空间宿主-微生物组测序揭示了小鼠肠道中的
Britta Lötstedt1,2,3, Martin Stražar4, Ramnik Xavier4,5,6
1Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Nature biotechnology
|November 21, 2023
概括
一种新的方法,空间宿主-微生物组测序 (SHM-seq),映射组织中的宿主细胞和微生物. 这揭示了肠道细胞和细菌在特定的空间中如何相互作用,进步了我们对共生和疾病的理解.
科学领域:
- 微生物学 微生物学
- 基因组学就是基因组学.
- 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.
- 免疫学 免疫学 免疫学
背景情况:
- 粘膜和屏障组织 (肠道,肺部,皮肤) 承载着对健康至关重要的复杂的细胞微生物网络.
- 了解宿主-微生物组共生及其在恒温和疾病中的作用需要高分辨率的表征.
- 现有的方法往往缺乏同时捕获空间,细胞和微生物信息的能力.
研究的目的:
- 开发一种全新的基于测序的方法,用于高分辨率的宿主微生物群相互作用的空间映射.
- 描述宿主细胞和微生物群落在本地组织环境中的空间组织.
- 调查细胞组成和微生物地理如何定义不同的空间利基,并影响宿主-细菌相互作用.
主要方法:
- 空间宿主微生物组测序 (SHM-seq):一种创新的技术可以修改空间条形码的玻璃表面.
- 同时从组织中直接捕获宿主多基化RNA和细菌16S rRNA高变区.
- 应用到小鼠肠道模型系统,加上深度学习用于数据映射和利基识别.
主要成果:
- SHM-seq成功捕获了组织组织学,宿主基因表达和微生物组成的空间分辨率.
- 通过特定的细胞群和微生物地理定义,在小鼠肠道内识别不同的空间.
- 证明肠道细胞亚种群表现出与区域共生细菌相关的独特基因表达程序,影响宿主-细菌相互作用.
结论:
- SHM-seq为剖析宿主微生物群相互作用的空间结构提供了前所未有的工具.
- 这项研究揭示了宿主细胞基因表达,微环境和居住微生物群落之间的直接联系.
- 这种方法具有很大的潜力,可以在健康和疾病状态下推进对宿主微生物动态的研究.
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