Fig. 7.

Genome analysis of 10 E. faecium strains reveals inflammatory and probiotic clusters. a Three (HD26a, HD50a, and HD59a) and 4 (IB6a, IB18a, IB44a, and IB50a) E. faecium strains were isolated from the feces of HD subjects and UC patients, respectively. The genotypes of 10 E. faecium strains, including the 3 HD-derived and 4 UC-derived strains, inflammatory strain ATCC 19434, and probiotic strains NCIMB 11181 and SF68, were examined by sequencing. All 1683 identified genes (except for those coding for hypothetical proteins) were used for hierarchical clustering analysis of the 10 E. faecium strains. b LDA was performed using LEfSe to identify significant differences in KEGG-based metabolic pathways in the genomes of the 10 strains to compare between the inflammatory cluster in which ATCC 19434 was included and the probiotic cluster in which NCIMB 11181 and SF68 were included. Differentially abundant pathways for which the corresponding LDA scores indicate P < 0.05 are shown in the graphs