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Dominant and diet-responsive groups of bacteria within the human colonic microbiota
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The populations of dominant species within the human colonic microbiota can potentially be modified by dietary intake with consequences for health. Here we examined the influence of precisely controlled diets in 14 overweight men. Volunteers were provided successively with a control diet, diets high in resistant starch (RS) or non-starch polysaccharides (NSPs) and a reduced carbohydrate weight loss (WL) diet, over 10 weeks. Analysis of 16S rRNA sequences in stool samples of six volunteers detected 320 phylotypes (defined at >98% identity) of which 26, including 19 cultured species, each accounted for >1% of sequences. Although samples clustered more strongly by individual than by diet, time courses obtained by targeted qPCR revealed that ‘blooms’ in specific bacterial groups occurred rapidly after a dietary change. These were rapidly reversed by the subsequent diet. Relatives of Ruminococcus bromii (R-ruminococci) increased in most volunteers on the RS diet, accounting for a mean of 17% of total bacteria compared with 3.8% on the NSP diet, whereas the uncultured Oscillibacter group increased on the RS and WL diets. Relatives of Eubacterium rectale increased on RS (to mean 10.1%) but decreased, along with Collinsella aerofaciens, on WL. Inter-individual variation was marked, however, with >60% of RS remaining unfermented in two volunteers on the RS diet, compared to <4% in the other 12 volunteers; these two individuals also showed low numbers of R-ruminococci (<1%). Dietary non-digestible carbohydrate can produce marked changes in the gut microbiota, but these depend on the initial composition of an individual's gut microbiota.
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“Furthermore, individuals on a resistant starch diet showed an increase in relative abundance of uncultured Oscillibacter and Eubacterium rectale (Walker et al., 2011).”
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“Dietary interventions that specifically alter dietary fiber, such as increases in total carbohydrates, whole grains, and resistant starch versus wheat bran consumption, have shown impacts on the microbiota along with improvements in health markers of the study participants (Duncan et al., 2007; Martínez et al., 2013; Walker et al., 2011).”
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“Ruminococcus bromii-related taxa bloomed in response to resistant-starch intervention in most of the 14 obese men in one study; the lack of response in the other individuals might reflect an absence of such taxa in those people23.”
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“decreased Eubacterium rectale and Bifidobacteria have been observed during weight-loss strategies in overweight and obese individuals in which further resistant-starch-carbohydrates reductions were common [240,241].”
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- Authors
- Walker, A. W., Ince, J., Duncan, S. H., Webster, L. M., Holtrop, G., Ze, X., Brown, D., Stares, M. D., Scott, P., Bergerat, A., Louis, P., McIntosh, F., Johnstone, A. M., Lobley, G. E., Parkhill, J., & Flint, H. J.
- Affiliations
- Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
- University of Aberdeen (GB)
- Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Flint, Harry J
- ORCID
- Venue
- The ISME Journal
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2010-08-05
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 220-230
- ISSN
- 1751-7362 (ISSN-L)
- 1751-7370
- PMC
- PMC3105703
- OpenAlex
- W2033239478
- Cited by
- 1,632
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 35 · 2025: 65 · 2024: 93 · 2023: 92 · 2022: 155 · 2021: 135 · 2020: 163 · 2019: 122 · 2018: 124 · 2017: 139 · 2016: 118 · 2015: 101 · 2014: 93 · 2013: 85 · 2012: 66
- FWCI
- 25.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The ISME Journal (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (WT 76964, 076964)
- Scottish Government
- University of Aberdeen
- World Cancer Research Fund
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
- Keywords
- resistant starch, non-starch polysaccharides, Ruminococcus bromii, Oscillibacter, Eubacterium rectale, Collinsella aerofaciens, interindividual variability, non-digestible carbohydrates, gut microbiota composition, overweight men
- MeSH terms
- Archaea, Bacteria, Colon, Diet, Diet, Reducing, Dietary Carbohydrates, Dietary Proteins, Feces, Humans, Male, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, Starch, Cross-Over Studies, Biodiversity, Metagenome
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