Bryce M. Connors, Jaron Thompson, Sarah Ertmer, Ryan L. Clark, Brian F. Pfleger, Ophelia S. Venturelli
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Abstract
Microbial communities offer vast potential across numerous sectors but remain challenging to systematically control. We develop a two-stage approach to guide the taxonomic composition of synthetic microbiomes by precisely manipulating media components and initial species abundances. By combining high-throughput experiments and computational modeling, we demonstrate the ability to predict and design the diversity of a 10-member synthetic human gut community. We reveal that critical environmental factors governing monoculture growth can be leveraged to steer microbial communities to desired states. Furthermore, systematically varied initial abundances drive variation in community assembly and enable inference of pairwise inter-species interactions via a dynamic ecological model. These interactions are overall consistent with conditioned media experiments, demonstrating that specific perturbations to a high-richness community can provide rich information for building dynamic ecological models. This model is subsequently used to design low-richness communities that display low or high temporal taxonomic variability over an extended period. A record of this paper’s transparent peer review process is included in the supplemental information.
Cell SystemsMedicine-Pathology and Forensic Medicine
CiteScore
16.50
自引率
1.10%
发文量
84
审稿时长
42 days
期刊介绍:
In 2015, Cell Systems was founded as a platform within Cell Press to showcase innovative research in systems biology. Our primary goal is to investigate complex biological phenomena that cannot be simply explained by basic mathematical principles. While the physical sciences have long successfully tackled such challenges, we have discovered that our most impactful publications often employ quantitative, inference-based methodologies borrowed from the fields of physics, engineering, mathematics, and computer science. We are committed to providing a home for elegant research that addresses fundamental questions in systems biology.