Ait Zenati Fazia, Baldi Simone, Di Gloria Leandro, Djoudi Ferhat, Bertorello Sara, Ramazzotti Matteo, Niccolai Elena, Amedei Amedeo
Laboratory of Microbial Ecology, Department of Microbiology, University of Bejaia, Bejaia 06000, Algeria.
Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, 50134 Florence, Italy.
Genes (Basel). 2025 Jul 9;16(7):806. doi: 10.3390/genes16070806.
: Breast cancer (BC) is the leading cause of cancer incidence and mortality among women and the recent identification of a resident mammary microbiota has highlighted its potential role in breast carcinogenesis. Given that environmental and socioeconomic factors influence both BC prevalence and tumor-associated bacterial composition, this study aimed to evaluate the compositional and functional features of the mammary microbiota in cancerous (oncobiome) and adjacent healthy BC tissues from patients living in urban and rural areas. : Microbiota composition in both the oncobiome and adjacent healthy BC tissues was analyzed using 16S rRNA sequencing. : Significant variations in breast oncobiome composition were observed among BC patients from urban and rural areas. A statistically significant β dispersion among breast oncobiome of patients from urban or rural areas was highlighted. Specifically, the genera , , , and were found exclusively in BC tissues of patients from rural areas. Additionally, bacteria from the Neisseriaceae, Porphyromonadaceae, and Selenomonadaceae families, as well as the genus, were significantly enriched in the oncobiome of rural BC patients. Furthermore, the results of the PICRUSt2 (phylogenetic investigation of communities by reconstruction of unobserved states) revealed a significant increase in phospholipid biosynthesis pathways in breast oncobiome of patients from rural areas compared to those from urban areas. : This study provides evidence of distinct compositional and functional differences in the breast oncobiome between BC patients from rural and urban areas. These findings suggest that environmental factors influence local microbiome composition, potentially contributing to BC development and/or progression.
乳腺癌(BC)是女性癌症发病率和死亡率的主要原因,最近对乳腺常驻微生物群的鉴定突出了其在乳腺癌发生中的潜在作用。鉴于环境和社会经济因素会影响BC患病率和肿瘤相关细菌组成,本研究旨在评估来自城市和农村地区患者的癌性(肿瘤微生物组)和相邻健康BC组织中乳腺微生物群的组成和功能特征。
使用16S rRNA测序分析肿瘤微生物组和相邻健康BC组织中的微生物群组成。
在来自城市和农村地区的BC患者中观察到乳腺肿瘤微生物组组成存在显著差异。突出显示了来自城市或农村地区患者的乳腺肿瘤微生物组之间具有统计学意义的β离散度。具体而言,[此处原文缺失具体菌属名称]属仅在农村地区患者的BC组织中发现。此外,奈瑟菌科、卟啉单胞菌科和月形单胞菌科的细菌以及[此处原文缺失具体菌属名称]属在农村BC患者的肿瘤微生物组中显著富集。此外,PICRUSt2(通过重建未观察状态对群落进行系统发育研究)的结果显示,与城市地区患者相比,农村地区患者乳腺肿瘤微生物组中磷脂生物合成途径显著增加。
本研究提供了证据,表明来自农村和城市地区的BC患者的乳腺肿瘤微生物组在组成和功能上存在明显差异。这些发现表明环境因素会影响局部微生物组组成,可能有助于BC的发生和/或进展。