June 13, 2017

Excellent reviews across all sections, with many from the Nature Journals. Also, multiple articles on the tree of life and animal experiments.

General microbiome
1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life – Supratim Mukherjee – Nature Biotechnology

Lokiarchaea are close relatives of Euryarchaeota, not bridging the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes – Violette Da Cunha – PLoS Genetics

Review: Natural Products and the Gene Cluster Revolution – Paul R. Jensen – Trends in Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life
Review: How nutrition and the maternal microbiota shape the neonatal immune system – Andrew J. MacPherson – Nature Reviews Immunology

Multi-site human microbiome
Review: Role of oral and gut microbiome in nitric oxide mediated colon motility – Miriam Y. Walker – Nitric Oxide

Human skin microbiome
Review: Chemical signaling in mosquito–host interactions: the role of human skin microbiota – William Takken – Current Opinion in Insect Science

Human oral microbiome
Reduced Susceptibility to Antiseptics Is Conferred by Heterologous Housekeeping Genes – Supathep Tansirichaiya – Microbial Drug Resistance

Human gut microbiome
*Alcohol-associated intestinal dysbiosis impairs pulmonary host defense against Klebsiella pneumoniae – Derrick R. Samuelson – PLoS Pathogens

Review: Fungal dysbiosis: immunity and interactions at mucosal barriers – Ilian D. Iliev – Nature Reviews Immunology

Review: Transmission of the gut microbiota: spreading of health – Hilary P. Browne – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Editorial: Post-dieting weight gain: the role of persistent microbiome changes – Christoph A Thaiss – Future Microbiology

Animal experiments
*Thermoneutral housing exacerbates nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in mice and allows for sex-independent disease modeling – Daniel A. Giles – Nature Medicine

*Cold-induced conversion of cholesterol to bile acids in mice shapes the gut microbiome and promotes adaptive thermogenesis – A. Worthmann – Nature Medicine

Integrated Metagenomic Analyses of the Rumen Microbiome of Cattles Reveals Key Biological Mechanisms Associated with Methane Traits – Haiying Wang – Methods

Long-term multi-species Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium dietary supplement enhances memory and changes regional brain metabolites in middle-aged rats – Caroline O’Hagan – Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Soy compared with milk protein in a Western diet changes fecal microbiota and decreases hepatic steatosis in obese OLETF rats – Matthew R. Panasevich – Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Targeted metabolomics analysis of aromatic amino acids and their gut microbiota-host co-metabolites in rat serum and urine by liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry – Yifeng Zeng – Journal of Separation Science

Effect of cocoa’s theobromine on intestinal microbiota of rats – Sandra Martin-Pelaez – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Water and extremophile microbiome
Review: Microbial Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPSs) in Ocean Systems – Alan W. Decho – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Linking genes to microbial biogeochemical cycling: lessons from arsenic – Yong-Guan Zhu – Environmental Science and Technology

Food microbiology
Review: Extremozymes from metagenome: Potential applications in food processing – Mahejibin Khan – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Phages and viruses
Review: Interplay between viruses and bacterial microbiota in cancer development – Dariia Vyshenska – Seminars in Immunology

Bioinformatics
A novel method to determine the minimum number of sequences required for reliable microbial community analysis – Jiajia Ni – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Power and sample size calculations for high-throughput sequencing-based experiments – Chung-I Li – Briefings in Bioinformatics
Only a short section on microbiome.

Techniques
*A stabilized microbial ecosystem of self-limiting bacteria using synthetic quorum-regulated lysis – Spencer R. Scott – Nature Microbiology

Body fluid prediction from microbial patterns for forensic application – Eirik Nataas Hanssen – Forensic Science International: Genetics

Multi-locus and long amplicon sequencing approach to study microbial diversity at species level using the MinIONTM portable nanopore sequencer – Alfonso Benítez-Páez – GigaScience

Review: Phenotyping of gut microbiota: Focus on capillary electrophoresis – Manuel Ferrer – Electrophoresis

Review: Panacea in progress: CRISPR and the future of its biological research introduction – Michael Carroll – Microbiological Research

June 12, 2017

An unusually quiet Monday to start your week of microbiome literature. In the methods section, some new protocols from Springer’s “Diagnostic Bacteriology” volume. Enjoy!

General microbiome

Review: Influences of environmental bacteria and their metabolites on allergies, asthma and host microbiota
G Jatzlauk et al. – Allergy

Human gut microbiome

Microbiome and NAFLD: Potential Influence of Aerobic Fitness and Lifestyle Modification
Matthew R. Panasevich – Physiological Genomics

Mucosa-associated microbiota signature in colorectal cancer
R. Gao et al. – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Microbial diseases

Pre-print: Epistasis mediated alleviation of the cost of antibiotic resistance for MRSA
Maho Yokoyama et al. – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Alteration of gut microbiota in association with cholesterol gallstone formation in mice
Qihan Wang et al – BMC Gastroenterology

Improved detection of gene-microbe interactions in the mouse skin microbiota using high-resolution QTL mapping of 16S rRNA transcripts
Meriem Belheouane et al. – Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Symbionts in waiting: the dynamics of incipient endosymbiont complementation and replacement in minimal bacterial communities of psyllids
Jennifer L. Morrow et al – Microbiome

Diet shifts provoke complex and variable changes in the metabolic networks of the ruminal microbiome
Sara M. Wolff et al – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Novel microbial assemblages dominate weathered sulfide-bearing rock from copper-nickel deposits in the Duluth Complex, Minnesota, USA
DS Jones et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Water, estuarine and sediment microbiome

Colonization habitat controls biomass, composition, and metabolic activity of attached microbial communities in the Columbia River hyporheic corridor
N Stern et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Microbial biotechnology

Efficacy of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens as biocontrol agent to fight fungal diseases of maize under tropical climates: from lab to field assays in south Kivu
Parent Zihalirwa Kulimushi et al. – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Food microbiology

RNA-based amplicon sequencing highlights the impact of the processing technology on microbiota composition of artisanal and industrial PDO Lard d’Arnad
I Ferrocino et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

General microbiology and evolution

Nitrogen-source stabilization of quorum sensing in the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bioaugmentation strain SD-1
M Wang et al – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Phages and viruses

Pre-print: Gene networks provide a high-resolution view of bacteriophage ecology
Jason Shapiro & Catherine Putonti – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics and statistics

MetabolitePredict: a de-novo human metabolomics prediction system and its applications in rheumatoid arthritis
Quan Qiu Wang & Rong Xu – Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Techniques and methods

Protocol: Detection of Helicobacter pylori in the Gastric Mucosa by Fluorescence In Vivo Hybridization
Silvia Fontenete et al. – Diagnostic Bacteriology

Protocol: Detection of Helicobacter pylori DNA in Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Gastric Biopsies Using Laser Microdissection and qPCR
María Fernanda Loayza Villa et al. – Diagnostic Bacteriology

Protocol: Characterization of Sinus Microbiota by 16S Sequencing from Swabs
Thad W. Vickery et al. – Diagnostic Bacteriology

Protocol: Whole-Genome Enrichment Using RNA Probes and Sequencing of Chlamydia trachomatis Directly from Clinical Samples
Amanda Claire Brown & Mette T. Christiansen

Microbes in the news

Bacteria Behind Legionnaires’ Disease Found at New York Police Station
Ashley Southall – The New York Times

Science, publishing, and career

Microbiology Graduate Program – University of California

11 June, 2017

Events and jobs

Doctoral researcher in Microbiology/Virology – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ – Germany

General microbiome

Review: Role of Gut Microbiota in Rheumatoid Arthritis – Y. Maeda – Journal of Clinical Medicine
Review: The Mycobiome: Impact on Health and Disease States –  N. El-Jurdi – Microbiology Spectrum

Pregnancy and early life

Review: Early-Life Host–Microbiome Interphase: The Key Frontier for Immune Development – N. Amenyogbe – Frontiers in Pediatrics

Human skin microbiome

Temporal Dynamics Of Relative Abundances And Bacterial Succession In Chronic Wound Communities – C.D. Tipton – Wound Repair and Regeneration

Human vaginal microbiome

Therapeutic Opportunities in the Vaginal Microbiome – G. Reid – Microbiology Spectrum

Human gut microbiome

Review: Microbial Impact on Host Metabolism: Opportunities for Novel Treatments of Nutritional Disorders? – H. Plovier – Microbiology Spectrum
Nickel-resistant bacteria isolated in human microbiome – E.A. Lusi – New Microbes and New Infections

Animal experiments

Keratin 8 reduces colonic permeability and maintains gut microbiota homeostasis, protecting against colitis and colitisassociated tumorigenesis – C. Liu – Oncotarget
Evolution of commensal bacteria in the intestinal tract of mice – A. Sousa – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Animal microbiome

Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis in Postweaning Piglets: Understanding the Keys to Health – R. Gresse – Trends in Microbiology
Diet shifts provoke complex and variable changes in the metabolic networks of the ruminal microbiome – S.M. Wolff – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Community analysis of Persian oak fungal microbiome under dust storm conditions – N.H. Doust – Fungal Ecology
Maternal effects on phenotype, resistance and the structuring of fungal communities in Eucalyptus grandis – M. Vivas – Environmental and Experimental Botany
Review: Iron and Immunity – E.H. Verbon – Annual Review of Phytopathology
Dispersal enhances beta diversity in nectar microbes – R.L. Vannette – Ecology Letters

Water and extremophile microbiome

Application of long amplicon propidium monoazide-PCR to assess the effects of temperature and background microbiota on pathogens in river water – A. Banihashemi – Journal of Water and Health

Microbes in the news

Gut bacteria can stop cancer drugs from working – S. Reardon – Nature News
Fungi revive starving bacteria – K. Evans – Labroots
Did the microbiome help drive human evolution? – S.E. Erdman – STAT news

June 10, 2017

Jobs and events

Two tenure-track assistant professor or associate professors – Department of Plant and Microbial Biology – College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota

Sign up for the webinar by Edward Messick, GENEWIZ – Topic: Metagenomics for Biomarker Discovery: Applications in Precision Medicine – Webinar date and time: June 14, 2017 at 5 PM

 

General microbiome

Ferrous Iron Efflux Systems in Bacteria – H Pi – Metallomics

Metagenomics of microbial and viral life in terrestrial geothermal environments – A Strazzulli – Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology

Bacterial Infections in Neonates Following Mupirocin-Based MRSA Decolonization: A Multicenter Cohort Study – R Pierce – Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

 

Human gut microbiome

Interindividual variability of soil arsenic metabolism by human gut microbiota using SHIME model –  N Yin – Chemosphere

Report: Daily Changes in Composition and Diversity of the Intestinal Microbiota in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa: A Series of Three Cases – SC Kleiman – European Eating Disorders Review

 

Animal experiment

A Targeted Metabolomics Analysis Identifies Intestinal Microbiota-Derived Urinary Biomarkers of Colonization Resistance in Antibiotic-Treated Mice – ME Obrenovich – Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

 

Animal microbiome

Molecular dialogues with the microbiota: Lessons from the zebrafish intestine – K Guillemin – Mechanisms of Development

 

Plant, root and soil microbiome

The nodule microbiome; N2-fixing rhizobia do not live alone  – P  Martínez-Hidalgo – Phytobiomes Journal

Decreased plant productivity resulting from plant group removal experiment constrains soil microbial functional diversity – X Zhang – Global Change Biology

Turnover of carbon and phosphorus in the microbial biomass depending on phosphorus availability – M Spohn – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Effect of soil preparation techniques on the biochemical properties and microbial communities of a citrus orchard after replanting and conversion into organic management – A Pérez-Piqueres – Applied Soil Ecology

 

Water microbiome and extremophile

Review: The Vulnerability and Resilience of Reef-Building Corals – HM Putnam – Current Biology

Bacterial and archaeal community structure of pan-Arctic Ocean sediments revealed by pyrosequencing – X Lin – Acta Oceanologica Sinica

Genetic diversity of nitrate reducing bacteria in marine and brackish water nitrifying bacterial consortia generated for activating nitrifying bioreactors in recirculating aquaculture systems – PG Preena – Aquaculture Research

 

Techniques

Integrated transcriptomic, proteomic and epigenomic analysis of Plasmodium vivax salivary-gland sporozoites – A Jex – bioRxiv

Discrimination of haloarchaeal genera using Raman spectroscopy and robust methods for multivariate data analysis – NE Dina – Journal of Raman Spectroscopy

 

Metabolomics

Comparative metabolomics in vanilla pod and vanilla bean revealing the biosynthesis of vanillin during the curing process of vanilla –  F Gu – AMB Express

 

Phages

A highly specific phage defense system is a conserved feature of the Vibrio cholerae mobilome – BJ O’ Hara – PLoS Genetics

 

Built environment microbiome

Warm and wet: robust lipase-producing bacteria from the indoor environment – K Tanner – bioRxiv

Impacts of biostimulation and bioaugmentation on the performance and microbial ecology in methanogenic reactors treating purified terephthalic acid wastewater – M Liu – Water Research

 

More microbes

Viral Encephalitis of Unknown Cause: Current Perspective and Recent Advances – PGE Kennedy – Viruses

Protozoa and microbiome  – SL Burgess – Infection and Immunity

Reciprocal control of motility and biofilm formation by the PdhS2 two-component sensor kinase of Agrobacterium tumefaciens  – JE Heindl – bioRxiv

Intercellular communication via the comX-Inducing Peptide (XIP) of Streptococcus mutans – J Kaspar – bioRxiv

Hammondia hammondi has a developmental program in vitro that mirrors its stringent two host life cycle – SL Sokol – bioRxiv

 

Microbes in news

Engineering ‘good’ bacteria to kill bad ones – The Straits Times

White or wholemeal? It depends on your gut bacteria – A Middleton – Cosmos

Ixcela Announces Partnership with ORACLE TEAM USA to Improve Athletes’ Internal Health and Performance – Business Wire

New Study Finds Gut Bacteria May Inhibit Cancer Drugs – K Lant – Futurism

Therapy could stop superbugs on farms – P Ghosh – BBC News

SHU students travel to present phages research – P Parise – Setonian Online

June 9, 2017

Effects of prebiotics on body fat and gut microbiota of children, a review on the phage community of the human gut, a metabolomics study of the rodent brain to analyze the influence of gut bacteria.

Pregnancy and early life

Clostridium difficile colonization and/or infection during infancy and the risk of childhood allergic diseases – Sun Hwa Lee – Korean Journal of Pediatrics

Human vaginal microbiome

Association of vaginal dysbiosis and biofilm with contraceptive vaginal ring biomass in African women – Liselotte Hardy – PLOS ONE

Human gut microbiome

Age-Related Changes in the Composition of Gut Bifidobacterium Species – Kumiko Kato – Current Microbiology

Review: The low FODMAP diet: recent advances in understanding its mechanisms and efficacy in IBS – Heidi M Staudacher – Gut

Animal experiments

Antibiotics in 16-day-old broilers temporarily affect microbial and immune parameters in the gut – H J Wisselink – Poultry Science

Weaned beef calves fed selenium-biofortified alfalfa hay have an enriched nasal microbiota compared with healthy controls – Jean A Hall – PLOS ONE

The artificial sweetener acesulfame potassium affects the gut microbiome and body weight gain in CD-1 mice – Xiaoming Bian – PLOS ONE

Effects of different n-6 to n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids ratio on reproductive performance, fecal microbiota and nutrient digestibility of gestation-lactating sows and suckling piglets – Jia Yin – Animal Science Journal

Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protein 2 (Nod2) modulates T1DM susceptibility by gut microbiota – Yang-yang Li – Journal of Autoimmunity

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Kinetic analysis of aerobic biotransformation pathways of a perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) precursor in distinctly different soils – Lilan Zhang – Environmental Pollution

Plant breeding goes microbial – Zhong Wei – Trends in Plant Science

Atrazine, chlorpyrifos, and iprodione effect on the biodiversity of bacteria, actinomycetes, and fungi in a pilot biopurification system with a green cover – Sebastian Elgueta – Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B

Probiotics/prebiotics

Prebiotic Reduces Body Fat and Alters Intestinal Microbiota in Children With Overweight or Obesity – Alissa C Nicolucci – Gastroenterology

Phages and viruses

Review: The Human Gut Phage Community and Its Implications for Health and Disease – Pilar Manrique – Viruses

Metabolomics

Application of 1H NMR spectroscopy to the metabolic phenotyping of rodent brain extracts: A metabonomic study of gut microbial influence on host brain metabolism – J R Swann – Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

More microbes

Multi-locus and ultra-long amplicon sequencing approach to study microbial diversity at species level using the MinION(TM) portable nanopore sequencer – Alfonso Benítez-Páez – bioRxiv

ComM is a hexameric helicase that promotes branch migration during natural transformation in diverse Gram-negative species – Thomas M Nero – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Microbiology: Many forks make light work – ScienceDaily

Fungi awake bacteria from their slumber – ScienceDaily

Microbes on the market

Seres Completes Enrollment for SER-287 Phase 1b Clinical Trial in Patients with UC – Daniela Semedo – IBD News Today

June 8, 2017

Modeling colon physiology to predict microbiota growth, a review of plant-bacteria genome-wide association studies, sporeforming bacteria isolated from beer.

General microbiome

Review: Systematic Review: The Impact of Cancer Treatment on the Gut and Vaginal Microbiome in Women With a Gynecological Malignancy – Ann Muls – International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Pregnancy and early life

Contributions of the maternal oral and gut microbiome to placental microbial colonization in overweight and obese pregnant women – Luisa F Gomez-Arango – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Bread Affects Clinical Parameters and Induces Gut Microbiome-Associated Personal Glycemic Responses – Tal Korem – Cell Metabolism

* Global metabolic interaction network of the human gut microbiota for context-specific community-scale analysis – Jaeyun Sung – Nature Communications

The gut metagenome changes in parallel to waist circumference, brain iron deposition and cognitive function – Gerard Blasco – Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Gut microbiota composition in relation to the metabolic response to 12-week combined polyphenol supplementation in overweight men and women – J Most – European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Complete genome sequence of Clostridium perfringens CBA7123 isolated from a faecal sample from Korea – Yeon Bee Kim – Gut Pathogens

Review: The Research Progress on Intestinal Stem Cells and Its Relationship with Intestinal Microbiota – Qihang Hou – Frontiers in Immunology

Review: Gut microbiota: Intestinal fungi fuel the inflammatory fire in alcoholic liver disease – Hugh Thomas – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

* Effect of water flow and chemical environment on microbiota growth and composition in the human colon – Jonas Cremer – PNAS

Animal experiments

Gut-Associated Lymphoid Tissue: A Key Tissue Inside the Mucosal Immune System of Hens Immunized with Escherichia coli F4 – Maria F Peralta – Frontiers in Immunology

Gut Dysbiosis and Neurobehavioral Alterations in Rats Exposed to Silver Nanoparticles – Angela B Javurek – Scientific Reports

Improved detection of gene-microbe interactions in the mouse skin microbiota using high-resolution QTL mapping of 16S rRNA transcripts – Meriem Belheouane – Microbiome

In Vitro Study of the Metabolic Characteristics of Eight Isoquinoline Alkaloids from Natural Plants in Rat Gut Microbiota – Chi-Yu He – Molecules

Animal microbiome

Symbionts in waiting: the dynamics of incipient endosymbiont complementation and replacement in minimal bacterial communities of psyllids – Jennifer L Morrow – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Applying community ecological theory to maximize productivity of cultivated biocrusts – Matthew A Bowker – Ecological Applications

Is soil microbial diversity affected by soil and groundwater salinity? Evidences from a coastal system in central Italy – Loredana Canfora – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

* Review: Genome-Wide Association Studies In Plant Pathosystems: Toward an Ecological Genomics Approach – Claudia Bartoli – Frontiers in Plant Science

Linking rhizosphere microbiome composition of wild and domesticated Phaseolus vulgaris to genotypic and root phenotypic traits – Juan E Pérez-Jaramillo – The ISME Journal

Water and extremophile microbiome

Changes in Microbial (Bacteria and Archaea) Plankton Community Structure after Artificial Dispersal in Grazer-Free Microcosms – Hera Karayanni – Microorganisms

Identifying the core seed bank of a complex boreal bacterial metacommunity – Clara Ruiz-González – The ISME Journal

Genomic insights into temperature-dependent transcriptional responses of Kosmotoga olearia, a deep-biosphere bacterium that can grow from 20oC to 79oC – Stephen M J Pollo – bioRxiv

Transient exposure to oxygen or nitrate reveals ecophysiology of fermentative and sulfate-reducing benthic microbial populations – Zainab Abdulrahman Beiruti – bioRxiv

Food microbiology

Evolution of class 1 integrons: Mobilization and dispersal via food-borne bacteria – Timothy M Ghaly – PLOS ONE

* Sporeforming bacteria in beer: Occurrence, diversity, presence of hop resistance genes and fate in alcohol-free and lager beers – Allan R G Munford – Food Control

Probiotics/prebiotics

Probiotic Bifidobacterium bifidum G9-1 attenuates 5-fluorouracil-induced intestinal mucositis in mice via suppression of dysbiosis-related secondary inflammatory responses – Shinichi Kato – Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Review: The Role of the Microbiome and the use Of Probiotics in Gastrointestinal Disorders in Adults in the Asia-Pacific Region – Uday C Goshal – Journal of Gastroenterology and Hematology

Phages and viruses

Evolution of selective-sequencing approaches for virus discovery and virome analysis – Arvind Kumar – Virus Research

Techniques

Review: Novel approaches in function-driven single-cell genomics – Devin F R Doud – FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Fast Method for the determination of Short-chain-length Polyhydroxyalkanoates (scl-PHAs) in Bacterial Samples by In Vial-Thermolysis (IVT) – Federica Abbondanzi – New Biotechnology

Microbes in the news

Are Pets the New Probiotic? – Richard Schiffman – The New York Times

Gut bacteria could protect cancer patients and pregnant women from Listeria, study suggests – EurekAlert

Impact of protective bacteria linked to infection route, study finds – EurekAlert

June 6, 2017

Short digest today!
Events and jobs

R&D Scientist (Microbiome) – USANA – Salt Lake City, UT

Human respiratory microbiome

Temporal changes in the nasal microbiota and host antimicrobial responses to intranasal mupirocin decolonisation: Observations in healthy staphylococcal carriers – Su-Hsun Liu – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Coordinated responses of soil communities to elevation in three subarctic vegetation types – G. F. (Ciska) Veen – Oikos

Water and extremophile microbiome

Impact of ferrous iron on microbial community of the biofilm in microbial fuel cells – Qian Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

The deep-sea microbial community from the Amazonian Basin associated with oil degradation – Mariana E. Campeão – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial community structure of deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the ultraslow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge – Jian Ding – Frontiers in Microbiology

Draft Genome Sequences of Thermophiles Isolated from Yates Shaft, a Deep-Subsurface Environment – Nitin K. Singh – Genome Announcements

Phages and viruses

Characterisation of the canine faecal virome in healthy dogs and dogs with acute diarrhoea using shotgun metagenomics – Paloma S. Moreno – PLOS ONE

Microbes in the news

Microbe from Yogurt Impedes Drug-Resistant Bacteria – Aggie Mika – The Scientist

June 5, 2017

Microbiology today

We have a group of nice articles on careers in microbiology and chance to view  “Women in Microbiology – Esther Lederberg” a live session from Microbe 2017. Science articles today include Predictors of phenotypic switching in bacteria, Determinants of bone mass regulation by the gut microbiota (in mice), and Phylogenetic and functional diversity of bacteria in soils.

Events and jobs

Microbiology Associate – CryoLife Inc – Kennesaw, GA

General microbiome

Preprint: Dynamical predictors of an imminent phenotypic switch in bacteria – H. Wang – BioRxiv

Preprint: Metabolic changes of the host-pathogen environment in a Cryptosporidium infection – C. Miller – BioRxiv

Human respiratory microbiome

The microbial changes in subgingival plaques of orthodontic patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials – R. Guo – BMC Oral Health

The lung microbiota (in French) – M. Ploton – Archives de Pédiatrie

Human gut microbiome

Review: Gut microbiota and acute graft-versus-host disease – K. Yoshioka – Pharmacological Research

Animal experiments

Preprint: Chondroitin Sulfate Flourishes Gut Sulfatase-Secreting Bacteria To Damage Mucus Layers, Leak Bacterial Debris, And Trigger Inflammatory Lesions In Mice – T. Liao – BioRxiv

Regulation of bone mass by the gut microbiota is dependent on NOD1 and NOD2 signaling – C. Ohlsson – Cellular Immunology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Phylogenetic and functional diversity of total (DNA) and expressed (RNA) bacterial communities in urban green infrastructure bioswale soils – A. Gill – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Enhanced test for urinary tract infections detects more bacteria than standard test – MedicalXpress

Vaginal Bacteria Alter Sexual Transmission Of Zika And Herpes Simplex Virus-2 – ASM Press Release

Science, publishing, and career

Women In Microbiology – Esther Lederberg – Chris Condayan – ASM

Careers In Microbiology – An Insiders’ Guide To Finding A Job – Chris Condayan – ASM

Microbiology Careers: Which One Is Right For You? – Chris Condayan – ASM

June 4, 2017

Some exciting papers in the sections- General microbiome & Microbes in news, to get you through Sunday!

General microbiome

The 5D Framework: A Clinical Primer for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation to Treat Clostridium difficile infection – JR Allegretti – Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Abatement of AO7 in a divided microbial fuel cells by sequential cathodic and anodic treatment powered by different microorganisms – G Riccobono – Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry

THE MICROBIOME AND TRANSFUSION IN CANCER PATIENTS – H Goubran – Transfusion and Apheresis Science

« Olsenella congonensis» sp.nov., identified in human stool sample – M Bilen – New Microbes and New Infections

Description of “Blautia phocaeensis” sp.nov., and “Lachnoclostridium edouardi” sp. nov., isolated from healthy fresh stools of Saudii Arabia bedouins by culturomics – SI Traore  – New Microbes and New Infections

Sulfur-driven iron reduction coupled to anaerobic ammonium oxidation – P Bao – Environmental Science and Technology

 

Animal microbiome

Diversity and composition of cultivable gut bacteria in an endemic island bird and its mainland sister species – E Lobato – Symbiosis

Modulation of ruminal fermentation profile and microbial abundance in cows fed diets treated with lactic acid, without or with inorganic phosphorus supplementation – E Mickdam – Animal Feed Science and Technology

A pea (Pisum sativum L.) seed albumin extract prevents colonic DSS induced dysbiosis in mice – I Aranda-Olmedo – Journal of Functional Foods

 

Human respiratory microbiome

The Respiratory Microbiome: Beyond the Culture – E Monsó – Archivos de Bronconeumología

WS03.7 Coexistence of prey and predator bacteria in cystic fibrosis lung microbiota – J. de Dios-Caballero – Journal of Cystic Fibrosis

 

Human gut microbiome

The gut bacterium and pathobiont Bacteroides vulgatus activates NF-κB in a human gut epithelial cell line in a strain and growth phase dependent manner – P Ó Cuív – Anaerobe

Chlorogenic acid versus amaranth’s caffeoylisocitric acid – Gut microbial degradation of caffeic acid derivatives – M Vollmer – Food Research International

Consumption effect of a synbiotic beverage made from soy and yacon extracts containing Bifidobacterium animalis ssp. lactis BB-12 on the intestinal polyamine concentrations in elderly individuals – MSJ Manzoni – Food Research International

Review: Effect of diet and gut environment on the gastrointestinal formation of N-nitroso compounds: A review – J Kobayashi – Nitric Oxide

Atopic dermatitis and food sensitization in South African toddlers : Role of fiber and gut microbiota – M Mahdavinia – Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology

 

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Significant Impacts of Increasing Aridity on the Arid Soil Microbiome – JW Neilson – mSystems

Consequences of tropical forest conversion to oil palm on soil bacterial community and network structure – SA Wood – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

The response of archaeal species to seasonal variables in a subtropical aerated soil: insight into the low abundant methanogens – W Xie – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Relative roles of competition, environmental selection and spatial processes in structuring soil bacterial communities in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau – J Zhou – Applied Soil Ecology

Isolation and identification of endophytic bacteria with plant growth promoting and biocontrol potential from oak trees – F Tashi-Oshnoei – Forest Pathology

Illumina-Based Sequencing Analysis Directed Selection for Actinobacterial Probiotic Candidates for Banana Plants – X Du – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

The influence of land use intensity on the plant-associated microbiome of Dactylis glomerata L. – J Estendorfer – Frontiers in Plant Science

 

Water microbiome and extremophiles

An overlooked nitrogen loss linked to anaerobic ammonium oxidation in estuarine sediments in China – XR Yang – Journal of Soils and Sediments

 

Food microbiology

Evolution of microbiota during spontaneous and inoculated Tonda di Cagliari table olives fermentation and impact on sensory characteristics – R Comunian – LWT-Food Science and Technology

PCR-DGGE markers for qualitative profiling of microbiota in raw milk and ripened cheeses – B Nalepa – LWT-Food Science and Technology

Identification of enzymatic activities involved in agave fructan consumption by Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis ATCC 15697 – E Cuevas-Juárez – Journal of Functional Foods

 

Techniques

Photodynamic Therapy With Methylene Blue for Skin Ulcers Infected With Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Fusarium spp – C Aspiroz – Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas

 

Phages

Antibacterial efficacy of nisin, bacteriophage P100 and sodium lactate against Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat sliced pork ham – ACL Figueiredo – Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

 

More microbes

Spore forming bacteria in beer: occurrence, diversity, presence of hop resistance genes and fate in alcohol-free and lager beers – ARG Munford – Food Control

Survey of pathogens in threatened wild red-tailed Amazon parrot (Amazona brasiliensis) nestlings in Rasa Island, Brazil – FF Vaz – Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

Species specific substrates and products choices of 4-O-acetyltransferase from Trichoderma brevicompactum – S Sharma – Enzyme and Microbial Technology

Review: The Goldilocks model of immune symbiosis with Mycobacteria and Candida colonizers – RT Robinson – Cytokine

Immunological and epidemiological factors affecting candidiasis in HIV patients beginning antiretroviral therapy in an Asian clinic – EAT Wulandari – Archives of Oral Biology

Diversity and Ecology of and Biomineralization by Magnetotactic Bacteria – W Lin – Environmental Microbiology Reports

 

Microbes in news

Man Dies After His Tattoo Gets Infected with Ocean Bacteria – R Rettner – Live Science

Accelerated breeding of mutant bacteria may choke space race – J Seidel – News Corp Australia Network

Microgravity Can Permanently Mutate Bacteria to Make Them Faster Breeders –  D Nield – Science Alert

Vaginal bacteria can inhibit sexual transmission of Zika virus – Healio

Bacteria levels subside, Spring Lake beach reopens – R Zimmer – App.com

Meet C. diff, the gross bacteria on the soles of your shoes – E Roberts – Today

The Microscopic World of Bacteria Comes to Life with Sculpture – CR  Fernández – Labiotech

New Microbiology Data Reinforce Activity of Paratek’s Omadacycline Against Pathogens of Importance in Respiratory, Skin and Urinary Tract Infections – Paratek – Nasdaq Globe News Wire

A Traumatic Experience Can Reshape Your Microbiome – S Neilson – Huffington Post

Zymo Research to Launch Three New Kits for Microbiome Research at ASM Microbe 2017 – Zymo Research Corp. – PR Newswire

The gut microbiota plays key role in diabetes treatment – N Marriott –  Drug Target Review

In a first, Human Microbiome Project Launched in Northeast India! – TNT News

Metformin joins forces with gut microbes to improve blood sugars, new study finds – C Bienvenu – Diabetes.co.uk

 

 

June 3, 2017

There were over 100 alerts today! Here are plenty of papers after the few light digests.

Events and jobs
Bioinformatics Scientist, Microbiome – Human Longevity, Inc, Greater San Diego Area

MSc position in Microbiology – Teagasc, London/Europe

General microbiome
Review: The multi-omics promise in context: from sequence to microbial isolate – Johanna Gutleben – Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Review: Symbiosis-inspired approaches to antibiotic discovery – Navid Adnani – Natural Product Reports

Pregnancy and early life
The Microbiome of Infants Recruited to a Randomised Placebo-controlled Probiotic Trial (PiPS Trial) – Michael Millar – EBioMedicine

Safety and tolerability of Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis EVC001 supplementation in healthy term breastfed infants: a phase I clinical trial – Jennifer T. Smilowitz – BMC Pediatrics

Human vaginal microbiome
Vaginal bacteria modify HIV tenofovir microbicide efficacy in African women – Nichole R. Klatt – Science

Changes in vaginal community state types reflect major shifts in the microbiome – J. Paul Brooks – Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease

Human gut microbiome
Chemoproteomic Profiling of Bile Acid Interacting Proteins – Shentian Zhuang – ACS Central Science

Fiber-utilizing capacity varies in Prevotella- versus Bacteroides-dominated gut microbiota – Tingting Chen – Scientific Reports

Vancomycin Taper and Risk of Failure of Fecal Microbiota Transplant in Patients With Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection – Roberto L. Patron – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Surgically induced changes in gut microbiome and hedonic eating as related to weight loss: Preliminary findings in obese women undergoing bariatric surgery – Claudia P. Sanmiguel – Psychosomatic Medicine

Intestinal microbiota in patients with chronic hepatitis C with and without liver cirrhosis compared to healthy controls – Benjamin Heidrich – Liver International

Dimethyl fumarate reduces the risk of mycotoxins via improving intestinal barrier and microbiota – Ning Ma – Oncotarget

Optimized multiplex immunofluorescence single-cell analysis reveals tuft cell heterogeneity – Eliot T. McKinley – JCI Insight

Gut microbiota regulate hepatic von Willebrand Factor synthesis and arterial thrombus formation via Toll-like receptor-2 – Sven Jäckel – Blood

Review: Trust your gut – metformin and diabetes – Conor A. Bradley – Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Review: Gut microbiota: Inulin regulates endothelial function: a prebiotic smoking gun? – Francesca Fava – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Review: Gut Microbiota, Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals, and the Diabetes Epidemic – Ganesan Velmurugan – Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Review: Gut Microbiota and the Gut-Brain Axis: New Insights in the Pathophysiology of Metabolic Syndrome – de Clercq – Psychosomatic Medicine

Animal experiments
Genetic mouse models with intestinal-specific tight junction deletion resemble an ulcerative colitis phenotype – Wolfgang Stremmel – Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis

Deciphering the landscape of host barriers to Listeria monocytogenes infection – Ting Zhang – PNAS

Rifaximin exerts beneficial effects in PI-IBS mouse model beyond gut microbiota – Yu Jin – Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Farnesoid X Receptor Agonist Treatment Alters Bile Acid Metabolism but Exacerbates Liver Damage in a Piglet Model of Short-Bowel Syndrome – Prue M. Pereira-Fantini – Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Faecal transplantation for the treatment of Clostridium difficile infection in a marmoset – Yumiko Yamazaki – BMC Veterinary Research

Effect of soybean husk supplementation on the fecal fermentation metabolites and microbiota of dogs – Htun Myint – Animal Science Journal

A diet change from dry food to beef induces reversible changes on the faecal microbiota in healthy, adult client-owned dogs – Kristin M. V. Herstad – BMC Veterinary Research

Animal microbiome
Host-specific assembly of sponge-associated prokaryotes at high taxonomic ranks – Georg Steinert – Scientific Reports

The feline skin microbiota: The bacteria inhabiting the skin of healthy and allergic cats – Caitlin E. Older – PLoS One

Comparison of the fecal bacterial microbiota of healthy and diarrheic foals at two and four weeks of life – A. Schoster – BMC Veterinary Research

Cost-effective screening and isolation of xylano-cellulolytic positive microbes from termite gut and termitarium – Libin Mathew Varghese – 3 Biotech

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Impact of metal stress on the production of secondary metabolites in Pteris vittata L. and associated rhizosphere bacterial communities – Hoang Nam Pham – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

High-throughput metagenomic analysis of petroleum-contaminated soil microbiome reveals the versatility in xenobiotic aromatics metabolism – Yun-Juan Bao – Journal of Environmental Sciences

Impact of microbial communities from tropical soils on the mobilization of trace metals during dissolution of cinnabar ore – Clarisse Balland-Bolou-Bi – Journal of Environmental Sciences

Divergent taxonomic and functional responses of microbial communities to field simulation of aeolian soil erosion and deposition – Xingyu Ma – Molecular Ecology

Anthropogenic protection alters the microbiome in intertidal mangrove wetlands in Hainan Island – Juanli Yun – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Water and extremophile microbiome
Zooming in on the phycosphere: the ecological interface for phytoplankton-bacteria relationships – Justin R. Seymour – Nature Microbiology

Genetic characterization of periphyton communities associated with selenium bioconcentration and trophic transfer in a simple food chain – Vanessa Friesen – Environmental Science and Technology

Intraspecific differences in molecular stress responses and coral pathobiome contribute to mortality under bacterial challenge in Acropora millepora – Rachel M. Wright – Scientific Reports

Metabolic network analysis reveals microbial community interactions in anammox granules – Christopher E. Lawson – Nature Communications

Hot springs of Indian Himalayas: potential sources of microbial diversity and thermostable hydrolytic enzymes – Harmesh Sahay – 3 Biotech

High throughput sequencing of microbial eukaryotes in Lake Baikal reveals ecologically differentiated communities and novel evolutionary radiations – Zhenzhen Yi – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Centralized Drinking Water Treatment Operations Shape Bacterial and Fungal Community Structure – Xiao Ma – Environmental Science and Technology

Built environment
Evolution of microbial communities growing with carbon monoxide, hydrogen and carbon dioxide – Sofia Esquivel-Elizondo – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Adaptation of microbial community of the anode biofilm in microbial fuel cells to temperature – Xiaoxue Mei – Bioelectrochemistry

Structure and activity of thermophilic methanogenic microbial communities exposed to quaternary ammonium sanitizer – Jesus D. Fernandez-Bayo – Journal of Environmental Sciences

Bacterial community structure transformed after thermophilically composting human waste in Haiti – Yvette M. Piceno – PLoS One

Food microbiology
Characterization of the peptide fraction from digested Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and its effect on growth of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria – Benedetta Bottari – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Impact of food grade and nano-TiO2 particles on a human intestinal community – William Dudefoi – Food and Chemical Toxicology

Probiotics / prebiotics
Probiotic yogurt and acidified milk similarly reduce postprandial inflammation and both alter the gut microbiota of healthy, young men – Kathryn J. Burton – British Journal of Nutrition

Phages and viruses
Phylogenetic Diversity of T4-Type Phages in Sediments from the Subtropical Pearl River Estuary – Maoqiu He – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacteriophage-prokaryote dynamics and interaction within anaerobic digestion processes across time and space – Junyu Zhang – Microbiome

Bioinformatics
Evaluating the accuracy of amplicon-based microbiome computational pipelines on simulated human gut microbial communities – Jonathan L. Golob – BMC Bioinformatics

Techniques
Review: Capturing the genetic makeup of the active microbiome in situ – Esther Singer – ISME

Novel Co-Culture Plate Enables Growth Dynamic-Based Assessment Of Contact-Independent Microbial Interactions – Thomas J. Moutinho Jr. – bioRxiv

Optimization of high-yielding protocol for DNA extraction from the forest rhizosphere microbes – Sadam D. V. Satyanarayana – 3 Biotech

DNA metabarcoding to assess indoor fungal communities: Electrostatic dust collectors and Illumina sequencing – Steffi Rocchi – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Differentiation of Bifidobacterium longum subspecies longum and infantis by quantitative PCR using functional gene targets – Blair Lawley – PeerJ

Microbes in the news
Unhealthy vagina microbiome can make HIV drugs less effective – Bob Roehr – New Scientist
Article featured above!

Gut microbiota and melanoma treatment responses – Caroline Robert and Franck Carbonnel – OUPblog

Biologists examine biofilm as part of port field studies – Sandor Gyarmati – Delta Optimist

Bacteria used as factories to produce cancer drugs – Phys.Org

Boffins find evidence of strange uranium-producing bacteria lurking underground – Katyanna Quach – The Reigster

Man dies from flesh-eating bacteria after swimming with new tattoo – MSN

Microbes on the market
Why Should we be Excited about the Emerging Microbiome Field? – Antonio – LabBioTech