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CELL HOST & MICROBE
Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 124-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2021.12.003
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- Sir Henry Dale Fellowship - Wellcome Trust [206245/Z/17/Z]
- Sir Henry Dale Fellowship - Royal Society [206245/Z/17/Z]
- Rosetrees Trust [A2194]
- Wellcome Trust [098051]
- Wellcome Trust [206245/Z/17/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
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This study constructed the Mouse Gastrointestinal Bacteria Catalogue (MGBC) to identify functionally equivalent taxa between the gut microbiotas of humans and mice. It also provided a publicly deposited collection of bacterial isolates to facilitate experimental investigation of individual commensal bacteria functions.
Human health and disease have increasingly been shown to be impacted by the gut microbiota, and mouse models are essential for investigating these effects. However, the compositions of human and mouse gut microbiotas are distinct, limiting translation of microbiota research between these hosts. To address this, we constructed the Mouse Gastrointestinal Bacteria Catalogue (MGBC), a repository of 26,640 high-quality mouse microbiota-derived bacterial genomes. This catalog enables species-level analyses for mapping functions of interest and identifying functionally equivalent taxa between the microbiotas of humans and mice. We have complemented this with a publicly deposited collection of 223 bacterial isolates, including 62 previously uncultured species, to facilitate experimental investigation of individual commensal bacteria functions in vitro and in vivo. Together, these resources provide the ability to identify and test functionally equivalent members of the host-specific gut microbiotas of humans and mice and support the informed use of mouse models in human microbiota research.
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