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- Title
Microbial Community Transplant Results in Increased and Long-Term Oxalate Degradation.
- Authors
Miller, Aaron; Oakeson, Kelly; Dale, Colin; Dearing, M.
- Abstract
Gut microbes are essential for the degradation of dietary oxalate, and this function may play a role in decreasing the incidence of kidney stones. However, many oxalate-degrading bacteria are susceptible to antibiotics and the use of oxalate-degrading probiotics has only led to an ephemeral reduction in urinary oxalate. The objective of the current study was to determine the efficacy of using whole-community microbial transplants from a wild mammalian herbivore, Neotoma albigula, to increase oxalate degradation over the long term in the laboratory rat, Rattus norvegicus. We quantified the change in total oxalate degradation in lab rats immediately after microbial transplants and at 2- and 9-month intervals following microbial transplants. Additionally, we tracked the fecal microbiota of the lab rats, with and without microbial transplants, using high-throughput Illumina sequencing of a hyper-variable region of the 16S rRNA gene. Microbial transplants resulted in a significant increase in oxalate degradation, an effect that persisted 9 months after the initial transplants. Functional persistence was corroborated by the transfer, and persistence of a group of bacteria previously correlated with oxalate consumption in N. albigula, including an anaerobic bacterium from the genus Oxalobacter known for its ability to use oxalate as a sole carbon source. The results of this study indicate that whole-community microbial transplants are an effective means for the persistent colonization of oxalate-degrading bacteria in the mammalian gut.
- Subjects
GUT microbiome; OXALATES; KIDNEY stones; WHITE-throated wood rat; RIBOSOMAL RNA; ANAEROBIC bacteria
- Publication
Microbial Ecology, 2016, Vol 72, Issue 2, p470
- ISSN
0095-3628
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00248-016-0800-2