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CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 692-701Publisher
AMER SOC NEPHROLOGY
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.12161018
Keywords
Blood microbiome; chronic kidney disease; Proteobacteria; DNA; Bacterial; DNA; Ribosomal; glomerular filtration rate; Enterobacteriaceae; Endotoxemia; Cross-Sectional Studies; Pilot Projects; Dysbiosis; Metagenomics; Microbiota; Pseudomonadaceae; Sequence Analysis; DNA; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Renal Insufficiency; Chronic; Permeability
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Kidney divisional funds
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Background and objectivesThe association between gut dysbiosis, high intestinal permeability, and endotoxemia-mediated inflammation is well established in CKD. However, changes in the circulating microbiome in patients with CKD have not been studied. In this pilot study, we compare the blood microbiome profile between patients with CKD and healthy controls using 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing.Design, setting, participants, & measurementsBlood bacterial DNA was studied in buffy coat samples quantitatively by 16S PCR and qualitatively by 16S targeted metagenomic sequencing using a molecular pipeline specifically optimized for blood samples in a cross-sectional study comparing 20 nondiabetic patients with CKD and 20 healthy controls.ResultsThere were 22 operational taxonomic units significantly different between the two groups. 16S metagenomic sequencing revealed a significant reduction in diversity (Chao1 index) in the CKD group compared with healthy controls (12718 versus 145 +/- 31; P=0.04). Proteobacteria phylum, Gammaproteobacteria class, and Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonadaceae families were more abundant in the CKD group compared with healthy controls. Median 16S ribosomal DNA levels did not significantly differ between CKD and healthy groups (117 versus 122 copies/ng DNA; P=0.38). GFR correlated inversely with the proportion of Proteobacteria (r=-0.54; P0.01).ConclusionsOur pilot study demonstrates qualitative differences in the circulating microbiome profile with lower diversity and significant taxonomic variations in the blood microbiome in patients with CKD compared with healthy controls.
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