Summary of project PR001486

This data is available at the NIH Common Fund's National Metabolomics Data Repository (NMDR) website, the Metabolomics Workbench, https://www.metabolomicsworkbench.org, where it has been assigned Project ID PR001486. The data can be accessed directly via it's Project DOI: 10.21228/M8N999 This work is supported by NIH grant, U2C- DK119886.

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Project ID: PR001486
Project DOI:doi: 10.21228/M8N999
Project Title:Untargeted Fecal Metabolomic Analyses Across an Industrialization Gradient Reveal Shared Metabolites and Impact of Industrialization on Fecal Microbiome-Metabolome Interactions
Project Summary:The metabolome is a central determinant of human phenotypes and includes the plethora of small molecules produced by host and microbiome, or taken up from exogenous sources. However, studies of the metabolome have so far focused predominantly on urban, industrialized populations. Through an untargeted metabolomic analysis of 90 fecal samples from human individuals from Africa and the Americas—the birthplace and the last continental expansion of our species, respectively—we characterized a shared human fecal metabolome. The majority of detected metabolite features were ubiquitous across populations, despite any geographic, dietary, or behavioral differences. Such shared metabolite features included hyocholic acid and cholesterol. However, any characterization of the shared human fecal metabolome is insufficient without exploring the influence of industrialization. Here, we show chemical differences along an industrialization gradient, where the degree of industrialization correlates with metabolomic changes. We identified differential metabolite features like amino acid-conjugated bile acids and urobilin as major metabolic correlates of these behavioral shifts. Additionally, co-analyses with over 5,000 publicly available human fecal samples and co-occurrence probability analyses with the gut microbiome highlight connections between the human fecal metabolome and gut microbiome. Our results indicate that industrialization significantly influences the human fecal metabolome, but diverse human lifestyles and behavior still maintain a shared human fecal metabolome. This study represents the first characterization of the shared human fecal metabolome through untargeted analyses of populations along an industrialization gradient.
Institute:University of Oklahoma, Department of Anthropology
Laboratory:Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research
Last Name:Haffner
First Name:Jacob
Address:101 David L. Boren Blvd., Norman, Oklahoma, 73019, USA
Email:jacob.haffner@ou.edu
Phone:405-325-7381

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ST002320 Untargeted Fecal Metabolomic Analyses Across an Industrialization Gradient Reveal Shared Metabolites and Impact of Industrialization on Fecal Microbiome-Metabolome Interactions Homo sapiens University of Oklahoma MS* 2022-10-25 1 90 Uploaded data (1.2G)*
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