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September 15, 2026mSystemsOpen Access

A robustness-first cross-disease framework supports a candidate shared microbial redox axis and disease-specific metabolic divergence in colorectal cancer, Crohn’s disease, and liver cirrhosis

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KSKartika SahuPAPalok Aich

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Cross-sectional analysis uncovers a shared microbial redox vulnerability in gut-associated diseases, suggesting conserved bacterial targets for multiple distinct disorders.

Key Points

  • To determine whether colorectal cancer, Crohn’s disease, and liver cirrhosis share conserved gut microbial vulnerabilities using an analytically robust cross-disease framework.
  • Conducted a secondary cross-sectional analysis using public gut metagenomic and serum metabolomic datasets from colorectal cancer, Crohn's disease, and liver cirrhosis.
  • Introduced maximin optimization to systematically benchmark 1,152 preprocessing and model configurations across six classification tasks.
  • Identified a candidate 19-species signature where Firmicutes bacterium CAG:41 was the sole threshold-stable cross-disease taxon consistently depleted across all three conditions.
  • Demonstrated functional pathway convergence on sulfur-selenium redox metabolism and B-vitamin biosynthesis alongside predominantly disease-specific host metabolomic responses.
  • Found that Crohn's disease and liver cirrhosis are dominated by single discriminative taxa, whereas colorectal cancer requires community-level integration (exploratory validation AUC = 0.769, 95% bootstrap CI 0.678–0.849).

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Sahu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa9136e9013453be30a1557https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00836-26
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