Structural and Functional Analysis of the Gut Microbiome for Toxicologists

Current Protocols in Toxicology
Robert G NicholsAndrew D Patterson

Abstract

Characterizing the reciprocal interactions between toxicants, the gut microbiota, and the host, holds great promise for improving our mechanistic understanding of toxic endpoints. Advances in culture-independent sequencing analysis (e.g., 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing) combined with quantitative metabolite profiling (i.e., metabolomics) have provided new ways of studying the gut microbiome and have begun to illuminate how toxicants influence the structure and function of the gut microbiome. Developing a standardized protocol is important for establishing robust, reproducible, and importantly, comparative data. This protocol can be used as a foundation for examining the gut microbiome via sequencing-based analysis and metabolomics. Two main units follow: (1) analysis of the gut microbiome via sequencing-based approaches; and (2) functional analysis of the gut microbiome via metabolomics. © 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Jul 14, 2020·Toxicological Sciences : an Official Journal of the Society of Toxicology·Vicki L SutherlandConnie Chen
Aug 17, 2019·Frontiers in Immunology·Margherita T CantornaAndrew D Patterson
Dec 23, 2021·Chemical Research in Toxicology·Y Lucia Wang

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