Conjunctival dysbiosis in mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 9; no. 1; p. 8424
• Main Authors: Asao, Kazunobu, Hashida, Noriyasu, Ando, Satoru, Motooka, Daisuke, Kurakami, Hiroyuki, Nakamura, Shota, Yamashita, Daisuke, Maruyama, Kazuichi, Kawasaki, Satoshi, Yamada, Tomomi, Iida, Tetsuya, Nishida, Kohji
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 10-06-2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 38/23; 38/77; 631/326/325/2482; 631/326/41/2531; 631/326/421; 692/420/254; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biodiversity; Case-Control Studies; Conjunctiva; Conjunctiva - microbiology; Deoxyribonucleic acid; Discriminant analysis; DNA; Dysbacteriosis; Dysbiosis - complications; Female; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Immunoglobulin A - metabolism; Lymphoma; Lymphoma, B-Cell, Marginal Zone - microbiology; Male; Microbiota; Middle Aged; Mucosa; Mucosal-associated lymphoid tissue; multidisciplinary; Nucleotide sequence; Principal Component Analysis; rRNA 16S; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Skin; Species Specificity; Support groups; Tears - metabolism
• ISSN: 2045-2322; 2045-2322
• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-44861-5

To investigate the conjunctival microbiota and the association between the development of conjunctival mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma and dysbiosis, DNA samples were collected from 25 conjunctival MALT lymphoma patients and 25 healthy controls. To compare the microbiota, samples were collected from the following four body locations: conjunctiva, meibomian gland, periocular skin and hand. Extracted DNA was analyzed by 16S rRNA sequences, and libraries were sequenced on an Illumina MiSeq sequencer. The differences in bacteria were characterized by using principal coordinate analysis of metagenomics data, and the differences in bacterial compositions were evaluated by linear discriminant analysis effect size. The conjunctival microbiota of MALT lymphoma patients was compositionally different from that of healthy controls. For the conjunctival MALT lymphoma patients, alterations in the microbial composition were detected, and a remarkable change was detected at the conjunctiva. Detailed analysis showed that a specific population of the microbiota, the genus
Delftia
, was significantly more abundant in conjunctival MALT lymphoma patients, and the genera
Bacteroides
and
Clostridium
were less abundant in the MALT lymphoma patients. A specific microbiota on the ocular surface in conjunctival MALT lymphoma patients was detected, and dysbiosis may play an important role in the pathophysiology of conjunctival MALT lymphoma.