Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is highly effective against recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection and is considered a promising treatment for other microbiome-related disorders, but a comprehensive understanding of microbial engraftment dynamics is lacking, which prevents informed applications of this therapeutic approach. Here, we performed an integrated shotgun metagenomic systematic meta-analysis of new and publicly available stool microbiomes collected from 226 triads of donors, pre-FMT recipients and post-FMT recipients across eight different disease types. By leveraging improved metagenomic strain-profiling to infer strain sharing, we found that recipients with higher donor strain engraftment were more likely to experience clinical success after FMT (P = 0.017) when evaluated across studies. Considering all cohorts, increased engraftment was noted in individuals receiving FMT from multiple routes (for example, both via capsules and colonoscopy during the same treatment) as well as in antibiotic-treated recipients with infectious diseases compared with antibiotic-naïve patients with noncommunicable diseases. Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria species (including Bifidobacteria) displayed higher engraftment than Firmicutes except for six under-characterized Firmicutes species. Cross-dataset machine learning predicted the presence or absence of species in the post-FMT recipient at 0.77 average AUROC in leave-one-dataset-out evaluation, and highlighted the relevance of microbial abundance, prevalence and taxonomy to infer post-FMT species presence. By exploring the dynamics of microbiome engraftment after FMT and their association with clinical variables, our study uncovered species-specific engraftment patterns and presented machine learning models able to predict donors that might optimize post-FMT specific microbiome characteristics for disease-targeted FMT protocols.

Variability of strain engraftment and predictability of microbiome composition after fecal microbiota transplantation across different diseases / Ianiro, Gianluca; Punčochář, Michal; Karcher, Nicolai; Porcari, Serena; Armanini, Federica; Asnicar, Francesco; Beghini, Francesco; Blanco-Míguez, Aitor; Cumbo, Fabio; Manghi, Paolo; Pinto, Federica; Masucci, Luca; Quaranta, Gianluca; De Giorgi, Silvia; Sciumè, Giusi Desirè; Bibbò, Stefano; Del Chierico, Federica; Putignani, Lorenza; Sanguinetti, Maurizio; Gasbarrini, Antonio; Valles-Colomer, Mireia; Cammarota, Giovanni; Segata, Nicola. - In: NATURE MEDICINE. - ISSN 1546-170X. - 28:9(2022), pp. 1913-1923. [10.1038/s41591-022-01964-3]

Variability of strain engraftment and predictability of microbiome composition after fecal microbiota transplantation across different diseases

Karcher, Nicolai;Armanini, Federica;Asnicar, Francesco;Beghini, Francesco;Cumbo, Fabio;Manghi, Paolo;Pinto, Federica;Valles-Colomer, Mireia;Segata, Nicola
2022-01-01

Abstract

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is highly effective against recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection and is considered a promising treatment for other microbiome-related disorders, but a comprehensive understanding of microbial engraftment dynamics is lacking, which prevents informed applications of this therapeutic approach. Here, we performed an integrated shotgun metagenomic systematic meta-analysis of new and publicly available stool microbiomes collected from 226 triads of donors, pre-FMT recipients and post-FMT recipients across eight different disease types. By leveraging improved metagenomic strain-profiling to infer strain sharing, we found that recipients with higher donor strain engraftment were more likely to experience clinical success after FMT (P = 0.017) when evaluated across studies. Considering all cohorts, increased engraftment was noted in individuals receiving FMT from multiple routes (for example, both via capsules and colonoscopy during the same treatment) as well as in antibiotic-treated recipients with infectious diseases compared with antibiotic-naïve patients with noncommunicable diseases. Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria species (including Bifidobacteria) displayed higher engraftment than Firmicutes except for six under-characterized Firmicutes species. Cross-dataset machine learning predicted the presence or absence of species in the post-FMT recipient at 0.77 average AUROC in leave-one-dataset-out evaluation, and highlighted the relevance of microbial abundance, prevalence and taxonomy to infer post-FMT species presence. By exploring the dynamics of microbiome engraftment after FMT and their association with clinical variables, our study uncovered species-specific engraftment patterns and presented machine learning models able to predict donors that might optimize post-FMT specific microbiome characteristics for disease-targeted FMT protocols.
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Ianiro, Gianluca; Punčochář, Michal; Karcher, Nicolai; Porcari, Serena; Armanini, Federica; Asnicar, Francesco; Beghini, Francesco; Blanco-Míguez, Aitor; Cumbo, Fabio; Manghi, Paolo; Pinto, Federica; Masucci, Luca; Quaranta, Gianluca; De Giorgi, Silvia; Sciumè, Giusi Desirè; Bibbò, Stefano; Del Chierico, Federica; Putignani, Lorenza; Sanguinetti, Maurizio; Gasbarrini, Antonio; Valles-Colomer, Mireia; Cammarota, Giovanni; Segata, Nicola
Variability of strain engraftment and predictability of microbiome composition after fecal microbiota transplantation across different diseases / Ianiro, Gianluca; Punčochář, Michal; Karcher, Nicolai; Porcari, Serena; Armanini, Federica; Asnicar, Francesco; Beghini, Francesco; Blanco-Míguez, Aitor; Cumbo, Fabio; Manghi, Paolo; Pinto, Federica; Masucci, Luca; Quaranta, Gianluca; De Giorgi, Silvia; Sciumè, Giusi Desirè; Bibbò, Stefano; Del Chierico, Federica; Putignani, Lorenza; Sanguinetti, Maurizio; Gasbarrini, Antonio; Valles-Colomer, Mireia; Cammarota, Giovanni; Segata, Nicola. - In: NATURE MEDICINE. - ISSN 1546-170X. - 28:9(2022), pp. 1913-1923. [10.1038/s41591-022-01964-3]
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