Bacterial community analysis on the different mucosal immune inductive sites of gastrointestinal tract in Bactrian camels

PLoS One. 2020 Oct 8;15(10):e0239987. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239987. eCollection 2020.

Abstract

The microbial communities colonize the mucosal immune inductive sites could be captured by hosts, which could initiate the mucosal immune responses. The aggregated lymphoid nodule area (ALNA) and the ileal Payer's patches (PPs) in Bactrian camels are both the mucosal immune inductive sites of the gastrointestinal tract. Here, the bacteria community associated with the ALNA and ileal PPs were analyzed using of 16S rDNA-Illumina Miseq sequencing. The mutual dominant bacterial phyla at the two sites were the Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Verrucomicrobia and Proteobacteria, and the mutual dominant genus in both sits was Prevotella. The abundances of the Fibrobacter, Campylobacter and RFP12 were all higher in ALNA than in ileal PPs. While, the abundances of the 5-7N15, Clostridium, and Escherichia were all higher in ileal PPs than in ALNA. The results suggested that the host's intestinal microenvironment is selective for the symbiotic bacteria colonizing the corresponding sites, on the contrary, the symbiotic bacteria could impact on the physiological functions of this local site. In ALNA and ileal PPs of Bactrian camel, the bacteria which colonized different immune inductive sites have the potential to stimulate different immune responses, which is the result of the mutual selection and adaptation between microbial communities and their host.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bacteria / genetics
  • Bacteria / isolation & purification
  • Bacteroidetes / genetics
  • Bacteroidetes / isolation & purification
  • Biodiversity
  • Camelus
  • Fibrobacter / genetics
  • Fibrobacter / isolation & purification
  • Gastrointestinal Tract / microbiology*
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
  • Immunity, Mucosal*
  • Lymphoid Tissue / immunology
  • Lymphoid Tissue / microbiology*
  • Microbiota*
  • Principal Component Analysis
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / chemistry
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / metabolism
  • Symbiosis

Substances

  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S

Grants and funding

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31960693 and 31760723) to W.H.W, and the URL is http://www.nsfc.gov.cn. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.