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Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic profiling of Lactobacillus casei Zhang in the human gut

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NPJ BIOFILMS AND MICROBIOMES
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41522-021-00227-2

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [31622043, 31720103911, 31701577]
  2. China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA
  3. Inner Mongolia Science & Technology Major Projects
  4. Inner Mongolia Science & Technology planning project [201702070, 201802063]
  5. Inner Mongolia Agricultural University for Fostering Distinguished Young Scholars [2017XJQ-2]

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This study reveals that ingested probiotics alter their transcription patterns to survive and adapt in the human gut, indicating a highly dynamic cross-talk between probiotics and the human gut microbiome.
Little is known about the replication and dynamic transcription of probiotics during their passenger journey in the human GI tract, which has therefore limited the understanding of their probiotic mechanisms. Here, metagenomic and metatranscriptomic sequencing was used to expose the in vivo expression patterns of the probiotic Lactobacillus casei Zhang (LcZ), which was compared with its in vitro growth transcriptomes, as well as the dynamics of the indigenous microbiome response to probiotic consumption. Extraction of the strain-specific reads revealed that replication and transcripts from the ingested LcZ were increased, while those from the resident L. casei strains remained unchanged. Mapping of all sequencing reads to LcZ genome showed that gene expression in vitro and in vivo differed dramatically. Approximately 39% of mRNAs and 45% of sRNAs of LcZ well-expressed were repressed after ingestion into human gut. The expression of ABC transporter genes and amino acid metabolism genes was induced at day 14 of ingestion, and genes for sugar and SCFA metabolism were activated at day 28 of ingestion. Expression of rli28c sRNA with peaked expression during the in vitro stationary phase was also activated in the human gut; this sRNA repressed LcZ growth and lactic acid production in vitro. However, the response of the human gut microbiome to LcZ was limited and heterogeneous. These findings implicate the ingested probiotic has to change its transcription patterns to survive and adapt in the human gut, and the time-dependent activation patterns indicate highly dynamic cross-talk between the probiotic and human gut microbes.

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