PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hannah C. Wastyk
AU  - Gabriela K Fragiadakis
AU  - Dalia Perelman
AU  - Dylan Dahan
AU  - Bryan D Merrill
AU  - Feiqiao B. Yu
AU  - Madeline Topf
AU  - Carlos G. Gonzalez
AU  - Jennifer L. Robinson
AU  - Josh E. Elias
AU  - Erica D. Sonnenburg
AU  - Christopher D. Gardner
AU  - Justin L. Sonnenburg
TI  - Gut Microbiota-Targeted Diets Modulate Human Immune Status
AID  - 10.1101/2020.09.30.321448
DP  - 2020 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2020.09.30.321448
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/09/30/2020.09.30.321448.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/09/30/2020.09.30.321448.full
AB  - Diet modulates the gut microbiome, and gut microbes, in turn, can impact the immune system. Here, we used two gut microbiota-targeted dietary interventions, plant-based fiber or fermented foods, to determine how each influences the human microbiome and immune system in healthy adults. Using a 17-week randomized, prospective study design combined with -omics measurements of microbiome and host, including extensive immune profiling, we found distinct effects of each diet. High-fiber consumers showed increased gut microbiome-encoded glycan-degrading CAZymes despite stable community diversity. Three distinct immunological trajectories in high fiber-consumers corresponded to baseline microbiota diversity. Alternatively, the high-fermented food diet steadily increased microbiota diversity and decreased inflammatory markers. The data highlight how coupling dietary interventions to deep and longitudinal immune and microbiome profiling can provide individualized and population-wide insight. Our results indicate fermented foods may be valuable in countering the decreased microbiome diversity and increased inflammation pervasive in the industrialized society.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.