TY - JOUR
T1 - Relationship between the bacterial community structures on human hair and scalp
AU - Watanabe, Kota
AU - Yamada, Azusa
AU - Nishi, Yuri
AU - Tashiro, Yukihiro
AU - Sakai, Kenji
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge Center for Advanced Instrumental and Educational Supports, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University for their support to use MiSeq. This work was supported by JSPS under the Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (Grant No. 20J12699).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry.
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - In this study, we investigated and compared characteristics of the bacterial community structures on hair (scalp hair) and scalp in 18 individuals. Significant differences were found between the sites, in terms of cell density, alpha and beta diversity, and relative abundance of the phyla, Firmicutes and Proteobacteria, whereas no difference was found in relative abundance of the phylum Actinobacteria. Bacteria of the genus Cutibacterium showed similar relative abundance at both sites, whereas those of genus Pseudomonas were highly abundant on hair, and those of genus Staphylococcus were significantly lesser in abundance on hair than on scalp. Statistical correlations between the sites were high for the individual relative abundance of five major operational taxonomic units (OTUs). This suggests that the bacterial community structure on hair is composed of hair-specific genus, Pseudomonas, and skin-derived genera, Cutibacterium and Staphylococcus, and is distinguishable from other human skin microbiomes.
AB - In this study, we investigated and compared characteristics of the bacterial community structures on hair (scalp hair) and scalp in 18 individuals. Significant differences were found between the sites, in terms of cell density, alpha and beta diversity, and relative abundance of the phyla, Firmicutes and Proteobacteria, whereas no difference was found in relative abundance of the phylum Actinobacteria. Bacteria of the genus Cutibacterium showed similar relative abundance at both sites, whereas those of genus Pseudomonas were highly abundant on hair, and those of genus Staphylococcus were significantly lesser in abundance on hair than on scalp. Statistical correlations between the sites were high for the individual relative abundance of five major operational taxonomic units (OTUs). This suggests that the bacterial community structure on hair is composed of hair-specific genus, Pseudomonas, and skin-derived genera, Cutibacterium and Staphylococcus, and is distinguishable from other human skin microbiomes.
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U2 - 10.1080/09168451.2020.1809989
DO - 10.1080/09168451.2020.1809989
M3 - Article
C2 - 32993459
AN - SCOPUS:85091728972
VL - 84
SP - 2585
EP - 2596
JO - Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry
JF - Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry
SN - 0916-8451
IS - 12
ER -