An Evaluation Method of Human Gut Microbial Homeostasis by Testing Specific Fecal Microbiota

Zhongwen Wu , Xiaxia Pan , Yin Yuan , Pengcheng Lou , Lorina Gordejeva , Shuo Ni , Xiaofei Zhu , Bowen Liu , Lingyun Wu , Lanjuan Li , Bo Li

Engineering ›› 2023, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (10) : 110 -119.

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Engineering ›› 2023, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (10) : 110 -119. DOI: 10.1016/j.eng.2023.03.007
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An Evaluation Method of Human Gut Microbial Homeostasis by Testing Specific Fecal Microbiota

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Research on microecology has been carried out with broad perspectives in recent decades, which has enabled a better understanding of the gut microbiota and its roles in human health and disease. It is of great significance to routinely acquire the status of the human gut microbiota; however, there is no method to evaluate the gut microbiome through small amounts of fecal microbes. In this study, we found ten predominant groups of gut bacteria that characterized the whole microbiome in the human gut from a large-sample Chinese cohort, constructed a real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) method and developed a set of analytical approaches to detect these ten groups of predominant gut bacterial species with great maneuverability, efficiency, and quantitative features. Reference ranges for the ten predominant gut bacterial groups were established, and we found that the concentration and pairwise ratios of the ten predominant gut bacterial groups varied with age, indicating gut microbial dysbiosis. By comparing the detection results of liver cirrhosis (LC) patients with those of healthy control subjects, differences were then analyzed, and a classification model for the two groups was built by machine learning. Among the six established classification models, the model established by using the random forest algorithm achieved the highest area under the curve (AUC) value and sensitivity for predicting LC. This research enables easy, rapid, stable, and reliable testing and evaluation of the balance of the gut microbiota in the human body, which may contribute to clinical work.

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Gut microbiota / Machine learning / Microbial dysbiosis / Quantitative polymerase chain reaction / Chinese cohort

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Zhongwen Wu,Xiaxia Pan,Yin Yuan,Pengcheng Lou,Lorina Gordejeva,Shuo Ni,Xiaofei Zhu,Bowen Liu,Lingyun Wu,Lanjuan Li,Bo Li. An Evaluation Method of Human Gut Microbial Homeostasis by Testing Specific Fecal Microbiota. Engineering, 2023, 29(10): 110-119 DOI:10.1016/j.eng.2023.03.007

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the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFC2000500)

the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2022ZFJH003)

the Independent Task of State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases(2022zz22)

the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81703430)

the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32170058)

the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82200994)

the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(2019-I2M-5-045)

the Research Project of Jinan Microecological Biomedicine Shandong Laboratory(JNL-2022051B)

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