Journal of Oral Science Research ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (8): 716-718.DOI: 10.13701/j.cnki.kqyxyj.2020.08.003

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Metatranscriptome of Oral Microbiota and Oral Diseases

SU Zhifei, LI Jiyao*   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases & Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
  • Received:2019-11-21 Online:2020-08-28 Published:2020-08-18

Abstract: Oral microbiota, as a part of human microbiota, tightly impairs the development of oral diseases. Metatranscriptome is important method to explore the microbiota, since it precisely reveal the active composition and functions of a complex microbial community. In the paper, the relationship between metatranscriptome of oral microbiota and dental caries, periodontitis, and oral cancer is reviewed.

Key words: oral microbiota, transcriptome, oral diseases