Chen Peigen, Guo Yingchun, Jia Lei, Wan Jing, He TianTian, Fang Cong, Li Tingting
Reproductive Medicine Center, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
The Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Front Cell Dev Biol. 2021 Sep 23;9:727286. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2021.727286. eCollection 2021.
In this study, we mainly explored two questions: Which microorganisms were functionally active in the endometrium of patients with endometrial cancer (EC)? What kind of response did the human host respond to functionally active microorganisms? Nine endometrial cancer patients and eight normal subjects were included in this study. HMP Unified Metabolic Analysis Network 3 (HUMAnN3) was used to obtain functional information of microorganisms. In addition, metaCyc-based GSEA functional enrichment analysis was used to obtain information on the metabolic pathways of the human host. At the same time, the O2PLS model and Spearman correlation analysis were used to analyze the microorganisms-host interaction. With the novel metatranscriptome analysis pipeline, we described the composition of more than 5,000 functionally active microorganisms and analyzed the difference in microorganisms between the EC and the normal group. Our research found that these microorganisms were involved in part of the metabolic process of endometrial cancer, such as 6-sulfo-sialyl Lewis x epitope, -acetyl-beta-glucosaminyl. In addition, the host-microbiota crosstalk of EC endometrium also included many biological processes, mainly functions related to tumor migration and the Apelin signaling pathway. The functionally active microorganisms in the EC endometrium played an essential role in the occurrence and migration of tumors. This meant that functionally active microorganisms could not be ignored in the treatment of endometrial cancer. This study helped to better understand the possible role of endometrial functional, active microorganisms in the occurrence and development of EC in patients with endometrial cancer and provided new information for new attempts to treat EC.
在本研究中,我们主要探讨了两个问题:哪些微生物在子宫内膜癌(EC)患者的子宫内膜中具有功能活性?人类宿主对功能活跃的微生物有何种反应?本研究纳入了9名子宫内膜癌患者和8名正常受试者。使用人类微生物组计划统一代谢分析网络3(HUMAnN3)来获取微生物的功能信息。此外,基于metaCyc的基因集富集分析(GSEA)用于获取人类宿主代谢途径的信息。同时,使用正交投影到潜在结构(O2PLS)模型和斯皮尔曼相关性分析来分析微生物与宿主的相互作用。通过新的宏转录组分析流程,我们描述了5000多种功能活跃微生物的组成,并分析了EC组与正常组之间微生物的差异。我们的研究发现,这些微生物参与了子宫内膜癌的部分代谢过程,如6-磺基唾液酸化路易斯x抗原决定簇、β-乙酰氨基葡萄糖。此外,EC子宫内膜的宿主-微生物群串扰还包括许多生物学过程,主要是与肿瘤迁移和阿片生长因子受体(Apelin)信号通路相关的功能。EC子宫内膜中功能活跃的微生物在肿瘤的发生和迁移中起重要作用。这意味着在子宫内膜癌的治疗中,功能活跃的微生物不容忽视。本研究有助于更好地理解子宫内膜功能活跃微生物在子宫内膜癌患者EC发生发展中的可能作用,并为治疗EC的新尝试提供了新信息。