Hello, have a nice Sunday! In this Digest, we have some highlights from the literature during this week. 

Human/General Microbiome

Gastrointestinal Tract

Microbiome analysis of gut microbiota in patients with colorectal polyps and healthy individuals – Dayi Deng – Scientific Reports

Fecal bacterial biomarkers and blood biochemical indicators as potential key factors in the development of colorectal cancer – Ping Cai – mSystems

Multi-omics analysis reveals associations between gut microbiota and host transcriptome in colon cancer patients – Yuling Qin – mSystems

Insights into diversity, host-range, and temporal stability of Bacteroides and Phocaeicola prophages – Nejc Stopnisek – BMC Microbiology

Review: Helicobacter pylori, microbiota and gastric cancer – principles of microorganism-driven carcinogenesis – Jonas Wizenty – Nature Reviews. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Skin

Clonal Candida auris and ESKAPE pathogens on the skin of residents of nursing homes – Diana M Proctor – Nature

Oral – Respiratory Tract

A gut Eggerthella lenta-derived metabolite impairs neutrophil function to aggravate bacterial lung infection – Le-Le Wang – Science Translational Medicine

Involvement of propionate, citrulline, homoserine, and succinate in oral microbiome metabolite-driven periodontal disease progression – Chikako Ishihara – Scientific Reports

Regulation of tryptophan-indole metabolic pathway in Porphyromonas gingivalis virulence and microbiota dysbiosis in periodontitis – Jing Ding – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Unveiling familial aggregation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Insights from oral microbiome dysbiosis – Ying Liao – Cell Reports. Medicine

Exploring oral microbiome in oral squamous cell carcinoma across environment-associated sample types – Zizheng Wang – Microbiology Spectrum

Other Sites

Characterization of vaginal microbiomes in clinician-collected bacterial vaginosis diagnosed samples – Hayden N Brochu – Microbiology Spectrum

Bacteria in the brain: do they have a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease? – Arnav Bhattacharya – Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Microbiome modulation of implant-related infection by a novel miniaturized pulsed electromagnetic field device – João Gabriel S Souza – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Enterocloster clostridioformis protects against Salmonella pathogenesis and modulates epithelial and mucosal immune function – Benjamin S Beresford-Jones – Microbiome

Antibacterial activity and impact on keratinocyte cell growth of Cutibacterium acnes bacteriophages in a Cutibacterium acnes IA(1)- colonized keratinocyte model – Juan C Farfán-Esquivel – Current Research in Microbial Sciences

Microbiota-derived urolithin A in monoclonal gammopathies and multiple myeloma therapy – Alba Rodríguez-García – Microbiome

Environmental Microbiome / Ecology

The International Space Station has a unique and extreme microbial and chemical environment driven by use patterns – Rodolfo A Salido – Cell

Residence Time Structures Microbial Communities Through Niche Partitioning – Emmi A Mueller – Ecology Letters

Shared environments complicate the use of strain-resolved metagenomics to infer microbiome transmission – Reena Debray – Microbiome

Microbiome Analysis: Resources, Tools and Techniques

Tandem metabolic reaction-based sensors unlock in vivo metabolomics – Xuanbing Cheng – PNAS

Review: Antarctic bacterial natural products: from genomic insights to drug discovery – William Medeiros – Natural Product Reports