Project description:CS Baby Biome randomized control trial aims to investigate if the timing of intrapartum antibiotics given to mother influences the infant gut microbiome composition. The study was performed in women delivering via elective CS, who received antibiotics prior to skin incision, or after umbilical cord clamping.
| EGAS00001007571 | EGA
Project description:Intrapartum antibiotics for GBS prophylaxis alter colonization patterns in the early infant gut microbiome of low risk infants
| PRJNA403824 | ENA
Project description:Neonatal gut microbiota establishment
Project description:To extend our understanding of bifidobacterial mutualism and carbohydrate syntrophy in the gut we adopted advanced functional genomics to create single- and double-deletion isogenic strains of the NagA encoding genes of B. breve UCC2003. The resulting strains were examined, as compared to the parent strain, for their ability to metabolise particular host derived carbohydrates. In addition, the B. breve strains were examined for their crossfeeding capability and ability to establish, in the presence of B. bifidum ATCC29521, in the gut of dam fed neonatal mice.
Project description:Insect gut microbiota plays important roles in acquiring nutrition, preventing pathogens infection, immune responses, and communicating with the environment. Gut microbiota can be affected by some external factors such as foods, temperature, and antibiotics. Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is an important destructive pest of grain crops all over the world. The function of gut microbiota in S. frugiperda remains to be investigated. In this study, we fed the S. frugiperda with the antibiotic mixture (penicillin, gentamicin, rifampicin, and streptomycin) to perturb the gut microbiota, and further examined the effect of dysbiosis in gut microbiota on the gene expression of S. frugiperda by RNA sequencing. We found the composition and diversity of the gut bacterial community were changed in S. frugiperda after antibiotics treatmen, and the expression of genes related to energy and metabolic process were affected after antibiotics exposure in S. frugiperda. Our work will help understand the role of gut microbiota in insects.
Project description:Commensal bacteria have been shown to influence the reactivity of immune cells in the gut and in other organs. This study aims to assess the impact of microbiota on transcription signatures in lung stroma cells. Samples were generated from mice that were either left on plain water, on water with antibiotics, or on water with antibiotics followed by faecal transplant to reverse the antibiotics effect. CD45 negative cells were MACS-purified from the lung, and RNA seq was performed on samples.
2019-07-02 | GSE129073 | GEO
Project description:Effect of antibiotics on gut microbiota
Project description:Bifidobacteria are among the earliest colonizers of the human gut, conferring multiple health benefits. While multiple Bifidobacterium strains are used as probiotics, accumulating evidence suggests that the individual responses to probiotic supplementation may vary, likely due to a variety of factors, including strain type(s), gut community composition, dietary habits of the consumer, and other health/lifestyle conditions. Given the saccharolytic nature of bifidobacteria, the carbohydrate composition of the diet is one of the primary factors dictating the colonization efficiency of Bifidobacterium strains. Therefore, a comprehensive understanding of bifidobacterial glycan metabolism at the strain level is necessary to rationally design probiotic or synbiotic formulations that combine bacterial strains with glycans that match their nutrient preferences. In this study, we systematically reconstructed 66 pathways involved in the utilization of mono-, di-, oligo-, and polysaccharides by analyzing the representation of 565 curated functional roles (catabolic enzymes, transporters, transcriptional regulators) in 2973 non-redundant cultured Bifidobacterium isolates and metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs). Our analysis uncovered substantial heterogeneity in the predicted glycan utilization capabilities at the species and strain level and revealed the presence of a yet undescribed phenotypically distinct clade within the Bifidobacterium longum species. We also identified Bangladeshi isolates harboring unique gene clusters tentatively implicated in the breakdown of xyloglucan and human milk oligosaccharides. Predicted carbohydrate utilization phenotypes were experimentally characterized and validated. Our large-scale genomic analysis expands the knowledge of carbohydrate metabolism in bifidobacteria and provides a foundation for rationally designing single- or multi-strain probiotic formulations of a given bifidobacterial species as well as synbiotic combinations of bifidobacterial strains matched with their preferred carbohydrate substrates.