Author Archives: Axel Künstner

September 27, 2023

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General microbiome

The Triple Alliance: Microbiome, Mitochondria, and Metabolites in the Context of Age-Related Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer’s Disease – Prajapiti et al. – The Journals of Gerontology: Series A

[REVIEW]Genomic surveillance for antimicrobial resistance — a One Health perspective – Djordjevic et al. – Nature Reviews Genetics

Human respiratory microbiome

[REVIEW]Lung Microbiome as a Treatable Trait in Chronic Respiratory Disorders – Scialo et al. – Lung

Human gut microbiome

[PREPRINT]Prolonged delays in human microbiota transmission after a controlled antibiotic perturbation – Xue et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]A gut meta-interactome map reveals modulation of human immunity by microbiome effectors – Young et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Association of homelessness and diet on the gut microbiome: A United States-Veteran Microbiome Project (US-VMP) study – Hoisington et al. – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Tomato growth stage modulates bacterial communities across different soil aggregate sizes and disease levels – Dong et al. – ISME Communications

Soil microbial diversity and network complexity drive the ecosystem multifunctionality of temperate grasslands under changing precipitation – Zhai et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt, rocks)

Arctic bacterial diversity and connectivity in the coastal margin of the Last Ice Area – Girard, Vincent & Culley – ISME Communications

A glimpse of the paleome in endolithic microbial communities – Wegener et al. – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

A computational method to dissect colonization resistance of the gut microbiota against pathogens – Ke et al. – Cell Reports Methods

[PREPIRNT]SurvBal: Compositional Microbiome Balances for Survival Outcomes – Li et al. – bioRxiv

September 20, 2023

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Frequency of change determines effectiveness of microbial response strategies – Li et al. – The ISME Journal

Human gut microbiome

Social and psychological adversity are associated with distinct mother and infant gut microbiome variations – Warner et al. – Nature Communications

Household environment and animal fecal contamination are critical modifiers of the gut microbiome and resistome in young children from rural Nicaragua – Mills et al. – Microbiome

Recovery of the gut microbiome following enteric infection and persistence of antimicrobial resistance genes in specific microbial hosts – Hansen et al. – Scientific Reports

The Impacts of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation from Same Sex on the Symptoms of Ulcerative Colitis Patients – Shang et al. – Polish Journal of Microbiology

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Transcriptomic, 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid and network pharmacology analyses shed light on the anticoccidial mechanism of green tea polyphenols against Eimeria tenella infection in Wuliangshan black-boned chickens – Song et al. – Parasites & Vectors

Dityrosine Aggravates Hepatic Insulin Resistance in Obese Mice by Altering Gut Microbiota and the LPS/TLR4/NF-κB Inflammatory Pathway – Ding et al. – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

[REVIEW]Microbiome-assisted restoration of degraded marine habitats: a new nature-based solution? – Corinaldesi et al. – Frontiers in Marine Science

Bioinformatics

[PREPRINT]Comparison of computational methods for host removal and classification of mycobacteria from clinical metagenomic data – Hall & Coin – bioRxiv

September 13, 2023

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[Resource]BugSigDB captures patterns of differential abundance across a broad range of host-associated microbial signatures – Geistlinger et al. – Nature Biotechnology

Human oral microbiome

[REVIEW]The oral microbiome: diversity, biogeography and human health – Baker et al. – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Dysbiosis of oral microbiome persists after dental treatment-induced remission of periodontal disease and dental caries – Yama et al. – mSystems

Human nearly-sterile sites (blood, organs, brain)

Proton pump inhibitor treatment aggravates bacterial translocation in patients with advanced cirrhosis and portal hypertension – Sturm et al. – mBio

Human gut microbiome

A faecal metabolite signature of impaired fasting glucose: results from two independent population-based cohorts – Nogal et al. – Diabetes

Composition and functional profiles of gut microbiota reflect the treatment stage, severity, and etiology of acute pancreatitis – Wang et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Animal microbiome

Langerhans cells shape postnatal oral homeostasis in a mechanical-force-dependent but microbiota and IL17-independent manner – Jaber et al. – Nature Communications

Specific pathway abundances in the neonatal calf faecal microbiome are associated with susceptibility to Cryptosporidium parvum infection: a metagenomic analysis – Hares et al. – Animal Microbiome

Phage-microbe dynamics after sterile faecal filtrate transplantation in individuals with metabolic syndrome: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trial assessing efficacy and safety – Wortelboer et al. – Nature Communications

Gut microbiota of old mice worsens neurological outcome after brain ischemia via increased valeric acid and IL-17 in the blood – Zeng et al. – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Different bacterial and fungal community patterns in restored habitats in coal-mining subsidence areas – Wang et al. – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

July 19, 2023

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RNA-based amplicon sequencing is ineffective in measuring metabolic activity in environmental microbial communities – Wang et al. – Microbiome

Human oral microbiome

[PREPRINT]The prevalence of motility within the human oral microbiota – Rocha et al. – bioRxiv

Human gut microbiome

A shotgun metagenomic analysis of the fecal microbiome in humans infected with Giardia duodenalis – McGregor et al. – Parasites & Vectors

Microbiome-derived cobalamin and succinyl-CoA as biomarkers for improved screening of anal cancer – Serrano-Villar et al. – Nature Medicine

[PREPRINT]Host-microbiota interactions contributing to the heterogeneous tumor microenvironment in colorectal cancer – Li et al. – bioRxiv

Diversity of plant DNA in stool is linked to dietary quality, age, and household income – Petrone et al. – PNAS

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

Alterations in fecal β-defensin-3 secretion as a marker of instability of the gut microbiota – Saqib et al. – Gut Microbes

The effect of prenatal stress on offspring depression susceptibility in relation to the gut microbiome and metabolome – Li et al. – Journal of Affective Disorders

[PROTOCOL]Gastrointestinal and Microbiome Profiling in Rodent Models of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders – Kong et al. – Schizophrenia

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

[PREPRINT]Persistent effects of intramammary ceftiofur treatment on the gut microbiome and antibiotic resistance in dairy cattle – Vasco et al. – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

A hybrid and poly-polish workflow for the complete and accurate assembly of phage genomes: a case study of ten przondoviruses – Elek et al. – Microbioal Genomics

[PREPRINT]Learning a deep language model for microbiomes: the power of large scale unlabeled microbiome data – Pope et al. – bioRxiv

MBECS: Microbiome Batch Effects Correction Suite – Olbrich, Künstner and Busch – BMC Bioinformatics

Techniques

[PREPRINT]High-resolution profiling of bacterial and fungal communities using pangenome-informed taxon-specific amplicons and long-read sequence – Stalder, Maurhofer and Croll – bioRxiv

April 26, 2023

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[PREPRINT]Microbiome diversity: A barrier to the environmental spread of antimicrobial resistance? – Klümper et al. – bioRxiv

Pregnancy and early life

First-Day-of-Life Rectal Swabs Fail To Represent Meconial Microbiota Composition and Underestimate the Presence of Antibiotic Resistance Genes – Graspeuntner et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Human gut microbiome

Mucin-microbiome signatures shape the tumor microenvironment in gastric cancer – Oosterlinck et al. – Microbiome

[REVIEW]Fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent C. difficile infection in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis – Porcari et al. – Journal of Autoimmunity

[REVIEW]Alcohol, the gut microbiome, and liver disease – Jew & Hsu – JGH

[REVIEW]Microbial metabolites in colorectal tumorigenesis and cancer therapy – Liu et al. – Gut Microbes

Human biliary microbiome

Neoadjuvant therapy does not impact the biliary microbiome in patients with pancreatic cancer – Behrens et al. – Journal of Surgical Oncology

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Indirect maternal effects via nest microbiome composition drive gut colonization in altricial chicks – Diez-Mendez et al. – Molecular Ecology

The gut microbiome of solitary bees is mainly affected by pathogen assemblage and partially by land use – de Landa et al. – Environmental Microbiome

Spatial Succession Underlies Microbial Contribution to Food Digestion in the Gut of an Algivorous Sea Urchin – Masasa et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

The microbiota in feces of domestic pigeons in Seoul, Korea – Oh et al. – Heliyon

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Characterization of the Rhizosphere Bacterial Microbiome and Coffee Bean Fermentation in the Castillo-Tambo and Bourbon Varieties in the Popayán-Colombia Plateau – Solis Pino et al. – BMC Plant Biology

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Hydrochemical and Seasonally Conditioned Changes of Microbial Communities in the Tufa-Forming Freshwater Network Ecosystem – Cackovic et al. – mSphere

Bioinformatics

[PREPRINT]ggpicrust2: an R package for PICRUSt2 predicted functional profile analysis and visualization – Yang et al. – arXiv

April 19, 2023

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Pregnancy and early life

[REVIEW]The maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy and its role in maternal and infant health – Sinha et al. – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Human oral microbiome

Independent Effects of HIV and Antiretroviral Therapy on the Oral Microbiome Identified by Multivariate Analyses – Beall et al. – mBio

[REVIEW]Oral microbial changes and oral disease management before and after the treatment of hematological malignancies: a narrative review – Lin et al. – Clinical Oral Investigations

Human vaginal microbiome

[REVIEW]Gardnerella Revisited: Species Heterogeneity, Virulence Factors, Mucosal Immune Responses, and Contributions to Bacterial Vaginosis – Shvartsman et al. – Infection and Immunity

Human gut microbiome/virome

[REVIEW]Intrahost evolution of the gut microbiota – Barreta & Gordo – Nature Reviews Microbiology

The gut microbiota contributes to the pathogenesis of anorexia nervosa in humans and mice – Fan et al. – Nature Microbiology

Altered human gut virome in patients undergoing antibiotics therapy for Helicobacter pylori – Wang et al. – Nature Communications

Antibiotic treatment using amoxicillin-clavulanic acid impairs gut mycobiota development through modification of the bacterial ecosystem – Spatz et al. – Microbiome

Metabolic independence drives gut microbial colonization and resilience in health and disease – Watson et al. – Microbiome

Development of the gut microbiota in the first 14 years of life and its relations to internalizing and externalizing difficulties and social anxiety during puberty – Ou et al. – European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Reconstructing the landscape of gut microbial species across 29,000 diverse individuals – Segota et al. – NAR

Microbiomic profiles of bile in patients with benign and malignant pancreaticobiliary disease – Poudel et al. – PLOS One

Seasonal variations in gut microbiota and disease course in patients with inflammatory bowel disease – Tani et al. – PLOS One

The convergent application of metabolites from Avena sativa and gut microbiota to ameliorate non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a network pharmacology study – Oh et al. – Journal of Translational Medicine volume

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

Effects of Extended Cage Component Sanitation Interval on the Microenvironment, Health, and Gastrointestinal Microbiome of Rats (Rattus norvegicus) – Taylor et al. – Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Music-based interventions in the feeding environment on the gut microbiota of mice – Niu et al. – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Characterisation of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) pouch microbiota in a captive population reveals a dysbiotic compositional profile associated with neonatal mortality – Maidment et al. – Microbiome

[PREPRINT]Microbiome variability of mosquito lines is consistent over time and across environments – Accoti et al. – bioRxiv

Differences in the luminal and mucosal gut microbiomes and metabolomes of oriental rat snake (Ptyas mucosus) – Wei et al. – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Bioinformatics

Improved eukaryotic detection compatible with large-scale automated analysis of metagenomes – Bazant et al. – Microbiome

Techniques

Functional gene-guided enrichment plus in situ microsphere cultivation enables isolation of new crucial ureolytic bacteria from the rumen of cattle – Liu et al. – Microbiome

March 22, 2023

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Human gut microbiome

NEMoE: a nutrition aware regularized mixture of experts model to identify heterogeneous diet-microbiome-host health interactions – Xu et al. – Microbiome

The gut microbiome in social anxiety disorder: evidence of altered composition and function – Butler et al. – Translational Psychiatry

Analysis of the fecal metagenome in long-term survivors of pancreas cancer – Kharofa et al. – Cancer

Multiomic signatures of body mass index identify heterogeneous health phenotypes and responses to a lifestyle intervention – Watanabe et al. – Nature Medicine

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

New insights into the impact of microbiome on horizontal and vertical transmission of a tick-borne pathogen – Du et al. – Microbiome

Periodontitis exacerbates atherosclerosis through Fusobacterium nucleatum-promoted hepatic glycolysis and lipogenesis – Zhou et al. – Cardiovascular Research

Gut microbiota in a mouse model of obesity and peripheral neuropathy associated with plasma and nerve lipidomics and nerve transcriptomics – Guo et al. – Microbiome

Characterization of Gut Microbiome Composition in Patients with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy – Vernaci et al. – The Oncologist

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Environments and host genetics influence the geographic distribution of plant microbiome structure – Wei & Tan – bioRxiv

Gut feelings: associations of emotions and emotion regulation with the gut microbiome in women – Ke et al. – Psychological Medicine

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Core species and interactions prominent in fish-associated microbiome dynamics – Yamjima et al. – Microbiome

March 15, 2023

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Pregnancy and early life

The impact of prenatal dog keeping on infant gut microbiota development – Panzer et al. – Clinical & Experimental Allergy

Human oral microbiome

Host microbiome interactions in apical periodontitis: the endodontic microbiome in relation to circulatory immunologic markers – Georgiou et al. – International Endodontic Journal

Human gut microbiome

[REVIEW]Microbiota dysbiosis and myasthenia gravis: Do all roads lead to Rome? – Kapoor et al. – Autoimmunity Reviews

Metabolomic interplay between gut microbiome and plasma metabolome in cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury – Bai et al. – Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

A non-antibiotic-disrupted gut microbiome is associated with clinical responses to CD19-CAR-T cell cancer immunotherapy – Stein-Thoeringer et al. – Nature Medicine

The gut microbiome modulates the transformation of microglial subtypes – Huang et al. – Molecular Psychiatry

Multi-omics insights into the interplay between gut microbiota and colorectal cancer in the “microworld” age – Wang et al. – Molecular Omics

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

A Longitudinal Characterization of the Seminal Microbiota and Antibiotic Resistance in Yearling Beef Bulls Subjected to Different Rates of Gain – Webb et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Abiotic selection of microbial genome size in the global ocean – Ngugi et al. – Nature Communications

Bioinformatics

Benchmarking genome assembly methods on metagenomic sequencing data – Zhang et al. – Briefings in Bioinformatics

March 8, 2023

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Pregnancy and early life

[PREPRINT]The influence of early life exposures on the infant gut virome – Zhang et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Maternal diet and gut microbiome composition modulate early life immune responses – Grant et al. – bioRxiv

Human oral microbiome

Smoking-induced subgingival dysbiosis precedes clinical signs of periodontal disease – Tamashiro et al. – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiota and risk of five common cancers: A univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization study – Wei et al. – Cancer Medicine

The role of the sex hormone-gut microbiome axis in tumor immunotherapy – Wang et al. – Gut Microbes

[REVIEW]The Influence of the Microbiome on Aggressive Behavior: an Insight into Age Related Aggression – Gulledge, Oyebode & Donaldson – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

Gnotobiotic mice housing conditions critically influence the phenotype associated with transfer of faecal microbiota in a context of obesity – Daoust et al. – Gut

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

[REVIEW]The coral microbiome: Towards an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of coral-microbiota interactions – Mohamed et al. – FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Comparison of the gut microbiome and resistome in captive African and Asian elephants on the same diet – Feng et al. – Front. Vet. Sci.

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Core and conditionally rare taxa as indicators of agricultural drainage ditch and stream health and function – Shi et al. – BMC Microbiology

Species invasions shift microbial phenology in a two-decade freshwater time series – Rohwer et al. – PNAS

Bioinformatics

Controlling taxa abundance improves metatranscriptomics differential analysis – Ji & Ma – BMC Microbiology

coda4microbiome: compositional data analysis for microbiome cross-sectional and longitudinal studies – Luz Calle, Pujolassos & Susin – BMC Bioinformatics

[PREPRINT]You can move, but you can’t hide: identification of mobile genetic elements with geNomad – Camargo et al. – bioRxiv

Assembling the perfect bacterial genome using Oxford Nanopore and Illumina sequencing – Wick, Judd & Holt – PLOS Computational Biology

February 8, 2023

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Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiota of Parkinson’s disease in an appendectomy cohort: a preliminary study – Nakahara et al. – Scientific Reports

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

Microbiota-derived acetate enhances host antiviral response via NLRP3 – Niu et al. – Nature Communications

Gut microbiota remodeling improves natural aging-related disorders through Akkermansia muciniphila and its derived acetic acid – Ma et al. – Pharmacological Research

Gut microbiota-derived metabolites mediate the neuroprotective effect of melatonin in cognitive impairment induced by sleep deprivation – Wang et al. – Microbiome

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

[PREPRINT]Impacts of Age on the Gut Microbiota in Captive Giant Pandas – Li, Lui & Zhang – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

[PREPRINT]Strain Tracking with Uncertainty Quantification – Kim et al. – bioRxiv

Efficient computation of contributional diversity metrics from microbiome data with FuncDiv – Douglas et al. – Bioinformatics