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Longitudinal flux balance analyses of a patient with episodic colonic inflammation reveals microbiome metabolic dynamics

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GUT MICROBES
卷 15, 期 1, 页码 -

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2023.2226921

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Flux balance analysis; longitudinal data; inflammatory bowel diseases; colonic inflammation; metagenomics; microbiota; metabolic modeling; bioinformatics; constraint-based modeling; personalized medicine; >

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This study employs constraint-based microbial community modeling to investigate an individual with episodic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. The individual has well-documented colonic inflammatory biomarkers and metagenomically-sequenced fecal time series. Results show time-correlated microbial species and metabolites in the individual's microbial ecology during the disease state. Dysbiosis in the gut microbiome affects metabolite production and has consequences on other organs in the body.
We report the first use of constraint-based microbial community modeling on a single individual with episodic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, who has a well documented set of colonic inflammatory biomarkers, as well as metagenomically-sequenced fecal time series covering seven dates over 16 months. Between the first two time steps the individual was treated with both steroids and antibiotics. Our methodology enabled us to identify numerous time-correlated microbial species and metabolites. We found that the individual's dynamical microbial ecology in the disease state led to time-varying in silico overproduction, compared to healthy controls, of more than 24 biologically important metabolites, including methane, thiamine, formaldehyde, trimethylamine N-oxide, folic acid, serotonin, histamine, and tryptamine. The microbe-metabolite contribution analysis revealed that some Dialister species changed metabolic pathways according to the inflammation phases. At the first time point, characterized by the highest levels of serum (complex reactive protein) and fecal (calprotectin) inflammation biomarkers, they produced L-serine or formate. The production of the compounds, through a cascade effect, was mediated by the interaction with pathogenic Escherichia coli strains and Desulfovibrio piger. We integrated the microbial community metabolic models of each time point with a male whole-body, organ-resolved model of human metabolism to track the metabolic consequences of dysbiosis at different body sites. The presence of D. piger in the gut microbiome influenced the sulfur metabolism with a domino effect affecting the liver. These results revealed large longitudinal variations in an individual's gut microbiome ecology and metabolite production, potentially impacting other organs in the body. Future simulations with more time points from an individual could permit us to assess how external drivers, such as diet change or medical interventions, drive microbial community dynamics.

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