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ArticleeLife2024

Metabolic model-based ecological modeling for probiotic design.

James D Brunner, Nicholas Chia

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Article in eLife, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Human microbiome acquisition and transmission.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2025
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  6. Toward the Next Generation of In Silico Modeling of Dynamic Host-Microbiota Interactions in the Skin.JID innovations : skin science from molecules to population health · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

James D BrunnerBiosciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8147-2522
Nicholas ChiaData Science and Learning, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9652-691X

Funding

Los Alamos National Laboratory Center For Nonlinear StudiesU.S. Department of Energy 255LANL2018U.S. Department of Energy F255LANL2018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The microbial community composition in the human gut has a profound effect on human health. This observation has lead to extensive use of microbiome therapies, including over-the-counter 'probiotic' treatments intended to alter the composition of the microbiome. Despite so much promise and commercial interest, the factors that contribute to the success or failure of microbiome-targeted treatments remain unclear. We investigate the biotic interactions that lead to successful engraftment of a novel bacterial strain introduced to the microbiome as in probiotic treatments. We use pairwise genome-scale metabolic modeling with a generalized resource allocation constraint to build a network of interactions between taxa that appear in an experimental engraftment study. We create induced sub-graphs using the taxa present in individual samples and assess the likelihood of invader engraftment based on network structure. To do so, we use a generalized Lotka-Volterra model, which we show has strong ability to predict if a particular invader or probiotic will successfully engraft into an individual's microbiome. Furthermore, we show that the mechanistic nature of the model is useful for revealing which microbe-microbe interactions potentially drive engraftment.

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Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeMicrobiotaProbioticsHumansB. longumC. difficilecomputational biologygenome-scale metabolic modelingL. plantarummicrobiomeprobioticssystems biology

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PMID38380900
PMCPMC10942782

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