Structural changes of gut microbiota in patients with Parkinson's disease / 中华神经科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the structural changes of gut microbiota in patients with Parkinson's disease ( PD).Methods Twenty-four PD patients and 14 healthy controls from Beijing Hospital in 2015 were recruited in this cross-sectional study.The general clinical information was collected and all subjects were assessed with Parkinson's disease related scales.The gut microbiota status between two groups was analyzed after extracting feces'DNA and carrying out high-throughput sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA.Results At the phylum level, actinobacteria (0.76%(0.13%, 1.85%) vs 0.14%(0.07%, 0.30%), Z＝2.784, P＜0.01) were significantly increased and bacteroidetes (57.28%(48.75%, 64.95%) vs 63.78%(56.72%, 68.21%), Z＝-4.963, P＜0.01) were significantly decreased in PD patients compared to healthy controls.At the class level, bacilli (0.52%(0.11%, 2.10%) vs 0.13%(0.05%, 0.16%), Z＝2.693, P＜0.01), negativicutes (5.04%(2.93%, 14.02%) vs 2.87%(1.46%, 4.43%), Z＝2.360, P＝0.018), actinobacteria (0.60%(0.10%, 1.59%) vs 0.12%(0.04%, 0.20%), Z＝2.512, P＝0.011 ), gammaproteobacteria ( 1.72%( 0.58%, 5.46%) vs 0.43%(0.24%, 2.19%), Z＝2.179, P＝0.029) were significantly increased in PD patients compared to healthy controls.At the family level, veillonellaceae (3.78%(0.53%, 13.82%) vs 0.49%(0.08%, 3.14%), Z＝2.754, P＜0.01), streptococcaceae (0.33%(0.09%, 0.69%) vs 0.19%(0.14%, 0.24%), Z＝1.770, P＝0.004), enterobacteriaceae (1.04%(0.40%, 4.95%) vs 0.20%(0.10%, 0.45%), Z＝2.784, P＜0.01 ), lactobacillaceae ( 0.079%( 0.014%, 0.575%) vs 0.003%(0.002%, 0.028%), Z＝3.119, P＜0.01), bifidobacteriaceae (0.60%(0.09%, 1.57%) vs 0.11%(0.03%, 0.19%), Z＝2.481, P＝0.012) were significantly increased and pasteurellaceae (0.009%(0.002%, 0.047%) vs 0.110%(0.022%, 0.898%), Z＝-2.545, P＝0.010) were significantly decreased in PD patients compared to healthy controls.Conclusions The structures of gut microbiota in PD patients and healthy controls were significantly different at the levels of phylum , class, and family.All these changes are potentially associated with the development of PD pathology.