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Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome
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Our knowledge of species and functional composition of the human gut microbiome is rapidly increasing, but it is still based on very few cohorts and little is known about variation across the world. By combining 22 newly sequenced faecal metagenomes of individuals from four countries with previously published data sets, here we identify three robust clusters (referred to as enterotypes hereafter) that are not nation or continent specific. We also confirmed the enterotypes in two published, larger cohorts, indicating that intestinal microbiota variation is generally stratified, not continuous. This indicates further the existence of a limited number of well-balanced host-microbial symbiotic states that might respond differently to diet and drug intake. The enterotypes are mostly driven by species composition, but abundant molecular functions are not necessarily provided by abundant species, highlighting the importance of a functional analysis to understand microbial communities. Although individual host properties such as body mass index, age, or gender cannot explain the observed enterotypes, data-driven marker genes or functional modules can be identified for each of these host properties. For example, twelve genes significantly correlate with age and three functional modules with the body mass index, hinting at a diagnostic potential of microbial markers.
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“Concordant with reported enterotypes in the human microbiome47,51,55, we identified microbiotype-defining taxa including Prevotella spp., Akkermansia spp. and Bifidobacterium spp. (Extended Data Fig. 9).”
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“The human gut microbiome includes multiple discrete ecologically balanced communities—hereafter referred to as ‘enteric microbiotypes’—that are resilient although still modifiable by diet, drugs and lifestyle47–52.”
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“Complexity of highly dimensional gut microbiota may be better comprehended by organization into discrete classes of ecologically balanced communities or enteric microbiotypes that consider their functional and ecological context47,55.”
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“Human intestinal microbiota variation encompasses discrete microbial clusters or enterotypes, although their distribution may be continuous and their composition can be variable within the same individual47,50,51.”
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“the family Prevotellaceae has been reported to be positively related to SCFA levels in humans (Arumugam et al., 2011) and affects spatial learning and memory by modulating neurotransmission and hippocampal synaptic plasticity (D’Amato et al., 2020)”
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“A recent work identified three enterotypes in the human gut microbiome differing in species and functional characteristics [5] .”
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“The MetaHit consortium has proposed that individuals can be classified as having intestinal microbiota predominantly composed of Prevotella or Bacteroides; a third group has higher proportions of Ruminococcus, compared with the others. These categories have been named “enterotypes”38.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- MetaHIT Consortium (additional members), Arumugam, M., Raes, J., Pelletier, E., Le Paslier, D., Yamada, T., Mende, D. R., Fernandes, G. R., Tap, J., Bruls, T., Batto, J.-M., Bertalan, M., Borruel, N., Casellas, F., Fernandez, L., Gautier, L., Hansen, T., Hattori, M., Hayashi, T., Kleerebezem, M., Kurokawa, K., Leclerc, M., Levenez, F., Manichanh, C., Nielsen, H. B., Nielsen, T., Pons, N., Poulain, J., Qin, J., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Tims, S., Torrents, D., Ugarte, E., Zoetendal, E. G., Wang, J., Guarner, F., Pedersen, O., de Vos, W. M., Brunak, S., Doré, J., Weissenbach, J., Ehrlich, S. D., & Bork, P.
- Affiliations
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (DE)
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE)
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR)
- Technical University of Denmark (DK)
- Vall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari (ES)
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- University of Miyazaki (JP)
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP)
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (FR)
- BGI Group (China) (CN)
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Ehrlich, S. Dusko
- ORCID
- Arumugam, Manimozhiyan
- Raes, Jeroen
- Yamada, Takuji
- Mende, Daniel R.
- Tap, Julien
- Borruel, Natalia
- Casellas, Francesc
- Gautier, Laurent
- Hansen, Torben
- Hattori, Masahira
- Hayashi, Tetsuya
- Kleerebezem, Michiel
- Kurokawa, Ken
- Leclerc, Marion
- Manichanh, Chaysavanh
- Nielsen, H. Bjørn
- Nielsen, Trine
- Pons, Nicolas
- Poulain, Julie
- Qin, Junjie
- Tims, Sebastian
- Torrents, David
- Zoetendal, Erwin G.
- Wang, Jun
- Guarner, Francisco
- Pedersen, Oluf
- Brunak, Søren
- Weissenbach, Jean
- Ehrlich, S. Dusko
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2011-04-20
- Volume
- 473
- Issue
- 7346
- Pages
- 174-180
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC3728647
- OpenAlex
- W2032230795
- Cited by
- 7,548
- References
- 70
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- FWCI
- 172.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
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- Nature (publishedVersion)
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- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
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- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (submittedVersion)
- Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU) (submittedVersion)
- Tokyo Tech Research Repository (Tokyo Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (076964, 082372)
- Novo Nordisk Fonden (NNF10CC1016517)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (221S0002)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (K24DK002800)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Health Sciences › Dentistry › Periodontics › Oral microbiology and periodontitis research
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Keywords
- enterotypes, human gut microbiome, microbial community clustering, host-microbe symbiosis, body mass index, cross-cohort validation, microbial biomarkers
- MeSH terms
- Bacteria, Europe, Feces, Female, Humans, Intestines, Male, Phylogeny, Bacterial Typing Techniques, Biomarkers, Biodiversity, Metagenome, Metagenomics
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