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Growth dynamics of gut microbiota in health and disease inferred from single metagenomic samples

Tal Korem, David Zeevi, Jotham Suez, Adina Weinberger, Sagi, Tali Avnit Sagi, Maya Pompan-Lotan, Elad Matot, Ghil Jona, Alon Harmelin, Nadav Cohen, Alexandra Sirota-Madi, Christoph Alexander Thaiss, Meirav Pevsner-Fischer, Rotem Sorek, Ramnik J. Xavier, Eran Elinav, Eran Segal

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Abstract

Metagenomic sequencing increased our understanding of the role of the microbiome in health and disease, yet it only provides a snapshot of a highly dynamic ecosystem. Here, we show that the pattern of metagenomic sequencing read coverage for different microbial genomes contains a single trough and a single peak, the latter coinciding with the bacterial origin of replication. Furthermore, the ratio of sequencing coverage between the peak and trough provides a quantitative measure of a species' growth rate. We demonstrate this in vitro and in vivo, under different growth conditions, and in complex bacterial communities. For several bacterial species, peak-to-trough coverage ratios, but not relative abundances, correlated with the manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease and type II diabetes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1101-1106
Number of pages6
JournalScience (New York, N.Y.)
Volume349
Issue number6252
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Sep 2015

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General

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