PMID- 33191677 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20210101 IS - 2092-7355 (Print) IS - 2092-7363 (Electronic) IS - 2092-7355 (Linking) VI - 13 IP - 1 DP - 2021 Jan TI - Bacterial Microbiota-derived Extracellular Vesicles in Children With Allergic Airway Diseases: Compositional and Functional Features. PG - 56-74 LID - 10.4168/aair.2021.13.1.56 [doi] AB - PURPOSE: Bacterial extracellular vesicles (EVs) play crucial roles in bacteria-host interactions. Due to their cargo, EVs are considered fingerprints of the parent cell, which are detectable in body fluids. We studied the composition and function of bacterial microbiota-derived EVs genes in urine to evaluate whether they have specific characteristics concerning allergic airway disease. METHODS: Subjects were from elementary school surveys and classified into 3 groups according to questionnaires and sensitization to aeroallergens: the allergic airway group (AA, n = 16), atopic controls (AC, n = 7) and healthy controls (HC, n = 26). The bacterial EVs were isolated from voided urine samples, their nucleic acid was extracted for 16S ribosomal RNA pyrosequencing and then characterized using alpha-diversity, beta-diversity, network analysis, intergroup comparison of bacterial composition and predicted functions, and correlation with total immunoglobulin E (IgE), eosinophils% and fractional exhaled NO. RESULTS: The compositional alpha-diversity was the highest in AA, while functional alpha-diversity was the highest in HC. AA had a distinct clustering with the least intersample variation. Klebsiella, Haemophilus, members from Lachnospiraceae and Ruminococcaceae, and the pathways of sphingolipid and glycerolipid metabolism, and biosynthesis of peptidoglycan and lysine were the highest in AA and positively correlated with total IgE or eosinophil%. Genetic information processing function contributed to 48% of the intergroup variance and was the highest in AA. Diaphorobacter, Acinetobacter, and the pathways of short-chain fatty acids and anti-oxidants metabolism, lysine and xenobiotic degradation, and lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis were the lowest in AA and negatively correlated with total IgE or eosinophil%. The bacterial composition and function in AC were closer to those in HC. The bacterial network was remarkably dense in HC. CONCLUSIONS: The bacterial microbiota-derived EVs in urine possess characteristic features in allergic airway disease with a remarkable correlation with total IgE and eosinophil%. These findings suggest that they may play important roles in allergic airway diseases. CI - Copyright (c) 2021 The Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology . The Korean Academy of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Disease. FAU - Samra, Mona Salem AU - Samra MS AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6337-7049 AD - Department of Pediatrics, Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea. FAU - Lim, Dae Hyun AU - Lim DH AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4558-3284 AD - Department of Pediatrics, Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea. FAU - Han, Man Yong AU - Han MY AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9077-5779 AD - Department of Pediatrics, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University School of Medicine, Seongnam, Korea. FAU - Jee, Hye Mi AU - Jee HM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0128-065X AD - Department of Pediatrics, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University School of Medicine, Seongnam, Korea. FAU - Kim, Yoon Keun AU - Kim YK AD - MD Healthcare Inc., Seoul, Korea. FAU - Kim, Jeong Hee AU - Kim JH AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7054-8552 AD - Department of Pediatrics, Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea. kimjhmd@inha.ac.kr. LA - eng GR - Korean Ministry of the Environment/Korea GR - Seongnam Atopy Project of Seongnam City/Korea PT - Journal Article PL - Korea (South) TA - Allergy Asthma Immunol Res JT - Allergy, asthma & immunology research JID - 101518382 PMC - PMC7680829 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Microbiota OT - allergic rhinitis OT - asthma OT - bacteria OT - child OT - extracellular vesicles OT - hypersensitivity OT - metabolic networks and pathways OT - urine COIS- There are no financial or other issues that might lead to a conflict of interest. EDAT- 2020/11/17 06:00 MHDA- 2020/11/17 06:01 PMCR- 2021/01/01 CRDT- 2020/11/16 06:01 PHST- 2020/03/13 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/04/18 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/04/21 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/11/16 06:01 [entrez] PHST- 2020/11/17 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/11/17 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2021/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 13.56 [pii] AID - 10.4168/aair.2021.13.1.56 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Allergy Asthma Immunol Res. 2021 Jan;13(1):56-74. doi: 10.4168/aair.2021.13.1.56.