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. 2023 Jun 15;46(6):1659–1673. doi: 10.1007/s13402-023-00832-7

Table 2.

Tumor microbiome predicted to upregulate pathways involved in epigenetic processes

Direction (tumours) Pathway # Fold Change BH p-value*
Up Glycine Betaine degradation M1 46.4 0.002
Nylon-6 oligomer degradation M2 2.1 0.001
Bifidobacterium shunt A3 1.9  < 0.001
Ketogluconate metabolism 4 1.8  < 0.001
Pyruvate fermentation to aceton A5 1.7  < 0.001
Acetyl-coA fermatiation to butanoate II A6 1.6 0.003
Photorespiration 7 1.5 0.003
Down S-adenosyl-L-methionine cycle I M−6 0.7 0.002
2-methylcitrate cycle I A−5 0.68 0.002
L-Glutamate and L-glutamine biosynthesis −4 0.65  < 0.001
NAD biosynthesis II−3 0.63 0.002
Pyridoxal 5'-phospahe biosynthesis I M−2 0.6 0.001
GDP-D-glycero-alpha-D-manno-heptose biosynthesis −1 0.1 0.002

*All pathways differentially predicted to be involved in the metabolism of the tumour microbiome (FC>1.3, Benjamini–Hochberg corrected p-value < 0.05). # Pathways associated with epigenetic modifiers are labelled as: methylation (M) or acetyl group donation (A)