Riboswitch Distribution in the Human Gut Microbiome Reveals Common Metabolite Pathways
Riboswitches are widely distributed, conserved RNAs which regulate metabolite levels in bacterial cells through direct, noncovalent binding of their cognate metabolite. Various riboswitch families are highly enriched in gut bacteria, suggestive of a symbiotic relationship between the host and bacteria. Previous studies of the distribution of riboswitches have examined bacterial taxa broadly. Thus, the distribution of riboswitches associated with bacteria inhabiting the intestines of healthy individuals is not well understood. To address these questions, we survey the gut microbiome for riboswitches by including an international database of prokaryotic genomes from the gut samples. Using Infernal, a program that uses RNA-specific sequence and structural features, we survey this data set using existing riboswitch models. We identify 22 classes of riboswitches with vitamin cofactors making up the majority of riboswitch-associated pathways. Our finding is reproducible in other representative databases from the oral as well as the marine microbiomes, underscoring the importance of thiamine pyrophosphate, cobalamin, and flavin mononucleotide in gene regulation. Interestingly, riboswitches do not vary significantly across microbiome representatives from around the world despite major taxonomic differences; this suggests an underlying conservation. Further studies elucidating the role of bacterial riboswitches in the host metabolome are needed to illuminate the consequences of our finding.
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