Today’s digest features interesting review articles about different aspects of human gut microbiome, metaproteomics approach in microbiota, new study to tackle antibiotic resistance and updates on microbiome business.
General Microbiome
The long-term consequences of antibiotic therapy: Role of colonic short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) system and intestinal barrier integrity – Yuliia Holota – Plos One
Factors affecting the composition of the gut microbiota, and its modulation – Nihal Hasan – Peer Journal
The Microbiota and Malnutrition: Impact of Nutritional Status During Early Life – Carlos Gómez-Gallego – Annual review of Nutrition
The necessity to revise Koch’s postulates and its application to infectious and non-infectious diseases: a mini-review – Hasan Hosainzadegan – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
Pancreas–Microbiota Cross Talk in Health and Disease – Timon E. Adolph – Annual Review of Nutrition
Does Soil Contribute to the Human Gut Microbiome? – Winfried E.H. Blum – Microorganisms
Impact of the Microbiome on the Human Genome – Thiviya Jeyakumar – Trends in Parasitology
Problems with the concept of gut microbiota dysbiosis – Harald Brüssow – Microbial Biotechnology
Human microbiome
Lactulose Improves Cognition, Quality of Life and Gut Microbiota in Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy: A Multi‐Center, Randomized Controlled Trial – Ji Yao Wang – Journal of Digestive Diseases
Microbial Profiles of Cirrhosis in the Human Small Intestine – Tien S. Dong – Current Gastroenterology Reports
Crosstalk between vaginal microbiome and female health: A review – Shagun Gupta – Microbial Pathogenesis
Animal experiments
Metformin and Dipeptidase Peptidyl-4 Inhibitor Differentially Modulate the Intestinal Microbiota and Plasma Metabolome of Metabolically Dysfunctional Mice – Ryan PM – Canadian Journal of Diabetes
The gut microbiome derived from anorexia nervosa patients impairs weight gain and behavioral performance in female mice – Tomokazu Hata – Endocrinology
Microbiota-derived lantibiotic restores resistance against vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus – Sohn G. Kim – Nature
Probiotics and prebiotics
Developments in understanding and applying prebiotics in research and practice – an ISAPP conference paper – Karen P Scott – Journal of Applied Microbiology
Techniques
An automated ‘cells-to-peptides’ sample preparation workflow for high-throughput, quantitative proteomic assays of microbes – Yan Chen – Journal of Proteome Research
Comparison of metaproteomics workflows for deciphering the functions of gut microbiota in an animal model of obesity – Maria Guirro – Journal of Proteomics
An expectation-maximization algorithm enables accurate ecological modeling using longitudinal microbiome sequencing data – Chenhao Li – Microbiome
Microbes in the news
‘A holistic approach’: EU-backed project taps microbiome to optimise food production – Food navigator.com
Remodeling unhealthful gut microbiomes to fight disease – Science daily
The microbiome and the effect of antimicrobials in food production – New Food
Researchers propose new technique to remodel the gut microbiome – News Atlas
Microbes and the market
Global Human Microbiome Market 2019 Research Analysis of Players:- Merck, DuPont, MicroBiome Therapeutics, Osel – Global Market News 24
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