Artikel ; Online: Gut microbiome profiling of a rural and urban South African cohort reveals biomarkers of a population in lifestyle transition.
2020 Band 20, Heft 1, Seite(n) 330
Abstract: Background: Comparisons of traditional hunter-gatherers and pre-agricultural communities in Africa with urban and suburban Western North American and European cohorts have clearly shown that diet, lifestyle and environment are associated with gut ... ...
| Abstract | Background: Comparisons of traditional hunter-gatherers and pre-agricultural communities in Africa with urban and suburban Western North American and European cohorts have clearly shown that diet, lifestyle and environment are associated with gut microbiome composition. Yet, little is known about the gut microbiome composition of most communities in the very diverse African continent. South Africa comprises a richly diverse ethnolinguistic population that is experiencing an ongoing epidemiological transition and concurrent spike in the prevalence of obesity, largely attributed to a shift towards more Westernized diets and increasingly inactive lifestyle practices. To characterize the microbiome of African adults living in more mainstream lifestyle settings and investigate associations between the microbiome and obesity, we conducted a pilot study, designed collaboratively with community leaders, in two South African cohorts representative of urban and transitioning rural populations. As the rate of overweight and obesity is particularly high in women, we collected single time-point stool samples from 170 HIV-negative women (51 at Soweto; 119 at Bushbuckridge), performed 16S rRNA gene sequencing on these samples and compared the data to concurrently collected anthropometric data. Results: We found the overall gut microbiome of our cohorts to be reflective of their ongoing epidemiological transition. Specifically, we find that geographical location was more important for sample clustering than lean/obese status and observed a relatively higher abundance of the Melainabacteria, Vampirovibrio, a predatory bacterium, in Bushbuckridge. Also, Prevotella, despite its generally high prevalence in the cohorts, showed an association with obesity. In comparisons with benchmarked datasets representative of non-Western populations, relatively higher abundance values were observed in our dataset for Barnesiella (log Conclusions: Altogether, this work identifies putative microbial features associated with host health in a historically understudied community undergoing an epidemiological transition. Furthermore, we note the crucial role of community engagement to the success of a study in an African setting, the importance of more population-specific studies to inform targeted interventions as well as present a basic foundation for future research. |
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| Mesh-Begriff(e) | Adult ; Aged ; Bacteria/genetics ; Biomarkers ; Cohort Studies ; Diet ; Feces/microbiology ; Female ; Gastrointestinal Microbiome/genetics ; Humans ; Life Style/ethnology ; Microbiota/genetics ; Middle Aged ; Obesity/microbiology ; Pilot Projects ; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics ; Rural Population ; South Africa/ethnology |
| Chemische Substanzen | Biomarkers ; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Erscheinungsdatum | 2020-10-31 |
| Erscheinungsland | England |
| Dokumenttyp | Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
| ZDB-ID | 2041505-9 |
| ISSN | 1471-2180 ; 1471-2180 |
| ISSN (online) | 1471-2180 |
| ISSN | 1471-2180 |
| DOI | 10.1186/s12866-020-02017-w |
| Datenquelle | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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