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Gut microbiota density influences host physiology and is shaped by host and microbial factors.

Eduardo J Contijoch | Graham J Britton | Chao Yang | Ilaria Mogno | Zhihua Li | Ruby Ng | Sean R Llewellyn | Sheela Hira | Crystal Johnson | Keren M Rabinowitz | Revital Barkan | Iris Dotan | Robert P Hirten | Shih-Chen Fu | Yuying Luo | Nancy Yang | Tramy Luong | Philippe R Labrias | Sergio Lira | Inga Peter | Ari Grinspan | Jose C Clemente | Roman Kosoy | Seunghee Kim-Schulze | Xiaochen Qin | Anabella Castillo | Amanda Hurley | Ashish Atreja | Jason Rogers | Farah Fasihuddin | Merjona Saliaj | Amy Nolan | Pamela Reyes-Mercedes | Carina Rodriguez | Sarah Aly | Kenneth Santa-Cruz | Lauren Peters | Mayte Suárez-Fariñas | Ruiqi Huang | Ke Hao | Jun Zhu | Bin Zhang | Bojan Losic | Haritz Irizar | Won-Min Song | Antonio Di Narzo | Wenhui Wang | Benjamin L Cohen | Christopher DiMaio | David Greenwald | Steven Itzkowitz | Aimee Lucas | James Marion | Elana Maser | Ryan Ungaro | Steven Naymagon | Joshua Novak | Brijen Shah | Thomas Ullman | Peter Rubin | James George | Peter Legnani | Shannon E Telesco | Joshua R Friedman | Carrie Brodmerkel | Scott Plevy | Judy H Cho | Jean-Frederic Colombel | Eric E Schadt | Carmen Argmann | Marla Dubinsky | Andrew Kasarskis | Bruce Sands | Jeremiah J Faith
eLife | 2019

To identify factors that regulate gut microbiota density and the impact of varied microbiota density on health, we assayed this fundamental ecosystem property in fecal samples across mammals, human disease, and therapeutic interventions. Physiologic features of the host (carrying capacity) and the fitness of the gut microbiota shape microbiota density. Therapeutic manipulation of microbiota density in mice altered host metabolic and immune homeostasis. In humans, gut microbiota density was reduced in Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and ileal pouch-anal anastomosis. The gut microbiota in recurrent Clostridium difficile infection had lower density and reduced fitness that were restored by fecal microbiota transplantation. Understanding the interplay between microbiota and disease in terms of microbiota density, host carrying capacity, and microbiota fitness provide new insights into microbiome structure and microbiome targeted therapeutics.

Pubmed ID: 30666957 RIS Download

Associated grants

  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 CA161373
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: DK112679
  • Agency: NIH HHS, United States
    Id: S10 OD018522
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: GM007280
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 DK020541
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 GM108505
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: F31 DK112679
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 CA016087
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 DK110352
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: GM108505
  • Agency: NIAID NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U19 AI118610

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