Gut microbiome and serum metabolome alterations in obesity and after weight-loss intervention

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Citation
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DOI Digital object identifier for electronic documents.
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Authors
Liu R, Hong J, Xu X, Feng Q, Zhang D, Gu Y, Shi J, Zhao S, Liu W, Wang X, Xia H, Liu Z, Cui B, Liang P, Xi L, Jin J, Ying X, Wang X, Zhao X, Li W, Jia H, Lan Z, Li F, Wang R, Sun Y, Yang M, Shen Y, Jie Z, Li J, Chen X, Zhong H, Xie H, Zhang Y, Gu W, Deng X, Shen B, Xu X, Yang H, Xu G, Bi Y, Lai S, Wang J, Qi L, Madsen L, Wang J, Ning G, Kristiansen K, Wang W
Journal
Nature medicine
Year
2017
Emerging evidence has linked the gut microbiome to human obesity. We performed a metagenome-wide association study and serum metabolomics profiling in a cohort of lean and obese, young, Chinese individuals. We identified obesity-associated gut microbial species linked to changes in circulating metabolites. The abundance of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, a glutamate-fermenting commensal, was markedly decreased in obese individuals and was inversely correlated with serum glutamate concentration. Consistently, gavage with B. thetaiotaomicron reduced plasma glutamate concentration and alleviated diet-induced body-weight gain and adiposity in mice. Furthermore, weight-loss intervention by bariatric surgery partially reversed obesity-associated microbial and metabolic alterations in obese individuals, including the decreased abundance of B. thetaiotaomicron and the elevated serum glutamate concentration. Our findings identify previously unknown links between intestinal microbiota alterations, circulating amino acids and obesity, suggesting that it may be possible to intervene in obesity by targeting the gut microbiota.

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
Obesity Adiposis,Adiposity,Obese,Obese (finding),obesity,Obesity (disorder),Obesity [Ambiguous],obesity disease,obesity disorder,Obesity NOS,Obesity, unspecified,Overweight and obesity,Obesity
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
controls
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
obese
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
79
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
72
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
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
Illumina

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

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
decreased

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Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: Marianthi Thomatos

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Source: Figure 1

Description: Gut microbiome alterations in obesity among cohort of lean vs obese Chinese

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in obese

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Blautia obeum
Collinsella aerofaciens
Coprococcus comes
Dorea formicigenerans
Dorea longicatena
Fusobacterium ulcerans
Fusobacterium varium
Lachnospiraceae
Megasphaera elsdenii
Mediterraneibacter gnavus
[Ruminococcus] torques
Anaerobutyricum hallii

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Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by ChiomaBlessing on 2024-2-19

Curated date: 2021/01/10

Curator: Marianthi Thomatos

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Source: Figure 1

Description: Gut microbiome alterations in obesity among cohort of lean vs obese Chinese

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in obese

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Bacteroides ovatus
Bacteroides xylanisolvens
Bacteroides uniformis
Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
Bacteroides intestinalis
Alistipes shahii
Akkermansia muciniphila
Alistipes putredinis
Odoribacter splanchnicus
Bacteroides eggerthii
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Klebsiella oxytoca
Haemophilus parainfluenzae
Faecalibacterium prausnitzii
Bacteroides
Alistipes

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