Rodionov Dmitry A, Arzamasov Aleksandr A, Khoroshkin Matvei S, Iablokov Stanislav N, Leyn Semen A, Peterson Scott N, Novichkov Pavel S, Osterman Andrei L
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States.
A.A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Front Microbiol. 2019 Jun 12;10:1316. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01316. eCollection 2019.
The human gut microbiome harbors a diverse array of metabolic pathways contributing to its development and homeostasis via a complex web of diet-dependent metabolic interactions within the microbial community and host. Genomics-based reconstruction and predictive modeling of these interactions would provide a framework for diagnostics and treatment of dysbiosis-related syndromes via rational selection of therapeutic prebiotics and dietary nutrients. Of particular interest are micronutrients, such as B-group vitamins, precursors of indispensable metabolic cofactors, that are produced by some gut bacteria (prototrophs) but must be provided exogenously in the diet for many other bacterial species (auxotrophs) as well as for the mammalian host. Cross-feeding of B vitamins between prototrophic and auxotrophic species is expected to strongly contribute to the homeostasis of microbial communities in the distal gut given the efficient absorption of dietary vitamins in the upper gastrointestinal tract. To confidently estimate the balance of microbiome micronutrient biosynthetic capabilities and requirements using available genomic data, we have performed a subsystems-based reconstruction of biogenesis, salvage and uptake for eight B vitamins (B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B9, and B12) and queuosine (essential factor in tRNA modification) over a reference set of 2,228 bacterial genomes representing 690 cultured species of the human gastrointestinal microbiota. This allowed us to classify the studied organisms with respect to their pathway variants and infer their prototrophic vs. auxotrophic phenotypes. In addition to canonical vitamin pathways, several conserved partial pathways were identified pointing to alternative routes of syntrophic metabolism and expanding a microbial vitamin "menu" by several pathway intermediates (vitamers) such as thiazole, quinolinate, dethiobiotin, pantoate. A cross-species comparison was applied to assess the extent of conservation of vitamin phenotypes at distinct taxonomic levels (from strains to families). The obtained reference collection combined with 16S rRNA gene-based phylogenetic profiles was used to deduce phenotype profiles of the human gut microbiota across in two large cohorts. This analysis provided the first estimate of B-vitamin requirements, production and sharing capabilities in the human gut microbiome establishing predictive phenotype profiling as a new approach to classification of microbiome samples. Future expansion of our reference genomic collection of metabolic phenotypes will allow further improvement in coverage and accuracy of predictive phenotype profiling of the human microbiome.
人类肠道微生物群拥有各种各样的代谢途径,通过微生物群落与宿主之间复杂的饮食依赖性代谢相互作用网络,对其发育和稳态发挥作用。基于基因组学对这些相互作用进行重建和预测建模,将为通过合理选择治疗性益生元和膳食营养素来诊断和治疗与菌群失调相关的综合征提供一个框架。特别值得关注的是微量营养素,如B族维生素,它们是不可或缺的代谢辅因子的前体,由一些肠道细菌(原养型)产生,但对于许多其他细菌物种(营养缺陷型)以及哺乳动物宿主来说,必须通过饮食从外部提供。鉴于膳食维生素在上消化道中的有效吸收,原养型和营养缺陷型物种之间的B族维生素交叉喂养预计将对远端肠道微生物群落的稳态起到重要作用。为了利用现有基因组数据可靠地估计微生物群微量营养素生物合成能力和需求的平衡,我们基于子系统对2228个细菌基因组(代表690种人类胃肠道微生物培养物种)的参考集,对8种B族维生素(B1、B2、B3、B5、B6、B7、B9和B12)以及queuosine(tRNA修饰中的必需因子)的生物合成、补救和摄取进行了重建。这使我们能够根据所研究生物体的途径变体对其进行分类,并推断它们的原养型与营养缺陷型表型。除了经典的维生素途径外,还鉴定出了几条保守的部分途径,这些途径指向了合成代谢的替代途径,并通过噻唑、喹啉酸、脱硫生物素、泛酸等几种途径中间体(维生素变体)扩展了微生物维生素“菜单”。通过跨物种比较来评估不同分类水平(从菌株到科)维生素表型的保守程度。将获得的参考集与基于16S rRNA基因的系统发育谱相结合,用于推断两个大型队列中人类肠道微生物群的表型谱。该分析首次估计了人类肠道微生物群中B族维生素的需求、产生和共享能力,确立了预测表型谱分析作为一种微生物群样本分类的新方法。未来对我们代谢表型参考基因组集的扩展将进一步提高人类微生物群预测表型谱分析的覆盖范围和准确性。