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Area of Science:

  • Microbiome research
  • Host-microbe interactions
  • Bioinformatics and imaging analysis

Background:

  • Genomic technologies have revealed microbial composition but not spatial organization.
  • Understanding microbial localization relative to host tissues is crucial for function.
  • Previous methods lacked high-throughput quantification of microbial spatial patterns.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a pipeline for assessing intestinal microbiota localization in host tissues.
  • To quantify microbial organization and host-epithelium proximity using immunofluorescence imaging.
  • To investigate the impact of microbiota-accessible carbohydrates (MACs) on microbial spatial distribution.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a flexible software package, BacSpace, for high-throughput image analysis.
  • Application of the pipeline to immunofluorescence images of fixed gut cross-sections.
  • Analysis of microbial proximity to host epithelium and microbe-microbe clustering in mouse models.

Main Results:

  • Eliminating microbiota-accessible carbohydrates (MACs) thinned distal colon mucus.
  • A MAC-deficient diet increased microbe-epithelium proximity and REG3β expression.
  • Dietary MACs altered microbial spatial clustering and Helicobacter pylori invasion patterns.

Conclusions:

  • The developed pipeline enables high-throughput quantification of microbial localization.
  • Dietary MACs significantly influence gut mucus layer and microbial spatial organization.
  • This approach is generalizable for studying host-microbe spatial dynamics, including pathogen invasion.