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ArticleeLife2021

Microbial genetic and transcriptional contributions to oxalate degradation by the gut microbiota in health and disease.

Menghan Liu, Joseph C Devlin, Jiyuan Hu, Angelina Volkova, Thomas W Battaglia, Melody Ho, John R Asplin, Allyson Byrd, P'ng Loke, Huilin Li and 4 more

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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36citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Menghan LiuNYU Langone Health, New York, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9390-8194
Joseph C DevlinNYU Langone Health, New York, United States.
Jiyuan HuNYU Langone Health, New York, United States.
Angelina VolkovaNYU Langone Health, New York, United States.
Thomas W BattagliaNYU Langone Health, New York, United States.
Melody HoNYU Langone Health, New York, United States.
John R AsplinLitholink Corporation, Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, Chicago, United States.
Allyson ByrdDepartment of Cancer Immunology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, United States.
P'ng LokeNYU Langone Health, New York, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6211-3292
Huilin LiNYU Langone Health, New York, United States.
Kelly V RugglesNYU Langone Health, New York, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0152-0863
Aristotelis TsirigosNYU Langone Health, New York, United States.
Martin J BlaserCenter for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University, New York, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2447-2443
Lama NazzalNYU Langone Health, New York, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0106-5060
NYU Langone Health · USLabCorp (United States) · USRutgers, The State University of New Jersey · US

Funding

Primary HyperoxaluriaU54DK083908 · NIDDK · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI MILLINER, DAWN SCHMAUTZ · 2009 to 2018
$12.3M
Microbial, immune, metabolic perturbations by antibiotics (MIME study)U01AI122285 · NIAID · RUTGERS BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MARTIN J BLASER, Steven M Holland · 2016 to 2026
$5.2M
Novel Statistical Methods in Analyzing Microbiome Data for Longitudinal StudyR01DK110014 · NIDDK · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI LI, HUILIN · 2016 to 2019
$1.5M
NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI122285NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK110014NIDDK NIH HHS U54 DK083908
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over-accumulation of oxalate in humans may lead to nephrolithiasis and nephrocalcinosis. Humans lack endogenous oxalate degradation pathways (ODP), but intestinal microbes can degrade oxalate using multiple ODPs and protect against its absorption. The exact oxalate-degrading taxa in the human microbiota and their ODP have not been described. We leverage multi-omics data (>3000 samples from >1000 subjects) to show that the human microbiota primarily uses the type II ODP, rather than type I. Furthermore, among the diverse ODP-encoding microbes, an oxalate autotroph,

Indexed as

Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeAnimalsBacteriaFecesHomeostasisHumansInflammatory Bowel DiseasesMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLOxalatesOxalobacter formigenesOxalatescomputational biologygene expressionshumanIBDinfectious diseasemetagenomemetatranscriptomemicrobiologymicrobiotamouseoxalate metabolismsystems biology

Identifiers

PMID33769280
PMCPMC8062136
OpenAlexW3137007127

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