单位:[1]Liver Transplantation Center, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing Friendship Hospital,Capital Medical University, Beijing, China临床科室国家中心普外分中心普外四科(肝脏移植外科)首都医科大学附属北京友谊医院[2]Institute of Digestive Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, No.28 Fuxing Road, Beijing, China[3]Institute of Developmental Biology and Molecular Medicine, Fudan University,Shanghai, China[4]Tianjin First Central Hospital, Tianjin, China
The characteristics of intestinal microbial communities may be affected by changes in the pathophysiology of patients with end-stage liver disease. Here, we focused on the characteristics of intestinal fecal microbial communities in post-liver transplantation (LT) patients in comparison with those in the same individuals pre-LT and in healthy individuals. The fecal microbial communities were analyzed via MiSeq-PE250 sequencing of the V4 region of 16S ribosomal RNA and were then compared between groups. We found that the gut microbiota of patients with severe liver disease who were awaiting LT was significantly different from that of healthy controls, as represented by the first principal component (p = 0.0066). Additionally, the second principal component represented a significant difference in the gut microbiota of patients between pre-LT and post-LT surgery (p = 0.03125). After LT, there was a significant decrease in the abundance of certain microbial species, such as Actinobacillus, Escherichia, and Shigella, and a significant increase in the abundance of other microbial species, such as Micromonosporaceae, Desulfobacterales, the Sarcina genus of Eubacteriaceae, and Akkermansia. Based on KEGG profiles, 15 functional modules were enriched and 21 functional modules were less represented in the post-LT samples compared with the pre-LT samples. Our study demonstrates that fecal microbial communities were significantly altered by LT.
基金:
National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [81570586]; Ascent Plan of the Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals [DFL20150101]
第一作者单位:[1]Liver Transplantation Center, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing Friendship Hospital,Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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Sun Li-Ying,Yang Yun-Sheng,Qu Wei,et al.Gut microbiota of liver transplantation recipients[J].SCIENTIFIC REPORTS.2017,7:doi:10.1038/s41598-017-03476-4.