Systematic analysis of gut microbiome reveals the role of bacterial folate and homocysteine metabolism in Parkinson's disease

Dorines Rosario, Gholamreza Bidkhori, Sunjae Lee, Janis Bedarf, Falk Hildebrand, Emmanuelle Le Chatelier, Mathias Uhlen, Stanislav Dusko Ehrlich, Gordon Proctor, Ullrich Wüllner, Adil Mardinoglu*, Saeed Shoaie

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Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common progressive neurological disorder compromising motor functions. However, nonmotor symptoms, such as gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction, precede those affecting movement. Evidence of an early involvement of the GI tract and enteric nervous system highlights the need for better understanding of the role of gut microbiota in GI complications in PD. Here, we investigate the gut microbiome of patients with PD using metagenomics and serum metabolomics. We integrate these data using metabolic modeling and construct an integrative correlation network giving insight into key microbial species linked with disease severity, GI dysfunction, and age of patients with PD. Functional analysis reveals an increased microbial capability to degrade mucin and host glycans in PD. Personalized community-level metabolic modeling reveals the microbial contribution to folate deficiency and hyperhomocysteinemia observed in patients with PD. The metabolic modeling approach could be applied to uncover gut microbial metabolic contributions to PD pathophysiology. Rosario et al. reveal the role of gut microbiome in Parkinson's disease (PD) through functional and compositional analysis and genome-scale metabolic modeling. Microbial capability of mucin and host glycans degradation is associated with disease severity. Gut-community metabolic modeling reveals the bacterial contribution to folic acid deficit and hyperhomocysteinemia in PD.

Original languageEnglish
Article number108807
JournalCell Reports
Volume34
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Mar 2021

Keywords

  • gut microbiota
  • gut-brain axis
  • metabolic modeling
  • metagenomics
  • Parkinson's disease

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