College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
College of Basic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Jan 8;49(D1):D715-D722. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa851.
Besides the environmental factors having tremendous impacts on the composition of microbial community, the host factors have recently gained extensive attentions on their roles in shaping human microbiota. There are two major types of host factors: host genetic factors (HGFs) and host immune factors (HIFs). These factors of each type are essential for defining the chemical and physical landscapes inhabited by microbiota, and the collective consideration of both types have great implication to serve comprehensive health management. However, no database was available to provide the comprehensive factors of both types. Herein, a database entitled 'Host Genetic and Immune Factors Shaping Human Microbiota (GIMICA)' was constructed. Based on the 4257 microbes confirmed to inhabit nine sites of human body, 2851 HGFs (1368 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), 186 copy number variations (CNVs), and 1297 non-coding ribonucleic acids (RNAs)) modulating the expression of 370 microbes were collected, and 549 HIFs (126 lymphocytes and phagocytes, 387 immune proteins, and 36 immune pathways) regulating the abundance of 455 microbes were also provided. All in all, GIMICA enabled the collective consideration not only between different types of host factor but also between the host and environmental ones, which is freely accessible without login requirement at: https://idrblab.org/gimica/.
除了环境因素对微生物群落的组成有巨大影响外,宿主因素也因其在塑造人类微生物群中的作用而受到广泛关注。宿主因素主要有两种类型:宿主遗传因素(HGFs)和宿主免疫因素(HIFs)。这些因素对于确定微生物群栖息的化学和物理景观至关重要,综合考虑这两种因素对全面健康管理具有重要意义。然而,目前还没有数据库能够提供这两种类型的综合因素。因此,我们构建了一个名为“宿主遗传和免疫因素塑造人类微生物群(GIMICA)”的数据库。该数据库基于确定栖息在人体九个部位的 4257 种微生物,共收集了 2851 种调节 370 种微生物表达的 HGFs(1368 个单核苷酸多态性(SNPs)、186 个拷贝数变异(CNVs)和 1297 个非编码核糖核酸(RNAs)),以及 549 种调节 455 种微生物丰度的 HIFs(126 种淋巴细胞和吞噬细胞、387 种免疫蛋白和 36 种免疫途径)。总的来说,GIMICA 不仅能够综合考虑不同类型的宿主因素,还能够综合考虑宿主因素与环境因素之间的关系,并且可以免费访问,无需登录,网址为:https://idrblab.org/gimica/。