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. 2022 Nov 7;12:1037831. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2022.1037831

Table 1.

A summary of studies addressing changes in microbiota between breast cancer tissue, non-cancerous adjacent tissue and healthy breast tissue.

REF Mian methodology Sample type Microbiome related results
Normal breast tissue Non-cancerous adjacent tissues Breast cancer (BC)
(80) Pyrosequencing V4 16S rDNA
Pipeline: QIIME
20 BC patients Sphingomonas yanoikuyae Methylobacterium radiotolerans
(81) V3-V4 16S rRNA sequencing (Illumina)
Pipeline: UCLUST
57 women with invasive breast carcinoma and 21 healthy women Methylobacterium Alcaligenacea
(82) V3-V5 16S rRNA amplified sequencing data 668 tumor tissues and 72 normal adjacent tissues from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Actinobacteria and Firmicutes Proteobacteria, Mycobacterium fortuitum and Mycobacterium phlei
(83) V1-V2 16S rRNA sequencing (Illumina HiSeq) 22 Chinese patients with benign tumor and 72 malignant BC patients Propionicimonas, Micrococcaceae, Caulobacteraceae, Rhodobacteraceae, Nocardioidaceae and Methylobacteriaceae (Ethnicity-related);
Bacteroidaceae and ↑ Agrococcus (with malignancy)
(84) Pathochips array 20 normal breast tissue and 148 BC tissue Actinomyces, Aerococcus, Arcanobacterium, Bifidobacterium, Bordetella, Cardiobacterium, Corynebacterium, Eikenella, Fusobacterium, Geobacillus, Helicobacter, Kingella, Orientia, Pasteurella, Peptinophilus, Prevotella, Rothia, Salmonella, and Treponema
(85) Pathochips array 100 women with triple negative BC (TNBC), 17 matched controls and 20 non-matched controls Arcanobacterium (75%), Brevundimonas, Sphingobacteria, Providencia, Prevotella, Brucella, Eschherichia, Actinomyces, Mobiluncus, Propiniobacteria, Geobacillus, Rothia, Peptinophilus, and Capnocytophaga (Canimorsus)
Herpesviridae, Retroviridae, Parapoxviridae, Polyomaviridae, Papillomaviridae (virus)
(86) V3 16S-rRNA gene amplicons sequencing (Ion Torrent) 16 Mediterranean patients with BC Methylobacterium (↑Ralstonia) Sphingomonas
(87) V6 16S rRNA gene sequencing (Illumina MiSeq)
Pipeline: QIIME
58 women after surgery:13 benign, 45 cancerous tumors and 23 healthy women Prevotella, Lactococcus, Streptococcus, Corynebacterium and Staphylococcus Bacillus, Staphylococcus,
Enterobacteriaceae
(unclassified), Comamondaceae (unclassified) and Bacteroidetes (unclassified)
(88) V3-V5 16S rDNA hypervariable taq sequencing (Illumina MiSeq)
Pipeline: IM-TORNADO
28 women undergoing non-mastectomy breast surgery: 13 benign breast disease and 15 invasive BC Fusobacterium, Atopobium, Gluconacetobacter, Hydrogenophaga and Lactobacillus
(89) V4 16S rRNA gene sequencing (Illumina MiSeq)
Pipeline: Mothur
25 women with breast cancer and 23 healthy women ↓unclassified genus of the Sphingomonadaceae family in NAF Alistipes
(90) V4 16S rRNA gene sequencing (Illumina Miseq) 32 women with BC stage 0 to II Akkermansia muciniphila (AM) in BC patients with elevated body fat.
(91) V3-V4 and V7-V9 16S rRNA gene sequencing 221 patients with breast cancer, 18 individuals predisposed to breast cancer, and 69 controls. Stenotrophomonas
and Caulobacter
Propionibacterium and Staphylococcus
(92) 16s rRNA gene sequencing;Quantitative Insights into Microbial Ecology (QIIME) tool;RStudio Bilateral normal breast tissue samples (n = 36) and breast tumor samples (n = 10) ↑(OUT)[Mogibacteriaceae] family, and Flavobacterium, Acinetobacter,
and Brevibacillus genera
↑(OUT) Ruminococcaceae,
Rikenellaceae, genera Butyricimonas, Sutterella, and Akkermansia.
(93) Kraken2 and Metaphlan3 breast tumours and normal tissues (from cancer-free women) of 23 individuals (Slovak); 91 samples obtained from SRA database (China) Proteobacteria (47%), Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes and Actinobacteria (12%)(Slovak women);
Proteobacteria (42%), Firmicutes(42%), Actinobacteria (5%), Cyanobacteria (4%)
Acinetobacter, Rhodobacter, Micrococcus, order Corynebacteriales and Priestia megaterium (Slovak patients)
Streptomyces, viruses Siphoviridea and Myoviridae (China patient)
(94) Illumina MiSeq sequencing Tumor tissue and normal tissue in 34 women Actinobacteria,
Proteobacteria,
Firmicutes and Alpha-proteobacteria

↑ means up, ↓ means down.