Category Archives: Metagenomics & Bioinformatics

December 5, 2017

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Today we have interesting reviews, one about proteomics and human microbiome by C.A. Kolmedar, the other about oral microbiome by L.P.Shaw and the third about human gut virome by L.A. Ogilvie. In Water section you can read the study by V.J. Koles who developed a model that simulates metagenomes and metatranscriptomes for comparison with observations. In section Bioinformatics you can read about new tools MetaLab and ASAR while in non-microbiology pics you can check podcast “Dances with rocks” with A. Denton, geologist and planetary scientist who wants to dance on Mars. Enjoy!

Jobs

Microbiology Supervisor, Rockville, Maryland

Associate Bioengineer II, Analytical R&D, Warren, NJ

Events

9th Congress of Microbiology and Parasitology Kicks Off in Cuba

General microbiome

Microbially Mediated Electrosynthesis Processes – Mohita Sharma – Microbial Fuell Cell

Development of Suitable Anode Materials for Microbial Fuel Cells – Thi Hiep Han – Microbial Fuel Cell

Progress and Future Direction of Chromosome-Centric Human Proteome Project – Young-Ki Paik – Journal of Proteome Research

Review: Proteomics and the human microbiome: where we are today and where we would like to be – Carolin Adriane Kolmeder – Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

March of the Microbes: Harnessing the Power of the Human Microbiome to Improve Health and Target Disease – Helen Albert – Clinical OMICs

In vitro models of the human microbiota and microbiome – Julie A.K. McDonald – Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Pregnancy and early life

Development of the Microbiota in Infants and its Role in Maturation of the Gut Mucosa and the Immune System – Cecilia Ximenez – Archives of Medical Research

Human nearly-sterile sites

The Influence of Age and Sex on Ocular Surface Microbiota in Healthy Adults -Xiaofeng Wen – Immunology and Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Pneumococcal vaccine impacts on the population genomics of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae – David W Cleary – bioRxiv

The nasopharyngeal microbiome – David W. Cleary- Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

The lung microbiome in health and disease – Miriam F Moffatt – Clinical Medicine

New Strategies and Challenges in Lung Proteomics and Metabolomics. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report – Russell P. Bowler – Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Fungal microbiota in chronic airway inflammatory disease and emerging relationships with the host immune response – Irene Zhang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Oral microbiome

Nonleachable Imidazolium-Incorporated Composite for Disruption of Bacterial Clustering, Exopolysaccharide-Matrix Assembly, and Enhanced Biofilm Removal – Geelsu Hwang – ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Review: The oral microbiome – Liam P. Shaw – Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Use of Probiotics and Oral Health – Robert P. Allaker – Current Oral Health Reports

Subgingival Microbiome Colonization and Cytokine Production during Early Dental Implant Healing – Jeffrey B. Payne – mSphere

Human vaginal microbiome

The human female urogenital microbiome: complexity in normality – David A. MacIntyre – Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiome production of short-chain fatty acids and obesity in children – Selvasankar Murugesan – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

The gut microbiome and hypertension – Pevsner-Fischer – Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension

In vitro models of the human microbiota and microbiome – Julie A.K. McDonald – Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Culturomics and Amplicon-based Metagenomic Approaches for the Study of Fungal Population in Human Gut Microbiota – Ibrahim Hamad – Scientific Reports

Lymphatic system and gut microbiota affect immunopathology of neuroinflammatory diseases, including multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica and Alzheimer’s disease – Ikuo Tsunoda – Clinical & Experimental Neuroimmunology

Effect of different treatments and alcohol addiction on gut microbiota in minimal hepatic encephalopathy patients – Zan Zuo – Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Microbes Tickling Your Tummy: the Importance of the Gut-Brain Axis in Parkinson’s Disease – Paula Perez-Pardo – Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports

Gancao-Gansui combination impacts gut microbiota diversity and related metabolic functions – Jingao Yu – Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Gut microbiome production of short-chain fatty acids and obesity in children – Selvasankar Murugesan – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Gut microbiota in human SLE and a mouse model of lupus – Xin M. Luo – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The interaction between smoking, alcohol and the gut microbiome – Gabriele Capurso – Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology

Animal experiments

Lactation-related metabolic mechanism investigated based on mammary gland metabolomics and 4 biofluids’ metabolomics relationships in dairy cows – Hui-Zeng Sun – BMC Genomics

Differences in the gut microbiota of dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) fed a natural diet or a commercial feed revealed by the Illumina MiSeq platform – Junhyung Kim – Gut Pathogens

Chronic glucocorticoid treatment induced circadian clock disorder leads to lipid metabolism and gut microbiota alterations in rats – Tao Wu – Life Sciences

Animal microbiome

Gut microbiota composition is associated with environmental landscape in honey bees – Julia C Jones –  Ecology and Evolution

Microbiota and environmental stress: how pollution affects microbial communities in Manila clams – M. Milan – Aquatic Toxicology

Analysis of the bacterial microbiome in the small octopus, Octopus variabilis, from South Korea to detect the potential risk of foodborne illness and to improve product management – Jin-JaeLee  – Food Research International

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Studies on mycorrhizal biodiversity in medicinal plant species of Pookode lake area, Wayanad, Kerala, India – Saranya Babu Jayaprakash C.M. – Annals of Plant Sciences

Effects of Iron Amendments on the Speciation of Arsenic in the Rice Rhizosphere after Drainage – Noriko Yamaguchi – Soils

Continuous application of different organic additives can suppress tomato disease by inducing the healthy rhizospheric microbiota through alterations to the bulk soil microflora – Hongjun Liu – Plant and Soil

Seasonal changes in a maize-based polyculture of central Mexico reshape the co-occurrence networks of soil bacterial communities – Eria A. Rebollar – Frontiers in Microbiology

Evolution of microbial communities during electrokinetic treatment of antibiotic-polluted soil – Hongna Li – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Roles of different active metal-reducing bacteria in arsenic release from arsenic-contaminated paddy soil amended with biochar – Jiang-taoQiao – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Legume crop rotation suppressed nitrifying microbial community in a sugarcane cropping soil – Chanyarat Paungfoo-Lonhienne – Scientific Reports

Responses of soil nutrients and microbial communities to three restoration strategies in a karst area, southwest China – Dejun Li – Journal of Environmental Management

Microbial community structure and soil pH correspond to methane production in Arctic Alaska soils – Robert Wagner – Environmental Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Ocean biogeochemistry modeled with emergent trait-based genomics – V. J. Coles – Science

Bacterial Community Profiling of Waters from Aquaculture and Non-aquaculture Sites within Taal Lake Ecosystem through 16S rDNA Analysis – Leslie Michelle M. Dalmacio – The Philippine Journal of Health Research and Development

Prokaryotic Community Composition in Arctic Kongsfjorden and Sub-Arctic Northern Bering Sea Sediments as Revealed by 454 Pyrosequencing – Yin-Xin Zeng –  Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial communities shaped by treatment processes in a drinking water treatment plant and their contribution and threat to drinking water safety – Qi Li – Frontiers in Microbiology

Diversity of microbial communities and quantitative chemodiversity in layers of marine sediment cores from an causeway (Kaichu-Doro) in Okinawa Island, Japan – Taha Soliman – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacterial Diversity and Biogeochemistry of Two Marine Shallow-Water Hydrothermal Systems off Dominica (Lesser Antilles) – Petra Pop Ristova – Frontiers in Microbiology

Spatially distinct, temporally stable microbial populations mediate biogeochemical cycling at and below the seafloor in hydrothermal vent fluids – Caroline S. Fortunato –  Environmental Microbiology

Functional diversity and redundancy across fish gut, sediment and water bacterial communities – Arthur Escalas – Environmental Microbiology

Built environment

Archaeal and Bacterial Community Structure in an Anaerobic Digestion Reactor (Lagoon Type) Used for Biogas Production at a Pig Farm – Pampillón-González L – Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology

Bacterial perspectives on the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes in domestic wastewater bio-treatment systems: beneficiary to victim – Dong Wu – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Effect of ammonia on the active microbiome and metagenome and from stable full-scale digesters – J.Ruiz-Sánchez – Bioresource Technology

Droplet distribution and airborne bacteria in an experimental shower unit – C.E.Estrada-Perez – Water Research

Food Microbiology

Environmental Microbiota Drives Microbial Succession and Metabolic Profiles during Chinese Liquor Fermentation – Xueshan Wang – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Shotgun metagenomics and volatilome profile of the microbiota of fermented sausages -Ilario Ferrocino –  Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics

Bifidobacterium longum 1714 as a translational psychobiotic: modulation of stress, electrophysiology and neurocognition in healthy volunteers – A P Allen  – Translational Psychiatry

Phage and viruses

High HPV16 E6 viral load in the oral cavity is associated with an increased number of bacteria: A preliminary study – Hideo Shigeishi – Biomedical Reports

Kullback Leibler divergence in complete bacterial and phage genomes – Sajia Akhter – PeerJ

Review: The human gut virome: form and function – Lesley A. Ogilvie – Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Deep sequencing reveals high bacterial diversity and phylogenetic novelty in pit mud from Luzhou Laojiao cellars for Chinese strong-flavor Baijiu – Mao-KeLiu – Food Research International

Bioinformatics

Accurate Determination of Bacterial Abundances in Human Metagenomes Using Full-length 16S Sequencing Reads – Fanny Perraudeau – bioRxiv

MetaLab: an automated pipeline for metaproteomic data analysis – Kai Cheng – Microbiome

ASAR: visual analysis of metagenomes in R – Askarbek Orakov – Bioinformatics

Bacteria & Biofuels

Metabolome analysis reveals a role for glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase in the inhibition of C. thermocellum by ethanol – Liang Tian – Biotechnology for Biofuels

Biophotovoltaics: Conversion of Light Energy to Bioelectricity Through Photosynthetic Microbial Fuel Cell Technology – Rashmi Chandra – Microbial Fuel Cell

Techniques

Electron microscopy reveals unique nano forms of bacterial spores – Sumanta Ghosh – bioRxiv

Continuous and High-throughput Electromechanical Lysis of Bacterial Pathogens using Ion Concentration Polarization – Minseok Kim – Analytical Chemistry

Microbes in the news

A New Antibiotic Weakness—Drugs Themselves Help Bacteria Survive

Exercise Changes Gut Microbial Composition Independent of Diet, Study Shows

Bacteria and obesity: Reviewing the connection between gut bacteria, obesity, and diet

Bacteria & Art

Bacteria Collection of Icons Vector Illustration

Tina’s non microbiology picks

PODCAST: This Scientist Wants To Dance On Mars (And She Just Might Make That Happen)

How to Review a Manuscript

December 4, 2017

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Today we have many interesting articles,  Marangoni A. evaluates  antifungal properties of Spirulina platensis against  Candida species; J. de Gunzburg  reports on gut microbiome  protection from antibiotics; E. Uhlig writes about removal of Escherichia coli from “ready‐to‐eat” salads .. while in my personal non microbiological pics you can read the study from A.Carter about women’s visibility in academic seminars. Apparently women ask fewer questions than men. Enjoy your winter read.

Events and jobs

Microbiology Professor, College of the Sequoias, San Jose

Postdoctoral Fellow, EMBL,Hinxton, United Kingdom

General microbiome

Review: Multidrug resistant (or antimicrobial-resistant) pathogens – alternatives to new antibiotics? – Anne-Sophie Brunel – Swiss Medical Weekly

Petri dish versus Winogradsky column: a longue durée perspective on purity and diversity in microbiology, 1880s-1980s – Grote M – History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Pregnancy and early life

32-week premature rupture of membranes caused by oropharyngeal microbiota – Alberto Hidalgo-Chicharro – Microbiology Society

Bacteriological and Immunological Profiling of Meconium and Fecal Samples from Preterm Infants: A Two-Year Follow-Up Study – Marta Gómez – Nutrients

Human respiratory microbiome

IL-17 and TNF-α Are Key Mediators of Moraxella catarrhalis Triggered Exacerbation of Allergic Airway Inflammation – Safa Alnahas – Frontiers in Immunology

Oral microbiome

Gingivitis and plaque prevention using three commercially available dentifrices: A comparative clinical and microbiological randomized control parallel study – Ramprasad Reddy – International Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation

Human vaginal microbiome

In vitro activity of Spirulina platensis water extract against different Candida species isolated from vulvo-vaginal candidiasis cases – Antonella Marangoni – PLOS One

Characterization of a New Ezakiella Isolated From the Human Vagina: Genome Sequence and Description of Ezakiella Massiliensis Sp. Nov – K Diop – Current Microbiology

Newly Isolated Lactobacilli Strains From Algerian Human Vaginal Microbiota: Lactobacillus Fermentum Strains Relevant Probiotic’s Candidates – Liza Ouarabi – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Human nearly-sterile sites

A comprehensive analysis of breast cancer microbiota and host gene expression – Kevin J. Thompson – PLOS One

Human gut microbiome

Aging Gut Microbiota at the Cross-Road between Nutrition, Physical Frailty, and Sarcopenia: Is There a Gut–Muscle Axis? – Andrea Ticinesi – Nutrients

Adipose Tissue Metabolism and Cancer Progression: Novel Insights from Gut Microbiota? – Benedicte F. Jordan – Current Pathobiology Reports

Protection of the human gut microbiome from antibiotics – Jean de Gunzburg – The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Gut microbiota and colorectal cancer: insights into pathogenesis for novel therapeutic strategies – Yongbo Kang – Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie

Genomic Analysis of a Pathogenic Bacterium, Paeniclostridium sordellii CBA7122 Containing the Highest Number of rRNA Operons, Isolated from a Human Stool Sample – Joon Yong Kim – Frontiers in Pharmacology

Cellular senescence in gastrointestinal diseases: from pathogenesis to therapeutics – Frey N – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology

Gut Symbiont Bacteroides fragilis Secretes a Eukaryotic-Like Ubiquitin Protein That Mediates Intraspecies Antagonism – Chatzidaki-Livanis M – mBio

Reduction in Gut Microbial Diversity as a Mechanism of Action of Exclusive Enteral Nutrition – Kaakoush NO – The American Journal of Gastroenterology

Adipose Tissue Metabolism and Cancer Progression: Novel Insights from Gut Microbiota? – Jordan BF – Current Pathobiology Reports

Review: A review of metabolic potential of human gut microbiome in human nutrition – Yadav M – Archives of Microbiology

Animal experiments 

Colonization with Escherichia coli EC 25 protects neonatal rats from necrotizing enterocolitis – Debi M. Thomas – PLOS One

Animal microbiome

Bamboo Specialists From Two Mammalian Orders (Primates, Carnivora) Share a High Number of Low-Abundance Gut Microbe – EA McKenney – Microbial Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Organic Amendments in a Long-Term Field Trial-Consequences for the Bulk Soil Bacterial Community as Revealed by Network Analysis – CAO Schmid – Microbial Ecology

Distinctive Soil Archaeal Communities in Different Variants of Tropical Equatorial Forest – D Kerfahi – Microbial Ecology

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Comparative Analyses of Methanogenic and Methanotrophic Communities Between Two Different Water Regimes in Controlled Wetlands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China – Hongpeng Cui – Current Microbiology

Built environment

Microbial Insight into a Pilot-Scale Enhanced Two-Stage High-Solid Anaerobic Digestion System Treating Waste Activated Sludge – Jing Wu – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Food microbiology

Effects of household washing on bacterial load and removal of Escherichia coli from lettuce and “ready-to-eat” salads – Elisabeth Uhlig – Food Science & Nutrition

Organic food and the impact on human health – Hurtado-Barroso S – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Probiotics / prebiotics

Probiotics Ingestion Does Not Directly Affect Thyroid Hormonal Parameters in Hypothyroid Patients on Levothyroxine Treatment – Giorgia Spaggiari – Frontiers in Endocronology

Characterization of probiotic potential of Bacillus species isolated from a traditional brine pickle – Ragul K – Journal of Food Science and Technology

 

Bioinformatics

Microbiome Datasets Are Compositional: And This Is Not Optional – Gregory B. Gloor – Frontiers in Microbiology

A meta-proteomics approach to study the interspecies interactions affecting microbial biofilm development in a model community – Herschend J – Scientific Reports

A 16S rRNA gene sequencing and analysis protocol for the Illumina MiniSeq platform – Monica Pichler – bioRxiv

Techniques

Exploration of Microbial Communities Using the Thermo Scientific Varioskan LUX Multimode Reader and the Invitrogen EVOS FL Cell Imaging System – Anna Hiltunen – BioTechniques

Application of hierarchical oligonucleotide primer extension (HOPE) to assess relative abundances of ammonia- and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria – Giantommaso Scarascia – BMC Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Microorganisms on your scalp, ears and elbows can be turned into music

Microbes on the market

With $1M in funding, Phase Genomics looks to crack genetic codes and discover unknown bacteria

Tina’s non microbiological pics

Women’s visibility in academic seminars: women ask fewer questions than men

 

December 1, 2017

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Happy December! Today’s digest features research articles on prion like domains in phages, effect of high salt challenge on gut microbiota and immune system. Enjoy!

Events and jobs

Assistant Professor, Statistics and Microbiology – The University of Manitoba

Program Manager, Microbiology – RWJ-Pathology-PISC

General microbiome

Review: Experimental design and quantitative analysis of microbial community multiomics – Himel Mallick – Genome Biology

Pregnancy and early life

Low Microbial Diversity and Abnormal Microbial Succession Is Associated with Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Preterm Infants – Priscila T. Dobbler – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Colonic Bacteroides are positively associated with trabecular bone structure and programmed by maternal vitamin D in male but not female offspring in an obesogenic environment – C R Villa – International Journal of Obesity

Human skin microbiome

Diversity of bacterial communities on the facial skin of different age-group Thai males – Alisa Wilantho – PeerJ

Human oral microbiome

Oral Health and the Oral Microbiome in Pancreatic Cancer: An Overview of Epidemiological Studies – Paige M Bracci – The Cancer Journal

Bacterial alterations in salivary microbiota and their association in oral cancer – Wei-Hsiang Lee – Scientific Reports

Human vaginal microbiome

Review : Is bacterial vaginosis a disease? – Gregor Reid – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Human gut microbiome

The gut mycobiome of the Human Microbiome Project healthy cohort – Andrea K. Nash – Microbiome

Analyses of gut microbiota and plasma bile acids enable stratification of patients for antidiabetic treatment – Yanyun Gu – Nature Communications

*Salt-responsive gut commensal modulates TH17 axis and disease – Nicola Wilck – Nature

Interactions between diet and the intestinal microbiota alter intestinal permeability and colitis severity in mice – Sean R.Llewellyn – Gastroenterology

Psychobiotics: A new approach for treating mental illness? – Snigdha Misra – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth: Should Screening Be Included in the Pre-fecal Microbiota Transplantation Evaluation? – Jessica R. Allegretti – Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Gut microbiota-mediated generation of saturated fatty acids elicits inflammation in the liver in murine high-fat diet-induced steatohepatitis – Shoji Yamada – BMC Gastroenterology

Animal experiments

Vertical vs. horizontal transmission of the microbiome in akey disease vector, Ixodes pacificus – Jessica Y. Kwan – Molecular Ecology

Gut Microbiome-induced Shift of Acetate to Butyrate Positively Manages Dysbiosis in High Fat Diet – Xu Si – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Increased cortical neuronal responses to NMDA and improved attentional set-shifting performance in rats following prebiotic (B-GOS®) ingestion – Benjamin Gronier – European Neuropsychopharmacology

Effects of Lactobacillus acidophilus on gut microbiota composition in broilers challenged with Clostridium perfringens – Zhui Li – Plos One

Doxycycline induces dysbiosis in female C57BL/6NCrl mice – Felicia D. Duke Boynton – BMC Research Notes

Animal microbiome

The effect of dietary energy and protein levels on body weight, size, and microflora of ostrich chicks – Tahereh Nikravesh-Masouleh – Tropical Animal Health and Production

Gene and genome-centric analyses of koala and wombat fecal microbiomes point to metabolic specialization for Eucalyptus digestion – Miriam E. Shiffman – PeerJ

The microbiomes of blowflies and houseflies as bacterial transmission reservoirs – Ana Carolina M. Junqueira – Scientific Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

The Patterns and Drivers of Bacterial and Fungal β-Diversity in a Typical Dryland Ecosystem of Northwest China – Jianming Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Highlighting patterns of fungal diversity and composition shaped by ocean currents using the East China Sea as a model – Wei Li – Molecular Ecology

Microbial Reduction of Fe(III) and SO42− and Associated Microbial Communities in the Alluvial Aquifer Groundwater and Sediments – Ji-Hoon Lee – Microbial Ecology

The influence of complex fermentation broth on denitrification of saline sewage in constructed wetlands by heterotrophic nitrifying/aerobic denitrifying bacterial communities – Guiping Fu – Bioresource Technology

Amplicon-Metagenomic Analysis of Fungi from Antarctic Terrestrial Habitats – Marcelo Baeza – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Community Structure and Arsenic Biogeochemistry in Two Arsenic-Impacted Aquifers in Bangladesh – Edwin T. Gnanaprakasam – mBio

Probiotics / prebiotics

Short communication: Does early-life administration of a Megasphaera elsdenii probiotic affect long-term establishment of the organism in the rumen and alter rumen metabolism in the dairy calf? – T.T.Yohe – Journal of Dairy Science

Review: Effect of Probiotic Supplementation on CD4 Cell Count in HIV-Infected Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – Asma Kazemi – Journal of Dietary Supplements

Phages and viruses

*Prion-Like Domains in Phagobiota – George Tetz – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacteriophage Distributions and Temporal Variability in the Ocean’s Interior – Elaine Luo – mBio

Anitha’s non-microbiology picks

Hubble in a bubble: Scallop eyes act just like tiny telescopes

Jackpot of fossilized pterosaur eggs unearthed in China

Sorry, Grumpy Cat: Study finds dogs are brainier than cats

November 28, 2017

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Identification of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria important for dark ocean carbon fixation, effects of antibiotic exposure to the maternal gut microbiota extend to offspring in mice and enhance colitis, a review on genome mining for natural products discovery.

Events and jobs

Postdoc position on biofilm-mediated co-evolution of industrial strains – Biologisk Institut, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Human skin microbiome

Measuring the microbiome of chronic wounds with use of a topical antimicrobial dressing – A feasibility study – Lindsay Kalan – PLOS ONE

Human gut microbiome

Pre-print: Endospores and other lysis-resistant bacteria comprise a widely shared core community within the human microbiota – Sean M Kearney – bioRxiv

Opinion: Human Gut Microbiome: Function Matters – Anna Heintz-Buschart – Trends in Microbiology

Review: The gut microbiome, symptoms, and targeted interventions in children with cancer: a systematic review – Jinbing Bai – Supportive Care in Cancer

Animal experiments

Intergenerational transfer of antibiotic-perturbed microbiota enhances colitis in susceptible mice – Anjelique F Schulfer – Nature Microbiology

Canagliflozin reduces plasma uremic toxins and alters the intestinal microbiota composition in a chronic kidney disease mouse model – Eikan Mishima – American Journal of Physiology, Renal Physiology

Insect-based diet, a promising nutritional source, modulates gut microbiota composition and SCFAs production in laying hens – Luca Borrelli – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome

Comparison of the gut microbiota composition between wild and captive sika deer (Cervus nippon hortulorum) from feces by high-throughput sequencing – Yu Guan – AMB Express

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Pre-print: The effects of host species and sexual dimorphism differ among root, leaf and flower microbiomes of wild strawberries in situ – Na Wei – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome

Major role of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in dark ocean carbon fixation – Maria G Pachiadaki – Science

Investigating the bacterial community and amoebae population in rural domestic wastewater reclamation for irrigation – Bingjian Cui – Journal of Environmental Sciences

Phages and viruses

Review: Viruses of archaea: Structural, functional, environmental and evolutionary genomics – Mart Krupovic – Virus Research

Bioinformatics

Review: Omics-based natural product discovery and the lexicon of genome mining – Henrique Machado – Current Opinion in Microbiology

More microbes

Chromosome level assembly and secondary metabolite potential of the parasitic fungus Cordyceps militaris – Glenna J Kramer – BMC Genomics

Genomic assessment in Lactobacillus plantarum links the butyrogenic pathway with glutamine metabolism – Cristian Botta – Scientific Reports

Microbes in the news

Researchers conduct novel wheat microbiome analysis under four management strategies – Phys.Org

Fertility clinics treat abnormal vaginal bacteria aiming to improve reproductive outcome – Medical Xpress

Microbe threat to Mars – Andrew Masterson – Cosmos

Flies’ Feet Can Spread Bacteria – Kerry Grens – The Scientist

Despite Their Tiny Genome, A Beetle’s Bacteria Pack A Big Punch – Julianna LeMieux – American Council on Science and Health

CRISPR Harnessed to Turn Bacteria into Microscopic Tape Recorders – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Bacteria hysteria

Warning: Those lipstick samples could be loaded with poop, investigation finds – Mandy Matney – Sacramento Bee

Science, career, and publishing

Pre-print: A design framework and exemplar metrics for FAIRness – Mark D Wilkinson – bioRxiv

November 23, 2017

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Today we have pretty much diverse Microbiome Digest particularly in the section of General microbiome. Interesting papers on E coli as a model organism for metabolic engineering, influence of exercise on our gut microbiota and influence of antibiotics on genetic diversity of honeybee gut microbiota. Enjoy reading these and many many more articles and news about microbes.

Events and jobs

PhD in Soil Microbiology, Teagasc Johnstown Castle, UK

PhD Fellowship in Molecular Microbiology, Copenhagen, Denmark

Postdoctoral Research Associate – Bacterial Evolutionary Genomics, Missoula, MT, US

Postdoctoral researchers – (Lemon Lab), Cambridge MA, US

Associate Professor/Professor in Microbiology, Nottingham, UK

General microbiome

The Immunomodulatory Drug Glatiramer Acetate is Also an Effective Antimicrobial Agent that Kills Gram-negative Bacteria – Stig Hill Christiansen – Scientific Reports

Temperate phages as self-replicating weapons in bacterial competition – Xiang-Yi Li – bioRxiv

Complete Genome Sequences of Seven Vibrio cholerae Phages Isolated in China – Sudhakar G. Bhandare – Genome Announcements

Survival of microbes in Earth’s stratosphere – Priya Das Sarma – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Review: Cable Bacteria Take a New Breath Using Long-Distance Electricity – Filip J.R. Meysman – Trends in Microbiology

Characterization of the CrbS/R Two-Component System in Pseudomonas fluorescens Reveals a New Set of Genes under Its Control and a DNA Motif Required for CrbR-Mediated Transcriptional Activation – Edgardo Sepulveda – Frontiers in Microbiology

The effect of the 2015 Earthquake on the bacterial community compositions in water in Nepal – Sital R. Uprety – Frontiers in Microbiology

Rokubacteria: genomic giants among the uncultured bacterial phyla – Eric D. Becraft – Frontiers in Microbiology

A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity – Luke R. Thompson – Nature

Pregnancy and early life

Microbial Mechanistic Insight into the Role of Inulin in Improving Maternal Health in a Pregnant Sow Model – Pan Zhou – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

A practical molecular identification of nonfermenting Gram-negative bacteria from cystic fibrosis – Carolina Paulino da CostaCapizzani – Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

Oral microbiome

Over-the-counter mouthwash use and risk of pre-diabetes/diabetes – Kaumudi J.Joshipura – Nitric Oxide

Profiling of Oral Microbiota in Early Childhood Caries Using Single-Molecule Real-Time Sequencing – Yuan Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Exploring the association between Alzheimer’s disease, oral health, microbial endocrinology and nutrition – Alice Harding – Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Oral microbiomes from hunter-gatherers and traditional farmers reveal shifts in commensal balance and pathogen load linked to diet – Florent Lassalle – Molecular Ecology

Human skin microbiome

Evaluation of short exposure times of antimicrobial wound solutions against microbial biofilms: from in vitro to in vivo – K Johani – Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Human gut microbiome

Review: Influence of microbiota on intestinal immune system in ulcerative colitis and its intervention – Sailong Zhang – Frontiers in Immunology

Exercise Alters Gut Microbiota Composition and Function in Lean and Obese Humans – Allen, Jacob M – Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

The Kynurenine Pathway As a Novel Link between Allergy and the Gut Microbiome – Aaron P. Van der Leek – Frontiers in Immunology

The gut microbiota: A new potential driving force in liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma – Marco Sanduzzi Zamparelli – United European Gastroenterology Journal

Animal experiments 

Aged Gut Microbiota Contributes to Systemical Inflammaging after Transfer to Germ-Free Mice – Floris Fransen – Frontiers in Immunology

Animal microbiome

Species-specific signatures of the microbiome from Camponotus and Colobopsis ants across developmental stages – Manuela Oliveira Ramalho – PLOS One

Spontaneous body contractions are modulated by the microbiome of Hydra – Andrea P. Murillo-Rincon – Sceintific Reports

Age-related differences in the respiratory microbiota of chickens – Laura Glendinning – PLOS One

A potential new species of porcine Actinobacillus defined by multi-locus sequence analysis – C. Turni – Animal Production Science

Prevalence survey of Toxoplasma gondii in hearts from Western Australian sows – K. Hodgson – Animal Production Science

Antibiotics reduce genetic diversity of core species in the honeybee gut microbiome – Kasie Raymann –  Molecular Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Rhizosphere Microbiome Recruited from a Suppressive Compost Improves Plant Fitness and Increases Protection against Vascular Wilt Pathogens of Tomato – Anastasis Antoniou – Frontiers in Plant Science

Exogenous nitrogen addition reduces the temperature sensitivity of microbial respiration without altering the microbial community composition – Hui Wei – Frontiers in Microbiology

Parallelized, aerobic, single carbon-source enrichments from different natural environments contain divergent microbial communities – Theodore M. Flynn – Frontiers in Microbiology

The effect of Lobelia dortmanna L. on the structure and bacterial activity of the rhizosphere – KatarzynaLewicka-Rataj – Aquatic Botany

Illumina-Based Analysis of Endophytic and Rhizosphere Bacterial Diversity of the Coastal Halophyte Messerschmidia sibirica – Xue-Ying Tian – Frontiers in Microbiology

Functionality of Root-Associated Bacteria along a Salt Marsh Primary Succession – Miao Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

An Integrated Insight into the Relationship between Soil Microbial Community and Tobacco Bacterial Wilt Disease – Hongwu Yang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Deep ocean prokaryotic communities are remarkably malleable when facing long-term starvation – Marta Sebastián – Environmental Microbiology

Interrogating marine virus-host interactions and elemental transfer with BONCAT and nanoSIMS-based methods – Alexis L. Pasulka – Environmental Microbiology

Increased Denitrification Rates Associated with Shifts in Prokaryotic Community Composition Caused by Varying Hydrologic Connectivity – Abigail Tomasek – Frontiers in Microbiology

Chapter 4.1 – The Biota of Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams: Prokaryotes, Fungi, and Protozoans – Anna M. Romaní – Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams

Fungal diversity in deep-sea sediments of a hydrothermal vent system in the Southwest Indian Ridge – Wei Xu – Deep Sea Research Part I

Environmental factors shape water microbial community structure and function in shrimp cultural enclosure ecosystems – Dongwei Hou – Frontiers in Microbiology

Taxonomic and Functional Differences between Microbial Communities in Qinghai Lake and Its Input Streams – Ze Ren – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Diversity and Community Structure of Sulfate-Reducing and Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria in Sediment Cores from the East China Sea – Yu Zhang – Frontiers in Microbiology
Stratified Bacterial and Archaeal Community in Mangrove and Intertidal Wetland Mudflats Revealed by High Throughput 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing – Zhichao Zhou – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Food microbiology

Novel insights into microbial community dynamics during the fermentation of Central European ice wine – Mária Bučková – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Diversity within Italian Cheesemaking Brine-Associated Bacterial Communities Evidenced by Massive Parallel 16S rRNA Gene Tag Sequencing – Marilena Marino – Frontiers in Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics

Lactobacillus acidophilus Metabolizes Dietary Plant Glucosides and Externalizes Their Bioactive Phytochemicals – Mia C. Theilmann – mBio

Phages and viruses

Bacteriophage Transcytosis Provides a Mechanism To Cross Epithelial Cell Layers – Sophie Nguyen – mBio

MVP: a microbe–phage interaction database  – Na L. Gao – Nucleic Acids Research

Biotechnology

Enrichment of lignocellulose-degrading microbial communities from natural and engineered methanogenic environments – Emine Gozde Ozbayram – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Escherichia coli as a model organism for systems metabolic engineering – Paul A.Adamczyk – Current Opinion in System Biology

Bioinformatics

Review: Computational Approaches for Integrative Analysis of the Metabolome and Microbiome – Jasmine Chong – Metabolites

Techniques

Nucleic acid purification from plants, animals and microbes in under 30 seconds – Yiping Zou – PLOS Biology

Lighting Van Leeuwenhoek’s samples – Lesley A. Robertson – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Analysis of Microbiome Data in the Presence of Excess Zeros – Abhishek Kaul – Frontiers in Microbiology

Stripping flow cytometry: How many detectors do we need for bacterial identification? – Peter Rubbens – Cytometry

Microbes in the news 

Plague Bacteria Entered Europe During Neolithic Age, Genetic Analysis Finds 

How the Immune System Identifies Invading Bacteria

Scientists Program Remote-Controlled Nanobots to Kill Cancer

Microbes on the market 

Qualitative Report on Human Microbiome Market 

Microbes and art

Superbugs And Rockets Side By Side At Science Museum

 

 

 

November 21, 2017

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A review discussing metabolic-flux dependent regulation in microbes, diversity of coral-associated viral communities, what an Antarctic fungus can tell us about astrobiology.

General microbiome

Pre-print: Extending species-area relationships (SAR) to diversity-area relationships (DAR)© – Zhanshan Ma – aRxiv

Beneficial microbiomes: Biodiversity and potential biotechnological applications for sustainable agriculture and human health – Ajar Nath Yadav – Journal of Applied Biology and Biotechnology

Pregnancy and early life

Transmission and persistence of IncF conjugative plasmids in the gut microbiota of full-term infants – Anuradha Ravi – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Human respiratory microbiome

Pre-print: Dynamics of the upper airway microbiome in the pathogenesis of asthma-associated persistent wheeze in preschool children – Shu Mei Teo – bioRxiv

Human gut microbiome

Pre-print: A perturbation model of the gut microbiome’s response to antibiotics – Liam P Shaw – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Pre-print: Within host selection for faster replicating bacterial symbionts – Ewa Chrostek – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Molecular characterization of Associative N2 fixing bacterium isolated from the roots of Finger millet (Eleusine coracana L.) and its interaction effects with microbial consortia on growth and yield – G B Santosha Gowda – Research Journal of Biotechnology

Significance of temperature and water availability for soil phosphorus transformation and microbial community composition as affected by fertilizer sources – Dasheng Sun – Biology and Fertility of Soils

Water and extremophile microbiome

Prokaryotic diversity and biogeochemical characteristics of benthic microbial ecosystems at La Brava, a hypersaline lake at Salar de Atacama, Chile – Maria Eugenia Farias – PLOS ONE

Phylogenetic diversity and distribution of bacterial and archaeal amoA genes in the East China Sea during spring – Takafumi Kataoka – Archives of Microbiology

Microbes in space

Resistance of an Antarctic cryptoendolithic black fungus to radiation gives new insights of astrobiological relevance – Laura Selbmann – Fungal Biology

Phages and viruses

Pre-print: Coral-associated viral communities show high levels of diversity and host auxiliary functions – Karen D Weynberg – PeerJ

Biological Control of Pectobacterium carotovorum Via Specific Lytic Bacteriophage – Eman Marei – Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research

Bioinformatics

Book chapter: Chapter 1 – Metagenomics: A Paradigm Shift in Microbiology – Andrey V Mardanov – Metagenomics

More microbes

Review: Metabolic-flux dependent regulation of microbial physiology – Athanosios Litsios – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Microbes in the news

High-salt diet throws microbiome out of whack – Katharine Sanderson – Chemical & Engineering News

Rare Bacterial Taxa May Play Outsize Role in Soil Microbiome Structure, Study Suggests – Genome Web

Forsyth Institute researcher Floyd Dewhirst named as AAAS Fellow – EurekAlert

What makes soil, soil? Researchers find hidden clues in DNA – Phys.Org

Microbes on the market

PathoQuest Announces Formation of Scientific Advisory Board – Business Wire

November 18, 2017

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Featuring a bioinformatics paper from my former lab mate, as well as multiple, interesting pre-prints! See also a paper on rats in NYC and a study on peer review.

Events and jobs
Microbiology Technician I – Abbott – Plymouth, Minnesota, United States

Biology, Assistant Professor, Microbiology – College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University in Minnesota (3 year term, not tenure track)

PhD Studentship: Microbiome mediated resiliency of freshwater habitat – University of Birmingham

OMRF seeks participants as it launches new sarcoidosis clinic

General microbiome
Ecological Insights from the Evolutionary History of Microbial Innovations –
Mario E Muscarella – bioRxiv

Pregnancy and early life
Mode of delivery and child and adolescent psychological well-being: Evidence from Hong Kong’s “Children of 1997” birth cohort – Cherry Y. Leung – Scientific Reports

Multi-site human microbiome
Body size phenotypes comprehensively assess cardiometabolic risk and refine the association between obesity and gut microbiota – J de la Cuesta-Zuluaga – International Journal of Obesity

Human gut microbiome
Structural and functional differences in gut microbiome composition in patients undergoing haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis – Vanessa Stadlbauer – Scientific Report

A role for bacterial urease in gut dysbiosis and Crohn’s disease – Josephine Ni – Science Translational Medicine

Animal experiments
Alteration of the intestinal microbiome characterizes preclinical inflammatory arthritis in mice and its modulation attenuates established arthritis – Rebecca Rogier – Scientific Reports

Dietary protein sources differentially affect microbiota, mTOR activity and transcription of mTOR signaling pathways in the small intestine – Soumya K. Kar – PLoS One

Blockade of CB1 cannabinoid receptor alters gut microbiota and attenuates inflammation and diet-induced obesity – Pegah Mehrpouya-Bahrami – Scientific Reports

Wild Microbiome Stems Tumorigenesis in Lab Mice – Cancer Discovery

Dietary chlorogenic acid regulates gut microbiota, serum-free amino acids and colonic serotonin levels in growing pigs – Yi Wu – International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition

Plant, root, and soil microbiomeSoil-mediated effects of global change on plant communities depend on plant growth form – Jes Hines – Ecosphere

Built environment
Spatial variation in the parasite communities and genomic structure of urban rats in New York City – L. P. Angley – Zoonoses and Public Health

Food microbiology
Digestion under saliva, simulated gastric and small intestinal conditions and fermentation in vitro of polysaccharides from the flowers of Camellia sinensis induced by human gut microbiota – Dan Chen – Food and Function

Review: Dietary and Endogenous Sphingolipid Metabolism in Chronic Inflammation – Gregory H. Norris – Nutrients

Review: Cardiovascular and Antiobesity Effects of Resveratrol Mediated through the Gut Microbiota – JK Bird – Advances in Nutrition

Review: Yogurt and Cardiometabolic Diseases: A Critical Review of Potential Mechanisms – MA Fernandez – Advances in Nutrition

Phages and viruses
Molecularly barcoded Zika virus libraries to probe in vivo evolutionary dynamics – Matthew T. Aliota – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics
A Bayesian method for detecting pairwise associations in compositional data – Emma Schwager – PLoS Computational Biology
Shout-out to my old lab mate, Emma!

MetQy: an R package to query metabolic functions of genes and genomes – Andrea Martinez-Vernon – bioRxiv

Genome announcements
Streptomyces tritici sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from rhizosphere soil of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) – Junwei Zhao – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology

Rhodococcus psychrotolerans sp. nov., isolated from rhizosphere of Deschampsia antarctica – Leonardo Jose Silva – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Thalassotalea coralli sp. nov., isolated from the torch coral Euphyllia glabrescens – Der-Shyan Sheu – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology

Microbes in the news
Lab-Grown Synthetic Nanobots May Officially End Antibiotic Resistance – Patrick Caughill – Futurism

Biolive yoghurt can help to lower blood pressure – Colin Fernandez – IOL

Dolphins: The final frontier for new types of bacteria? – Nicoletta Lanese – Scope

10 Things You Should Never Say to Someone With a Chronic Illness—Seriously – Karen Duffy – Health

Bacterium in a beetle makes it a leaf-eater – Science Daily
Paper: Drastic Genome Reduction in an Herbivore’s Pectinolytic Symbiont – Hassan Salem – Cell

How the Immune System Identifies Invading Bacteria – HHMI
Paper: The structural basis of flagellin detection by NAIP5: A strategy to limit pathogen immune evasion – Jeannette L. Tenthorey – Science

Dog owners have lower mortality, study finds – Katie Silver – BBC
No actual mention of microbiome in paper, which is: Dog ownership and the risk of cardiovascular disease and death – a nationwide cohort study – Mwenya Mubanga – Scientific Report

Microbes on the market
Evelo taps Mayo Clinic expertise for therapeutic bacteria programs – Phil Taylor – FierceBiotech

Human Microbiome Market Global Therapeutics, Drugs Review To 2025 – MedGadget

Researchers receive $500,000 grant to study the “microbiome of death” – Matt Wood – ScienceLife

Science, publishing, and career
Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review – Andrew Tomkins – PNAS

November 15, 2017

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Virome analysis of bats and archaea, bioinformatics tools for metatranscriptomics analysis, using mass spectrometry for studying microbiome metabolomics.

General microbiome

Review: An integrative omics perspective for the analysis of chemical signals in ecological interactions – A E Brunetti – Chemical Society Reviews

Pregnancy and early life

Pre-print: Hospitalized premature infants are colonized by related bacterial strains with distinct proteomic profiles – Christopher T Brown – bioRxiv

Human respiratory microbiome

The role of the microbiome in childhood asthma – Giovanna Pisi – Immunotherapy

Human vaginal microbiome

Pre-print: A new sequencing-based women’s health assay combining self-sampling, HPV detection and genotyping, STI detection, and vaginal microbiome analysis – Elisabeth M Bik – bioRxiv

Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiota and body composition in anorexia nervosa inpatients in comparison to athletes, overweight, obese, and normal weight controls – Sabrina Mörkl – International Journal of Eating Disorders

Review: Gut Microbiota-Dependent Modulation of Energy Metabolism – C N Heiss – Journal of Innate Immunity

Animal experiments

Antimicrobial emulsifier – glycerol monolaurate induces metabolic syndrome, gut microbiota dysbiosis and systemic low-grade inflammation in low-fat diet fed mice – Zengliang Jiang – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

A temperature sensitive Mycobacterium paragordonae induces enhanced protective immune responses against mycobacterial infections in the mouse model – Byoung-Jun Kim – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome

Review: The B vitamin nutrition of insects: the contributions of diet, microbiome and horizontally acquired genes – Angela E Douglas – Current Opinion in Insect Science

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Brassica napus has a key role in the recovery of the health of soils contaminated with metals and diesel by rhizoremediation – Rafael G Lacalle – Science of the Total Environment

Water and extremophile microbiome

Purification of eutrophic water containing chlorpyrifos by aquatic plants and its effects on planktonic bacteria – Xing-Jian Xu – Chemosphere

Cultivation of an immobilized (hyper)thermophilic marine microbial community in a bioreactor – M Landreau – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Pre-print: Dynamics of finely resolved, abundant symbiotic marine plankton and other interacting microbes via automated high-frequency sampling – David M Needham – bioRxiv

Food microbiology

Pre-print: Fusicatenibacter Is Associated with Kefir Drinking – Richard Sprague – bioRxiv

Probiotics/prebiotics

A novel double-layer mucoadhesive tablet containing probiotic strain for vaginal administration: Design, development and technological evaluation – María Teresa Sánchez – European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Efficacy and Safety of a Multistrain Probiotic Formulation Depends from Manufacturing – Vito Trinchieri – Frontiers in Immunology

Phages and viruses

Virome analysis of two sympatric bat species (Desmodus rotundus and Molossus molossus) in French Guiana – Arielle Salmier – PLOS ONE

Review: The enigmatic archaeal virosphere – David Prangishvili – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Bioinformatics

Old meets new: most probable number validation of metagenomic and metatranscriptomic datasets in soil – Tim H Mauchline – Letters in Applied Microbiology

Pre-print: AQMM: Enabling Absolute Quantification of Metagenome and Metatranscriptome – Xiao-Tao Jiang – bioRxiv

Metabolomics

Review: Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics: Targeting the crosstalk between gut microbiota and brain in neurodegenerative disorders – Hemi Luan – Mass Spectrometry Reviews

Pre-print: Coupling MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry protein and specialized metabolite analyses to rapidly discriminate bacterial function – Chase Clark – bioRxiv

Techniques

Evaluating in vitro culture medium of gut microbiome with orthogonal experimental design and metaproteomics approach – Leyuan Li – Journal of Proteome Research

More microbes

Pre-print: Chemotaxis allows bacteria to overcome host-generated reactive oxygen species that constrain gland colonization – Kieran D Collins – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Specimens of Earth’s Oldest Known Life Forms Have Been Discovered in Tasmania – Michelle Starr – Science Alert

Shape-shifting agent targets harmful bacteria in the stomach – Phys.Org

Opinion: Not Just Antibiotics: Is Cancer Chemotherapy Driving Antimicrobial Resistance? – Lito E Papanicolas – Trends in Microbiology

Microbes on the market

A Silicon Valley Startup Wants Women To Test Their Vaginal Microbiota At Home – Ellie Kincaid – Forbes

Seres teams with cancer heavyweights for microbiome-checkpoint inhibitor combination trial – Nick Paul Taylor – FierceBiotech

November 12, 2017

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General microbiome

Rapid colonization of artificial endolithic uninhabited habitats – Charles S. Cockell, International Journal of Astrobiology

A bacterial pioneer produces cellulase complexes that persist through community succession – Sebastian Kolinko, Nature Microbiology

Endoglucanase and Xylanase Production by Chryseobacterium Species Isolated from Decaying Biomass – Asisipho Nkohla, Polish Journal of Environmental Studies

Human gut microbiome

Extended screening costs associated with selecting donors for fecal microbiota transplantation for treatment of metabolic syndrome-associated diseases – Laura J Craven, Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Fecal microbiota signatures of adult patients with different types of short bowel syndrome – Yuhua Huang, Gastroenterology

Association Between Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth by Glucose Breath Test and Coronary Artery Disease – Andre Fialho, Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Fungi in Gastrointestinal Tracts of Human and Mice: from Community to Functions – Jiayan Li, Microbial Ecology

Animal experiments

Transcriptomics-driven lipidomics (TDL) identifies the microbiome-regulated targets of ileal lipid metabolism – Anirikh Chakrabarti, npj Systems Biology and Applications

Vitamin A deficiency in mice alters host and gut microbial metabolism leading to altered energy homeostasis – Yuan Tian, The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Subtle Microbiome Manipulation Using Probiotics Reduces Antibiotic-Associated Mortality in Fish – Victor Schmidt, mSystems

Effect of partially replacing a barley-based concentrate with flaxseed-based products on the rumen bacterial population of lactating Holstein dairy cows – E. Castillo-Lopez, Journal of Applied Microbiology

How gut transcriptional function of Drosophila melanogaster varies with the presence and composition of the gut microbiota – Alyssa Bost, Molecular Ecology

Gut microbiomes and reproductive isolation in Drosophila – Philip T. Leftwich, PNAS

Composition, diversity and function of intestinal microbiota in pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) at different culture stages – Shenzheng Zeng, PeerJ

Animal microbiome

FVD: The fish-associated virus database – Yaxin Chen, Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Bats host diverse parvoviruses as possible origin of mammalian dependoparvoviruses and source for bat–swine interspecies transmission –  Susanna K. P. Lau, Journal of General Virology

Forest canopy, water level, and biopesticide interact to determine oviposition habitat selection in Aedes albopictus – Christopher A. Binckley, Journal of Vector Ecology

Ecological characterization of Aedes aegyptilarval habitats (Diptera: Culicidae) in artificial water containers in Girardot, Colombia – Diana C. Garcia-Sánchez, Journal of Vector Ecology

Microbiota associated with tubes of Escarpia sp. from cold seeps in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean constitutes a community distinct from that of surrounding marine sediment and water – Renata Medina-Silva, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Changes in the soil bacterial community along a pedogenic gradient – Manuel Sánchez-Marañón, Scientific Reports

 

Rhizosphere activity and atmospheric methane concentrations drive variations of methane fluxes in a temperate forest soil – Jens-Arne Subke, Soil Biology and Biochemistry

The Impact of the Diurnal Cycle on the Microbial Transcriptome in the Rhizosphere of Barley – Divyashri Baraniya, Microbial Ecology

The temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition is constrained by microbial access to substrates – Gabriel Y.K. Moinet, Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Application of Aspergillus aculeatus to rice roots reduces Cd concentration in grain – Yan Xie, Plant and Soil

Screening Bacillus species as biological control agents of Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici on wheat – Lirong Yang, Biological Control

Soil geochemical factors regulate Cd accumulation by metal hyperaccumulating Noccaea caerulescens (J. Presl & C. Presl) F.K. Mey in field-contaminated soils – Carla E. Rosenfeld, Science of The Total Environment

Antibiotics in the Soil: Sources, Environmental Issues, and Bioremediation – Umesh B. Jagtap, Antibiotics and Antibiotics Resistance Genes in Soils

Water and extremophile microbiome

Microaerophilic alkane degradation in Pseudomonas extremaustralis: a transcriptomic and physiological approach – Paula M. Tribelli, Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Potential Role of Halophile in Crude Glycerol Based Biorefinery – Noopur Singh, Biorefining of Biomass to Biofuels

Structural basis of antifreeze activity of a bacterial multi-domain antifreeze protein – Chen Wang, PLOS one

Imaging of Cellular Oxidoreductase Activity Suggests Mixotrophic Metabolisms in Thiomargarita spp. – Jake V. Bailey, mBio

Carbohydrate active enzyme domains from extreme thermophiles: components of a modular toolbox for lignocellulose degradation – Jonathan Botha, Extremophiles

Prospects of Solvent Tolerance in Butanol Fermenting Bacteria – Shuvashish Behera, Biorefining of Biomass to Biofuels

Association between degradation of pharmaceuticals and endocrine-disrupting compounds and microbial communities along a treated wastewater effluent gradient in Lake Mead – Susanna M. Blunt, Science of the Total Environment

Effect of TiO2 and CeO2 nanoparticles on the metabolic activity of surficial sediment microbial communities based on oxygen microelectrodes and high-throughput sequencing – Lingzhan Miao, Water Research

Performance and microbial communities in a combined bioelectrochemical and sulfur autotrophic denitrification system at low temperature – Dan Chen, Chemosphere

Ongoing biodegradation of Deepwater Horizon oil in beach sands: Insights from tracing petroleum carbon into microbial biomass – Joel T. Bostic, Marine Pollution Bulletin

Antibiotic degradation and microbial community structures during acidification and methanogenesis of swine manure containing chlortetracycline or oxytetracycline – Fubin Yin, Bioresource Technology

Metagenomics profiling for assessing microbial diversity in both active and closed landfills – Mohamad Yusof Zainun, Science of The Total Environment

Development of a microbial community-based index of biotic integrity (MC-IBI) for the assessment of ecological status of rivers in the Taihu Basin, China – Lihua Niu, Ecological Indicators

Microbial community response to silver nanoparticles and Ag+in nitrifying activated sludge revealed by ion semiconductor sequencing – Carley A. Gwin, Science of The Total Environment

Anaerobic co-digestion of pig manure and food waste; effects on digestate biosafety, dewaterability, and microbial community dynamics – C. Dennehy, Waste Management

Evaluating the impacts of triclosan on wastewater treatment performance during startup and acclimation – R. M. Holzem, Water Science and Technology

Nitrifier Gene Abundance and Diversity in Sediments Impacted by Acid Mine Drainage – Bhargavi Ramanathan, Frontiers in Microbiology

Live Faecalibacterium prausnitzii induces greater TLR2 and TLR2/6 activation than the dead bacterium in an apical anaerobic co-culture system – Eva Maier, Cellular Microbiology

Food microbiome

A mathematical model to predict early quality attributes in hake during storage at low temperature – C. Vilas, Journal of Food Engineering

Chemical, Physiochemical, and Microstructural Properties, and Probiotic Survivability of Fermented Goat Milk Using Polymerized Whey Protein and Starter Culture Kefir Mild 01 – Hao Wang, Food Microbiology & Safety

Re-evaluation of mono- and di-glycerides of fatty acids (E 471) as food additives – EFSA Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources added to Food (ANS), European Food Safety Authority

Opportunities and hurdles of edible insects for food and feed – D. Dobermann, Nutrition Bulletin

Re-evaluation of alginic acid and its sodium, potassium, ammonium and calcium salts (E 400–E 404) as food additives – EFSA Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources added to Food (ANS), European Food Safety Authority

The SALAMANDER project: SALivAry bioMarkers of mediterraneAN Diet associated with long-tERm protection against type 2 diabetes – G. B. Proctor, Nutrition Bulletin

Polyphenols and health: Interactions between fibre, plant polyphenols and the gut microbiota – C. A. Edwards, Nutrition Bulletin

Techniques

Optimization of Culture Conditions for the Production of Halophilic Protease by Newly Isolated Bacillus sonorensis – S. Sankaralingam, American-Eurasian Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Science

November 11, 2017

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Human Microbiome

Identification of universal gut microbial biomarkers of common human intestinal diseases by meta-analysis – Leonardo Mancabelli – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Salivary proteins and microbiota as biomarkers for early childhood caries risk assessment – Abdullah S Hemadi – International Journal of Oral Science (Open Article)

Pancreatic cyst fluid harbors a unique microbiome – Shan Li – Microbiome (Open Article)

Minireview: Microbial Therapeutics Designed for Infant Health – Claire Watkins – Frontiers in Nutrition (Open Article)

Exclusive Enteral Nutrition Induces Remission in Pediatric Crohn’s Disease via Modulation of the Gut Microbiota – Dawei Gong – BioMed Research International

Review: Clostridium difficile infection in the elderly: an update on management – Tomefa E Asempa – Clinical Interventions in Aging

Healthy donor faecal transplant for corticosteroid non-responsive severe alcoholic hepatitis – Cyriac Abby Philips – BMJ Case Reports

The gut mycobiome composition is linked to carotid atherosclerosis – M.R. Chacón –  Beneficial Microbes  

Review: T Cell-Mediated Chronic Inflammatory Diseases Are Candidates for Therapeutic Tolerance Induction with Heat Shock Proteins – Ariana Barbera Betancourt – Frontiers in Immunology (Open Article)

Review: Recipe for IBD: can we use food to control inflammatory bowel disease? – Mario Witkowski – Seminars in Immunopathology (Open Article)

Measuring the impact of olive pomace enriched biscuits on the gut microbiota and its metabolic activity in mildly hypercholesterolaemic subjects – Lorenza Conterno  – European Journal of Nutrition (Open Article)

 

Animal Microbiome

New evidence showing that the destruction of gut bacteria by antibiotic treatment could increase the honey bee’s vulnerability to Nosema infection – Jiang Hong Li – PLoS ONE (Open Article)

Review: Mouse models for human intestinal microbiota research: a critical evaluation – Floor Hugenholtz – Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (Open Article)

Characterization of the gut microbiota in early life stages of pikeperch Sander lucioperca – T. Dulski – Journal of Fish Biology

A High Grain Diet Dynamically Shifted the Composition of Mucosa-Associated Microbiota and Induced Mucosal Injuries in the Colon of Sheep – Yue Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology (Open Article)

Alteration of Gut Microbiota and Inflammatory Cytokine/Chemokine Profiles in 5-Fluorouracil Induced Intestinal Mucositis – Hong-Li Li – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (Open Article)

Captive bottlenose dolphins and killer whales harbor a species-specific skin microbiota that varies among individuals – M. Chiarello – Scientific Reports (Open Article)

Mitochondrial gene polymorphism is associated with gut microbial communities in mice – Misa Hirose – Scientific Reports (Open Article)

 

Environmental Microbiomes

Parallelized, aerobic, single carbon-source enrichments from different natural environments contain divergent microbial communities – Theodore M. Flynn – Frontiers in Microbiology (Provisionally accepted article, full text available soon)

Taxonomic and functional differences between microbial communities in Qinghai Lake and its input streams – ze ren – Frontiers in Microbiology (Provisionally accepted article, full text available soon)

 

Bioinformatics

HOMINID: A framework for identifying associations between host genetic variation and microbiome composition – Joshua Lynch – GigaScience (Open Article)

 

Air Microbiome

Microbiota of the ground air layers in natural and industrial zones of the Kola Arctic – Maria V. Korneykova – Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A

 

Beneficial Microbes

Whole-Genome Sequencing of Lactobacillus Species from Two Commercial Probiotic Products – Anna Colavecchio – Genome Announcements (Open Article)