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ISME JOURNAL
Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 220-230Publisher
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DOI: 10.1038/ISMEJ.2010.118
Keywords
human colon; resistant starch; 16S rRNA; phylotypes; Ruminococcus; temporal change
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- World Cancer Research Fund
- Scottish Government Rural Environment Research and Analysis Directorate
- The Wellcome Trust [WT 76964]
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The populations of dominant species within the human colonic microbiota can potentially be modified by dietary intake with consequences for health. Here we examined the influence of precisely controlled diets in 14 overweight men. Volunteers were provided successively with a control diet, diets high in resistant starch (RS) or non-starch polysaccharides (NSPs) and a reduced carbohydrate weight loss (WL) diet, over 10 weeks. Analysis of 16S rRNA sequences in stool samples of six volunteers detected 320 phylotypes (defined at > 98% identity) of which 26, including 19 cultured species, each accounted for > 1% of sequences. Although samples clustered more strongly by individual than by diet, time courses obtained by targeted qPCR revealed that 'blooms' in specific bacterial groups occurred rapidly after a dietary change. These were rapidly reversed by the subsequent diet. Relatives of Ruminococcus bromii (R-ruminococci) increased in most volunteers on the RS diet, accounting for a mean of 17% of total bacteria compared with 3.8% on the NSP diet, whereas the uncultured Oscillibacter group increased on the RS and WL diets. Relatives of Eubacterium rectale increased on RS (to mean 10.1%) but decreased, along with Collinsella aerofaciens, on WL. Inter-individual variation was marked, however, with > 60% of RS remaining unfermented in two volunteers on the RS diet, compared to < 4% in the other 12 volunteers; these two individuals also showed low numbers of R-ruminococci (< 1%). Dietary non-digestible carbohydrate can produce marked changes in the gut microbiota, but these depend on the initial composition of an individual's gut microbiota. The ISME Journal (2011) 5, 220-230; doi:10.1038/ISMEJ.2010.118; published online 5 August 2010
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