Project description:Gut microbiome research is rapidly moving towards the functional characterization of the microbiota by means of shotgun meta-omics. Here, we selected a cohort of healthy subjects from an indigenous and monitored Sardinian population to analyze their gut microbiota using both shotgun metagenomics and shotgun metaproteomics. We found a considerable divergence between genetic potential and functional activity of the human healthy gut microbiota, in spite of a quite comparable taxonomic structure revealed by the two approaches. Investigation of inter-individual variability of taxonomic features revealed Bacteroides and Akkermansia as remarkably conserved and variable in abundance within the population, respectively. Firmicutes-driven butyrogenesis (mainly due to Faecalibacterium spp.) was shown to be the functional activity with the higher expression rate and the lower inter-individual variability in the study cohort, highlighting the key importance of the biosynthesis of this microbial by-product for the gut homeostasis. The taxon-specific contribution to functional activities and metabolic tasks was also examined, giving insights into the peculiar role of several gut microbiota members in carbohydrate metabolism (including polysaccharide degradation, glycan transport, glycolysis and short-chain fatty acid production). In conclusion, our results provide useful indications regarding the main functions actively exerted by the gut microbiota members of a healthy human cohort, and support metaproteomics as a valuable approach to investigate the functional role of the gut microbiota in health and disease.
Project description:We sequenced mRNA from 2 muscle samples of the large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) taken from normal feeding fish and fasting stress treatment fish, respectively, to investigate the transcriptome and comparative expression profiles of the large yellow croaker muscle undergoing fasting.
2015-09-22 | GSE73291 | GEO
Project description:Gut microbiota of the large yellow croaker
Project description:We sequenced mRNA from 4 liver samples of the large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) taken from thermal stress treatment fish, normal temperature treatment fish, cold stress treatment fish and fasting stress treatment fish, respectively, to investigate the transcriptome and comparative expression profiles of the large yellow croaker liver undergoing thermal stress, cold stress and fasting.
Project description:We sequenced mRNA from 2 muscle samples of the large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) taken from normal feeding fish and fasting stress treatment fish, respectively, to investigate the transcriptome and comparative expression profiles of the large yellow croaker muscle undergoing fasting. Muscle mRNA profiles of control group (M7C) and 21-day fasting group (M7E) were generated by RNA-seq using Illumina HiSeq 2500.
Project description:We sequenced mRNA from 4 liver samples of the large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) taken from thermal stress treatment fish, normal temperature treatment fish, cold stress treatment fish and fasting stress treatment fish, respectively, to investigate the transcriptome and comparative expression profiles of the large yellow croaker liver undergoing thermal stress, cold stress and fasting. Liver mRNA profiles of control group (LB2A), thermal stress group (LC2A), cold stress group (LA2A) and 21-day fasting group (LF1A) were generated by RNA-seq, using Illumina HiSeq 2000.
Project description:To investigate the role of lncRNAs on lipid metabolism, we did RNAseq to find the difference among large yellow croaker fed with fish oil (FO), soybean oil (SO), olive oil (OO), and palm oil (PO) diets
