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ArticleCell host & microbe2024

Pangenomes of human gut microbiota uncover links between genetic diversity and stress response.

Saar Shoer, Lee Reicher, Chunyu Zhao, Katherine S Pollard, Yitzhak Pilpel, Eran Segal

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Article in Cell host & microbe, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Linkage of nucleotide and functional diversity varies across gut bacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Saar ShoerDepartment of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Department of Molecular Cell Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Lee ReicherDepartment of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Department of Molecular Cell Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Lis Maternity and Women's Hospital, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Chunyu ZhaoGladstone Institute for Data Science and Biotechnology, San Francisco, CA, USA; Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Katherine S PollardGladstone Institute for Data Science and Biotechnology, San Francisco, CA, USA; Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Yitzhak PilpelDepartment of Molecular Genetics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Eran SegalDepartment of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Department of Molecular Cell Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Electronic address: eran.segal@weizmann.ac.il.

Funding

Linking microbiome genetic variants with cardiovascular phenotypes in 50,000 individualsR01HL160862 · NHLBI · J. DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES · PI POLLARD, KATHERINE S. · 2022 to 2025
$2.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL160862
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The genetic diversity of the gut microbiota has a central role in host health. Here, we created pangenomes for 728 human gut prokaryotic species, quadrupling the genes of strain-specific genomes. Each of these species has a core set of a thousand genes, differing even between closely related species, and an accessory set of genes unique to the different strains. Functional analysis shows high strain variability associates with sporulation, whereas low variability is linked with antibiotic resistance. We further map the antibiotic resistome across the human gut population and find 237 cases of extreme resistance even to last-resort antibiotics, with a predominance among Enterobacteriaceae. Lastly, the presence of specific genes in the microbiota relates to host age and sex. Our study underscores the genetic complexity of the human gut microbiota, emphasizing its significant implications for host health. The pangenomes and antibiotic resistance map constitute a valuable resource for further research.

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Anti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriaGastrointestinal MicrobiomeGenetic VariationAdultDrug Resistance, BacterialFemaleGenome, BacterialHumansMaleMiddle AgedPhylogenyStress, PhysiologicalAnti-Bacterial Agentsantibiotic resistanceantibioticsbacteriageneticsgenomicsgutmicrobiomemicrobiotaprokaryotesstrains

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PMID39353429
PMCPMC12060796

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