Research Group of Healthcare, Korea Food Research Institute, Jeollabuk-do, 55365, Republic of Korea.
EZmass Co., Ltd., Gyeongsangnam-do, 52828, Republic of Korea.
Sci Rep. 2020 Feb 4;10(1):1789. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-58719-8.
The gut microbiome is related to various host health conditions through metabolites produced by microbiota. Investigating their relationships involves association analysis of the population-level microbiome and metabolome data, which requires the appropriate collection, handling, and storage of specimens. Simplification of the specimen handling processes will facilitate such investigations. As a pilot study for population-level studies, we collected the fecal samples from three volunteers and tested whether a single sample collection procedure, particularly using OMNIgene-GUT, can be used to reliably obtain both microbiome and metabolome data. We collected fecal samples from three young and healthy Korean adults, stored them at room temperature with and without OMNIgene-GUT solution up to three weeks, and analyzed their microbiome and metabolite profiles. We found that the microbiome profiles were stably maintained in OMNIgene-GUT solution for 21 days, and the abundance relationships among metabolites were well preserved, although their absolute abundances slightly varied over time. Our results show that a single sampling procedure suffices to obtain a fecal sample for collecting gut microbiome and gut metabolome data of an individual. We expect that the health effects of gut microbiome via fecal metabolites can be further understood by increasing the sampling size to the population level.
肠道微生物组通过微生物产生的代谢物与各种宿主健康状况有关。研究它们之间的关系需要对人群水平的微生物组和代谢组数据进行关联分析,这需要适当收集、处理和储存标本。简化标本处理过程将有助于此类研究。作为人群水平研究的初步研究,我们收集了三名志愿者的粪便样本,并测试了单次样本采集程序(特别是使用 OMNIgene-GUT)是否可以可靠地获得微生物组和代谢组数据。我们收集了三名年轻健康的韩国成年人的粪便样本,在室温下储存,有和没有 OMNIgene-GUT 溶液,最长可达三周,并分析了他们的微生物组和代谢物谱。我们发现,微生物组图谱在 OMNIgene-GUT 溶液中稳定保存了 21 天,尽管其绝对丰度随时间略有变化,但代谢物之间的丰度关系得到了很好的保存。我们的结果表明,单次采样程序足以获得个体肠道微生物组和肠道代谢组数据的粪便样本。我们期望通过增加到人群水平的采样量,进一步了解肠道微生物组通过粪便代谢物对健康的影响。
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