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
unchanged
Chao1 Abundance-based estimator of species richness
unchanged
Inverse Simpson Modification of Simpsons index D as 1/D to obtain high values in datasets of high diversity and vice versa
unchanged

Signature 1

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by ChiomaBlessing on 2023-12-14

Curated date: 2023/10/29

Curator: Chinelsy

Revision editor(s): Chinelsy, ChiomaBlessing

Source: Supplementary file: Figure. S4a.

Description: Discriminative OTUs observed in the pairwise comparisons between major depressive disorder (MDD) and healthy controls (HC).

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Major depressive disorder (MDD)

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Bacteroides
Citrobacter
Fusobacterium
Mediterraneibacter gnavus
[Ruminococcus] torques
unclassified Bacilli
Christensenellaceae_R-7_groupChristensenellaceae_R-7_group
Ruminococcus sp.

Revision editor(s): Chinelsy, ChiomaBlessing

Signature 2

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by ChiomaBlessing on 2023-12-14

Curated date: 2023/12/14

Curator: ChiomaBlessing

Revision editor(s): ChiomaBlessing

Source: Supplementary file: Figure. S4a.

Description: Discriminative OTUs observed in the pairwise comparisons between major depressive disorder (MDD) and healthy controls (HC).

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Major depressive disorder (MDD)

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Bacteroides

Revision editor(s): ChiomaBlessing

Experiment 3


Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by ChiomaBlessing on 2023-12-14

Curated date: 2023/10/29

Curator: Chinelsy

Revision editor(s): Chinelsy, Rahila

Differences from previous experiment shown

Subjects

Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
bipolar disorder (BD)

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Matched on Factors on which subjects have been matched on in a case-control study
age, body mass index


Signature 1

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by ChiomaBlessing on 2023-12-14

Curated date: 2023/10/29

Curator: Chinelsy

Revision editor(s): Chinelsy, ChiomaBlessing

Source: Supplementary file: Figure. S4c.

Description: Discriminative OTUs observed in the pairwise comparisons between major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BD).

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Major depressive disorder (MDD)

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Agathobacter rectalis
Anaerobutyricum hallii
Bacteroides
Bifidobacterium
Blautia
Eggerthella
Escherichia/Shigella sp.
Faecalibacterium
Peptostreptococcaceae
Streptococcus
Thomasclavelia
Prevotella sp.
Coprococcus sp.

Revision editor(s): Chinelsy, ChiomaBlessing

Signature 2

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by ChiomaBlessing on 2023-12-14

Curated date: 2023/10/29

Curator: Chinelsy

Revision editor(s): Chinelsy, ChiomaBlessing

Source: Supplementary file: Figure. S4c.

Description: Discriminative OTUs observed in the pairwise comparisons between major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BD).

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Major depressive disorder (MDD)

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Anaerostipes
Bacteroides
Blautia
Butyricicoccus
Dialister
Enterococcus
Faecalibacterium
Lachnoclostridium
Phascolarctobacterium
Pseudomonas
Romboutsia
Streptococcus
Prevotella sp.

Revision editor(s): Chinelsy, ChiomaBlessing