TY - JOUR
T1 - Dysbiosis of the salivary microbiota in pediatric-onset primary sclerosing cholangitis and its potential as a biomarker
AU - Iwasawa, Kentaro
AU - Suda, Wataru
AU - Tsunoda, Tomoyuki
AU - Oikawa-Kawamoto, Manari
AU - Umetsu, Shuichiro
AU - Takayasu, Lena
AU - Inui, Ayano
AU - Fujisawa, Tomoo
AU - Morita, Hidetoshi
AU - Sogo, Tsuyoshi
AU - Hattori, Masahira
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Dr. K. Oshima, Dr. K. Takanashi, Y. Hattori, E. Iioka, M. Kiuchi, K. Komiya, R. Kurokawa, C. Shindo, L. Takayasu, N. Yamashita (The University of Tokyo), Dr. M. Takahata (BIOBANK Co., Ltd.), Y. Noguchi (Azabu University), and I. Mimura (Okayama University) for their technical support. This study was supported by the Yokohama Foundation for the Advancement of Medical Science Health to K.I.; Labor Science Research Grants from Research on Measures for Intractable Diseases, the Intractable Hepato-Biliary Diseases Study Group in Japan to T.F.; a Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research to M.H.; the Global COE Project of the ‘Genome Information Big Bang’ from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) of Japan to M.H., and an administration grant from the University of Tokyo to the Laboratory of Metagenomics.
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PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a liver disease known for its frequent concurrence with inflammatory bowel disease. Dysbiosis of the gut microbiota in PSC was reported in several studies, but the microbiological features of the salivary microbiota in PSC have not been established. Here we compared the salivary microbial communities of 24 pediatric-onset PSC patients, 16 age-matched ulcerative colitis (UC) patients, and 24 healthy controls (HCs) by analyzing the bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequence data. The species-richness (α-diversity) showed no significant between-group differences, whereas the overall salivary microbiota structure (β-diversity) showed significant differences among the three groups. Taxonomic assignment revealed that the PSC salivary microbiota were characterized by significant decreases in the abundance of Rothia and Haemophilus compared to the HC group, and significantly decreased Haemophilus and increased Oribacterium compared to the UC group. By combining the genera selected by the random forest algorithm in machine learning, followed by confirmation with 10-fold cross-validation, we were able to distinguish the PSC group from the HC group with the area under the curve (AUC) of 0.7423, and from the UC group with the AUC of 0.8756. Our results indicate the potential of salivary microbiota as biomarkers for a noninvasive diagnosis of PSC.
AB - Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a liver disease known for its frequent concurrence with inflammatory bowel disease. Dysbiosis of the gut microbiota in PSC was reported in several studies, but the microbiological features of the salivary microbiota in PSC have not been established. Here we compared the salivary microbial communities of 24 pediatric-onset PSC patients, 16 age-matched ulcerative colitis (UC) patients, and 24 healthy controls (HCs) by analyzing the bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequence data. The species-richness (α-diversity) showed no significant between-group differences, whereas the overall salivary microbiota structure (β-diversity) showed significant differences among the three groups. Taxonomic assignment revealed that the PSC salivary microbiota were characterized by significant decreases in the abundance of Rothia and Haemophilus compared to the HC group, and significantly decreased Haemophilus and increased Oribacterium compared to the UC group. By combining the genera selected by the random forest algorithm in machine learning, followed by confirmation with 10-fold cross-validation, we were able to distinguish the PSC group from the HC group with the area under the curve (AUC) of 0.7423, and from the UC group with the AUC of 0.8756. Our results indicate the potential of salivary microbiota as biomarkers for a noninvasive diagnosis of PSC.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41598-018-23870-w
DO - 10.1038/s41598-018-23870-w
M3 - Article
C2 - 29615776
AN - SCOPUS:85044998727
VL - 8
JO - Scientific Reports
JF - Scientific Reports
SN - 2045-2322
IS - 1
M1 - 5480
ER -