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Title: Development of an Enhanced Metaproteomic Approach for Deepening the Microbiome Characterization of the Human Infant Gut

Abstract

The early-life microbiota establishment in the human infant gut is highly variable and plays a crucial role in host nutrients and immunity maturation. While high-performance mass spectrometry (MS)-based metaproteomics is a powerful method for the functional characterization of complex microbial communities, the construction of comprehensive metaproteomic information in human fecal samples is inhibited by the presence of abundant human proteins. To alleviate this restriction, we have designed a novel metaproteomic strategy based on Double Filtering (DF) to enhance microbial protein characterization in complex fecal samples from healthy premature infants. We improved the overall depth of infant gut proteome measurement, with an increase in the number of identified low abundance proteins, and observed greater than twofold improvement in metrics for microbial protein identifications and quantifications with a relatively high rank correlation to control. We further showed the substantial enhancement of this approach for extensively interpreting microbial functional categories between infants by affording more detailed and confident identified categories. This approach provided an avenue for in-depth measurement in the microbial component of infant fecal samples and thus comprehensive characterization of infant gut microbiome functionality.

Authors:
 [1]; ;  [2];  [3];
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States). School of Medicine
  3. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1185517
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Proteome Research
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 14; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1535-3893
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES; Metaproteome; human infant gut; shotgun proteomics; double filtering

Citation Formats

Xiong, Weili, Richard J. Giannone, Morowitz, Michael J., Banfield, Jillian F., and Robert L. Hettich. Development of an Enhanced Metaproteomic Approach for Deepening the Microbiome Characterization of the Human Infant Gut. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1021/pr500936p.
Xiong, Weili, Richard J. Giannone, Morowitz, Michael J., Banfield, Jillian F., & Robert L. Hettich. Development of an Enhanced Metaproteomic Approach for Deepening the Microbiome Characterization of the Human Infant Gut. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/pr500936p
Xiong, Weili, Richard J. Giannone, Morowitz, Michael J., Banfield, Jillian F., and Robert L. Hettich. Tue . "Development of an Enhanced Metaproteomic Approach for Deepening the Microbiome Characterization of the Human Infant Gut". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/pr500936p. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1185517.
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title = {Development of an Enhanced Metaproteomic Approach for Deepening the Microbiome Characterization of the Human Infant Gut},
author = {Xiong, Weili and Richard J. Giannone and Morowitz, Michael J. and Banfield, Jillian F. and Robert L. Hettich},
abstractNote = {The early-life microbiota establishment in the human infant gut is highly variable and plays a crucial role in host nutrients and immunity maturation. While high-performance mass spectrometry (MS)-based metaproteomics is a powerful method for the functional characterization of complex microbial communities, the construction of comprehensive metaproteomic information in human fecal samples is inhibited by the presence of abundant human proteins. To alleviate this restriction, we have designed a novel metaproteomic strategy based on Double Filtering (DF) to enhance microbial protein characterization in complex fecal samples from healthy premature infants. We improved the overall depth of infant gut proteome measurement, with an increase in the number of identified low abundance proteins, and observed greater than twofold improvement in metrics for microbial protein identifications and quantifications with a relatively high rank correlation to control. We further showed the substantial enhancement of this approach for extensively interpreting microbial functional categories between infants by affording more detailed and confident identified categories. This approach provided an avenue for in-depth measurement in the microbial component of infant fecal samples and thus comprehensive characterization of infant gut microbiome functionality.},
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journal = {Journal of Proteome Research},
number = 1,
volume = 14,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Tue Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}

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