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This hospital-based, cross-sectional study aimed to explore the association between diet and fluctuating intestinal bacteria in early-stage colorectal cancer (CRC) (Atopobium parvulum, Actinomyces odontolyticus, Solobacterium moorei, and Bifidobacterium longum). Healthy participants (n = 212) who underwent total colonoscopy at National Cancer Center Hospital (Tokyo, Japan) were divided into two groups according to the relative abundance of bacteria in their feces: those in the top 25% of relative bacterial abundance as cases and the bottom 25% as controls. The participants were divided into three groups (low, medium, and high) according to their intake of food groups associated with CRC. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was conducted to estimate the association between dietary intake and higher relative abundance of bacteria. Dairy products were inversely associated with a higher relative abundance of A. parvulum, A. odontolyticus, and S. moorei, with odds ratios (high vs. low) and 95% confidence interval as follows: 0.16 (0.06-0.44), 0.25 (0.08-0.82), and 0.29 (0.11-0.78), respectively. Additionally, dietary fiber was inversely associated with a higher relative abundance of S.moorei (0.29 [0.11-0.78]). No association was observed between diet and B.longum. In conclusion, healthy adults with a higher intake of dairy products and fiber had lower odds of having a higher relative abundance of CRC-associated microbiota.

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Fever is a common symptom of influenza and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), yet its physiological role in host resistance to viral infection remains less clear. Here, we demonstrate that exposure of mice to the high ambient temperature of 36 °C increases host resistance to viral pathogens including influenza virus and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). High heat-exposed mice increase basal body temperature over 38 °C to enable more bile acids production in a gut microbiota-dependent manner. The gut microbiota-derived deoxycholic acid (DCA) and its plasma membrane-bound receptor Takeda G-protein-coupled receptor 5 (TGR5) signaling increase host resistance to influenza virus infection by suppressing virus replication and neutrophil-dependent tissue damage. Furthermore, the DCA and its nuclear farnesoid X receptor (FXR) agonist protect Syrian hamsters from lethal SARS-CoV-2 infection. Moreover, we demonstrate that certain bile acids are reduced in the plasma of COVID-19 patients who develop moderate I/II disease compared with the minor severity of illness group. These findings implicate a mechanism by which virus-induced high fever increases host resistance to influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 in a gut microbiota-dependent manner.

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The Marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) is a typical scavenging bird and adapted to the Savannah environment, where they show a carnivorous feeding style. However, Marabou stork recently penetrated into the city areas and acclimatized to the urban environment, where they modified their feeding habits to an omnivorous type toward more carbohydrate. To reveal their adaptation to the variable feeding customs, this study compared the gut microbiomes and chemical compositions of feces of Marabou storks inhabiting two different locations in peri urban Kampala: one is a slaughter house floc that predicted their original carnivorous feeding, and the other is a landfill floc that adapted more to the omnivorous feeding. 16S rRNA gene sequencing analysis revealed more diverse gut microbiome, more enriched Lactobacilli, and less abundant Peptostreptococci in the landfill flock comparing to the slaughter house flock. Isolation work and predicted metagenome analysis confirmed more diverse Lactobacilli and more enriched functions for carbohydrate metabolism in the landfill flock. In addition, chemical composition of feces revealed higher ammonia in the former, which is consisting with higher Peptostreptococci and their practice of carnivorous feeding. These results highlighted their adaptation to the variable feeding environment, which presumably protects their health and ensure survival of species.

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Statistical methods, especially machine learning, learning(ML), are pivotal for the analyses of large data generated by multiomics human gut microbiota study. These analyses lead to the discovery of microbe-disease associations. Furthermore, recent efforts for more data transparency and accessible analytical tools improved data availability and study reproducibility. Our recent accumulated knowledge on microbe-disease associations brings light to the next questions: what is the role of microbes in disease progression and how can we apply our knowledge of microbiome in clinical settings? Here, we introduce recent studies that implemented ML to answer the questions of causal inference and clinical translation.

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UNLABELLED: Fusobacterium nucleatum is involved in the development and progression of colorectal cancer. Although the gut microbiota is influenced by diet, studies on the association between diet and F. nucleatum are limited. We aimed to evaluate the association between various dietary factors and fecal F. nucleatum in healthy adults without a history of colorectal cancer or precancerous lesions. This was a cross-sectional study. Subjects who underwent total colonoscopy at the National Cancer Center Hospital (Tokyo, Japan) were included. Healthy subjects (n = 212) were divided into two groups according to the presence or absence of F. nucleatum in their feces which was calculated from data of whole-genome shotgun sequencing, with the group with F. nucleatum serving as cases and the group without F. nucleatum serving as controls. Multivariable logistic regression analysis adjusted potential confounders was conducted to estimate the associations between dietary intake and nutrients estimated by a validated food frequency questionnaire and the presence of F. nucleatum in the feces. There was a significant inverse association between dairy products and the presence of fecal F. nucleatum [high vs. low; OR, 0.41; 95% confidence interval, 0.17-0.95; Ptrend, 0.039]. These results may have important implications for colorectal cancer prevention through nutritional intervention. PREVENTION RELEVANCE: F. nucleatum is well known as a colorectal cancer-associated bacterium. Dietary habits alter the composition and function of the intestinal microbiota. A high intake of dairy products in healthy adults may reduce F. nucleatum and prevent colorectal cancer.

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Higher fiber intake has been associated with a lower risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) and has been shown to protect against CRC based on probable evidence. Recent studies revealed a possible mechanism whereby the interaction between intestinal microbiota and fiber intake mediates CRC risk. However, the specific intestinal bacteria and the amount of these bacteria involved in this mechanism are not fully known. Therefore, this single-center study aimed to determine whether specific intestinal bacteria mediated the relationship between fiber intake and CRC risk. We enrolled patients who received colonoscopy at National Cancer Center Hospital. This cross-sectional study included 180 patients with clinically diagnosed CRC and 242 controls. We conducted a causal mediation analysis to assess the natural indirect effect and natural direct effect of specific intestinal bacteria on association between fiber intake and CRC risk. The median age was 64 (interquartile range, 54-70) years, and 58% of the participants were males. We used metagenomics for profiling gut microbiomes. The relative abundance of each species in each sample was calculated. Among the candidate, Fusobacterium nucleatum and Gemella morbillorum had a significant natural indirect effect based on their highest fiber intake compared to the lowest fiber intake, with a risk difference (95% confidence interval, proportion of mediation effect) of -0.06 [-0.09 to -0.03, 23%] and -0.03 [-0.06 to -0.01, 10.5%], respectively. Other bacteria did not display natural indirect effects. In conclusion, Fusobacterium nucleatum and Gemella morbillorum were found to mediate the relationship between fiber intake and CRC risk.

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Fusobacterium nucleatum is involved in the development and progression of colorectal cancer. Although the gut microbiota is influenced by diet, studies on the association between diet and F. nucleatum are limited. We aimed to evaluate the association between various dietary factors and fecal F. nucleatum in healthy adults without a history of colorectal cancer or precancerous lesions. This was a cross-sectional study. Subjects who underwent total colonoscopy at the National Cancer Center Hospital (Tokyo, Japan) were included. Healthy subjects (n = 212) were divided into two groups according to the presence or absence of F. nucleatum in their feces which was calculated from data of whole-genome shotgun sequencing, with the group with F. nucleatum serving as cases and the group without F. nucleatum serving as controls. Multivariable logistic regression analysis adjusted potential confounders was conducted to estimate the associations between dietary intake and nutrients estimated by a validated food frequency questionnaire and the presence of F. nucleatum in the feces. There was a significant inverse association between dairy products and the presence of fecal F. nucleatum (High vs. Low, OR 0.41, 95% CI 0.17-0.95, P for trend 0.039). These results may have important implications for colorectal cancer prevention through nutritional intervention.

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Accumulating evidence indicates that the gut microbiome and metabolites are associated with colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the influence of surgery for CRC treatment on the gut microbiome and metabolites and how it relates to CRC risk in postoperative CRC patients remain partially understood. Here, we collected 170 fecal samples from 85 CRC patients pre- and approximately 1 year postsurgery and performed shotgun metagenomic sequencing and capillary electrophoresis-time of flight mass spectrometry-based metabolomics analyses to characterize alterations between pre- and postsurgery. We determined that the relative abundance of 114 species was altered postsurgery (P < 0.005). CRC-associated species, such as Fusobacterium nucleatum, were decreased postsurgery. On the other hand, Clostridium scindens, carcinogenesis-associated deoxycholate (DCA)-producing species, and its biotransformed genes (bai operon) were increased postsurgery. The concentration of 60 fecal metabolites was also altered postsurgery (P < 0.005). Two bile acids, cholate and DCA, were increased postsurgery. We developed methods to estimate postoperative CRC risk based on the gut microbiome and metabolomic compositions using a random forest machine-learning algorithm that classifies large adenoma or early-stage CRC and healthy controls from publicly available data sets. We applied methods to preoperative samples and then compared the estimated CRC risk between the two groups according to the presence of large adenoma or tumors 5 years postsurgery (P < 0.05). Overall, our results show that the gut microbiome and metabolites dynamically change from pre- to postsurgery. In postoperative CRC patients, potential CRC risk derived from gut microbiome and metabolites still remains, which indicates the importance of follow-up assessments. IMPORTANCE The gut microbiome and metabolites are associated with CRC progression and carcinogenesis. Postoperative CRC patients are reported to be at an increased CRC risk; however, how gut microbiome and metabolites are related to CRC risk in postoperative patients remains only partially understood. In this study, we investigated the influence of surgical CRC treatment on the gut microbiome and metabolites. We found that the CRC-associated species Fusobacterium nucleatum was decreased postsurgery, whereas carcinogenesis-associated DCA and its producing species and genes were increased postsurgery. We developed methods to estimate postoperative CRC risk based on the gut microbiome and metabolomic compositions. We applied methods to compare the estimated CRC risk between two groups according to the presence of large adenoma or tumors after 5 years postsurgery. To our knowledge, this study is the first report on differences between pre- and postsurgery using metagenomics and metabolomics data analysis. Our methods might be used for CRC risk assessment in postoperative patients.

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Black Aspergillus luchuensis and its white albino mutant are essential fungi for making alcoholic beverages in Japan. A large number of industrial strains have been created using novel isolation or gene/genome mutation techniques. Such mutations influence metabolic and phenotypic characteristics in industrial strains, but few comparative studies of inter-strain mutation have been conducted. We carried out comparative genome analyses of 8 industrial strains of A. luchuensis and A. kawachii IFO 4308, the latter being the first albino strain to be isolated. Phylogenetic analysis based on 8938 concatenated genes exposed the diversity of black koji strains and uniformity among albino industrial strains, suggesting that passaged industrial albino strains have more genetic mutations compared with strain IFO 4308 and black koji strains. Comparative analysis showed that the albino strains had mutations in genes not only for conidial pigmentation but also in those that encode N-terminal acetyltransferase A and annexin XIV-like protein. The results also suggest that some mutations may have emerged through subculturing of albino strains. For example, mutations in the genes for isocitrate lyase and sugar transporters were observed only in industrial albino strains. This implies that selective pressure for increasing enzyme activity or secondary metabolites may have influenced the mutation of genes associated with environmental stress responses in A. luchuensis albino strains. Our study clarifies hitherto unknown genetic and metabolic characteristics of A. luchuensis industrial strains and provides potential applications for comparative genome analysis for breeding koji strains.

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Evidence linking the gut-brain axis to Alzheimer's disease (AD) is accumulating, but the characteristics of causally important microbes are poorly understood. We perform a fecal microbiome analysis in healthy subjects and those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD. We find that Faecalibacterium prausnitzii (F. prausnitzii) correlates with cognitive scores and decreases in the MCI group compared with the healthy group. Two isolated strains from the healthy group, live Fp360 and pasteurized Fp14, improve cognitive impairment in an AD mouse model. Whole-genome comparison of isolated strains reveals specific orthologs that are found only in the effective strains and are more abundant in the healthy group compared with the MCI group. Metabolome and RNA sequencing analyses of mouse brains provides mechanistic insights into the relationship between the efficacy of pasteurized Fp14, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial function. We conclude that F. prausnitzii strains with these specific orthologs are candidates for gut microbiome-based intervention in Alzheimer's-type dementia.

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BACKGROUND: We had previously reported an increase in trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) levels in patients with both compensated and decompensated heart failure (HF) and alteration in gut microbiota composition using 16S rRNA gene amplicon analysis. Although a metagenome-wide analysis showed that choline-TMA lyase levels increased in HF patients, which TMA generation pathway from choline, carnitine, or betaine contributes to the increase in TMAO levels in HF needs to be elucidated. METHODS: We conducted a metagenome-wide shotgun sequencing analysis of gut microbiota and measured the TMAO levels in plasma of 22 HF patients during the compensated phase and 11 age-, sex-, and comorbidity-matched control subjects, whose gut microbiota compositions were reported in a previous 16S rRNA-based analysis. RESULTS: The abundance of cntA/B was positively correlated with TMAO, especially in HF patients, whereas that of cutC/D or betaine reductase was not correlated either in controls or HF patients. The abundance of cntA/B was mainly derived from the genera Escherichia and Klebsiella either in controls or HF patients. CONCLUSION: TMAO levels in plasma depend on the abundance of cntA/B in HF. Although it is difficult to exclude the involvement of confounding factors, microbial dysbiosis connecting the abundance of cntA/B in the gut and the increase of TMAO in plasma can be a therapeutic target for HF.

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Aims: Circulating amino acid (AA) abnormalities serve as predictors of adverse outcomes in patients with heart failure (HF). However, the role of the gut microbiota in AA disturbances remains unknown. Thus, we investigated gut microbial functions and their associations with AA metabolic alterations in patients with HF. Methods and Results: We performed whole-genome shotgun sequencing of fecal samples and mass spectrometry-based profiling of AAs in patients with compensated HF. Plasma levels of total essential AAs (EAAs) and histidine were significantly lower in patients with HF than in control subjects. HF patients also displayed increased and decreased abundance of gut microbial genes involved in the degradation and biosynthesis, respectively, of EAAs, including branched-chain AAs (BCAAs) and histidine. Importantly, a significant positive correlation was observed between the abundance of microbial genes involved in BCAA biosynthesis and plasma BCAA levels in patients with HF, but not in controls. Moreover, network analysis revealed that the depletion of Eubacterium and Prevotella, which harbor genes for BCAA and histidine biosynthesis, contributed to decreased abundance of microbial genes involved in the biosynthesis of those EAAs in patients with HF. Conclusions: The present study demonstrated the relationship between gut microbiota and AA metabolic disturbances in patients with HF.

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Recent studies have accumulated evidence that the intestinal environment is strongly correlated with host diet, which influences host health. A number of dietary products whose mechanisms of influence operate via the gut microbiota have been revealed, but they are still limited. Here, we investigated the dietary influence of Chlorella, a green alga commercially available as a dietary supplement. A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial including 40 Japanese participants with constipation was performed. In this study, the primary outcome and secondary outcome were set as defecation frequency and blood folate level, respectively. In both outcomes, no significant differences were detected compared to the control intake. Therefore, we analysed the gut microbiome, gut metabolome, and blood parameters in an integrated manner as an exploratory analysis. We revealed that the consumption of Chlorella increased the level of several dicarboxylic acids in faeces. Furthermore, the analysis showed that individuals with low concentrations of faecal propionate showed an increase in propionate concentration upon Chlorella intake. In addition, increasing blood folate levels were negatively correlated with defecation frequency at baseline. Our study suggested that the effect of Chlorella consumption varies among individuals depending on their intestinal environment, which illustrates the importance of stratified dietary management based on the intestinal environment in individuals.

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Ex situ conservation of Japanese rock ptarmigans began in 2015 with the aim of reintroducing artificially raised birds into their original habitat. However, the current raising method in captivity seems insufficient in terms of the survivability of artificially raised birds in natural conditions. Feeding management is one potential reason for such insufficiency. In this study, we performed a comprehensive analysis of the hydrophilic metabolites by LC-MS/MS for the cecal feces of Japanese rock ptarmigans under in situ and ex situ conservation to reveal their gut chemical environment. We also analyzed the developmental processes of cecal microbiomes both in situ semi-wild and ex situ captive individuals. Metabolites of nucleic acid were rich in the in situ individuals, and free amino acids were rich in the ex situ individuals. The differences in the microbiome composition between in situ and ex situ individuals were also pronounced; major genera of in situ individuals were not detected or few in ex situ individuals. The alpha diversity of the cecal microbiome of semi-wild chicks at 1 week of age was almost the same as that of their hens, while it was very low in captive individuals. Sub-therapeutic use of oxytetracycline, a diet rich in protein and energy, and isolation from adult birds are considered to be causes for these great differences in gut chemical and microbiological environment between in situ and ex situ individuals.

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OBJECTIVE: Recent evidence points to the gut microbiome's involvement in postoperative outcomes, including after gastrectomy. Here, we investigated the influence of gastrectomy for gastric cancer on the gut microbiome and metabolome, and how it related to postgastrectomy conditions. DESIGN: We performed shotgun metagenomics sequencing and capillary electrophoresis time-of-flight mass spectrometry-based metabolomics analyses on faecal samples collected from participants with a history of gastrectomy for gastric cancer (n=50) and compared them with control participants (n=56). RESULTS: The gut microbiota in the gastrectomy group showed higher species diversity and richness (p<0.05), together with greater abundance of aerobes, facultative anaerobes and oral microbes. Moreover, bile acids such as genotoxic deoxycholic acid and branched-chain amino acids were differentially abundant between the two groups (linear discriminant analysis (LDA) effect size (LEfSe): p<0.05, q<0.1, LDA>2.0), as were also Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes modules involved in nutrient transport and organic compounds biosynthesis (LEfSe: p<0.05, q<0.1, LDA>2.0). CONCLUSION: Our results reveal alterations of gut microbiota after gastrectomy, suggesting its association with postoperative comorbidities. The multi-omic approach applied in this study could complement the follow-up of patients after gastrectomy.

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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is highly prevalent worldwide. In 2018, there were over 1.8 million new cases. Most sporadic CRC develop from polypoid adenomas and are preceded by intramucosal carcinoma (stage 0), which can progress into more malignant forms. This developmental process is known as the adenoma-carcinoma sequence. Early detection and endoscopic removal are crucial for CRC management. Accumulating evidence suggests that the gut microbiota is associated with CRC development in humans. Comprehensive characterization of this microbiota is of great importance to assess its potential as a diagnostic marker in the very early stages of CRC. In this review, we summarized recent studies on CRC-associated bacteria and their carcinogenic mechanisms in animal models, human cell lines and human cohorts. High-throughput technologies have facilitated the identification of CRC-associated bacteria in human samples. We have presented our metagenome and metabolome studies on fecal samples collected from a large Japanese cohort that revealed stage-specific phenotypes of the microbiota in CRC. Furthermore, we have discussed the potential carcinogenic mechanisms of the gut microbiota, from which we can infer whether changes in the gut microbiota are a cause or effect in the multi-step process of CRC carcinogenesis.

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CRK and CRKL (CRK-like) encode adapter proteins with similar biochemical properties. Here, we show that a 50% reduction of the family-combined dosage generates developmental defects, including aspects of DiGeorge/del22q11 syndrome in mice. Like the mouse homologs of two 22q11.21 genes CRKL and TBX1, Crk and Tbx1 also genetically interact, thus suggesting that pathways shared by the three genes participate in organogenesis affected in the syndrome. We also show that Crk and Crkl are required during mesoderm development, and Crk/Crkl deficiency results in small cell size and abnormal mesenchyme behavior in primary embryonic fibroblasts. Our systems-wide analyses reveal impaired glycolysis, associated with low Hif1a protein levels as well as reduced histone H3K27 acetylation in several key glycolysis genes. Furthermore, Crk/Crkl deficiency sensitizes MEFs to 2-deoxy-D-glucose, a competitive inhibitor of glycolysis, to induce cell blebbing. Activated Rapgef1, a Crk/Crkl-downstream effector, rescues several aspects of the cell phenotype, including proliferation, cell size, focal adhesions, and phosphorylation of p70 S6k1 and ribosomal protein S6. Our investigations demonstrate that Crk/Crkl-shared pathways orchestrate metabolic homeostasis and cell behavior through widespread epigenetic controls.

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The transgenerational maintenance of symbiotic microbes that benefit host nutrition and health is evolutionarily advantageous. In some vertebrate lineages, coprophagy is used as a strategy for effectively transmitting microbes across generations. However, this strategy has still not been studied in birds. Accordingly, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the role of maternal cecal feces consumption by Japanese rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta japonica) chicks as a strategy for acquiring essential gut microbes. Both the duration of coprophagy behavior by the chicks and the development process of the chick cecal microbiome (n=20 one- to three-week-old chicks, from three broods) were investigated. In all three broods, coprophagy behavior was only observed from 3 to 18 days of age. Furthermore, there was no significant difference in the number of bacterial operational taxonomic units (OTUs) in 1-week-old chicks (n=651) and adults (n=609), and most of the main OTUs observed in the adults were already present in the 1-week-old chicks. These results indicate that, in this precocial bird species, coprophagy may contribute to the early establishment of cecal bacteria that are essential for food digestion and, thus, chick survival. In fact, Japanese rock ptarmigan chicks consume the same food as their hens from the time of hatching. This behavior may have applications to ex-situ conservation.

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Association studies have linked microbiome alterations with many human diseases. However, they have not always reported consistent results, thereby necessitating cross-study comparisons. Here, a meta-analysis of eight geographically and technically diverse fecal shotgun metagenomic studies of colorectal cancer (CRC, n = 768), which was controlled for several confounders, identified a core set of 29 species significantly enriched in CRC metagenomes (false discovery rate (FDR) < 1 × 10-5). CRC signatures derived from single studies maintained their accuracy in other studies. By training on multiple studies, we improved detection accuracy and disease specificity for CRC. Functional analysis of CRC metagenomes revealed enriched protein and mucin catabolism genes and depleted carbohydrate degradation genes. Moreover, we inferred elevated production of secondary bile acids from CRC metagenomes, suggesting a metabolic link between cancer-associated gut microbes and a fat- and meat-rich diet. Through extensive validations, this meta-analysis firmly establishes globally generalizable, predictive taxonomic and functional microbiome CRC signatures as a basis for future diagnostics.

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Several studies have investigated links between the gut microbiome and colorectal cancer (CRC), but questions remain about the replicability of biomarkers across cohorts and populations. We performed a meta-analysis of five publicly available datasets and two new cohorts and validated the findings on two additional cohorts, considering in total 969 fecal metagenomes. Unlike microbiome shifts associated with gastrointestinal syndromes, the gut microbiome in CRC showed reproducibly higher richness than controls (P < 0.01), partially due to expansions of species typically derived from the oral cavity. Meta-analysis of the microbiome functional potential identified gluconeogenesis and the putrefaction and fermentation pathways as being associated with CRC, whereas the stachyose and starch degradation pathways were associated with controls. Predictive microbiome signatures for CRC trained on multiple datasets showed consistently high accuracy in datasets not considered for model training and independent validation cohorts (average area under the curve, 0.84). Pooled analysis of raw metagenomes showed that the choline trimethylamine-lyase gene was overabundant in CRC (P = 0.001), identifying a relationship between microbiome choline metabolism and CRC. The combined analysis of heterogeneous CRC cohorts thus identified reproducible microbiome biomarkers and accurate disease-predictive models that can form the basis for clinical prognostic tests and hypothesis-driven mechanistic studies.

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BACKGROUND: Gut microbiome composition or circulating microbiome-related metabolites in patients with heart failure (HF) have not been investigated at different time points (i.e., in the decompensated (Decomp) and compensated (Comp) phases). Methods and Results: We prospectively enrolled 22 patients admitted for HF and 11 age-, sex-, and comorbidity-matched hospitalized control subjects without a history of HF. Gut flora and plasma microbiome-related metabolites were evaluated by amplicon sequencing of the bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA gene and capillary electrophoresis time-of-flight mass spectrometry, respectively. HF patients were evaluated in both the Decomp and Comp phases during hospitalization. The phylum Actinobacteria was enriched in HF patients compared with control subjects. At the genus level, Bifiodobacterium was abundant while Megamonas was depleted in HF patients. Meanwhile, plasma concentration of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), a gut microbiome-derived metabolite, was increased in HF patients (Decomp HF vs. control, P=0.003; Comp HF vs. control, P=0.004). A correlation analysis revealed positive correlations between the abundance of the genus Escherichia/Shigella and levels of TMAO and indoxyl sulfate (IS, a microbe-dependent uremic toxin) in Comp HF (TMAO: r=0.62, P=0.002; IS: r=0.63, P=0.002). Escherichia/Shigella was more abundant in Decomp than in Comp HF (P=0.030). CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that gut microbiome composition and microbiome-related metabolites are altered in HF patients.

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BACKGROUND: It is increasingly recognized that gut microbiota play a pivotal role in the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Previously, we have reported that the abundance of genus Bacteroides is lower in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) than in patients without CAD with coronary risk factors or in healthy volunteers. However, it remains unclear which and how specific gut bacteria contribute to the progression of atherosclerosis. METHODS: We recruited patients with CAD patients and controls without CAD with coronary risk factors. We then compared gut microbial composition using 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing in fecal samples to detect species with differential abundance between 2 groups. Subsequently, we used atherosclerosis-prone mice to study the mechanisms underlying the relationship between such species and atherosclerosis. RESULTS: Human fecal 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing revealed a significantly lower abundance of Bacteroides vulgatus and Bacteroides dorei in patients with CAD. This significant differential abundance was confirmed by quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Gavage with live B. vulgatus and B. dorei attenuated atherosclerotic lesion formation in atherosclerosis-prone mice, markedly ameliorating endotoxemia followed by decreasing gut microbial lipopolysaccharide production, effectively suppressing proinflammatory immune responses. Furthermore, fecal lipopolysaccharide levels in patients with CAD were significantly higher and negatively correlated with the abundance of B. vulgatus and B. dorei. CONCLUSIONS: Our translational research findings identify a previously unknown link between specific gut bacteria and atherosclerosis. Treatment with live B. vulgatus and B. dorei may help prevent CAD. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: URL: https://upload.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr_e/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000018051 . Unique identifier: UMIN000015703.

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Preservation of indigenous gastrointestinal microbiota is critical for successful captive breeding of endangered wild animals, yet its biology is poorly understood. Here, we compared the cecal microbial composition of wild living Japanese rock ptarmigans (Lagopus muta japonica) in different locations of Japanese mountains, and the dominant cecal microbial structure of wild Japanese rock ptarmigans is elucidated. Coriobacteraceae and Lachnospraceae were the two dominant bacterial families in all samples analyzed. At the genus level, 10 genera Olsenella, Actinomyces, Megasphaera, Slackia, Cloacibacillus, Bifidobacterium,Escherichia,Dialister, Megamonas, and Bilophila were dominant. These results reveal the high level of coexistence of lactic acid bacteria (Olsenella and Bifidobacterium) and lactate-utilizing bacteria (Megasphaera). This coexistence should be taken into account for the successful breeding of captive Japanese rock ptarmigans in the national conservation program.

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BACKGROUND: The 16S rRNA gene-based amplicon sequencing analysis is widely used to determine the taxonomic composition of microbial communities. Once the taxonomic composition of each community is obtained, evolutionary relationships among taxa are inferred by a phylogenetic tree. Thus, the combined representation of taxonomic composition and phylogenetic relationships among taxa is a powerful method for understanding microbial community structure; however, applying phylogenetic tree-based representation with information on the abundance of thousands or more taxa in each community is a difficult task. For this purpose, we previously developed the tool VITCOMIC (VIsualization tool for Taxonomic COmpositions of MIcrobial Community), which is based on the genome-sequenced microbes' phylogenetic information. Here, we introduce VITCOMIC2, which incorporates substantive improvements over VITCOMIC that were necessary to address several issues associated with 16S rRNA gene-based analysis of microbial communities. RESULTS: We developed VITCOMIC2 to provide (i) sequence identity searches against broad reference taxa including uncultured taxa; (ii) normalization of 16S rRNA gene copy number differences among taxa; (iii) rapid sequence identity searches by applying the graphics processing unit-based sequence identity search tool CLAST; (iv) accurate taxonomic composition inference and nearly full-length 16S rRNA gene sequence reconstructions for metagenomic shotgun sequencing; and (v) an interactive user interface for simultaneous representation of the taxonomic composition of microbial communities and phylogenetic relationships among taxa. We validated the accuracy of processes (ii) and (iv) by using metagenomic shotgun sequencing data from a mock microbial community. CONCLUSIONS: The improvements incorporated into VITCOMIC2 enable users to acquire an intuitive understanding of microbial community composition based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence data obtained from both metagenomic shotgun and amplicon sequencing.

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The human skin microbiome can vary over time, and inter-individual variability of the microbiome is greater than the temporal variability within an individual. The skin microbiome has become a useful tool to identify individuals, and one type of personal identification using the skin microbiome has been reported in a community of less than 20 individuals. However, identification of individuals based on the skin microbiome has shown low accuracy in communities larger than 80 individuals. Here, we developed a new approach for personal identification, which considers that minor taxa are one of the important factors for distinguishing between individuals. We originally established a human skin microbiome for 66 samples from 11 individuals over two years (33 samples each year). Our method could classify individuals with 85% accuracy beyond a one-year sampling period. Moreover, we applied our method to 837 publicly available skin microbiome samples from 89 individuals and succeeded in identifying individuals with 78% accuracy. In short, our results investigate that (i) our new personal identification method worked well with two different communities (our data: 11 individuals; public data: 89 individuals) using the skin microbiome, (ii) defining the personal skin microbiome requires samples from several time points, (iii) inclusion of minor skin taxa strongly contributes to the effectiveness of personal identification.

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Background: Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is the most prevalent primary chronic glomerular disease, in which the mucosal immune response elicited particularly in the tonsils or intestine has been estimated to be involved in the development of the disease. To explore the relationship between IgAN and bacterial flora in the tonsils, we conducted a comprehensive microbiome analysis. Methods: We enrolled 48 IgAN patients, 21 recurrent tonsillitis (RT) patients without urine abnormalities and 30 children with tonsillar hyperplasia (TH) who had undergone tonsillectomy previously. Genomic DNA from tonsillar crypts of each patient was extracted, and V4 regions of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene were amplified and analysed using a high-throughput multiplexed sequencing approach. Differences in genus composition among the three study groups were statistically analysed by permutational multivariate analysis of variance and visualized by principal component analysis (PCA). Results: Substantial diversity in bacterial composition was detected in each sample. Prevotella spp., Fusobacterium spp., Sphingomonas spp. and Treponema spp. were predominant in IgAN patients. The percentage of abundance of Prevotella spp., Haemophilus spp., Porphyromonas spp. and Treponema spp. in IgAN patients was significantly different from that in TH patients. However, there was no significant difference in the percentage of abundance of any bacterial genus between IgAN and RT patients. PCA did not distinguish IgAN from RT, although it discriminated TH. No significant differences in microbiome composition among the groups of IgAN patients according to clinicopathological parameters were observed. Conclusions: Similar patterns of bacteria are present in tonsillar crypts of both IgAN and RT patients, suggesting that the host response to these bacteria might be important in the development of IgAN.

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The colonization of land by plants was a key event in the evolution of life. Here we report the draft genome sequence of the filamentous terrestrial alga Klebsormidium flaccidum (Division Charophyta, Order Klebsormidiales) to elucidate the early transition step from aquatic algae to land plants. Comparison of the genome sequence with that of other algae and land plants demonstrate that K. flaccidum acquired many genes specific to land plants. We demonstrate that K. flaccidum indeed produces several plant hormones and homologues of some of the signalling intermediates required for hormone actions in higher plants. The K. flaccidum genome also encodes a primitive system to protect against the harmful effects of high-intensity light. The presence of these plant-related systems in K. flaccidum suggests that, during evolution, this alga acquired the fundamental machinery required for adaptation to terrestrial environments.

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Fatty acids are the major components of membrane molecules. The fact that unsaturated fattyacids play multiple important roles, physically and biologically, means that the ratio of unsaturatedto saturated fatty acids in the membrane needs to be strictly regulated to maintain cellular homeostasis.The most ubiquitous and widespread modification to fatty acids, which results in a greatdiversity of different structures, is the insertion of double bonds. Fatty acid desaturases directlyintroduce regioselective double bonds into fatty acids. A phylogenetic analysis of desaturases suggeststhat the sequences of these proteins include a highly conserved domain, which determines thedifferences in specificity and regioselectivity found in these enzymes. In this study, we performeda systematic analysis of fatty acid desaturases found in the genomic data of 397 organisms. Weobtained a set of desaturases clustered by regioselectivity using a hierarchal clustering analysis.

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Recent evidence points to the existence of scale-free properties in many biological networks. By topological analysis, several models including preferential attachment and hierarchical modules have been proposed to explain how these networks are organized. On the other hand, analyses using dynamics have suggested that gene expression and metabolic networks have been organized with the scale-free property by the other models such as "rich-travel-more" and "log-normal dynamics." Because most of these approaches are based on comparative genomics of extant species, and did not consider evolutionary events such as horizontal gene transfer, gene loss and gene gain, we have analyzed transition of metabolic networks from the vertical point of view of evolution. First, to identify metabolic networks of common ancestors, we applied a parsimony algorithm for the enzymatic reaction set. Then by comparing the estimated metabolic networks among common ancestors, we investigated the transition of metabolic networks along the evolutionary process. As a result, we estimated enzymatic reaction contents of 227 common ancestors from 228 extant species, and found that links of several specific metabolites have frequently changed during the course of evolution.

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The lethality of a gene is a fundamental and representative measure for understanding the function of a gene and its associated bio-systems. Recently, many research groups have started focusing on the concept of synthetic lethality. The synthetic lethality between genes is defined by the combination of mutations in two genes causing cell death. Here, we confirm that synthetic lethality and cellular location have close relationships among the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes. Furthermore, we attempt the prediction of candidate gene pairs with synthetic lethality. The prediction is based on the hierarchical aspect model (HAM) which learns from a data set of cellular location to estimate a likelihood value indicating the synthetic lethality between genes.

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Microbes are essential for every part of life on Earth. Numerous microbes inhabit the biosphere, many of which are uncharacterized or uncultivable. They form a complex microbial community that deeply affects against surrounding environments. Metagenome analysis provides a radically new way of examining such complex microbial community without isolation or cultivation of individual bacterial community members. In this article, we present a brief discussion about a metagenomics and the development of knowledge bases, and also discuss about the future trends in metagenomics.

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After calculating the atom alignment between two chemical compounds, we can elucidate three types of informative atoms through enzymatic reactions, (i) atoms which don't change their physicochemical properties, (ii) atoms which can be changed by addition or deletion, and (iii) atoms which locate between two former parts and seem to be the reaction centers. We have annotated those atom transformation patterns for each enzymatic reaction and developed the RPAIR database in KEGG Based on these data, here, we analyzed the continuous chemical reaction module along metabolic pathways and demonstrated the distribution of such atom transformation patters found in degradation pathways.

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