High throughput genome scale modeling predicts microbial vitamin requirements contribute to gut microbiome community structure

Human gut microbiome structure and emergent metabolic outputs impact health outcomes. However, what drives such community characteristics remains underexplored. Here, we rely on high throughput genomic reconstruction modeling, to infer the metabolic attributes and nutritional requirements of 816 gut...

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Main Authors: Juan P. Molina Ortiz, Mark Norman Read, Dale David McClure, Andrew Holmes, Fariba Dehghani, Erin Rose Shanahan
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Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2022-12-01
Series:Gut Microbes
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/19490976.2022.2118831
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author Juan P. Molina Ortiz
Mark Norman Read
Dale David McClure
Andrew Holmes
Fariba Dehghani
Erin Rose Shanahan
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description Human gut microbiome structure and emergent metabolic outputs impact health outcomes. However, what drives such community characteristics remains underexplored. Here, we rely on high throughput genomic reconstruction modeling, to infer the metabolic attributes and nutritional requirements of 816 gut strains, via a framework termed GEMNAST. This has been performed in terms of a group of human vitamins to examine the role vitamin exchanges have at different levels of community organization. We find that only 91 strains can satisfy their vitamin requirements (prototrophs) while the rest show various degrees of auxotrophy/specialization, highlighting their dependence on external sources, such as other members of the microbial community. Further, 79% of the strains in our sample were mapped to 11 distinct vitamin requirement profiles with low phylogenetic consistency. Yet, we find that human gut microbial community enterotype indicators display marked metabolic differences. Prevotella strains display a metabolic profile that can be complemented by strains from other genera often associated with the Prevotella enterotype and agrarian diets, while Bacteroides strains occupy a prototrophic profile. Finally, we identify pre-defined interaction modules (IMs) of gut species from human and mice predicted to be driven by, or highly independent of vitamin exchanges. Our analysis provides mechanistic grounding to gut microbiome stability and to co-abundance-based observations, a fundamental step toward understanding emergent processes that influence health outcomes. Further, our work opens a path to future explorations in the field through applications of GEMNAST to additional nutritional dimensions.
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spelling doaj-art-60914cf4e76c4412be3caf30ba4724202025-08-20T02:29:58ZengTaylor & Francis GroupGut Microbes1949-09761949-09842022-12-0114110.1080/19490976.2022.2118831High throughput genome scale modeling predicts microbial vitamin requirements contribute to gut microbiome community structureJuan P. Molina Ortiz0Mark Norman Read1Dale David McClure2Andrew Holmes3Fariba Dehghani4Erin Rose Shanahan5School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the University of Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaCentre for Advanced Food Engineering, the University of Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the University of Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaCentre for Advanced Food Engineering, the University of Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the University of Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaCharles Perkins Centre, the University of Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaHuman gut microbiome structure and emergent metabolic outputs impact health outcomes. However, what drives such community characteristics remains underexplored. Here, we rely on high throughput genomic reconstruction modeling, to infer the metabolic attributes and nutritional requirements of 816 gut strains, via a framework termed GEMNAST. This has been performed in terms of a group of human vitamins to examine the role vitamin exchanges have at different levels of community organization. We find that only 91 strains can satisfy their vitamin requirements (prototrophs) while the rest show various degrees of auxotrophy/specialization, highlighting their dependence on external sources, such as other members of the microbial community. Further, 79% of the strains in our sample were mapped to 11 distinct vitamin requirement profiles with low phylogenetic consistency. Yet, we find that human gut microbial community enterotype indicators display marked metabolic differences. Prevotella strains display a metabolic profile that can be complemented by strains from other genera often associated with the Prevotella enterotype and agrarian diets, while Bacteroides strains occupy a prototrophic profile. Finally, we identify pre-defined interaction modules (IMs) of gut species from human and mice predicted to be driven by, or highly independent of vitamin exchanges. Our analysis provides mechanistic grounding to gut microbiome stability and to co-abundance-based observations, a fundamental step toward understanding emergent processes that influence health outcomes. Further, our work opens a path to future explorations in the field through applications of GEMNAST to additional nutritional dimensions.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/19490976.2022.2118831Gut microbiomegenome scale modelingcomputational biologynetworksinteractionscofactors
spellingShingle Juan P. Molina Ortiz
Mark Norman Read
Dale David McClure
Andrew Holmes
Fariba Dehghani
Erin Rose Shanahan
High throughput genome scale modeling predicts microbial vitamin requirements contribute to gut microbiome community structure
Gut Microbes
Gut microbiome
genome scale modeling
computational biology
networks
interactions
cofactors
title High throughput genome scale modeling predicts microbial vitamin requirements contribute to gut microbiome community structure
title_full High throughput genome scale modeling predicts microbial vitamin requirements contribute to gut microbiome community structure
title_fullStr High throughput genome scale modeling predicts microbial vitamin requirements contribute to gut microbiome community structure
title_full_unstemmed High throughput genome scale modeling predicts microbial vitamin requirements contribute to gut microbiome community structure
title_short High throughput genome scale modeling predicts microbial vitamin requirements contribute to gut microbiome community structure
title_sort high throughput genome scale modeling predicts microbial vitamin requirements contribute to gut microbiome community structure
topic Gut microbiome
genome scale modeling
computational biology
networks
interactions
cofactors
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/19490976.2022.2118831
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