God morgon!

Good morning from Sweden.

Today’s digest starts with a super interesting preprint on COVID-19 where the researchers have shown that anti-COVID-19 drugs induce lytic reactivation of an oncogenic virus. As if COVID-19 wasn’t dangerous enough, its treatment is now even more dangerous!

New research has revealed numerous genera of bacteria associated with Amoebozoa, which haven’t been looked into; polyamines as new substrates for a previously known efflux pump in Acinetobacter; genomic differences between the influenza viruses causing infections of different severity; and novel interactions between mycorrhizal fungi and plants.

Hope you’ll enjoy today’s digest!

COVID-19

Preprint: SARS-CoV-2 proteins and anti-COVID-19 drugs induce lytic reactivation of an oncogenic virus – Jungang Chen, et al.

Bacteria Hysteria

Preprint: Characterization of the antimicrobial activity of the cell-penetrating peptide TAT-RasGAP_317-326 – Maria Georgieva, et al.

Preprint: Bacteriophage Resistance Affects Flavobacterium columnare Virulence Partly via Mutations in Genes Related to Gliding Motility and Type IX Secretion System – Heidi MT Kunttu, et al.

Preprint: ROS-dependent innate immune mechanisms control Staphylococcus aureus MRSA virulence in the Drosophila larval model – Elodie Ramond, et al.

Preprint: Transposon-insertion sequencing in a clinical isolate of Legionella pneumophila identifies essential genes and determinants of natural transformation – Léo Hardy, et al.

Preprint: Spermidine and spermine are the natural substrates of the Acinetobacter baumannii AmvA multidrug efflux pump – Francesca L. Short, et al.

Gut Microbiome

Preprint: Comparing Fecal, Saliva, and Chicha Microbiomes Between Mothers and Children in an Indigenous Ecuadorian Cohort – Eric Daniel Adams, et al.

Preprint: Spatial analysis of gut microbiome reveals a distinct ecological niche associated with the mucus layer – Kellyanne Duncan, et al.

Preprint: Comprehensive Comparative Genomics Reveals Over 50 Phyla of Free-living and Pathogenic Bacteria are Associated with Diverse Members of the Amoebozoa – Yonas I. Tekle, et al.

β-glucan attenuates cognitive impairment via the gut-brain axis in diet-induced obese mice – Hongli Shi, et al., Microbiome

Faecal microbiota transplant from aged donor mice affects spatial learning and memory via modulating hippocampal synaptic plasticity- and neurotransmission-related proteins in young recipients – Alfonsina D’Amato, et al., Microbiome

Plants

Preprint: Comparative analysis of temporal transcriptome reveals the relationship between pectin degradation and pathogenicity of defoliating Verticillium dahliae to Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) – Fan Zhang, et al.

Preprint: Silencing of ATP synthase β reduces phytoplasma multiplication in the leafhopper vector Euscelidius variegatus – Luciana Galetto, et al.

Trophic interactions as determinants of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community with cascading plant-promoting consequences – Yuji Jiang, et al., Microbiome

Preprint: Characterization of Met25 as a Color Associated Genetic Marker in Yarrowia lipolytica – Harley Edwards, et al.

General Microbiome

Preprint: Fine scale sampling unveils diazotroph patchiness in the South Pacific Ocean – Mar Benavides, et al.

Preprint: Sedimentation rate and organic matter dynamics shape microbiomes across a continental margin – Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, et al.

Soil origin and plant genotype structure distinct microbiome compartments in the model legume Medicago truncatula – Shawn P. Brown, et al., Microbiome

Viruses

Preprint: A potent neutralizing mouse monoclonal antibody specific to dengue virus type 1 Mochizuki strain recognized a novel epitope around the N-67 glycan on the E protein: a possible explanation of dengue virus evolution regarding the acquisition of N-67 glycan – Tomohiro Kotaki, et al.

Preprint: Differential Disease Severity and Whole Genome Sequence Analysis for Human Influenza A/H1N1pdm Virus in 2015-2016 Influenza Season – Hsuan Liu, et al.

Viral ecogenomics across the Porifera – Cecília Pascelli, et al., Microbiome

Infections

Preprint: A Universal Stress Protein upregulated by hypoxia may contribute to chronic lung colonisation and intramacrophage survival in cystic fibrosis – Andrew O’Connor, et al.

Preprint: Modulation of early host innate immune response by a Fowlpox virus (FWPV) lateral body protein – Efstathios S Giotis, et al.

Techniques

Preprint: Accurate Microbiome Sequencing with Synthetic Long Read Sequencing – Nico Chung, et al.

Investigating host-microbiome interactions by droplet based microfluidics – Alexandra S. Tauzin, et al., Microbiome