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The Reactobiome Unravels a New Paradigm in Human Gut Microbiome Metabolism

Bidkhori, G.; Lee, S.; Edwards, L.; Chatelier, E. L.; Almeida, M.; Ezzamouri, B.; Plaza -Onate, F.; Ponte, N.; Shawcross, D.; Proctor, G. B.; Nielsen, L.; Nielsen, J.; Uhlen, M.; Dusko Ehrlich, S.; Shoaie, S.

2021-02-02 systems biology
10.1101/2021.02.01.428114 bioRxiv
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Changes in microbial metabolism have been used as the main approach to assess function and elucidate environmental and host-microbiome interactions. This can be hampered by uncharacterised metagenome species and lack of metabolic annotation. To address this, we present a comprehensive computational platform for population stratification based on microbiome composition, the underlying metabolic potential and generation of metagenome species and community level metabolic models. We revisit the concepts of enterotype and microbiome richness introducing the reactobiome as a stratification method to unravel the metabolic features of the human gut microbiome. The reactobiome encapsulates resilience and microbiome dysbiosis at a functional level. We describe five reactotypes in healthy populations from 16 countries, with specific amino acid, carbohydrate and xenobiotic metabolic features. The validity of the approach was tested to unravel host-microbiome and environmental interactions by applying the reactobiome analysis on a one-year Swedish longitudinal cohort, integrating gut metagenomics, plasma metabolomics and clinical data.

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