This Saturday enjoy reading and learning about effects of herbal chemicals on the modulation of cell metabolism, powerful Lactobacilli in vaginal environment or how halophylic bacteria can mitigate salt stress of halophytes. Happy weekend!

Human gut microbiome

Butyrate produced by gut commensal bacteria activates TGF-beta1 expression through the transcription factor SP1 in human intestinal epithelial cells – Camille Martin-Gallausiaux – Scientific reports

Clostridium difficile Alters the Structure and Metabolism of Distinct Cecal Microbiomes during Initial Infection To Promote Sustained Colonization – Matthew L. Jenior – mSphere

* Review: Novel therapeutic strategy for cancer and autoimmune conditions: Modulating cell metabolism and redox capacity – Xing-Xing Fan – Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Review: Gut microbiome and aging: Physiological and mechanistic insights – Ravinder Nagpal – Nutrition Healthy Aging

Editorial: Brain, antibiotics, and microbiota – how do they interplay? An Editorial for ‘Antibiotics‐induced modulation of large intestinal microbiota altered aromatic amino acid profile and expression of neurotransmitters in the hypothalamus of piglets’ – Elena Rybnikov – Journal of neurochemistry

Human vaginal microbiome

Randomized, placebo controlled phase I trial of safety, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and acceptability of tenofovir and tenofovir plus levonorgestrel vaginal rings in women – Andrea Ries Thurman – PLoS One

* Review: The Vaginal Microenvironment: The Physiologic Role of Lactobacilli – Emmanuel Amabebe – Frontiers in Medicine

Human lung microbiome

Profiling of lung microbiota in the patients with obstructive sleep apnea – Lu Dongmei – Medicine

Review: The consequence of matrix dysfunction on lung immunity and the microbiome in COPD – Tracy Hussell – European Respiratory Review

Water and extremophile microbiome

Tile Drainage and Anthropogenic Land Use Contribute to Harmful Algal Blooms and Microbiota Shifts in Inland Water Bodies – Igor Mrdjen – Environmental Science and Technology

Viral Communities of Shark Bay Modern Stromatolites – Richard Allen White III –
Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Changes in rhizosphere microbial communities in potted cucumber seedlings treated with syringic acid – Wang Z – PLoS One

* Bacterial microbiome of root-associated endophytes of Salicornia europaea in correspondence to different levels of salinity – Sonia Szymańska – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Prebiotics

The Prebiotic Inulin Improves Substrate Metabolism and Promotes Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production in Overweight to Obese Men – Christina M. van der Beek – Metabolism