Comparative Analysis of Korean Human Gut Microbiota by Barcoded Pyrosequencing Young-Do Nam, PhD. Traditional Food Research Team Korea Food Research Institute
Comparative Analysis of Korean Human Gut Microbiota by Barcoded Pyrosequenc-
ing
Young-Do Nam, PhD.
Traditional Food Research Team
Korea Food Research Institute
Human genome project
(1.8 Million Bases)
106 107 108105 109 1010DNA Base Pairs
Russell Dolittle, Nature .419, p. 494 (2002)
Human genome contains around 30,000 genes rather than the estimated 100,000 protein coding genes
Genome size :3.3 Billion BasesBut only contains 30,000 genes
Microbes
Human Microbiome Project
Human Microbiome Project (HMP) was initiated in US, Europe, Japan, China and many other countries.
To characterize “microbiome” and examine the relatedness be-tween human health and these gut microbiota
Roles of gut microbiota
Co-evolution with these great microbial ecosystems serves im-portant functions for the human host by presenting
Nutrients from diets
Resisting the colonization of pathogens
stimulating the proliferation of the intestinal epithelium cells
Regulating fat storage of host.
In addition, numerous diseases such as
Type 1 diabetes (T1D)
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Gastric or colonic cancers
is known to be linked to dysbiosis of microbial communities
Microbial communities in human body
Almost all the surfaces of the human body are occupied by habitat specific microbes The colon contains 1011-1012 microbial cells per mL with two orders higher genes than human genesContains the three major domains of life: Eukaryota, Archaea, and Bacteria as well as viruses
Virus
Cultivation based analysis
Only 20-40% of bacterial species have been cultivated from the human intestine
History of molecular methods
19771953
Watson&Crick 의 DNA double helix
1875
Cohn,Pasteur,Koch,
Metchnikoff
Jacob&Monod
lac operon
1960
Sanger de-termine the sequence of all 5,375 nu-cleotides of
bacteriophage phi-X174, the first complete genome of an
organism.
Carl Woese uses ribosomal
RNA analysis to recognize a third form of life, the
Archaea
Kary Mullis uses a heat
stable enzyme from Thermus aquaticus to
establish polymerase
chain reaction technology.
1986
Craig Venter at TIGR eluci-date the first
complete genome se-quence of a
microorganism: Haemophilus
influenza.
19951993
Norman Pace uses rRNA as a tool for mi-crobial ecol-
ogy.
1989
Ed Delong developed a powerful
method; FISH
G. Muyzer DGGE :the
most useful in current mi-
crobial ecol-ogy
Mark Shena:Microarrays prepared by
high-speed ro-botic printing
of complemen-tary DNAs on
glass
C. Venter se-quenced the
human genome using the whole genome shot-gun technique
1998 2002
James Tiedje report the first environmental
microarray
ABI 3730
Sanger Capillary Based Seq
70,000 bp/run
Massive sequencing technol-ogy
?
Pyrosequencing
DNA Beads are generated using Emulsion PCR
DNA Beads are placed in wells
Nucleotide sequences are decoded by fluorescence
Multiplex Barcoded Pyrosequenc-ing
Sample specific barcode sequence
Data analysis pipelineBarcoded
pyrosequencing data
Trimming quality filtering
Community Comparison
(UniFrac, UPGMA)
Barcode sorting
alignment
OTU determination
Merge fileDistance
matrix
Classification,Diversity estimation
Community composition (Diversity)
DNA extraction
Sample collec-tion
Amplification With barcoded
primer
Pyro-sequencing
Wet-lab analysis
Data analysis pipelineBarcoded
pyrosequencing data
Trimming quality filtering
Community Comparison
(UniFrac, UPGMA)
Barcode sorting
alignment
OTU determination
Merge fileDistance
matrix
Classification,Diversity estimation
Community composition (Diversity)
DNA extraction
Sample collec-tion
Amplification With barcoded
primer
Pyro-sequencing
Dry-lab analysis
OTU determination
Spec
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8,600 Phylotypes
Total 303,402 sequences
Average 8,427 reads per individual
Average 771 species level phylotypes per individual
Rarefaction and coverages
Patterns Reaching plateau but failing to reach a saturation phase
Unseen OTUs still existed in the original samples
Good’s coverage of overall sequence was 90%
Majority of bacterial phylotypes is successfully identified
Reaching plateau but not saturated
Phylum level diversi-ties
The phylum level diversity of Korean gut microbiota is similar to the other human populations
Eckburg et al. Science (2005)
From Ley et al. Cell (2006)
Bacteroidetes
Firmicutes
Family level diversity
The most dominant family differed between individuals and the proportion of sequences attributable to the families Prevotellaceae and Ruminococcaceae
Bacteroidaceae
Ruminococaceae
Taxa distribution
Diversity of specific taxa at the phylum to genus levels is relatively low but extremely high at the species and strain levels
Ave, 9.2
Ave, 32.6
Ave, 107
711 species level phylotypes
ID Core gut microbiota1 Bacteroides2 Parabacteroides3 Prevotella 4 Uncultured butyrate-producing bacterial group5 Uncultured human intestinal Firmicutes group6 Clostridium 7 Eubacterium8 Faecalibacterium9 Lachnospira
10 Oscillibacter11 Roseburia12 Ruminococcus13 Subdoligranulum14 Fusobacterium
Core Korean gut micobiota
Core Korean gut micobiotaTaxonomic rank aNumber of
OTUPhylum Class Family Species
Bacteroidetes Bacteroidia Bacteroidaceae Bacteroides galacturonicus 2Bacteroidetes Bacteroidia Bacteroidaceae Bacteroides sp. CO55 1Bacteroidetes Bacteroidia Bacteroidaceae Bacteroides sp. CS3 1Bacteroidetes Bacteroidia Bacteroidaceae Bacteroides uniformis 1Bacteroidetes Bacteroidia Bacteroidaceae Bacteroides vulgatus 2Bacteroidetes Bacteroidia Porphyromonadaceae Parabacteroides merdae 1Firmicutes Clostridia Butyrate-producing bacterium Butyrate-producing bacterium A1-86 1Firmicutes Clostridia Butyrate-producing bacterium Butyrate-producing bacterium A2-207 2Firmicutes Clostridia Butyrate-producing bacterium Butyrate-producing bacterium M21/2 3Firmicutes Clostridia Butyrate-producing bacterium Butyrate-producing bacterium SL6/1/1 1Firmicutes Clostridia Butyrate-producing bacterium Butyrate-producing bacterium SSC/2 1Firmicutes Clostridia Butyrate-producing bacterium Butyrate-producing bacterium T1-815 1Firmicutes Clostridia Clostridiales bacterium Clostridiales bacterium 80/4 1Firmicutes Clostridia Clostridiaceae Clostridiaceae bacterium DJF LS13 1Firmicutes Clostridia Clostridiaceae Clostridium bolteae 1Firmicutes Clostridia Clostridiaceae Clostridium orbiscindens 1Firmicutes Clostridia Clostridiaceae Clostridium saccharolyticum 1Firmicutes Clostridia Eubacteriaceae Eubacterium tenue 1Firmicutes Clostridia Eubacteriaceae Eubacterium ventriosum 1Firmicutes Clostridia Ruminococcaceae Faecalibacterium prausnitzii 4Firmicutes Clostridia Ruminococcaceae Faecalibacterium sp. DJF VR20 2Firmicutes Clostridia Ruminococcaceae Ruminococcus gnavus 1Firmicutes Clostridia Ruminococcaceae Ruminococcus sp. CB3 2Firmicutes Clostridia Ruminococcaceae Ruminococcus sp. CJ60 2Firmicutes Clostridia Ruminococcaceae Ruminococcus sp. K-1 1Firmicutes Clostridia Ruminococcaceae Ruminococcus sp. SC103 1Firmicutes Clostridia Ruminococcaceae Subdoligranulum sp. DJF VR33k2 1Firmicutes Unclassified Unclassified Firmicutes bacterium EG20 1Unclassified Unclassified Unclassified Human intestinal bacterium PUE 1Unclassified Unclassified Unclassified Human intestinal firmicute CO35 2Unclassified Unclassified Unclassified Rumen bacterium 8/9293-21 1
Host specificity of gut microbiota
The un-weighted UPGMA cluster-ing analysis revealed that each in-dividual have specific microbial members.
The composition of gut microbiota ordinarily fluctu-ated through the life.
Temporal stability of gut micro-biota
Community Comparison
Each country member clustered together.
Korean takes higher dietary fibers than other country members
Korean have higher abundance of Butyrate producing bacteria
Korea China US Japan0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%Uncultured
Ruminococcus
Faecalibacterium
Clostridium
Prevotella
Bacteroides
Bifidobacterium
Summary of this study
Overall composition of Korean gut microbiota is similar to that of other country members
Korean individuals contain diverse and host specific microbial diver-sity at species level.
The member of korean gut microbiota stably maintained but the abundance of each community member seems to continuously fluctu-ate through the life
Eeach country member has region specific gut microbiota. And Ko-rean s have higher level of butyrate producing bacteria rather than other county members
The difference of gut microbiota seems to come from factors of host genotype and diet styles
Thank you!