title: Distinctly altered gut microbiota in the progression of liver disease.
abstract: Recent studies underscore important roles of intestinal microbiota and the bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) production in the pathogenesis of liver disease. However, how gut microbiota alters in response to the development of steatosis and subsequent progression to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains unclear. We aimed to study the gut microbial changes over liver disease progression using a streptozotocin-high fat diet (STZ-HFD) induced NASH-HCC C57BL/6J mouse model that is highly relevant to human liver disease. The fecal microbiota at various liver pathological stages was analyzed by 16S rDNA gene pyrosequencing. Both UniFrac analysis and partial least squares-discriminant analysis showed significant structural alterations in gut microbiota during the development of liver disease. Co-abundance network analysis highlighted relationships between genera. Spearman correlation analysis revealed that the bacterial species, Atopobium spp., Bacteroides spp., Bacteroides vulgatus, Bacteroides acidifaciens, Bacteroides uniformis, Clostridium cocleatum, Clostridium xylanolyticum and Desulfovibrio spp., markedly increased in model mice, were positively correlated with LPS levels and pathophysiological features. Taken together, the results showed that the gut microbiota was altered significantly in the progression of liver disease. The connection between the gut microbial ecology and the liver pathology may represent potential targets for the prevention and treatment of chronic liver disease and HCC.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus and Center for Translational Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.|University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
authors.forename: Guoxiang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.affiliation: E-institute of Shanghai Municipal Education Committee, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.|Key Laboratory of Liver and Kidney Diseases (Ministry of Education), Institute of Liver Diseases, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoning
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: E-institute of Shanghai Municipal Education Committee, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.|Key Laboratory of Liver and Kidney Diseases (Ministry of Education), Institute of Liver Diseases, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
authors.forename: Runmin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
authors.forename: Wenlian
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
authors.forename: Cynthia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rajani
authors.affiliation: University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
authors.forename: Brenda Y
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Hernandez
authors.affiliation: Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
authors.forename: Rosanna
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Alegado
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Defa
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Diabetes Mellitus and Center for Translational Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.|University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.|E-institute of Shanghai Municipal Education Committee, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jia
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D018450:Disease Progression; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D000069196:Gastrointestinal Microbiome / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D065626:Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
keywords: Immune response; Immunity; Immunology and Microbiology Section; gut microbiota; lipopolysaccharides; liver disease; pathogenesis