Fusobacterium is associated with colorectal adenomas

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Citation
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Authors
McCoy AN, Araújo-Pérez F, Azcárate-Peril A, Yeh JJ, Sandler RS, Keku TO
Journal
PloS one
Year
2013
The human gut microbiota is increasingly recognized as a player in colorectal cancer (CRC). While particular imbalances in the gut microbiota have been linked to colorectal adenomas and cancer, no specific bacterium has been identified as a risk factor. Recent studies have reported a high abundance of Fusobacterium in CRC subjects compared to normal subjects, but this observation has not been reported for adenomas, CRC precursors. We assessed the abundance of Fusobacterium species in the normal rectal mucosa of subjects with (n = 48) and without adenomas (n = 67). We also confirmed previous reports on Fusobacterium and CRC in 10 CRC tumor tissues and 9 matching normal tissues by pyrosequencing. We extracted DNA from rectal mucosal biopsies and measured bacterial levels by quantitative PCR of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene. Local cytokine gene expression was also determined in mucosal biopsies from adenoma cases and controls by quantitative PCR. The mean log abundance of Fusobacterium or cytokine gene expression between cases and controls was compared by t-test. Logistic regression was used to compare tertiles of Fusobacterium abundance. Adenoma subjects had a significantly higher abundance of Fusobacterium species compared to controls (p = 0.01). Compared to the lowest tertile, subjects with high abundance of Fusobacterium were significantly more likely to have adenomas (OR 3.66, 95% CI 1.37-9.74, p-trend 0.005). Cases but not controls had a significant positive correlation between local cytokine gene expression and Fusobacterium abundance. Among cases, the correlation for local TNF-α and Fusobacterium was r = 0.33, p = 0.06 while it was 0.44, p = 0.01 for Fusobacterium and IL-10. These results support a link between the abundance of Fusobacterium in colonic mucosa and adenomas and suggest a possible role for mucosal inflammation in this process.

Experiment 1


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Curator: Uhabiba14

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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
Colorectal mucosa Colorectal mucosa,colorectal mucosa
Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology
Colorectal adenoma adenoma of large bowel,adenoma of large intestine,adenoma of the large bowel,adenoma of the large intestine,colorectal adenoma,colorectum adenoma,large bowel adenoma,large intestine adenoma,Colorectal adenoma
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
Non-adenoma
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
Adenoma
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Patients with colorectal adenoma
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
67
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
48
Antibiotics exclusion Number of days without antibiotics usage (if applicable) and other antibiotics-related criteria used to exclude participants (if any)
None

Lab analysis

Sequencing type
16S
16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene
V1-V3
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
T-Test
Significance threshold p-value or FDR threshold used for differential abundance testing (if any)
0.01
MHT correction Have statistical tests be corrected for multiple hypothesis testing (MHT)?
No


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Curated date: 2024/03/14

Curator: Uhabiba14

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Source: Figure 1

Description: Abundance of Fusobacterium in rectal mucosal biopsies from adenoma cases versus non-adenoma controls

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Adenoma

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Fusobacterium

Revision editor(s): Uhabiba14, Scholastica