Colonic microbiota is associated with inflammation and host epigenomic alterations in inflammatory bowel disease

F. J. Ryan, A. M. Ahern, R. S. Fitzgerald, E. J. Laserna-Mendieta, E. M. Power, A. G. Clooney, K. W. O’Donoghue, P. J. McMurdie, S. Iwai, A. Crits-Christoph, D. Sheehan, C. Moran, B. Flemer, A. L. Zomer, A. Fanning, J. O’Callaghan, J. Walton, A. Temko, W. Stack, L. JacksonS. A. Joyce, S. Melgar, T. Z. DeSantis, J. T. Bell, F. Shanahan, M. J. Claesson

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Abstract

Studies of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have been inconclusive in relating microbiota with distribution of inflammation. We report microbiota, host transcriptomics, epigenomics and genetics from matched inflamed and non-inflamed colonic mucosa [50 Crohn’s disease (CD); 80 ulcerative colitis (UC); 31 controls]. Changes in community-wide and within-patient microbiota are linked with inflammation, but we find no evidence for a distinct microbial diagnostic signature, probably due to heterogeneous host-microbe interactions, and show only marginal microbiota associations with habitual diet. Epithelial DNA methylation improves disease classification and is associated with both inflammation and microbiota composition. Microbiota sub-groups are driven by dominant Enterbacteriaceae and Bacteroides species, representative strains of which are pro-inflammatory in vitro, are also associated with immune-related epigenetic markers. In conclusion, inflamed and non-inflamed colonic segments in both CD and UC differ in microbiota composition and epigenetic profiles.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1512
Number of pages12
JournalNature Communications
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Mar 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Data processing
  • Epigenomics
  • inflammatory bowel disease

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