Abstract
Objectives: To investigate the cutaneous microbiome spanning the entire psoriatic disease spectrum, and to evaluate distinguishing features of psoriasis (PsO) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Methods: Skin swabs were collected from upper and lower extremities of healthy individuals and patients with PsO and PsA. Psoriatic patients contributed both lesional (L) and contralateral non-lesional (NL) samples. Microbiota were analysed using 16S rRNA sequencing. Results: Compared with healthy skin, alpha diversity in psoriatic NL and L skin was significantly reduced (p<0.05) and samples clustered separately in plots of beta diversity (p<0.05). Kocuria and Cutibacterium were enriched in healthy subjects, while Staphylococcus was enriched in psoriatic disease. Microbe-microbe association networks revealed a higher degree of similarity between psoriatic NL and L skin compared with healthy skin despite the absence of clinically evident inflammation. Moreover, the relative abundance of Corynebacterium was higher in NL PsA samples compared with NL PsO samples (p<0.05), potentially serving as a biomarker for disease progression. Conclusions: These findings show differences in diversity, bacterial composition and microbe-microbe interactions between healthy and psoriatic skin, both L and NL. We further identified bacterial biomarkers that differentiate disease phenotypes, which could potentially aid in predicting the transition from PsO to PsA.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 223389 |
Journal | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases |
DOIs | |
State | Accepted/In press - 2022 |
Keywords
- Arthritis, Psoriatic
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Epidemiology
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Rheumatology
- Immunology and Allergy
- Immunology
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)