August 13, 2018

Today’s Digest is full of amazing research from focusing on causation in microbiome studies to increased efficacy of BLAST searches in the age of high throughput sequencing.

General Microbiome

Microbiome: Focus on Causation and Mechanism.Fischbach MA. Cell.

Effect of Antibiotic-Mediated Microbiome Modulation on Rotavirus Vaccine Immunogenicity: A Human, Randomized-Control Proof-of-Concept Trial.Harris VC. Cell Host and Microbe

Enhancing Rotavirus Vaccination: A Microbial Fix? Parker EPK. Cell Host and Microbe

Snapshot of an early Paleoproterozoic ecosystem: Two diverse microfossil communities from the Turee Creek Group, Western Australia. Barlow EV. Geobiology.

Background levels of microorganisms in the busy urban environment of transport hubs.Patel KV. Journal of Applied Microbiology.

Immunomodulation as Therapy for Fungal Infection: Are We Closer?Sam QH. Frontiers in Microbiology

Profiling of Bacterial and Fungal Microbial Communities in Cystic Fibrosis Sputum Using RNA.Grahl N. mSphere.

Oral Microbiome

Comparison of oral microbiota in orthodontic patients and healthy individuals.Sun F. Microbial Pathogenesis

Skin Microbiome

Mud therapy and skin microbiome: a review.Antonelli M. International Journal of Biometeorology

Gut Microbiome

Phylogeny-corrected identification of microbial gene families relevant to human gut colonization.Bradley PH. PLoS Computational Biology

Dynamic changes in human-gut microbiome in relation to a placebo-controlled anthelminthic trial in Indonesia.Martin I. PLoS Neglected Tropical Disease.

Faecal Microbiome

Effects of metal and metalloid pollutants on the microbiota composition of feces obtained from twelve commercial pig farms across China.Peng Z. Science Total Environment

Fecal Microbiota Alterations Associated With Diarrhea-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome.Zhuang X. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Plant, Soils, and Air Microbiome

Environmental variables better explain changes in potential nitrification and denitrification activities than microbial properties in fertilized forest soils.Tang Y. Science of Total Environment

Metagenomic analysis of rhizosphere microflora of oil-contaminated soil planted with barley and alfalfa. Kumar V. PLoS One.

Trichoderma polysporum selectively inhibits white-nose syndrome fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans amidst soil microbes.Singh A. Microbiome.

Tissue Microbiome of Norway Spruce Affected by Heterobasidion-Induced Wood Decay.Ren F. Microbial Ecology

Evidence for complete nitrification in enrichment culture of tidal sediments and diversity analysis of clade a comammox Nitrospira in natural environments. Yu C. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Traits-Based Integration of Multi-Species Inoculants Facilitates Shifts of Indigenous Soil Bacterial Community.Wang J. Frontier in Microbiology

Spatial Patterns and Drivers of Microbial Taxa in a Karst Broadleaf Forest.Song M. Frontiers in Microbiology

Water Microbiome

Response of Microbial Communities to Changing Climate Conditions During Summer Cyanobacterial Blooms in the Baltic Sea.Berner C. Frontiers in Microbiology

Coral Microbiome Database: Integration of sequences reveals high diversity and relatedness of coral-associated microbes.Huggett MJ. Environmental Microbiology Reports

Animal Experiments and Microbiome

Diet and other environmental factors shape the bacterial communities of fish gut in an eutrophic lake. Kashinskaya EN. Journal of Applied Microbiology

Yeast-like microorganisms in the scale insect Kermes quercus (Insecta, Hemiptera, Coccomorpha: Kermesidae). Newly acquired symbionts?Podsiadło E. Arthropod Structure and Development

Initial description of the core ocular surface microbiome in dogs: Bacterial community diversity and composition in a defined canine population.Leis ML. Veterinary Ophthalmology

High-Throughput Analysis Reveals Seasonal Variation of the Gut Microbiota Composition Within Forest Musk Deer (<i>Moschus berezovskii</i>).Hu X. Frontiers in Microbiology

A Comprehensive Research on Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Microbiota of Aquatic Animals.Hong B. Frontiers in Microbiology

Identification of spider-mite species and their endosymbionts using multiplex PCR.Zélé F. Experimental and Applied Acarology

Soil microarthropods alter the outcome of plant-soil feedback experiments.Kuťáková E. Scientific Reports

Techniques/Bioinformatics 

Metagenome complexity and template length are the main causes of bias in PCR-based bacteria community analysis.Peng W. Journal of Basic Microbiology

Single-cell RNA sequencing technologies and bioinformatics pipelines.Hwang B. Experimental and Molecular Medicine

Negative Binomial Mixed Models for Analyzing Longitudinal Microbiome Data.Zhang X. Frontiers in Microbiology

Stationary and portable sequencing-based approaches for tracing wastewater contamination in urban stormwater systems. Hu Y. Scientific Reports

CrocoBLAST: Running BLAST efficiently in the age of next-generation sequencing.Tristão Ramos RJ. Bioinformatics

23 July, 2018

Today’s digest includes exciting Microbiome events and brilliant papers on animal microbiomes. Lastly, research exploring the war on gluten.

Events

Microbiome X Regulation 1 Panel discussion on navigating the FDA

Introduction to the 4th International Symposium on Gluten-Free Cereal Products and Beverages.

General Microbiome

Antibiotic Scars Left on the Gut Microbiota from the Stringent Response. Yi H. Trends in Microbiology

Genomic inference of the metabolism and evolution of the archaeal phylum Aigarchaeota. Hua ZS. Nature Communications

Genomic Characterization of Sulphite Reducing Bacteria Isolated From the Dairy Production Chain.Doyle CJ. Frontiers in Microbiology.

How Microbial Aggregates Protect against Nanoparticle Toxicity.Tang J. Trends in Biotechnology.

Inhibition of microbial spoilage of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) fillets with a chitosan-based coating during refrigerated storage. Yu D. International Journal of Food Microbiology

Gut Microbiome

The gut microbiome and irritable bowel syndrome. Menees S. F1000Research

Antibiotic-induced microbiome depletion alters metabolic homeostasis by affecting gut signaling and colonic metabolism.Zarrinpar A. Nature Communications

Metaproteomics reveals associations between microbiome and intestinal extracellular vesicle proteins in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. Zhang X. Nature Communications

Techniques

A rapid PCR-based method to discriminate Macrococcus caseolyticus and Macrococcus canis from closely-related Staphylococcus species based on the ctaC gene sequence. Mazhar S. Journal of Microbiological Methods

MetaVW: Large-Scale Machine Learning for Metagenomics Sequence Classification. Vervier K. Methods in Molecular Biology

Soil, Water, and Air Microbiome

Influence of new agromining cropping systems on soil bacterial diversity and the physico-chemical characteristics of an ultramafic soil. Saad RF. Science of the Total Environment

<i>Pseudomonas chlororaphis</i> produces multiple R-tailocin particles that broaden the killing spectrum and contribute to persistence in rhizosphere communities.Dorosky RJ. Applied and Environmental Microbiology

REVIEW: Microbial diversity and biogeography in Arctic soils.Malard LA. Environmental Microbiology Reports.

Impact of brine and antiscalants on reef-building corals in the Gulf of Aqaba – Potential effects from desalination plants.Petersen KL. Water Research

Mapping the Bacterial Community in Digboi Oil Refinery, India by High-Throughput Sequencing Approach. Dasgupta A.  Current Microbiology.

Chemical-, site-, and taxa-dependent benthic community health in coastal areas of the Bohai Sea and northern Yellow Sea: A sediment quality triad approach. Khim JS. Science of the Total Environment.

Animal Experiments and Microbiome

Microbial Biogeography Along the Gastrointestinal Tract of a Red Panda. Zeng Y. Frontiers in Microbiology

REVIEW:The gut microbiota of wild rodents: Challenges and opportunities. Viney M. Laboratory Animals

Genome-wide association studies of inflammatory bowel disease in German shepherd dogs. Peiravan A. PLoS One.

Effects of Rodent Diet Choice and Fiber Type on Data Interpretation of Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Disease Research.Pellizzon MA. Current Protocols in Toxicology

Non-Microbiology Hot Pick

The war on gluten. Servick K. Science.

 

 

July 8, 2018

Today’s Microbiome Digest blog comes up with the current research articles on the microbiome of GIT, Respiratory, UT, Vagina, Infant, Oral, Marine, Plant-Soil and Animal- Bird. It also features the articles on the bioremediation, pre/pro-biotics, nutrient and dietary effects on microbiome, the potential prognosis, biofilm reduction and multi-omics study of pregnancy cohort, role of Environmental Contaminants(ECs), spore-forming bacteria, attenuation of colitis score, systematic repercussions by antibiotics, glucocorticoid signaling, TMAO, drug-induced liver injury (DILI), neurotransmitter interactions, effect of glycation of fish proteins, NOD2-IBD, Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE).

Have a look and enjoy SUNDAY!

EVENTS, JOBS, PhD POSITIONS:

EVENT – Third Annual Microbiome Symposium on September 24 , 8:00AM – 7:00PM at the Stanford Faculty Club

 

GASTRO-INTESTINAL MICROBIOME: 

Analysis of the Gut Microbiome of Rural and Urban Healthy Indians Living in Sea Level and High Altitude Areas – Bhabatosh Das – Scientific Reports 

Review – The Mammalian Intestinal Microbiome: Composition, Interaction with the Immune System, Significance for Vaccine Efficacy, and Potential for Disease Therapy – Desselberger U – Pathogens

The presence of genetic risk variants within PTPN2 and PTPN22 is associated with intestinal microbiota alterations in Swiss IBD cohort patients – Bahtiyar Yilmaz – PLoS One

Absence of NOD2 receptor predisposes to intestinal inflammation by a deregulation in the immune response in hosts that are unable to control gut dysbiosis – Patrícia Reisde Souza – Immunobiology

Review – Outside the liver box: The gut microbiota as pivotal modulator of liver diseases – Annika Wahlström – Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Molecular Basis of Disease

 

RESPIRATORY MICROBIOME:

Review – Microbiome in the primary prevention of allergic diseases and bronchial asthma – B.Sozańska – Allergologia et Immunopathologia

Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea is Associated with Alterations in the Nasal Microbiome and Increase in Inflammation – Benjamin G Wu – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

URINARY TRACT MICROBIOME:

Review – Infections – The Urinary Tract Microbiome: The Answer to All Our Open Questions? – Giuseppe Magistro – European Urology focus

VAGINAL MICROBIOME:

Anti-HIV-1 Activity of Lactic Acid in Human Cervicovaginal Fluid – Tyssen D – mSphere

INFANT MICROBIOME:

Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis EVC001 stably restores the infant gut microbiome over the first year of life in breastfed infants – Jennifer Smilowitz – Pediatrics

Review – Does antibiotic choice for the treatment of suspected late-onset sepsis in premature infants determine the risk of developing necrotising enterocolitis? A systematic review – Josephine V.Seale – Early Human Developmment

ORAL MICROBIOME: 

Review – Cariogenic microbiome and microbiota of the early primary dentition: a contemporary overview – Fakhruddin KS – Oral Diseases

Differential preservation of endogenous human and microbial DNA in dental calculus and dentin – Mann AE – Scientific Reports

Distinctions and associations between the microbiota of saliva and supragingival plaque of permanent and deciduous teeth – Shi W – PLoS One

Dysbiosis of oral microbiota and its association with salivary immunological biomarkers in autoimmune liver disease – Kazumichi Abe – PLoS One

GENERAL HUMAN MICROBIOME:

Human-associated microbial populations as evidence in forensic casework – Frederike C.A – Forensic Science International: Genetics

Book chapter – Genomics and Drug-Metabolizing Enzymes and Its Application in Drug Delivery: Evaluating the Influence of the Microbiome – Sheeba Varghese Gupta

Effects of Substance Use and Sex Practices on the Intestinal Microbiome During HIV-1 Infection – Jennifer A Fulcher –The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Preview – Interactions between Clostridioides difficile and fecal microbiota in in vitro batch model: growth, sporulation and microbiota changes – Sabina Horvat – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review – Metagenomic and clinical microbiology – Sophie Amrane – Human Microbiome

Implants induce a new niche for microbiomes – Tim H. Jakobsen – Wiley Online Library

Short Communication Transmission of IMI-2 carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae from river water to human – Chrislène Laurens – Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance

Review – The hygiene hypothesis: immunological mechanisms of airway tolerance – Eline Haspeslagh – Current Opinion in Immunology

Microbiota affects the expression of genes involved in HPA axis regulation and local metabolism of glucocorticoids in chronic psychosocial stress – M. Vodička – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Review – The Role of Microbiota in Cardiovascular Risk: Focus on Trimethylamine Oxide – HusseinAl-Rubaye – Current Problems in Cardiology

 

HUMAN-MICROBE CROSS-TALK:

Gut Microbiota-Dependent Trimethylamine N-Oxide Predicts Risk of Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Stroke and Is Related to Proinflammatory Monocytes – Haghikia A – Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol.

Cutting Edge: Critical Roles for Microbiota-Mediated Regulation of the Immune System in a Prenatal Immune Activation Model of Autism – Catherine R. Lammert – J Immunol

Critical Role for the Microbiota in CX3CR1+ Intestinal Mononuclear Phagocyte Regulation of Intestinal T Cell Responses – Myunghoo Kim – Immunity

 

MARINE/WATER MICROBIAL ECOLOGY:

Review – Ecology and evolution of seafloor and subseafloor microbial communities – WD Orsi – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Metabolic potential of microbial communities from ferruginous sediments – Aurèle Vuillemin – Environmental Microbiology

Metagenomic analysis of basal ice from an Alaskan glacier – Kayani MUR – Microbiome

Patterns of Change in Metabolic Capabilities of Sediment Microbial Communities in River and Lake Ecosystems – Oest A1 – Int J Microbiol

Succession of toxicity and microbiota in hydraulic fracturing flowback and produced water in the Denver–Julesburg Basin – Natalie M Hull – Science of The Total Environment

 

PLANT or SOIL MICROBIOME:

Preview – New Biological Insights Into How Deforestation in Amazonia Affects Soil Microbial Communities Using Metagenomics and Metagenome-Assembled Genomes – Marie E. Kroeger – Frontiers in Microbiology

Litter quality drives the differentiation of microbial communities in the litter horizon across an alpine treeline ecotone in the eastern Tibetan Plateau – Haifeng Zheng – Scientific Reports

Preview – Unravelling the composition of the root-associated bacterial microbiota of Phragmites australis and Typha latifolia – Laura Pietrangelo – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

BIOREMEDIATION:

Characterization and Dynamic Shift of Microbial Communities during Start-Up, Overloading and Steady-State in an Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor – Nsanzumukiza Martin Vincent – Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health

Review – Response of microbial communities to oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: A review – Linda Adzigbli – Afr. J. Microbiol. Res

A two-staged system to generate electricity in microbial fuel cells using methane – Jaewook Myung – Chemical Engineering Journal

The influence of pressure on crude oil biodegradation in shallow and deep Gulf of Mexico sediments – Nguyen UT – PLoS One

Microbial Community Cohesion Mediates Community Turnover in Unperturbed Aquifers – Robert E. Danczak – mSystems

Energy efficiency: Importance of indigenous microorganisms contained in the municipal solid wastes – S.Zahedi – Waste management

Systematic characterization and proposed pathway of tetracycline degradation in solid waste treatment by Hermetia illucens with intestinal microbiota – Minmin Cai – Environmental Pollution

 

NUTRITION or DIET and TREATMENTS:

Functional Effects of the Buckwheat Iminosugar d-Fagomine on Rats with Diet-Induced Prediabetes – Ramos-Romero S – Mol Nutr Food Res

Long-Term Genistein Consumption Modifies Gut Microbiota, Improving Glucose Metabolism, Metabolic Endotoxaemia and Cognitive Function in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet – López P – Mol Nutr Food Res

Brown rice-specific γ-oryzanol as a promising prophylactic avenue to protect against diabetes mellitus and obesity disease in humans – Masuzaki H – J Diabetes Investig

Intestinal Inflammation in Chilean Infants Fed With Bovine Formula vs. Breast Milk and Its Association With Their Gut Microbiota – Ossa JC – Front Cell Infect Microbiol.

Trigonelline inhibits intestinal microbial metabolism of choline and its associated cardiovascular risk – Anwar S – J Pharm Biomed Anal

Off-target effects of tribendimidine, tribendimidine plus ivermectin, tribendimidine plus oxantel-pamoate, and albendazole plus oxantel-pamoate on the human gut microbiota – Pierre H.H.Schneeberger – International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance

Isoquercetin and inulin synergistically modulate the gut microbiome to prevent development of the metabolic syndrome in mice fed a high fat diet – Si Tan – Scientific Reports

Glycation of fish protein impacts its fermentation metabolites and gut microbiota during in vitro human colonic fermentation – Yuhong Yang – Food Research International

Correlation between microbiota and flavours in fermentation of Chinese Sichuan Paocai – YangshengXiao – Food Research International

Review – Relationship between fatty acids intake and Clostridium coccoides in obese individuals with metabolic syndrome – Giovana Jamar – Food Research International

Review – Microbiota of milk powders and the heat resistance and spoilage potential of aerobic spore-forming bacteria – Faizan A.Sadiq – International Diary Journal

Review – The debate over neurotransmitter interaction in aspartame usage – Arbind Kumar Choudhary – Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

 

METHODS:

Reevaluating approaches to cystic fibrosis pulmonary exacerbations – Schechter MS – Pediatr Pulmonol

Review – Bioresponsive drug delivery systems in intestinal inflammation: State-of-the-art and future perspectives – Niranjan G.Kotla – Advance Drug Delivery Reviews

Rapid analysis of photoautotroph microbial communities in soils by flow cytometric barcoding and fingerprinting – László Menyhárt – Applied Soil Ecology

Degradation studies of modified inulin as potential encapsulation material for colon targeting and release of mesalamine – MichaelWalz – Carbohydrate Polymers

Review – Advances in drug-induced cholestasis: Clinical perspectives, potential mechanisms and in vitro systems – M. LeonorFernández-Murga – Food and Chemical Toxicology

 

ANIMAL and BIRD MICROBIOME:

Characteristics of microbial communities and intestinal pathogenic bacteria for migrated Larus ridibundus in southwest China – Liao F – Microbiology Open

Gut microbiota correlates with fiber and apparent nutrients digestion in goose – Guojun Liu – Poultry Science

Feeding sows resistant starch during gestation and lactation impacts their faecal microbiota and milk composition but shows limited effects on their progeny – Julie Leblois – PLoS One

Analysis of temporal fecal microbiota dynamics in weaner pigs with and without exposure to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli – J. Pollock – Journal of Animal Science

 

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS:

Aryl hydrocarbon receptor/IL-22/Stat3 signaling pathway is involved in the modulation of intestinal mucosa antimicrobial molecules by commensal microbiota in mice – Wang J – Innate Immun.

Oral infection of mice with Fusobacterium nucleatum results in macrophage recruitment to the dental pulp and bone resorption – Larry Johnson – Biomedical Journal

Preview – Fecal Microbiota Transplantation is Associated with Reduced Morbidity and Mortality in Porcine Circovirus Associated Disease – Megan C. Niederwerder – Frontiers in Microbiology

Oral treatment with Lactobacillus rhamnosus 64 during the early postnatal period improves the health of adult rats with TNBS-induced colitis – Stanislava Stanojević – Journal of Functional Foods

Antibiotic-induced dysbiosis effects on the murine gastrointestinal tract and their systemic repercussions – Caio PupinRosa – Life Sciences

 

MICROBIOLOGY:

N-Acetyl-glucosamine influences the biofilm formation of Escherichia coli – Sicard JF – Gut Pathog

Benzoyl Peroxide Inhibits Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Formation by Gardnerella vaginalis 14018 – Ammar Algburi – Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology

 

PRE/PRO – BIOTICS:

Review : Benefaction of probiotics for human health: A review – George Kerry R – J Food Drug Anal

Review – Role of prebiotics in regulation of microbiota and prevention of obesity – Grethel T.Choque Delgado – Food Research International

Effects of the Administration of Probiotics on Fecal Microbiota Diversity and Composition in Healthy Individuals – Choong-Kyun Noh – J Neurogastroenterol Motil

 

METABOLOMICS:

Microbiome-related metabolite changes in gut tissue, cecum content and feces of rats treated with antibiotics – C.Behr – Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

 

MULTI-OMICS PICKS:

Multiomics Modeling of the Immunome, Transcriptome, Microbiome, Proteome, and Metabolome Adaptations During Human Pregnancy – Mohammad Sajjad Ghaemi – Bioinformatics

July 5, 2018

Today’s microbiology picks have articles on sampling source effect on the gut microbial diversity, whether resistant starch in mothers could benefit the offsprings, protective role of the gut bacteria of firebugs, microbial community shift during different stages in anaerobic membrane bioreactor, NanoAmpli-Seq as well as articles from plant-root-soil microbiome. Precision medicine, genetics of social interaction and isolation, “ethics dumping ” among our non-microbiology picks.

 

Events and jobs

John Maddox Prize 2018 nomination – Deadline: 13th August 2018 – Check their website for more details

General microbiome

Human-associated microbial populations as evidence in forensic casework – Frederike C.A. Quaak – Forensic Science International: Genetics

The Mammalian Intestinal Microbiome: Composition, Interaction with the Immune System, Significance for Vaccine Efficacy, and Potential for Disease Therapy.  – U Desselberger – MDPI

244 Analysis of microbiome prostatic secretion in depending of levels total testosterone in blood serum – M.I. Kogan – The Journal of Sexual Medicine

Triclosan and triclocarban exposure, infectious disease symptoms and antibiotic prescription in infants—A community-based randomized intervention – Catherine Ley – PLoS One

 

Human skin microbiome

Microbiome analysis of forehead skin in patients with atopic dermatitis and healthy subjects: Implication of Staphylococcus and Corynebacterium –  Masutaka Furue – The Journal of Dermatology

Human vaginal microbiome

Trichomonas vaginalis: Pathogenesis, Symbiont Interactions, and Host Cell Immune Responses – Frances Mercer – Trends in Parasitology

Human gut microbiome

More of the Gut in the Lung: How Two Microbiomes Meet in ARDS – Samiran Mukherjee – Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

The Influence of Gut Microbial Metabolism on the Development and Progression of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease – Wei Jia – Obesity, Fatty Liver and Liver Cancer

Severe Defects in the Macrophage Barrier to Gut Microflora in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Colon Cancer. – Carlos A. Rubiro – Anticancer Research

Animal experiments 

Feeding sows resistant starch during gestation and lactation impacts their faecal microbiota and milk composition but shows limited effects on their progeny – Julie Leblois – PLoS One

Animal microbiome

The cotton stainer’s gut microbiota suppresses infection of a co‐transmitted trypanosomatid parasite – Thomas O Onchuru – Molecular Ecology

Gut microbial diversity in two insectivorous bats: Insights into the effect of different sampling sources – Haonan Wu – Microbiology Open

Evidence for multiple ecological roles of Leptographium abietinum, a symbiotic fungus associated with the North American spruce beetle – Thomas S Davis – Fungal Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Stable isotope informed genome-resolved metagenomics reveals that Saccharibacteria utilize microbially-processed plant-derived carbon – Evan P Starr – Microbiome

Swift Acid Rain Sensing by Synergistic Rhizospheric Bioelectrochemical Responses – Tian Li – ACS Sensors

Crop Rotation and Straw Application Impact Microbial Communities in Italian and Philippine Soils and the Rhizosphere of Zea mays – Saarah A Maarastawi – Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant growth promoting bacteria associated with corm of Crocus sativus during three growth stages – Ranjit Kour – Letters in Applied Microbiology

Fungal Diversity of Rhizosphere Soil from 11 Varieties of Grapevines at Maturity Stage from Two Vineyards in China – Ping Zhao – Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy

Disruption of microbial community composition and identification of plant growth promoting microorganisms after exposure of soil to rapeseed-derived glucosinolates – Meike Siebers – PLoS One

The value of wet leaves – Todd E. Dawson – New Phytologist

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Biofilm and planktonic bacterial communities in a drinking water distribution system supplied with untreated groundwater – Jianfei Chen – Archives of Microbiology

Marine Environmental Epigenetics – Jose M. Eirin-Lopez – Annual Reviews

Disentangling the complexity of permafrost soil by using high resolution profiling of microbial community composition, key functions and respiration ratesDisentangling the complexity of permafrost soil by using high resolution profiling of microbial community composition, key functions and respiration rates – Oliver Müller – Environmental Microbiology

Effect of different carbon sources on denitrification performance, microbial community structure and denitrification genes – Zhongshuo Xu – Science of The Total Environment

Built environment 

Characterization and Dynamic Shift of Microbial Communities during Start-Up, Overloading and Steady-State in an Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor –  Nsanzumukiza Martin Vincent – MDPI

Food microbiology

Inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella and Native Microbiota on Fresh Strawberries by Antimicrobial Washing and Coating – Mingming Guo – Journal of Food Protection

Microbial quality of ice cream sold by retail outlets in Erzurum. –  S Çubukçı – CAB Direct

 

Techniques

Preprint: NanoAmpli-Seq: A workflow for amplicon sequencing for mixed microbial communities on the nanopore sequencing platform – Szymon T Calus – bioRxiv

Preprint: Genetic insight into zinc and antimicrobial toxicity uncovers a glycerol phosphate modification on streptococcal rhamnose polysaccharides – Rebecca J. Edgar – bioRxiv

Preprint: Nano-particles from Chaetomium against Rice Blast – Jiao Jiao Song – bioRxiv

Seamless assembly of recombinant adenoviral genomes from high-copy plasmids – Jessica J. Miciak – PLoS One

Twenty-seven years of screening for Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in a university hospital. Brussels, Belgium, 1987-2014 – Klara De Rauw – PLoS One

Microbes in the news

Bacteria Fight Competitors by Turning them Against Each Other – Technology Networks

Non-microbiology Picks

Personalized medicine should not be restricted to the wealthy – Nature

Elucidating the genetic basis of social interaction and isolation – Nature Communications

Evaluation woes: we’re on it, responds DORA – Nature

Italy is squeezing out wet biology research – Nature

Europe’s biggest research fund cracks down on ‘ethics dumping’ – Nature

 

July 02, 2018

Good morning! Today’s Microbiome Digest will cover the general microbiome, HIV infection and multi-site bacterial microbiota, crucial role of lung microbiome in asthma, gut microbiome in type 1 diabetes, Link between diet and metabolic syndrome, Wild and Captive Baboon Gut Microbiota and Their Antibiotic Resistomes, HmmUFOtu: a tool for taxonomic assignment and OTU picking and a news on plastic eating bacteria …

Events and jobs

Post-Doctoral Research Position, Oregon State University, with Dr. Stephen Giovannoni

Postdoctoral Researcher Position Characterizing Microbial Candidate Phlya at Stanford University

General microbiome

Issue: The microbiome: more than a gut reaction – John R. Wingard – Blood

Evaluation at scale of microbiome-derived metabolites as biomarker of flavan-3-ol intake in epidemiological studies – Javier I. Ottaviani – Scientific Reports

All disease begins in the gut: Influence of gastrointestinal disorders and surgery on oral drug performance – Grace B. Hatton – International Journal of Pharmaceutics

Designing microbial consortia with defined social interactions – Wentao Kong – Nature Chemical Biology

Multi-site human microbiome

HPV infection and bacterial microbiota in the placenta, uterine cervix and oral mucosa – Heidi Tuominen – Scientific Reports

Human respiratory microbiome

State of the Art: Does lung microbiome play a causal or casual role in asthma? – Maria Di Cicco – Pediatric Pulmonology

Human vaginal microbiome

Increased richness and diversity of the vaginal microbiota and spontaneous preterm birth – Aline C. Freitas – Microbiome

Human gut microbiome

Review: Gut microbiome in type 1 diabetes: A comprehensive review – Zheng P – Diabetes Metab Res Rev

Review: Altered Gut Microbiota: A Link Between Diet and the Metabolic Syndrome – Velasquez Manuel T – Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders

Chapter: Microbiota, Obesity and NAFLD – Louis H. S. Lau – Obesity, Fatty Liver and Liver Cancer

Chapter: The Influence of Gut Microbial Metabolism on the Development and Progression of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease – Wei Jia – Obesity, Fatty Liver and Liver Cancer

Method: Assessing the Mouse Intestinal Microbiota in Settings of Type-2 Immune Responses – Mei San Tang – Type 2 Immunity

Ancient Thali Diet: Gut Microbiota, Immunity, and Health – Kaitlyn Shondelmyer – Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine

Altered gut microbiome composition in children with refractory epilepsy after ketogenic diet – Yunjian Zhang – Epilepsy Research

The Stringent Response Determines the Ability of a Commensal Bacterium to Survive Starvation and to Persist in the Gut – Whitman B. Schofield – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: Update on the Gastrointestinal Microbiome in Systemic Sclerosis – Chiara Bellocchi – Current Rheumatology Reports

Review: The Gut Microbiome Alterations and Inflammation-Driven Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease—a Critical Review – Marta Sochocka – Molecular Neurobiology

The controversial role of Enterococcus faecalis in colorectal cancer – Carolina Vieira de Almeida – Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology

Animal experiments

Pea-protein alginate encapsulation adversely effects development of clinical signs of Citrobacter rodentium-induced colitis in mice treated with probiotics – Natallia Varankovich – Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Maternal Soluble Fiber Diet during Pregnancy Changes the Intestinal Microbiota, Improves Growth Performance, and Reduces Intestinal Permeability in Piglets – Chuanshang Cheng – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Overlapping community composition of gut and fecal microbiomes in lab-reared and field-collected German cockroaches – Madhavi L. Kakumanu – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

TRIF deficiency protects non-obese diabetic mice from type 1 diabetes by modulating the gut microbiota and dendritic cells – Elke Gülden – Journal of Autoimmunity

Mucosal homeostasis is altered in the ileum of gnotobiotic mice – Chasen J. Greig – Journal of Surgical Research

Animal microbiome

Factors influencing bacterial microbiome composition in a wild non-human primate community in Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire – Jan F. Gogarten – The ISME Journal

Characterization of Wild and Captive Baboon Gut Microbiota and Their Antibiotic Resistomes – Pablo Tsukayama – mSystems

Genetic variability and ontogeny predict microbiome structure in a disease-challenged montane amphibian – Sarah M. Griffiths – The ISME Journal

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Review: Multifaceted Impacts of Bacteriophages in the Plant Microbiome – Britt Koskella – Annual Review of Phytopathology

‘Concord’ grapevine nutritional status and chlorosis rank associated with fungal and bacterial root zone microbiomes – R.W.Lewis – Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Draft Genome Sequences of Two Novel Cellulolytic Streptomyces Strains Isolated from South African Rhizosphere Soil – Mobolaji F. Adegboye – Genome Announcements

Differences in microbial key players in anaerobic degradation between biogas and sewage treatment plants – Christian Buettner – International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Water and extremophile microbiome

The impact of the Deepwater Horizon blowout on historic shipwreck-associated sediment microbiomes in the northern Gulf of Mexico – Leila J. Hamdan – Scientific Reports

Stoichio-Metagenomics of ocean waters: a molecular evolution approach to trace the dynamics of nitrogen conservation in natural communities – Hannes Dittberner – Frontiers in Microbiology

 Probiotics / prebiotics

Review: Impact of Prebiotics on Poultry Production and Food Safety – Steven C. Ricke – Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine

Isolation and Partial Characterization of Lactic Acid Bacteria from the Gut Microbiota of Marine Fishes for Potential Application as Probiotics in Aquaculture – Sergio Alonso – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Effects of Prebiotics vs a Diet Low in Fodmaps in Patients with Functional Gut Disorder – Jose-Walter Huaman – Gastroenterology

Bioinformatics

HmmUFOtu: An HMM and phylogenetic placement based ultra-fast taxonomic assignment and OTU picking tool for microbiome amplicon sequencing studies – Qi Zheng – Genome Biology

Techniques

Review: Culturing the human microbiota and culturomics – Jean-Christophe Lagier – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Plastic-eating bacteria discovered by student could help solve global pollution crisis

Sewage microbes make a fuel booster

Our intestinal microbiome influences metabolism — through the immune system

 

Ashok’s non-microbiology picks

Efficacy and Safety of Dupilumab in Glucocorticoid-Dependent Severe Asthma – Klaus F. Rabe – The NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of Medicine

June 26, 2018

Today’s Microbiome Digest cover the topics on bioinformatics; methods and models; trials and therapies; infection and immunity; microbiome of human gut, human vagina, insect, animals, plant, marine; food and nutrition; bioremediation and metabolomics.

 

EVENTS- JOBS – PhD POSITIONS:

Event – Organoids: Modelling Organ Development and Disease in 3D Culture – EMBO| EMBL Symposia

 

NEWS and VIEWS:

Pairing off: a bottom-up approach to the human gut microbiome– Clare Abreu – Molecular Systems Biology

 

BIOINFORMATICS:
Zero-inflated generalized Dirichlet multinomial regression model for microbiome compositional data analysis – Tang ZZ – Biostatistics

 

METHODS and MODELS:

Book Chapter – Methods for Microbiota Analysis: Sample Collection and Laboratory Methods – Saleh Ibrahim – The Microbiome in Rheumatic Diseases and Infection

Review: Culturing the human microbiota and culturomics – Lagier JC – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Using glycolysis enzyme sequences to inform Lactobacillus phylogeny – Katelyn Brandt – Microbial Genomics

Multicenter study establishing the clinical validity of a nucleic-acid amplification-based assay for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis – Cartwright CP – Diagnostics Microbiology and Infectious Disease.

PATENT – SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DEVELOPING AND USING A MICROBIOME-BASED ACTION COMPONENT FOR PATIENT HEALTH – Warren Tracy, Jantzen Tammi Gregory Katherine

 

TRIALS and THERAPIES:

Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy as a new approach for the treatment of vulvovaginal candidiasis: preliminary results – Aline Silva Sousa – Lasers in Medical Science

Review – Prevention of Cystitis: Travelling between the Imaginary and Reality – Vecchio M – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

 

INFECTIONS and IMMUNITY:

Book Chapter – The Impact of Infections on Reproduction and Fertility – VE Jones – Clinical Reproductive Science

Intestinal barrier disruption and dysregulated mucosal immunity contribute to kidney fibrosis in chronic kidney disease – Yang J – Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

In Press: Treatment and Prevention of Recurrent Lower Urinary Tract Infections in Women: A Rapid Review with Practice Recommendations – Ariana l Smith – The Journal of Urology

Book Chapter – Immunology of the Microbiome: Implications for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Other Autoimmune Diseases – Daniel M Altmann – The Microbiome in Rheumatic Diseases and Infection

 

VAGINAL MICROBIOME:

Description of three new Peptoniphilus species cultured in the vaginal fluid of a woman diagnosed with bacterial vaginosis: Peptoniphilus pacaensis sp. nov., Peptoniphilus raoultii sp. nov., and Peptoniphilus vaginalis sp. nov. – Diop K – Microbiology Open

 

GUT MICROBIOME: 

Preview – Gut microbiota as a missing link between nutrients and traits of human – Hea-Jong Chung – Frontiers in Microbiology

Preview – The gut-brain axis, the human gut microbiota and their integration in the development of obesity – Edward S Bliss – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review – The Gut Microbiome as a Target for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes – Ömrüm Aydin – Current Diabetes reports

Beneficial metabolic effects of 2’, 3’, 5’-tri-acetyl-N6-(3-hydroxylaniline) adenosine in multiple biological matrices and intestinal flora of hyperlipidemic hamsters– Tianqi Li – Journal of Proteome Research

 

ANIMAL MICROBIOME:

Preview – Dynamics of gut microbiota diversity during the early development of an avian host: evidence from a cross-foster experiment – Aimeric Teyssier – Frontiers in Microbiology

Enterococcus faecium WEFA23 from infant lessens high-fat-diet-induced hyperlipidemia via cholesterol 7-alpha-hydroxylase gene by altering the composition of gut microbiota in rats – Fuqing Huang – ScienceDirect

Evaluation of the impact of dental prophylaxis on the oral microbiota of dogs – Flancman R – PloS One

Microbial diversity and community composition of caecal microbiota in commercial and indigenous Indian chickens determined using 16s rDNA amplicon sequencing – Ramesh J Pandit – Microbiome

 

GENERAL MICROBIOME:

Review – Role of nutrition, infection, and the microbiota in the efficacy of oral vaccines – Amrita Bhattacharjee – Clinical Science

Commensal Microbiota Enhance Both Osteoclast and Osteoblast Activities – Yoko Uchida – Molecules

 

PLANT/ROOT/SOIL MICROBIOME:

Editorial – The contribution of plant microbiota to economy growth – Angela Sessitsch – Microbial Biotechnology

Colonization cues of leaf- and root-inhabiting bacterial microbiota of Atractylodes lancea derived in vitro and in vivo – Yong Jia – Plant and Soil

Preview – Complete Genome Sequence of Industrial Biocontrol Strain Paenibacillus polymyxa HY96-2 and Further Analysis of Its Biocontrol Mechanism – Yuanchan Luo – – Frontiers in Microbiology

Genome Sequence of Bacillus megaterium Strain YC4-R4, a Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacterium Isolated from a HighSalinity Environment – Juan Ignacio Vílchez – GenomeAnnouncements

 

INSECT MICROBIOME:

Exposure of soil collembolans to microplastics perturbs their gut microbiota and alters their isotopic composition – DongZhu – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

 

SKIN MICROBIOME:

Book Chapter – Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis – Madhura Castelino – The Microbiome in Rheumatic Diseases and Infection

 

MARINE MICROBIOME:
Metagenomics Sheds Light on the Ecology of Marine Microbes and Their Viruses – Felipe Hernandes Coutinho – Trends in Microbiology

 

NEONATAL/INFANT MICROBIOME:

Communication – Maternal Intrapartum Antibiotic Administration and Infantile Colic: Is there a Connection? – Leppälehto E – Neonatology

Review – Intrauterine Inflammation, Epigenetics, and Microbiome Influences on Preterm Infant Health – Lu L – Current Pathobiology Reports

 

CROSS – POPULATION MICROBIOME:
Similarities and differences in gut microbiome composition correlate with dietary patterns of Indian and Chinese adults – Abhishek Jain – AMB Express

 

PHAGES/VIRUSES:

Genome Sequence of the Pseudomonas protegens Phage GP100 – Jordan Vacheron – GenomeAnnouncements

 

FOOD and NUTRITION:

Plasma and urine metabolite profiling reveals the protective effect of Clinacanthus nutans in an ovalbumin-induced anaphylaxis model: 1H-NMR metabolomics approach – Leng Wei Khoo – Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

Drivers that establish and assembly the lactic acid bacteria biota in cheeses – Marco Gobbetti – Trends in Food Science & Technology

The food safety of DP-356Ø43 soybeans on SD rats reflected by physiological variables and fecal microbiota during a 90-day feeding study – Zou S – Regul Toxicol Pharmacol

Fermented Soybean Suppresses Visceral Fat Accumulation in Mice – Kushida M – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Combined Use of C. butyricum Sx-01 and L. salivarius C-1-3 Improves Intestinal Health and Reduces the Amount of Lipids in Serum via Modulation of Gut Microbiota in Mice – Long M – Nutrients

Review – Dietary polyphenols: A novel strategy to modulate microbiota-gut-brain axis – Diana Serra – Trends in Food Science & Technology

 

METABOLOMICS:

Non-invasive urinary metabolomic profiles discriminate biliary atresia from infantile hepatitis syndrome – Wei-Wei Li – Metabolomics

Metabolomics of the amniotic fluid: Is it a feasible approach to evaluate the safety of Chinese medicine during pregnancy? – Jinjun Shan – Journal of Applied Toxicology

Article – A validated, fast method for quantification of sterols and gut microbiome derived 5α/β-stanols in human faeces by isotope dilution LC-high resolution MS – Schoett HF – Analytical Chemistry

 

BIOREMEDIATION:

Bioprospecting for microbes with potential hydrocarbon remediation activity on the northwest coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, using DNA sequencing – Mariela Beatriz Reyes-Sosa – Science of The Total Environment

 

ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY:
Skin and nasal vestibule colonisation by Staphylococcus aureus and its susceptibility to drugs in atopic dermatitis patients – Wrobel J – Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

 

 

June 22, 2018

Have a happy weekend! Today in Microbiome Digest: reviews on microbiome immunity and type 1 diabetes,  metatranscriptome analysis of vaginal microbiome, Differences in gut microbiota associated with age, sex, and stool consistency, microbes in the news, and more…

Events and jobs

Scientist – Genomics and Microbiome – Madison, WI

Bioinformatics Scientific Programmer – Quadram Institute Bioscience

General microbiome

Review: Communication Between the Microbiota and Mammalian Immunity – Kyla S. Ost – Annual Review of Microbiology

Host genotype-specific microbiota do not influence the susceptibility of Dmagna to a bacterial pathogen – Marilou P. Sison-Mangus – Scientific Reports

Pregnancy and early life

Book chapter: Implantation Failure 1: Intrauterine Circumstances and Embryo–Endometrium Synchrony at Implantation – Keiji Kuroda – Treatment Strategy for Unexplained Infertility and Recurrent Miscarriage

Special Issue: Microbiome in normal and pathological pregnancies: A literature overview – Carla R. Taddei – American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Multi-site human microbiome

Bacterial invasion of dentinal tubules from the external root surface with and without an intact cemental layer- a confocal laser scanning microscopic study – Jovita D’souza – Advances in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Human respiratory microbiome

Review: Drug Resistance and Gene Transfer Mechanisms in Respiratory/Oral Bacteria – Jiang S – Journal of Dental Research

Ecology and diversity in upper respiratory tract microbial population structures from a cross-sectional community swabbing study –  Abigail L. Coughtrie – Journal of Medical Microbiology

Human skin microbiome

Skin Microbiota in Obese Women at Risk for Surgical Site Infection After Cesarean Delivery – Kara M. Rood – Scientific Reports

Human vaginal microbiome

Review: Pharmacology of Antiretrovirals in the Female Genital Track for HIV Prevention – Melanie R. Nicol – The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Metatranscriptome Analysis of the Vaginal Microbiota Reveals Potential Mechanisms for Protection against Metronidazole in Bacterial Vaginosis – Zhi-Luo Deng – mSphere 

Human gut microbiome

Review: Gut microbiome in type 1 diabetes: A comprehensive review – Zheng P – Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews

A Small Molecule-Screening Pipeline to Evaluate the Therapeutic Potential of 2-Aminoimidazole Molecules Against Clostridium difficile – Thanissery R – Frontiers in Microbiology

Differences in gut microbiota associated with age, sex, and stool consistency in healthy Japanese subjects – Tomohisa Takagi – Journal of Gastroenterology

Dietary Supplementation with a Magnesium-Rich Marine Mineral Blend Enhances the Diversity of Gastrointestinal Microbiota – Erin K. Crowley – Marine Drugs

The developing premature infant gut microbiome is a major factor shaping the microbiome of neonatal intensive care unit rooms – Brandon Brooks – Microbiome

Review: Potential Role of the Gut Microbiome in ALS: A Systematic Review – Michelle L. Wright – Biological Research for Nursing

Animal experiments

Lack of liver steatosis in germ-free mice following hypercaloric diets – Stephan C. Bischoff – European Journal of Nutrition

 Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Exploring Elicitors of the Beneficial Rhizobacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SQR9 to Induce Plant Systemic Resistance and Their Interactions With Plant Signaling Pathways – Gengwei Wu – Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Correlation and Distribution of Xenobiotics Genes and Metabolic Activities with Level of Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon in Soil, Sediment and Estuary Water in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria U. O. Edet – Asian Journal of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering

Review: Status and future of disease protection and grape berry quality alteration by microorganisms in viticulture – Misa Otoguro – Letters in Applied Microbiology

Editorial: The contribution of plant microbiota to economy growth – Angela Sessitsch – Microbial Biotechnology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Mini-Review: Future direction in marine bacterial agarases for industrial applications -Saeid Tamadoni Jahromi – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Prokaryotic assemblages in the maritime Antarctic Lake Limnopolar (Byers Peninsula, South Shetland Islands) – M. Papale – Extremophiles

Taxonomy, phylogeny and ecology of cultivable fungi present in seawater gradients across the Northern Antarctica Peninsula – Vívian N. Gonçalves – Extremophiles 

A strong link between marine microbial community composition and function challenges the idea of functional redundancy – Pierre E. Galand – The ISME Journal

Probiotics / prebiotics

Gut Microbiota, Probiotics, and Sport: From Clinical Evidence to Agonistic Performance – Marco Pane – Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

 Microbes in the news

‘Green’-feed: Industrial microbes could feed cattle, pigs, chicken

SMU researchers hope microbes will lead them to strike oil offshore

Scientists Reveal How Gut Microbes ‘Recover’ After Antibiotic Treatment

Celebrate your gut microbiota on the first World Microbiome day!

 Microbes on the market (news about biotech companies)

Human Microbiome Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast 2018 – 2026

MaaT Pharma and Lutech Sign Licensing Agreement on Microbiome Therapy for Graft-vs-Host Disease

 

Ashok’s non-microbiology picks

The Rheumatoid Arthritis-Associated Citrullinome – Ronak Tilvawala – Cell Chemical Biology

Inflammation-Induced, STING-Dependent Autophagy Restricts Zika Virus Infection in the Drosophila Brain – Yuan Liu – Cell Host & Microbe

Distinct progenitor lineages contribute to the heterogeneity of plasmacytoid dendritic cells – Patrick Fernandes Rodrigues – Nature Immunology

A synaptic threshold mechanism for computing escape decisions – Dominic A. Evans – Nature

June 20, 2018

This digest has a study on the human hair microbiome, lots of animal studies and experiments, the normal long list of soil/plant publications, some water/extremophile studies, and a few interesting bioinformatics articles.  Enjoy!

Events and jobs

There were some very cool events to check out from my employer, GENEWIZ, this past month.  Every year here there is a celebration with a number of different events called GENEWIZ Week.  Check out this past set of events below:

GENEWIZ Week

GENEWIZ Webinars – definitely check these cool talks out.  You can access past talks, like mine on Metagenomics from 2017, at GENEWIZ Webinars Archive and my past webinar here: Metagenomics for Biomarker Discovery: Precision Medicine Applications

GENEWIZ DNA Award Winners

GENEWIZ Scientist of the Day

General microbiome

[pre-print] Free-living Bacterial Communities Are Mostly Dominated by Oligotrophs – Yingnan Gao – bioxRiv

Pregnancy and early life

Pilot assessment of probiotics for pregnant women in Rwanda – Amy McMillan – PLOS ONE

Human respiratory microbiome

* The respiratory virome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – Marian Garcia-Nuñez – Future Medicine

TRANSPLANTING THE PULMONARY VIROME: DYNAMICS OF TRANSIENT POPULATIONS – Alicia B Mitchell – The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Human skin microbiome

** Spatial and Environmental Variation of the Human Hair Microbiota – Lauren Brinkac – Scientific Reports

Human oral microbiome

Denture-Associated Oral Microbiome and Periodontal Disease Causing an Anaerobic Pyogenic Liver Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Case report and Review of the Literature – Muhammad Bader Hammami – Gastroenterology Research

Human gut microbiome

Changes in Gastric Microbiota during Gastric Carcinogenesis – Sun-Young Lee – KoreaMed Synapse

ADTU-05 Gut microbial composition in the migrant south-asian IBD population in UK – Mohammed Quraishi – BMJ Journals (Gut)

Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis and Diarrhea in Kidney Transplant Recipients – Lee JR – American Journal of Transplantation

The microbiome in autoimmune diseases – Fabrizio De Luca – Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Suppression of IL-17F, but not of IL-17A, provides protection against colitis by inducing Treg cells through modification of the intestinal microbiota – Ce Tang – Nature Immunology

Characteristics of the bacterial microbiome in association with common intestinal parasites in irritable bowel syndrome – Laura Rindom Krogsgaard – Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection – Susy S. Hota – CMAJ

(not just human) The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis in Vertebrates: Gut Microbiota Effect, a Review – Chun Hua Huang – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Mediterranean Diet Score: Associations with Metabolic Products of the Intestinal Microbiome, Carotid Plaque Burden, and Renal Function – Michael Pignanelli – Nutrients

Animal experiments

Rumen Microbial Community of Saanen Goats Adapted to a High‐Fiber Diet in the Northeast of Iran – S.H. Ebrahimi – Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science

Humic substances alter ammonia production and the microbial populations within a RUSITEC fed a mixed hay – concentrate diet – Stephanie A. Terry – Frontiers in Microbiology

Intestinal Microbiota Ecological Response to Oral Administrations of Hydrogen-Rich Water and Lactulose in Female Piglets Fed a Fusarium Toxin-Contaminated Diet – Weijiang Zheng – Toxins

Animal microbiome

Archaeal and bacterial diversity and community composition from 18 phylogenetically divergent sponge species in Vietnam – Ton That Huu Dat​ – PeerJ Microbiology

Gut bacterial and fungal communities of the domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori) and wild mulberry-feeding relatives – Bosheng Chen – The ISME Journal

Gut bacterial and fungal communities of the domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori) and wild mulberry-feeding relatives – Bosheng Chen – The ISME Journal

Aetiological Characterization of the Cutaneous Ulcer Syndrome in Papua New Guinea using Shotgun Metagenomics – Marc Noguera-Julian – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Inter-population variation in the Atlantic salmon microbiome reflects environmental and genetic diversity – Tamsyn M. Uren Webster – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Influence of Belowground Herbivory on The Dynamics of Root and Rhizosphere Microbial Communities – Morgane Ourry – Frontiers of Ecological Evolution

* Plant species and heavy metals affect biodiversity of microbial communities associated with metal-tolerant plants in metalliferous soils – Sławomir Borymski – Frontiers in Microbiology

Functional Microbial Features Driving Community Assembly During Seed Germination and Emergence – Torres-Cortés Gloria – Frontiers in Plant Science

Influence of the Chemical Form of Antimony on Soil Microbial Community Structure and Arsenite Oxidation Activity – Kataoka T – Europe PMC

Recognizing Patterns: Spatial Analysis of Observed Microbial Colonization on Root Surfaces – Hannes Schmidt – Frontiers in Environmental Science

Microbial diversity of tobacco rhizosphere soil in different growth stages of marigold-tobacco intercropping system –  Xia TiYuan – Editorial Department of Southwest China Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Differences in rice rhizosphere bacterial community structure by application of lignocellulolytic plant-probiotic bacteria with rapid composting traits – Thounaojam Nevita – Ecological Engineering

Data on molecular identification, phylogeny and in vitro characterization of bacteria isolated from maize rhizosphere in Cameroon – Tchuisseu Tchakounté Gylaine Vanissa – Data in Brief

[pre-print] A comprehensive mycofloral diversity of pedosphere, phyllosphere and aerosphere of Som. (Persea bombycina Kost.) -Manjit Kumar Ray  – bioRxiv

Rhizosphere Microbiomes Modulated by Pre-crops Assisted Plants in Defense Against Plant-Parasitic Nematodes – Ahmed Elhady – Frontiers in Microbiology

The culturable endophytic fungal communities of switchgrass grown on a coal-mining site and their effects on plant growth – Ye Xia – PLOS ONE

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi stimulate organic phosphate mobilization associated with changing bacterial community structure under field conditions – Lin Zhang – Environmental Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Metagenomic insights into diazotrophic communities across Arctic glacier forefields – Maisie V. Nash – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Microbial community shifts in response to acid mine drainage pollution within a natural wetland ecosystem – Oscar E. Aguinaga – Frontiers in Microbiology

Heterogeneity of interactions of microbial communities in regions of Taihu Lake with different nutrient loadings: A network analysis – Xinyi Cao – Scientific Reports

Diversity and functionality of archaeal, bacterial and fungal communities in deep Archaean bedrock groundwater – Lotta Purkamo – FEMS Microbial Ecology

Reduced arsenic availability and plant uptake and improved soil microbial diversity through combined addition of ferrihydrite and Trichoderma asperellum SM-12F1 – Hongxiang Zhang – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Fungi from Admiralty Bay (King George Island, Antarctica) Soils and Marine Sediments – Lia Costa Pinto Wentzel – Microbial Ecology

Bioinformatics

When old metagenomic data meet newly sequenced genomes, a case study – Xin Li – PLOS ONE

PERFect: PERmutation Filtering test for microbiome data – Ekaterina Smirnova – Biostatistics

Ed’s non-microbiology picks

Photochemistry beyond the red limit in chlorophyll f–containing photosystems –  Dennis J. Nürnberg – Science

Research Finds Tipping Point for Large-scale Social Change

LACK OF PAID SICK LEAVE INCREASES POVERTY

Toxic toads could devastate Madagascar’s biodiversity – Science

Effects of 8-hour time restricted feeding on body weight and metabolic disease risk factors in obese adults: A pilot study – Kelsey Gabel – Nutrition and Healthy Aging

Forget in a Flash: A Further Investigation of the Photo-Taking-Impairment Effect – Julia S. Soares – Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

New discovery about the brain’s water system may prove beneficial in stroke

DNA repair processes are critical mediators of p53-dependent tumor suppression – Ana Janic – Nature Medicine

Astronomers find a galaxy unchanged since the early universe

June 13, 2018

Events and jobs

Computational scientists (from post-master to postdoc fellowships) in metagenomics and microbial genomics : Trento, Italy – The Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics

General microbiome

Meta-analysis of human genome-microbiome association studies: the MiBioGen consortium initiative – Jun Wang, Microbiome Announcement

Microbial ecology

Everything is not everywhere: a tale on the biogeography of cyanobacteria – Karine Felix Ribeiro, Hydrobiologia

A Meta‐Analysis of Temperature Sensitivity as a Microbial Trait – Charlotte J. Alster, Global Change Biology

Microbial island biogeography: isolation shapes the life history characteristics but not diversity of root-symbiotic fungal communities – John Davison, ISME

Bacillus thuringiensis produces the lipopeptide thumolycin to antagonize microbes and nematodes – Dehong Zheng, Microbiological Research

Qualitative analysis of biosurfactants from Bacillus species exhibiting antifungal activity – Ambrin Sarwar, Plos One

Antarctic cryptoendolithic fungal communities are highly adapted and dominated by Lecanoromycetes and Dothideomycetes – Claudia Coleine, Frontiers in Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life

The Microbiome and Metabolome of Preterm Infant Stool Are Personalized and Not Driven by Health Outcomes, Including Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Late-Onset Sepsis – Stephen Wandro, mSphere

The role of breast milk in the colonization of neonatal gut and skin with coagulase-negative staphylococci – Hiie Soeorg, Pediatric Research

Multisite human microbiome

Prion-like Propagation of α-synuclein in the gut-brain axis – Ying Chen, Brain Research Bulletin

Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis and Toll-Like Receptors in Parkinson’s Disease – Valentina Caputi, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Current Insights in Microbiome Shifts in Sjogren’s Syndrome and Possible Therapeutic Interventions – Christina Tsigalou, Frontiers in Immunology

Comparison of Infant Gut and Skin Microbiota, Resistome and Virulome between Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Environments – Suchitra K. Hourigan, Frontiers in Microbiology

Human skin microbiome

Skin Microbiota in Obese Women at Risk for Surgical Site Infection After Cesarean Delivery – Kara M. Rood, Scientific Reports

Cutibacterium acnes (Propionibacterium acnes) and acne vulgaris: a brief look at the latest updates – B. Dréno, Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Characterisation of Cutibacterium acnes phylotypes in acne and in vivo exploratory evaluation of Myrtacine® – S. Pécastaings, Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Human oral microbiome

Analysis of the oral microbiome on the surface of modified dental polymers – Denise  Tornavoi de Castro, Archives of Oral Biology

Genetic Association with Subgingival Bacterial Colonization in Chronic Periodontitis – Franco Cavalla, Genes

Biological and cultural drivers of oral microbiota in Medieval and Post-Medieval London, UK – Andrew G Farrer, bioRxiv

Human gut microbiome

Breath methane concentrations and markers of obesity in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders – Clive H. Wilder-Smith, United European Gastroenterology Journal

The Intersection Between Colonization Resistance, Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Clostridium difficile – Rossana Rosa, Current Infectious Disease Reports

Celiac Disease and Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: A New Beginning? – Shmuel Golfeyz MD, Correspondence

Gut microbiota metabolites, amino acid metabolites and improvements in insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism: the POUNDS Lost trial – Yoriko Heianza, Nutrition

Cutting the Gordian Knot of the Microbiota – Kimberly S.Vasquez, Molecular Cell

Host: Microbiome co-metabolic processing of dietary polyphenols – An acute, single blinded, cross-over study with different doses of apple polyphenols in healthy subjects – Kajetan Trost, Food Research International

Clinical trials of kimchi intakes on the regulation of metabolic parameters and colon health in healthy Korean young adults – Hee-Young Kim, Journal of Functional Foods

Animal experiments

Propolis from Different Geographic Origins Suppress Intestinal Inflammation in a Model of DSS‐Induced Colitis is Associated with Decreased Bacteroides spp. in the Gut – Kai Wang, Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Effect of direct-fed microbials on culturable gut microbiotas in broiler chickens: a meta-analysis of controlled trials – Chhaiden Heak, Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences

A dietary isothiocyanate-enriched moringa (Moringa oleifera) seed extract improves glucose tolerance in a high-fat-diet mouse model and modulates the gut microbiome – Asha Jaja-Chimedza, Journal of Functional Foods

The enteric microbiota regulates jejunal Paneth cell number and function without impacting intestinal stem cells – Alexi A. Schoenborn, Gut Microbes

Comprehensive longitudinal microbiome analysis of the chicken cecum reveals a shift from competitive to environmental drivers and a window of opportunity for Campylobacter – Umer Zeeshan Ijaz, bioRxiv

Microbial quantity impacts Drosophila nutrition, development, and lifespan – Erin S. Keebaugh, iScience

Absence of Gut Microbiota Reduces Emotional Reactivity in Japanese Quails (Coturnix japonica) – Narjis Kraimi, Frontiers in Physiology

Animal microbiome

Identification of circular single-stranded DNA viruses in faecal samples of Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis), moose (Alces alces) and snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) inhabiting the Colorado San Juan Mountains – Simona Kraberger, Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Diverse novel resident Wolbachia strains in Culicine mosquitoes from Madagascar – Claire L Jeffries, bioRxiv

Sample treatment optimization for fish stool metabolomics – Takeshi Hano, Journal of Chromatography B

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Two decades of altered snow cover does not affect soil microbial ability to catabolize carbon compounds in an oceanic alpine heath – E.R. Jasper Wubs, Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Grazing and resource availability control soil nematode body size and abundance‐mass relationship in semi‐arid grassland – W. S. Andriuzzi, Journal of Animal Ecology

Isolation and screening of antibiotic producing actinomycetes from rhizosphere and agricultural soils – Atsede Muleta, African Journal of Biotechnology

Responses of Bougainvillea spectabilis to elevated atmospheric CO2 under galaxolide (HHCB) pollution and the mechanisms of its rhizosphere metabolism – Minzhe Zhang, Journal of Soils and Sediments

Differential effect of the nitrogen form on the leaf gas exchange, amino acid composition, and antioxidant response of sweet pepper at elevated CO2 – María C. Piñero, Plant Growth Regulation

Viral metagenomics analysis and eight novel viral genomes identified from the Dushanzi mud volcanic soil in Xinjiang, China – Dan-Ting Yu, Journal of Soils and Sediments

Efficacy of Bacillus subtilis native strains for biocontrol of Phytophthora crown and root rot of pistachio in Iran – Mohammad Moradi, Tropical Plant Pathology

Modification of plant cell wall chemistry impacts metabolome and microbiome composition in Populus PdKOR1 RNAi plants – Allison M. Veach, Plant and Soil

Continuous application of different fertilizers induces distinct bulk and rhizosphere soil protist communities – Sai Guo, European Journal of Soil Biology

Microbial communities and natural fermentation of corn silages prepared with farm bunker-silo in Southwest China – Hao Guan, Bioresource Technology

Cultivated methanotrophs associated with rhizospheres of traditional rice landraces from Western India belong to Methylocaldum and Methylocystis – Monali C. Rahalkar, 3 Biotech

Metal(loid)-resistant bacteria reduce wheat Cd and As uptake in metal(loid)-contaminated soil – Xiao-Han Wang, Environmental Pollution

Enhanced removal of nitrate in the maize rhizosphere by plant growth-promoting Bacillus megaterium NCT-2, and its colonization pattern in response to nitrate – Shaohua Chu, Chemosphere

Bioactive luteoloside produced by Myroides odoratimimus, solvent-tolerant bacterium form the rhizosphere of Lonicera japonica –  Y. X. Zhao, Natural Product Research

Potential application of selected metal resistant phosphate solubilizing bacteria isolated from the gut of earthworm (Metaphire posthuma) in plant growth promotion – Jayanta  Kumar Biswas, Geoderma

Effects of Pseudomonas chenduensis and biochar on cadmium availability and microbial community in the paddy soil – Lingjuan Li, Science of The Total Environment

Continuous application of different fertilizers induces distinct bulk and rhizosphere soil protist communities – Sai Guo, European Journal of Soil Biology

Analysis on metabolic functions of stored rice microbial communities by BIOLOG ECO microplates – Zhiwen Ge, Frontiers in Microbiology

Effects of discrete bioactive microbial volatiles on plants and fungi – Birgit Piechulla, Plant, Cell, and Environment

Phylogenetic-scale disparities in the soil microbial diversity–ecosystem functioning relationship – Marta Goberna, ISME

Similar soil microbial community structure across different environments after long‐term succession: evidence from volcanoes of different ages – Shangqi Xu, Journal of Basic Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Comparison among the microbial communities in the lake, lake wetland, and estuary sediments of a plain river network – Wei Huang, Microbiology Open

The distinctive microbial community improves composting efficiency in a full-scale hyperthermophilic composting plant – Zhen Yu, Bioresource Technology

Co-occurrence Networks Among Bacteria and Microbial Eukaryotes of Lake Baikal During a Spring Phytoplankton Bloom – Ivan S. Mikhailov, Microbial Ecology

The Legacy Effects of Winter Climate on Microbial Functioning After Snowmelt in a Subarctic Tundra – Maria Väisänen, Microbial Ecology

Characterization of phototrophic microorganisms and description of new cyanobacteria isolated from the saline-alkaline crater-lake Dziani Dzaha (Mayotte, Indian Ocean) – M. Cellamare, FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Methanogens in the Antarctic Dry Valley Permafrost – Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya, FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Bacterial Diversity in an Alpine Debris-Free and Debris-Cover Accumulation Zone Glacier Ice, North Sikkim, India – Mingma Thundu Sherpa, Indian Journal of Microbiology

Culturing the ubiquitous freshwater actinobacterial acI lineage by supplying a biochemical ‘helper’ catalase – Suhyun Kim, bioRxiv

Assessing the effect of pretreatments on the structure and functionality of microbial communities for the bioconversion of microalgae to biogas – Olivia Córdova, Frontiers in Microbiology

Great Salt Lake microbiology: a historical perspective – Bonnie K. Baxter, International Microbiology

Life from the ashes: survival of dry bacterial spores after very high temperature exposure – Lynda Beladjal, Extremophiles

Microbial and geochemical controls on waste rock weathering and drainage quality – Sharon Blackmore, Science of The Total Environment

Characterization and high-throughput sequencing of a trichlorophenol-dechlorinating microbial community acclimated from sewage sludge – Jiaxiu Song, Journal of Cleaner Production

Impacts of surface-applied residues on N-cycling soil microbial communities in miscanthus and switchgrass cropping systems – Karen A. Thompson, Applied Soil Ecology

Water is a critical factor in evaluating and assessing microbial colonization and destruction of Angkor sandstone monuments – Xiaobo Liu, International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Methanogenic community shifts during the transition from sewage mono-digestion to co-digestion of grass biomass – Justus Hardegen, Bioresource Technology

Bacterial lineages putatively associated with the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes in a full-scale urban wastewater treatment plant – Carlos Narciso-da-Rocha, Environment International

Impact of organic waste composition on life cycle energy production, global warming and Water use for treatment by anaerobic digestion followed by composting – Sara A. Pace, Resources, Conservation and Recycling

1H NMR metabolomics of microbial metabolites in the four MW agricultural biogas plant reactors: A case study of inhibition mirroring the acute rumen acidosis symptoms – Boštjan Murovec, Journal of Environmental Management

Comparative Metagenomics Provides Insight into the Ecosystem Functioning of the Shark Bay Stromatolites, Western Australia – Joany Babilonia, Frontiers in Microbiology

Assessing the abundance of fungal populations in a full-scale membrane bioreactor (MBR) treating urban wastewater by using quantitative PCR (qPCR) – P. Maza-Márquez, Journal of Environmental Management

Food microbiology

Occurrence of lactic acid bacteria and yeasts at species and strain level during spontaneous fermentation of mawè, a cereal dough produced in West Africa – Marcel Houngbédji, Food Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics

Probiotics in IBD: Combining in vitro and in vivomodels for selecting strains with both anti-inflammatory potential as well as a capacity to restore the gut epithelial barrier – Mazen Zaylaa, Journal of Functional Foods

Can prebiotics assist in the management of cognition and weight gain in schizophrenia? – Amy Chia-Ching Kao, Psychoneuroendocrinology

Probiotic potentials of Lactobacillus plantarum isolated from fermented durian (Tempoyak), a Malaysian traditional condiment – Asmariah Ahmad, Food Science and Nutrition

Bioinformatics

Identifying Heritable Communities of Microbiome by Root-Unifrac and Wishart Distribution – Yunfan Tang, bioRxiv

PARTIE: a partition engine to separate metagenomic and amplicon projects in the Sequence Read Archive – Pedro J. Torres, Bioinformatics

Techniques

Dead or Alive? Molecular life-dead distinction in human stool samples reveals significantly different composition of the microbial community – Alexandra Perras, bioRxiv

Critical Assessment of Methods to Quantify Biofilm Growth and Evaluate Antibiofilm Activity of Host Defence Peptides – Evan F. Haney, Biomolecules

June 8, 2018

A short Digest today with primarily preprints. A policy piece on diabetic patient care in the UK, Wolbachia strains never found before in Anopheles mosquitoes, and fecal pollution contributing to antibiotic resistant genes in waste water.

Jobs

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Microbiome Data Science – Johns Hopkins University

General microbiology

Preprint: DivIVA concentrates mycobacterial cell envelope assembly for initiation and stabilization of polar growth – Emily Sarah Melzer et al. – bioRxiv

Preprint: Genome-wide fitness assessment during diurnal growth reveals an expanded role of the cyanobacterial circadian clock protein KaiA – David G Welkie et al. – bioRxiv

Preprint: The fungal-specific Hda2 and Hda3 proteins regulate morphological switches in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans – Misty Peterson et al. – bioRxiv

Preprint: Chance and pleiotropy dominate genetic diversity in complex bacterial environments – Lianet Noda-Garcia et al. – bioRxiv

Preprint: Molecular basis for the evolution of species-specific hemoglobin capture by pathogenic Staphylococcus – Jacob E Choby et al. – bioRxiv

Antibiotic resistance

Preprint: Comparison of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole versus ciprofloxacin monotherapy in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bloodstream infections in children – Ahu Aksay et al. – bioRxiv

Preprint: The reduced prevalence of macrolide resistance in Mycoplasma pneumoniae clinical isolates from pediatric patients in Beijing in 2016 – Xiu jun Tian et al. – bioRxiv

Preprint: The key lethal effect existed in the antibacterial behavior of short, medium, and long chain fatty acid monoglycerides on Escherichia coli – Song Zhang et al. – bioRxiv

Human oral microbiome

Preprint: The stress hormone cortisol induces virulence in the oral microbiome – Ana Emilia Duran-Pinedo et al. – bioRxiv

Human gut microbiome

** Policy: Diabetes UK nutrition guidelines: reinforcing the foundations of diabetes care – Mark Greener – Practical Diabetes

Animal microbiome

** Preprint: Novel Wolbachia strains in Anopheles malaria vectors from Sub-Saharan Africa – Claire L Jeffries et al. – bioRxiv

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Preprint: The effect of susceptible and resistant potato cultivars on bacterial communities in the tuberosphere of potato in soil suppressive or conducive to common scab disease – Marketa Sagova-Mareckova et al. – bioRxiv

Preprint: Re-programming of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae gene expression during early stages of infection of kiwifruit – Peter McAtee et al. – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome

** Preprint: Fecal pollution explains antibiotic resistance gene abundances in anthropogenically impacted environments – Antti Karkman et al. – bioRxiv

Phages and viruses

Preprint: Adomaviruses: an emerging virus family provides insights into DNA virus evolution – Nicole L Welch et al. – bioRxiv

Preprint: Epstein-Barr Virus May Contribute to Central Nervous System Involvement in HIV-positive Individuals – Tommaso Lupia et al. – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

Preprint: PorSignDB: a database of in vivo perturbation signatures for dissecting clinical outcome of PCV2 infection – Nicolaas Van Renne et al. – bioRxiv