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Gallbladder microbiota composition is associated with pancreaticobiliary and gallbladder cancer prognosis

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BMC MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages -

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BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12866-022-02557-3

Keywords

Pancreaticobiliary tract; Gallbladder; Cancer; Bile; Microbiota; Alpha diversity; Beta diversity; Overall survival; Prognosis; Biomarker

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  1. Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, Culture and Technology, Japan [21 K06889, 21 K07222]
  2. Shinnihon Foundation of Advanced Medical Treatment Research
  3. Kodama Memorial Foundation

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This study investigated the microbiota composition in patients with pancreaticobiliary cancers and benign diseases using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and found a significant association between certain microbes and overall survival prognosis. These findings suggest that microbiota composition may be a potential biomarker for distinguishing the malignancy of pancreaticobiliary tract cancers.
Background The microbial population of the intestinal tract and its relationship to specific diseases has been extensively studied during the past decade. However, reports characterizing the bile microbiota are rare. This study aims to investigate the microbiota composition in patients with pancreaticobiliary cancers and benign diseases by 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and to evaluate its potential value as a biomarker for the cancer of the bile duct, pancreas, and gallbladder. Results We enrolled patients who were diagnosed with cancer, cystic lesions, and inflammation of the pancreaticobiliary tract. The study cohort comprised 244 patients. We extracted microbiome-derived DNA from the bile juice in surgically resected gallbladders. The microbiome composition was not significantly different according to lesion position and cancer type in terms of alpha and beta diversity. We found a significant difference in the relative abundance of Campylobacter, Citrobacter, Leptotrichia, Enterobacter, Hungatella, Mycolicibacterium, Phyllobacterium and Sphingomonas between patients without and with lymph node metastasis. Conclusions There was a significant association between the relative abundance of certain microbes and overall survival prognosis. These microbes showed association with good prognosis in cholangiocarcinoma, but with poor prognosis in pancreatic adenocarcinoma, and vice versa. Our findings suggest that pancreaticobiliary tract cancer patients have an altered microbiome composition, which might be a biomarker for distinguishing malignancy.

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