Have a nice day! Before presenting the Digest for today, I want to highlight that in few hours the ISME-LatinAmerica 2021 meeting will start. Additionally, I also want to highlight a Call from the Institut Pasteur for the creation of new groups (applications available until next November 30). Now, enjoy this digest!

Human and General Microbiome

Review: Discovery and mining of enzymes from the human gut microbiome – Baolei Jia – Trends in Biotechnology

Review: Antimicrobial peptides and proteins: Interaction with the skin microbiota – Franziska Rademacher – Experimental Dermatology

Review: Malnutrition and the microbiome as modifiers of early neurodevelopment – Elena J L Coley – Trends in Neurosciences

Review: Predictors of multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa involvement in bloodstream infections – Sabina Herrera – Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Review: Diet Interventions for Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Separating the Wheat from the Chafe. – Emily Haller – Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

Review: Emerging Role of the Gut Microbiome in Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Prashant Singh – Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

Review: The Types and Proportions of Commensal Microbiota Have a Predictive Value in Coronary Heart Disease. – Lin Chen – Journal of Clinical Medicine

Review: Association of Microbiome with Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Systematic Review of the Metagenomic Studies. – Lee Su Mun – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Book Chapter: The Role of H(2)S in the Gastrointestinal Tract and Microbiota – Ailin Xiao – Advances in Hydrogen Sulfide Biology 

Research Highlight: CNMa-CNMa receptor at microbiome-gut-brain axis: novel target to regulate feeding decision – Liyuan Peng – Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Household environmental microbiota influences early-life eczema development – Le Duc Huy Ta – Environmental Microbiology

Longitudinal linked-read sequencing reveals ecological and evolutionary responses of a human gut microbiome during antibiotic treatment – Morteza Roodgar – Genome Research

Combined mechanical and oral antibiotic bowel preparation is associated with prolonged recurrence-free survival following surgery for colorectal cancer – Lindsey M Zhang – Journal of Surgical Oncology

Field evaluation of the gut microbiome composition of pre-school and school-aged children in Tha Song Yang, Thailand, following oral MDA for STH infections. – Katharina Stracke – PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Characteristics of the bacterial microbiota in the upper respiratory tract of children – Wei Cao – European archives of Oto-rhino-laryngology

Exploring Gut Microbiota in Patients with Colorectal Disease Based on 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon and Shallow Metagenomic Sequencing – Yuanfeng Liu – Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

The Intestinal Microbiome Predicts Weight Loss on a Calorie-Restricted Diet and Is Associated With Improved Hepatic Steatosis – Tien S Dong – Frontiers in Nutrition

16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing of gut microbiota in gestational diabetes mellitus and their correlation with disease risk factors – J Wei – Journal of Endocrinological Investigation

Analyses of publicly available Hungatella hathewayi genomes revealed genetic distances indicating they belong to more than one species – Laura E Hernández-Juárez – Virulence

Estrogen-related receptor alpha (ERRα) is a key regulator of intestinal homeostasis and protects against colitis – Allan Tran – Scientific Reports

Predicting dental caries increment using salivary biomarkers in a remote Indigenous Australian child population – Surani Fernando – BMC Oral Health

Beneficial Microbes, Treatments, and Compounds

Human milk oligosaccharide 2′-fucosyllactose supplementation improves gut barrier function and signaling in the vagal afferent pathway in mice – Sunhye Lee – Food & Function

Lactobacillus casei LC89 exerts antidiabetic effects through regulating hepatic glucagon response and gut microbiota in type 2 diabetic mice – Yongli Zhang – Food & Function

The roles of different Bacteroides fragilis strains in protecting against DSS-induced ulcerative colitis and related functional genes – Chen Wang – Food & Function

Probiotics Fermentation Technology, a Novel Kefir Product, Ameliorates Cognitive Impairment in Streptozotocin-Induced Sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease in Mice – Nesrine S El Sayed – Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity

Vaccarin enhances intestinal barrier function in type 2 diabetic mice – Jiang-Nan Sun – European Journal of Pharmacology

Personalized Postprandial Glucose Response-Targeting Diet Versus Mediterranean Diet for Glycemic Control in Prediabetes – Orly Ben-Yacov – Diabetes Care

Animal Microbiome

Dietary supplementation of alpha-lipoic acid mitigates the negative effects of heat stress in broilers – Sanjeev Wasti – PloS One

On the move: sloths and their epibionts as model mobile ecosystems – Maya Kaup – Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Plant Microbiome

The discovery of pivotal fungus and major determinant factor shaping soil microbial community composition associated with rot root of American ginseng. – Lixia Tian – Plant Signaling & Behavior

Environmental Microbiome

Description of Microbial Communities of Phosphate Mine Wastes in Morocco, a Semi-Arid Climate, Using High-Throughput Sequencing and Functional Prediction. – Najoua Mghazli – Frontiers in Microbiology

Characterization of eukaryotic microbiome and associated bacteria communities in a drinking water treatment plant – Patricia Soler – The Science of the Total Environment

Dynamics of bacterial and archaeal communities along the composting of tannery sludge – Ademir Sergio Ferreira Araujo – Environmental Science and Pollution Research International

Other Microbes

Prioritization of potential drug targets and antigenic vaccine candidates against Klebsiella aerogenes using the computational subtractive proteome-driven approach. – Vijina Chakkyarath – Journal of proteins and proteomics

Genomic evolution of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli – Pimlapas Leekitcharoenphon – Scientific Reports

Microbiome Analysis Tools and Techniques

Strainberry: automated strain separation in low-complexity metagenomes using long reads. – Riccardo Vicedomini – Nature Communications

Visualization of Gut Microbiota-host Interactions via Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization, Lectin Staining, and Imaging – Katharine M Ng – Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)

A newly developed PCR-based method revealed distinct Fusobacterium nucleatum subspecies infection patterns in colorectal cancer – Dexi Bi – Microbial Biotechnology

A protocol for characterization of extremely preterm infant gut microbiota in double-blind clinical trials – Magalí Martí – STAR Protocols

Transformation and differential abundance analysis of microbiome data incorporating phylogeny – Chao Zhou – Bioinformatics