Viroma
Viroma
Viroma
James Lewis
Gary Wu
Frederic Bushman
University of Pennsylvania
Diet, Genetic Factors, and the Gut
Microbiome in Crohn’s Disease
Bacteria
*p<0.05
Food groups **p<0.01
***p<0.001
diet components called at 25% FDR
COMBO (selected)
BMI Fiber Fat %Calories Actinobacteria
Proteobacteria
Bacteroidetes
Firmicutes
***p<0.001
**p<0.01
*p<0.05
Conclusions from COMBO
•At an FDR of 25%, ~30-40 nutrients correlated with changes
in bacterial populations
• 10 healthy volunteers
• Randomized to high fat vs. low fat diet
• 10 day inpatient stay with same meals each day
• Caloric intake adjusted to maintain current weight
• Daily stool sample collection
• Rectal biopsies on days 1 and 10
• Sitz marker study to assess transit time
• Sequencing: 16S tags, shot-gun metagenomic
sequencing of total DNA and viral DNA, targeted
analysis of Archaea and Eukarya
Longitudinal analysis of microbiome under controlled feeding
Unweighted
Unifrac
Graphic from
QIIME
Conclusions from CAFÉ 1 and 2
•Inter-individual variation predominates.
2011 X X Low
Fat Sybr gold
2012 X X X Low
Fat
staining
2016 X X X X High
Fat
2020 X X X X Low
Fat
2019 X X High
Fat
1013 X Ad lib
1010 phage per gram of stool
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Sam Minot et al.
Assembly of viral sequence reads
• Newbler assembler
40bp overlap
90% sequence identity
• 7,175 contigs >500 bp
• 86.6% of reads in contigs
• Custom code to allow circular
assembly
• PHACCS: median species
richness 44 (range=19-785)
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12
Gut virome characterization
Also found 22 CRISPR arrays, one example of CRISPR spacer targeting another virus in
the same individual 14
Comparative metagenomics:
viruses are parasites
Lysogeny
Interpersonal variation
• Rows: samples
• Columns: contigs
• Clustering by
individual
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Variation associated with
subject and diet
Phage
abundance
Host abundance
In some cases the abundance of phage does not correlate with apparent
abundance of host: possibly indicative of differential induction?
Summary