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Design, construction, and in vivo augmentation of a complex gut microbiome

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  • Sep 15, 2022
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Efforts to model the human gut microbiome in mice have led to important insights into the mechanisms of host-microbe interactions. However, the model communities studied to date hav... Show More

Efforts to model the human gut microbiome in mice have led to important insights into the mechanisms of host-microbe interactions. However, the model communities studied to date have been defined or complex, but not both, limiting their utility. Here, we construct and characterize in vitro a defined community of 104 bacterial species composed of the most common taxa from the human gut microbiota (hCom1). We then used an iterative experimental process to fill open niches: germ-free mice were colonized with hCom1 and then challenged with a human fecal sample. We identified new species that engrafted following fecal challenge and added them to hCom1, yielding hCom2. In gnotobiotic mice, hCom2 exhibited increased stability to fecal challenge and robust colonization resistance against pathogenic Escherichia coli. Mice colonized by either hCom2 or a human fecal community are phenotypically similar, suggesting that this consortium will enable a mechanistic interrogation of species and genes on microbiome-associated phenotypes.

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Carolyn Bertozzi @CarolynBertozzi · Sep 7, 2022
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Check out this exciting work from ⁦@mfgrp⁩ ⁦@Stanford_ChEMH⁩, de novo assembly of a gut microbiome, important step toward therapeutic microbiome engineering Design, construction, and in vivo augmentation of a complex gut microbiome: Cell
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