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The Human Microbiome in Medicine
IMI Stakeholders Forum
October 19, 2017, Brussels, Belgium
S. Dusko Ehrlich,
MetaGenoPolis, INRA Jouy en Josas; King’s College, London, UK
October 2017
The human intestinal microbiome is a neglected organ
100 trillion microorganisms ; more cells than the human body; up to 2 kg of mass!
Interface between food and epithelium
In contact with the 1st pool of immune cells and the 2nd pool of neural cells of the body
An organism can function well when all its organs function well
October 2017
Multiple functions of the neglected organ
October 2017
The gut microbiome appears altered in many chronic diseases
Seven of the top 10 causes of death in 2010 were chronic diseases. Two of these—heart disease and cancer—accounted for nearly 48% of deaths in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013
October 2017
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A common alteration is loss of microbial richness
HGC
LGC
Atrophy of the neglected organ
October 2017
Microbial richness can be lost even in healthy people
Low HighGene count
n=277
Low gene count individuals (1/4) have increased adiposity, insulin resistance, dyslipidaemia & inflammation – a risk for chronic diseases
Le Chatelier et al. Nature 2013, doi: 10.1038/nature12506.
October 2017
Mucus layer
Host tissues
Methanobrevibacter ↓
Lactate ↓
H2 ↓
Bififobacterium
shunt ↓
Microbialrichness↓
Mucus
degradation↑
Bacteroides↑
H2S ↑ Sulfate
reduction↑
Ruminococcus
gnavus/torques↑
Proteobacteria↑
Western-type
dietary pattern Endotoxemia
BMI/IR/
Inflammation↑
Butyrate ↓
Oxygen tolerance/
Oxidative stress response↑
CH4 ↓
LPS/Pathogen/Proteobacteria
driven inflammatory switch
Repeated AB
treatment?
Lachnospiraceaea↓
Akkermansia ↓
Reduced gut
lining integrity
Gut lumen - LGC microbiota
Microbe-poor gut microbiome is less healthy
Le Chatelier et al. Nature 2013, doi: 10.1038/nature12506.
Low butyrate, high LPS, high H2S, oxidative stress
October 2017
Microbiome richness is associated with health and well-being
It is better to be rich than poor
We need more gut bacteria!
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Knowngenomes
Standardization is critical for quantitative metagenomics http://www.microbiome-standards.org/#SOPS
Microbiome alterations can be very accurately detected by full sequencing
Costea et al. NatBiotech 2017
An integrated 9.9 M genes reference catalog
Individuals from MetaHIT, Chinese and HMP studies, n=1267Sequenced reference gut genomes
Rare genes are increasing - Transient species ?- Strain differences ?Pan-metagenome
Li et al. Nature Biotech, 2014
Common genes are not They may be most clinically useful for common diseases
March 2010124 individuals3.3 M genes
October 2017
Improving microbiome description
October 2017
N=400
N=120
N=1267N=134
N=85
Infant gut microbial catalog containing 13 M genes
Anne Sophie Alvarez et al, in preparation
2006 individuals739 kids, 1 week to 6 yrs1267 adults
Gene detection in 6 weeks old infants is greatly augmented
Metahit 9.9M : 53,151 genes Infant 13M : 128,750 genes
Gene count
9.9M 13M
October 2017
Rheumatoid arthritis catalogLiver cirrhosis catalogVegan catalogAtherosclerosis catalog ….
Comparability of studies requires a common catalog – we should cooperate
to make it and update it!
Towards a common gut gene catalog
Animal models Mouse gut - 184 animals, different providers,
housing institutions and diets, 2.5 M genes5% overlap with the human gene catalog (Xiao et al., Nat Biotech 33, 1103-1108, 2015)
Pork gut – 287 pigs from France, Denmark and China, 7.7 million genes (Nat Microb, 2016)12% overlap with the human gene catalog
Bovine, chicken, rabbit gut – under construction
Other human sites Oral gene catalog – 300+ individuals, ~13 M genes
(Cabrero et al. in preparation)
October 2017
741 large MGU (>700 Genes) correspond to bacterial species (MetaGenomic Species; 85% previously unknown)238 high quality genomes reconstructed6640 small MGU: phages, plasmids, virulence islands, CRISPR..
Nielsen, et al. Nature Biotech, 2014
Gene catalog clustered in MetaGenomic Units by co-abundance binning
MGSMGU
Interaction network
9.9 M MetaHit: ~1 500 MGS & ~12 000 MGU
October 2017
By systematic culturing, enabling characterization of playersBy computational means, enabling strain and pangenome assessment
Empowering reasoned microbiome modulation
Improving knowledge of human associated microbial species
October 2017
Diagnostics
October 2017
Discovery•98 patients • 83 controls
Validation• 25 patients• 31 controls
Liver cirrhosis
Qin N. et al. Nature 2014, doi: 10.1038/nature13568. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China & MGP, Jouy en Josas, France
123 patients Liver cirrhosis diagnosis • by biopsy in 46• by clinical symptoms or imaging in 77
114 controlsHealthy volunteers who visited the hospital for annual physical examination
AUC = 0.943 AUC = 0.935
October 2017
Parkinson disease
Bedarf … Bork et al., Genome Biology, 2017
Cotillard et al. Nature 2013
Rich and poor microbiome
Atherosclerosis
Zhie … Karstensen et al., Nat Comm, 2017
October 2017
Microbiome-based biomarkers can accurately detect a disease
and even a risk of a disease
6 MGS identify at-risk individuals that are
microbe-poor with 95% accuracy
Cotillard et al. Nature 2013, doi: 10.1038/nature12480.39
October 2017
Severity of the disease – liver cirrhosis
Qin N. et al. Nature 2014
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Invasion of the gut by oral bacteria
Oral
Overproduction of NH3 & GABA; impact on Mn2+
October 2017
Current concepts in the assessment and treatment of Hepatic EncephalopathyW.J. Cash, P. McConville , E. McDermott, P.A. McCormick, M.E. Callender, N.I. McDougall, 2009. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcp152
Pathophysiology – impacted by the microbiome?The ammonia theoryGABA/benzodiazepine receptor complex theoryManganese theory
Treatments – impact the microbiome?Oral laxativesEnemasAntibiotics
October 2017
Treatments to improve the microbiome more permanently - FMT?
Fecal Microbiota Transplant from a Rational Stool Donor Improves Hepatic Encephalopathy: A Randomized Clinical Trial Bajaj et al 2017, DOI: 10.1002/hep.29306
FMT, n=10; Standard of care, n=10, Follow-up 150 days
Conclusions: FMT … reduced hospitalizations, improved cognition and dysbiosis in cirrhosis with recurrent HE.
October 2017
Trigger: Virus infection, alcohol, obesity, autoimmunity… Consequence:
Loss of hepatocytes, impaired bile production – gut ecosystem becomes permissive to bile-intolerant microbesResult:
Invasion of the gut by oral bacteria & food-borne pathogens - advent of a toxic microbiomeAvenues for new treatments:FMT to restore a healthy microbiome Administration of bile salts (or equivalents) to protect it!?
Advent of toxic microbiome in liver cirrhosis
Cause, consequence…
October 2017
Treating the human and the microbial parts of our body to optimally preserve health and
cure the disease
human
microbialchange change
October 2017
Alterations of the microbiome can aggravate the disease;
restoration of the microbiome should be beneficial
October 2017
Microbiome restorationDiet, nutritional interventions Molecules • Promoters of “good” species (prebiotics, fibers)• Inhibitors of “bad” species (narrow spectrum AB,
bacteriocins)Microbes• Bacteriophages• Probiotics• Communities• Transplantation
October 2017
Nutritional intervention can impact richness
October 2017
Dietary intervention improves simultaneously gene richness and risk phenotypes
Low
High
Low
High
Risk mitigation by interventionCotillard et al. Nature 2013, doi: 10.1038/nature12480.39 .
October 2017
The communities of the gut microbiome
Europeans, Americans, Asians, n=33.
Danesn=85
USn=154
Based on genus-level analysisNamed after the dominant genus
October 2017
Quest for mechanisms – single species or communities?
October 2017
Integration of clinical phenotypes, microbiome and
metabolome data reveals microbial species important for
a disease
Pedersen et al. Nature 2016, 535, 376-381.
Microbiome and insulin resistance
277 non-diabetic individuals 75 T2D patients
The IR-associated metabolome was associated with the gut microbiome-encoded functions:
Higher potential for LPS and BCAA biosynthesis Reduced potential for BCAA transport into bacterial cells
Pedersen et al. Nature 2016, 535, 376-381.
October 2017
A few species drive the associationPositive correlations between microbial functions and IR are largely driven by a few species, notably Prevotella copri and Bacteroides vulgatus, suggesting that they may directly impact host metabolism. We tested this hypothesis in mice on a high-fat diet, and found that a challenge with P. copri led to increased circulating serum levels of BCAAs and insulin resistance.
sham P. copri
Pedersen et al. Nature 2016, 535, 376-381.
October 2017
A single species can play an important role but many are likely to contribute
October 2017
Is microbiome alteration a cause, a consequence or a contribution to a
chronic disease?
October 2017
Contribution of the microbiome to the disease – two examples
Liver cirrhosis gut microbiome may be toxicAmmoniac, manganese, GABA (encephalopathy)
Low richness gut microbiome may be less healthy Low butyrate producers (gut health)Abundant pro-inflammatory species (systemic inflammation)
The advent of vicious cycle: inflammation selects for resistant species, which are pro-inflammatory.
October 2017
We should strive to restore or preserve health by modulating unhealthy/toxic microbiome and treating the host, to
break the vicious cycle…
…while attempting to unravel the mechanisms which underlie its advent
and its effects on our bodies
October 2017
Understanding mechanisms Cell lines, high throughput screens for microbe-derived effectors Organoids Artificial organs (gut) to characterize microbial interactions Animal models to study host-microbe dialogue Interventional longitudinal studies
…will take time
October 2017
Impact of human microbiome research on health
A tremendous potential of human microbiome
• diagnostics• prognostics• patient monitoring• target for modulation to improve health
To better preserve health and better treat the disease
Industry-academia partnering
MetaGenoPolisPre-industrial Demonstrator
Grant P.I. : S. Dusko EhrlichDirector of the INRA Unit: Florence HaimetDirector of Research: Joël Doré
Funding: 19M€ for 2012-2020 by Investissements d’AvenirBudget for the period: 60+ M€
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Hôpital Pitié-SalpêtrièreICAN CLINICAL STUDIES
A set of ISO9001-2015 certified platforms
October 2017
Landmark human microbiome papers
2010 : Qin et al. Nature , The human gut reference catalogue 2011 : Arumugam et al. Nature, Enterotypes2012 : Qin et al. Nature, Type II Diabetes 2013 : Cotillard et al. Nature, Impact of diet on gut microbiome2013 : Le Chatelier et al. Nature, Richness of gut microbes and metabolic markers2013 : Sunagawa et al. Nature Methods, Universal phylogenetic markers2014 : Nielsen et al. Nature Biotech, Method for identifying metagenomic species 2014 : Li et al. Nature Biotech, 10 millions genes reference catalog 2014 : Qin et al. Nature, Human gut microbiome alterations in liver cirrhosis2015 : Xiao et al. Nature Biotech, A mouse gut catalogue2015 : Qin et al. Nature, Accurate liver cirrhosis diagnostic, 2015 : Forslund et al. Nature, Drug confounders in microbiome analysis2016 : Pedersen et al. Nature, Microbiome & insuline resistance2017 : Costea et al. Nature Biotech, Standards for microbiome studies
► 60+ publications on quantitative & functional Metagenomics
► 29 patent applications, 70% licensed ► 24 M € research contracts, 54% private sources
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Gut bacterial richness scan on a Q-PCR & nanostring platforms
Beyond discovery : impact on the society –engaging industry
To fix IBD… look at the MicrobiomeTHE FIRST NONINVASIVE GUT MICROBIOME BIOMARKER surrogate marker of
mucosal healing
Acknowledgments
Micro-Obese: K. Clement, JD. Zucker, J. Doré
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Merci beaucoup,Thank you very much!
And take good care of your microbiome…
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