In situ profiling of the three dominant phyla within the human gut using taqman PCR for pre-hospital diagnosis of gut dysbiosis

Young Jae Jo, Setu Bazie Tagele, Huy Quang Pham, Yeongyun Jung, Jerald Conrad Ibal, Seungdae Choi, Gi Ung Kang, Sowon Park, Yunkoo Kang, Seung Kim, Hong Koh, Jae Ho Shin

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Abstract

A microbial imbalance called dysbiosis leads to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which can include ulcerative colitis (UC). Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), a novel therapy, has recently been successful in treating gut dysbiosis in UC patients. For the FMT technique to be successful, the gut microbiota of both the healthy donors and UC patients must be characterized. For decades, next-generation sequencing (NGS) has been used to analyze gut microbiota. Despite the popularity of NGS, the cost and time constraints make it difficult to use in emergency services and activities related to the periodic monitoring of microbiota profile alterations. Hence, in this study, we developed a multiplex TaqMan qPCR assay (MTq-PCR) with novel probes to simultaneously determine the relative proportions of the three dominant microbial phyla in the human gut: Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, and Proteobacteria. The relative proportions of the three phyla in fecal samples of either healthy volunteers or UC patients were similar when assessed NGS and the MTq-PCR. Thus, our MTq-PCR assay could be a practical microbiota profiling alternative for diagnosing and monitoring gut dysbiosis in UC patients during emergency situations, and it could have a role in screening stool from potential FMT donors.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1916
JournalInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences
Volume21
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Mar 2020

Keywords

  • Gut microbiota
  • Next generation sequencing
  • Primer design
  • QPCR
  • TaqMan probes
  • Ulcerative colitis

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