Metabarcoding analysis of eukaryotic microbiota in the gut of HIV-infected patients.
Research on the relationship between changes in the gut microbiota and human disease, including AIDS, is a growing field. However, studies on the eukaryotic component of the intestinal microbiota have just begun and have not yet been conducted in HIV-infected patients. Moreover, eukaryotic community...
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| author | Ibrahim Hamad Rita Abou Abdallah Isabelle Ravaux Saadia Mokhtari Hervé Tissot-Dupont Caroline Michelle Andreas Stein Jean-Christophe Lagier Didier Raoult Fadi Bittar |
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| description | Research on the relationship between changes in the gut microbiota and human disease, including AIDS, is a growing field. However, studies on the eukaryotic component of the intestinal microbiota have just begun and have not yet been conducted in HIV-infected patients. Moreover, eukaryotic community profiling is influenced by the use of different methodologies at each step of culture-independent techniques. Herein, initially, four DNA extraction protocols were compared to test the efficiency of each method in recovering eukaryotic DNA from fecal samples. Our results revealed that recovering eukaryotic components from fecal samples differs significantly among DNA extraction methods. Subsequently, the composition of the intestinal eukaryotic microbiota was evaluated in HIV-infected patients and healthy volunteers through clone sequencing, high-throughput sequencing of nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacers 1 (ITS1) and 2 (ITS2) amplicons and real-time PCRs. Our results revealed that not only richness (Chao-1 index) and alpha diversity (Shannon diversity) differ between HIV-infected patients and healthy volunteers, depending on the molecular strategy used, but also the global eukaryotic community composition, with little overlapping taxa found between techniques. Moreover, our results based on cloning libraries and ITS1/ITS2 metabarcoding sequencing showed significant differences in fungal composition between HIV-infected patients and healthy volunteers, but without distinct clusters separating the two groups. Malassezia restricta was significantly more prevalent in fecal samples of HIV-infected patients, according to cloning libraries, whereas operational taxonomic units (OTUs) belonging to Candida albicans and Candida tropicalis were significantly more abundant in fecal samples of HIV-infected patients compared to healthy subjects in both ITS subregions. Finally, real-time PCR showed the presence of Microsporidia, Giardia lamblia, Blastocystis and Hymenolepis diminuta in different proportions in fecal samples from HIV patients as compared to healthy individuals. Our work revealed that the use of different sequencing approaches can impact the perceived eukaryotic diversity results of the human gut. We also provide a more comprehensive view of the eukaryotic community in the gut of HIV-infected patients through the complementarity of the different molecular techniques used. Combining these various methodologies may provide a gold standard for a more complete characterization of the eukaryotic microbiome in future studies. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-041686a44c474a2d8a722406bc5d0d0d2025-08-20T03:09:35ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032018-01-01131e019191310.1371/journal.pone.0191913Metabarcoding analysis of eukaryotic microbiota in the gut of HIV-infected patients.Ibrahim HamadRita Abou AbdallahIsabelle RavauxSaadia MokhtariHervé Tissot-DupontCaroline MichelleAndreas SteinJean-Christophe LagierDidier RaoultFadi BittarResearch on the relationship between changes in the gut microbiota and human disease, including AIDS, is a growing field. However, studies on the eukaryotic component of the intestinal microbiota have just begun and have not yet been conducted in HIV-infected patients. Moreover, eukaryotic community profiling is influenced by the use of different methodologies at each step of culture-independent techniques. Herein, initially, four DNA extraction protocols were compared to test the efficiency of each method in recovering eukaryotic DNA from fecal samples. Our results revealed that recovering eukaryotic components from fecal samples differs significantly among DNA extraction methods. Subsequently, the composition of the intestinal eukaryotic microbiota was evaluated in HIV-infected patients and healthy volunteers through clone sequencing, high-throughput sequencing of nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacers 1 (ITS1) and 2 (ITS2) amplicons and real-time PCRs. Our results revealed that not only richness (Chao-1 index) and alpha diversity (Shannon diversity) differ between HIV-infected patients and healthy volunteers, depending on the molecular strategy used, but also the global eukaryotic community composition, with little overlapping taxa found between techniques. Moreover, our results based on cloning libraries and ITS1/ITS2 metabarcoding sequencing showed significant differences in fungal composition between HIV-infected patients and healthy volunteers, but without distinct clusters separating the two groups. Malassezia restricta was significantly more prevalent in fecal samples of HIV-infected patients, according to cloning libraries, whereas operational taxonomic units (OTUs) belonging to Candida albicans and Candida tropicalis were significantly more abundant in fecal samples of HIV-infected patients compared to healthy subjects in both ITS subregions. Finally, real-time PCR showed the presence of Microsporidia, Giardia lamblia, Blastocystis and Hymenolepis diminuta in different proportions in fecal samples from HIV patients as compared to healthy individuals. Our work revealed that the use of different sequencing approaches can impact the perceived eukaryotic diversity results of the human gut. We also provide a more comprehensive view of the eukaryotic community in the gut of HIV-infected patients through the complementarity of the different molecular techniques used. Combining these various methodologies may provide a gold standard for a more complete characterization of the eukaryotic microbiome in future studies.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0191913&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Ibrahim Hamad Rita Abou Abdallah Isabelle Ravaux Saadia Mokhtari Hervé Tissot-Dupont Caroline Michelle Andreas Stein Jean-Christophe Lagier Didier Raoult Fadi Bittar Metabarcoding analysis of eukaryotic microbiota in the gut of HIV-infected patients. PLoS ONE |
| title | Metabarcoding analysis of eukaryotic microbiota in the gut of HIV-infected patients. |
| title_full | Metabarcoding analysis of eukaryotic microbiota in the gut of HIV-infected patients. |
| title_fullStr | Metabarcoding analysis of eukaryotic microbiota in the gut of HIV-infected patients. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Metabarcoding analysis of eukaryotic microbiota in the gut of HIV-infected patients. |
| title_short | Metabarcoding analysis of eukaryotic microbiota in the gut of HIV-infected patients. |
| title_sort | metabarcoding analysis of eukaryotic microbiota in the gut of hiv infected patients |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0191913&type=printable |
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