August 19, 2019

Monday’s digest is about microbiota as biomarker in diverse human diseases such as alopecia areata and bladder cancer, how arabinoxylan and grape pomace affects microbiota in rodents and microbial characterization of multi-strain probiotic VSL3 .

General microbiome

What Pediatricians Should Know Before Studying Gut Microbiota – Lorenzo Drago – Journal of Clinical Medicine

The role of gut microbiota for the activity of medicinal plants traditionally used in the European Union for gastrointestinal disorders – Timo A. Thumann – Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Human microbiome

The sex-specific interaction of the microbiome in neurodegenerative diseases – Laura M. Cox – Brain Research

Analysis of the gut microbiota in alopecia areata: identification of bacterial biomarkers – Oscar M. Moreno-Arrenos – Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

The dynamics of the oral microbiome and oral health among patients receiving clear aligner orthodontic treatment – Rui Zhao – Oral Diseases

Urinary microbiota – a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for bladder cancer – Hai Bi – Journal of Medical Microbiology

Animal experiments

Effect of arabinoxylan on colonic bacterial metabolites and mucosal barrier in high‐fat diet‐induced rats – Shanshan Li – Food Science and Nutrition

The Signature Microbiota Driving Rumen Function Shifts in Goat Kids Introduced Solid Diet Regimes – Xiaokang Lv – BioRxiv

Effects of grape pomace and seed polyphenol extracts on the recovery of gut microbiota after antibiotic treatment in high‐fat diet‐fed mice – Feng Lu – Food Science and Nutrition

Microbiota-driven gut vascular barrier disruption is a prerequisite for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis development – Juliette Mouries – Journal of Hepatology

Identification of rumen microbial biomarkers linked to methane emission in Holstein dairy cows – Yuliaxis Ramayo‐Caldas – Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics

The gastrointestinal fate of limonin and its effect on gut microbiota in mice – Min Gu – Food and Function

Plant, root, soil microbiome

Environmental pollution effects on plant microbiota: the case study of poplar bacterial-fungal response to silver nanoparticles – Francesco Vitali – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Salinity-induced changes in the rhizosphere microbiome improve salt tolerance of Hibiscus hamabo – Yongge Yuan – Plant and Soil

Water and extremophile microbiome

Metagenomic characterization of creek sediment microbial communities from a major agricultural region in Salinas, California – Brittany J. Suttner – BioRxiv

Probiotics

Development of omics-based protocols for the microbiological characterization of multi-strain formulations marketed as probiotics: the case of VSL#3 – Diego Mora – Microbial Biotechnology

Fecal microbiome and metabolome of infants fed bovine MFGM supplemented formula or standard formula with breast-fed infants as reference: a randomized controlled trial – Xuan He – Scientific Reports

Probiotic L. gasseri strain (LG21) for the upper gastrointestinal tract acting through improvement of indigenous microbiota – Yasuhiro Koga – BMJ Open Gastroenterology

Non Microbiology Picks

First cells may have emerged because building blocks of proteins stabilized membranes – Science Daily

August 15, 2019

Have a nice Thursday! Today we have a set of papers showing randomized trials related to antibiotic use and alimentary interventions, metabolic networks associated with C. difficile infection, and analysis of E. coli isolates from human stool. Today, we also include a couple of protocol papers about the use of stable isotope probing in plant microbiome research.

 

Human and General Microbiome

Gut microbiome alteration in MORDOR I: a community-randomized trial of mass azithromycin distribution – T. Doan – Nature Medicine 

Fecal microbiome and metabolome of infants fed bovine MFGM supplemented formula or standard formula with breast-fed infants as reference: a randomized controlled trial – Xuan He – Scientific Reports

Antibiotic Resistance, Virulence Factors, Phenotyping, and Genotyping of E. coli Isolated from the Feces of Healthy Subjects – Stefano Raimondi – Microorganisms

Metabolomic networks connect host-microbiome processes to human Clostridioides difficile infections – John I. Robinson – The Journal of Clinical Investigation

Antibiotic exposure and ‘response failure’ for subsequent respiratory tract infections: an observational cohort study of UK preschool children in primary care – Oliver van Hecke – British Journal of General Practice 

Abnormal vaginal microbiome associated with vaginal mesh complications – Nikolaus Veit‐Rubin – Neurology and Urodynamics

Acceptability, Tolerability and Safety of Faecal Microbiota Transplantation in patients with active Ulcerative Colitis (AT&S Study) – Ajit Sood – Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

The bacteriome of otitis media with effusion: Does it originate from the adenoid? – Oguz Ari – International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 

An Exploratory Analysis of Fecal Immunochemical Test Performance for Colorectal Cancer Screening in Nigeria – Gregory C. Knapp – World Journal of Surgery

Isolates from colonic spirochaetosis in humans show high genomic divergence and potential pathogenic features but are not detected using standard primers for the human microbiota – Kaisa Thorell – Journal of Bacteriology

Microbiota-derived Trimethylamine N-oxide Predicts Cardiovascular Risk After STEMI – Yasushi Matsuzawa – Scientific Reports

Review: Targeting Microbiota: What Do We Know about It at Present? – Aleksejs Derovs – Medicina

Tech News: Reproducibility: the search for microbiome standards – Joseph Martin – BioTechniques

 

Animal Microbiome

Intestinal microbial products from alcohol-fed mice contribute to intestinal permeability and peripheral immune activation – Derrick R. Samuelson – Alcoholism

Comparative metagenomic sequencing analysis of cecum microbiotal diversity and function in broilers and layers – Zhao Qi – 3 Biotech

Oligosaccharides Modulate Rotavirus-Associated Dysbiosis and TLR Gene Expression in Neonatal Rats – Ignasi Azagra-Boronat – Cells

Role of coprophagy in the cecal microbiome development of an herbivorous bird Japanese rock ptarmigan – Atsushi Kobayashi – Journal of Veterinary Medical Science

 

Beneficial compounds and microbes

Review: The role of gut microbiota for the activity of medicinal plants traditionally used in the European Union for gastrointestinal disorders – Timo A. Thumann – Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Commentary: Microbiome, probiotics and dermatology – J.A. Cardenas‐de la Garza – British Journal of Dermatology

Cooked Red Lentils Dose-Dependently Modulate the Colonic Microenvironment in Healthy C57Bl/6 Male Mice – Daniela Graf – Nutrients

Health Benefits of Lactobacillus gasseri CP2305 Tablets in Young Adults Exposed to Chronic Stress: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study – Kensei Nishida – Nutrients 

Effect of coffee on the compositional shift of oral indigenous microbiota cultured in vitro – 

 

Food Microbiome

Microbial Transformations of Organically Fermented Foods – Ruma Raghuvanshi – Metabolites

 

Plant Microbiome

Protocol: Stable Isotope Probing of Microbiota Structure and Function in the Plant Rhizosphere – Wafa Achouak – Stable Isotope Probing (Methods in Molecular Biology)

Protocol: Targeted Metatranscriptomics of Soil Microbial Communities with Stable Isotope Probing – Ang Hu – Stable Isotope Probing (Methods in Molecular Biology)

Environmental pollution effects on plant microbiota: the case study of poplar bacterial-fungal response to silver nanoparticles – Francesco Vitali – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

August 13, 2019

Have a good Tuesday!  Today we have a brief digest, covering papers about Staphylococcus and Skin infections and the gut microbiome and Insomnia disorder, in addition with different studies in mice and a report showing genetic relationships between plants and bacterial community configuration. 

 

Human or General Microbiome

Review: Protective effect of the “food-microorganism-SCFAs” axis on colorectal cancer: from basic research to practical application – Han Shuwen – Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology

Strains of Staphylococcus aureus that Colonize and Infect Skin Harbor Mutations in Metabolic Genes – Karen P. Acker – IScience

Inflamm-aging micrornas may integrate signals from food and gut microbiota by modulating common signalling pathways – Laura Teodori – Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Gut Microbiota as a Subjective Measurement for Auxiliary Diagnosis of Insomnia Disorder – Bingdong Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Animal Microbiome

Adhesive Bifidobacterium Induced Changes in Cecal Microbiome Alleviated Constipation in Mice – Linlin Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Short-term dietary restriction in old mice rejuvenates the aging-induced structural imbalance of gut microbiota – Ting Zeng – Biogerontology

Species-specific effects of arsenic on the soil collembolan gut microbiota – Yi-Fei Wang – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Fecal metabonomics combined with 16S rRNA gene sequencing to analyze the changes of gut microbiota in rats with kidney-yang deficiency syndrome and the intervention effect of You-gui pill – Ruiqun Chen – Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Age- and diet-specific effects of chronic exposure to chlorpyrifos on hormones, inflammation and gut microbiota in rats – Jin-Wang Li – Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology

High-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing reveals that 6-hydroxydopamine affects gut microbial environment – Jin Gyu Choi – PLoS ONE

 

Plant Microbiome

Genome Sequences of a Plant Beneficial Synthetic Bacterial Community Reveal Genetic Features for Successful Plant Colonization – Rafael Soares Correa de Souza – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Non-Microbiology Picks

Science–graphic art partnerships to increase research impact – Colin K. Khoury – Communications Biology

August 3, 2019

Have a happy weekend! Today, in this Digest: an interesting study of the human placenta microbiome, papers showing associations between microbiome and pancreatic or lung cancer, and an update of the pathogenesis of bacterial vaginosis. In addition, a paper showing that the microbiome in primates has a different evolutionary pattern in comparison with the host.  Enjoy!

 

Human and General Microbiome

Human placenta has no microbiome but can contain potential pathogens – Marcus C. de Goffau – Nature

Microbial dysbiosis and polyamine metabolism as predictive markers for early detection of pancreatic cancer – Roberto Mendez – Carcinogenesis

Plasticity in the Human Gut Microbiome Defies Evolutionary Constraints – Andres Gomez – mSphere

Whole genome sequencing revealed microbiome in lung adenocarcinomas presented as ground-glass nodules – Yijiu Ren – Translational Lung Cancer Research

An Updated Conceptual Model on the Pathogenesis of Bacterial Vaginosis – Christina A Muzny – The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Review: Gut microbes and metabolites as modulators of blood-brain barrier integrity and brain health – Aimeé Parker – Gut Microbes

Editorial: The only thing that stops a bad microbiome, is a good microbiome – Jessica R. Galloway-Peña – Haematologica

Review: Consumer Safety Considerations of Skin and Oral Microbiome Perturbation – Andrew J. McBain – Clinical Microbiology Reviews

News: Microbiome therapeutics go small molecule – Megan Cully – Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Pharmacomicrobiomics informs clinical pharmacogenomics – Theodora Katsila – Future Medicine

Each Additional Day of Antibiotics is Associated with Lower Gut Anaerobes in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Patients – Ashley M Rooney, BSc – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Prevention and treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection – Jae Shin – Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

An integrated respiratory microbial gene catalogue to better understand the microbial aetiology of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia – Wenkui Dai – Gigascience

Review: Connection between gut microbiome and the development of obesity – Cuiting Zhi – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Animal Microbiome

Hyperuricemia is associated with impaired intestinal permeability in mice – Daxing Xu – Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

 

Beneficial compounds and Foods

Prevention of Vascular Inflammation by Pterostilbene via Trimethylamine-N-Oxide Reduction and Mechanism of Microbiota Regulation – Yen‐Chun Koh – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Interactions of tea polyphenols with intestinal microbiota and their implication for cellular signal conditioning mechanism – Yongyong Li – Journal of Food Biochemistry

Hass Avocado Inclusion in a Weight-Loss Diet Supported Weight Loss and Altered Gut Microbiota: A 12-Week Randomized, Parallel-Controlled Trial – Susanne M Henning – Current Developments in Nutrition

 

Plant Microbiome

Host plant-dependent effects of microbes and phytochemistry on the insect immune response – Su’ad A. Yoon – Oecologia

Engineering transkingdom signalling in plants to control gene expression in rhizosphere bacteria – Barney A. Geddes – Nature Communications 

August 1, 2019

Happy Thursday! Today’s digest includes fungi abundance in paddy fields, the microbial quality of treated wastewater, and the oral microbiome of cats. Enjoy!

Animal microbiome

The feline cutaneous and oral microbiota are influenced by breed and environment – Older – PLoS One

Microbial community modulates growth of symbiotic fungus required for stingless bee metamorphosis – Paludo – PLoS One

Preprint: Effects of the copper IUD on composition of the vaginal microbiota in the olive baboon – Eastman – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Nitrogen fertilization altered arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi abundance and soil erosion of paddy fields in the Taihu Lake region of China – Zhang – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Reconciling disparate responses to grazing in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis – van Der Heyde – Rhizosphere

Redox-driven shifts in soil microbial community structure in the drawdown zone after construction of the Three Gorges Dam – Wang – Soil Ecology Letters

Water and extremophile microbiome

Biomarker Profiling of Microbial Mats in the Geothermal Band of Cerro Caliente, Deception Island (Antarctica): Life at the Edge of Heat and cold – Lezcano – Astrobiology

Microbial diversity analysis and screening for novel xylanase enzymes from the sediment of the Lobios Hot Spring in Spain – Knapik – Scientific Reports

Built environment

How does urban wastewater treatment affect the microbial quality of treated wastewater? – Lopez – Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Identifying microbial community evolution in membrane bioreactors coupled with anaerobic side-stream reactor, packing carriers and ultrasonication for sludge reduction by linear discriminant analysis – Zheng – Bioresource Technology

Food microbiology

Preprint: Deep microbial community profiling along the fermentation process of pulque, a major biocultural resource of Mexico – Rocha-Arriaga – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

Preprint: µbialSim: constraint-based dynamic simulation of complex microbiomes – Popp and Centler – bioRxiv

July 27, 2019

Have a nice weekend! Today, in this Digest, it is worth to remark a study in mice showing the impact of microbiome composition on muscle loss, in addition to a paper presenting the new version of QIIME, one of the most utilized microbiome analysis software available. 

 

Human and General Microbiome

Pearls: Microbiome evolution during host aging – Francisco Daniel Davila Aleman – PLOS Pathogens

Review: The structure and function of the human small intestinal microbiota: Current understanding and future directions – Arthur J. Kastl, Jr – Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Review: The impact of tumor and gut microbiotas on cancer therapy; Beneficial or detrimental? – Yalda Hekmatshoar – Life Sciences 

Review: Gut Microbiota in Phytopharmacology: A Comprehensive Overview Of Concepts, Reciprocal Interactions, Biotransformations And Mode Of Actions – Priyankar Dey – Pharmacological Research

Review: The role of the skin microbiota in acne pathophysiology – S. Ramasamy – British Journal of Dermatology

Review: Study Insights into Gastrointestinal Cancer through the Gut Microbiota – Fanli Kong – BioMed Research International

Review: Contribution of Aging, Obesity, and Microbiota on Tumor Immunotherapy Efficacy and Toxicity – Regina E. M. Baiden-Amissah – International Journal in Molecular Sciences

TARgeting the cutaneous microbiota in atopic dermatitis by coal tar via AHR-dependent induction of antimicrobial peptides – Jos P.H. Smits – Journal of Investigative Dermatology

The Gut Microbiota in Collagenous Colitis Shares Characteristics With Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Associated Dysbiosis – Adam Carstens – Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Changes in oral microbial profiles associated with oral squamous cell carcinoma vs leukoplakia – Kengo Hashimoto – Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry

Probiotics modulate the gut microbiota composition and immune responses in patients with atopic dermatitis: a pilot study – Zhifeng Fang – European Journal of Nutrition

Role of Bile Acids in Dysbiosis and Treatment of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease –  – Caihua Wang – Mediators of Inflammation

Rectal Swabs from Critically Ill Patients Provide Discordant Representations of the Gut  Microbiome Compared to Stool Samples – Katherine Fair – mSphere 

Measurement of gut microbial metabolites in cardiometabolic health and translational research – Wei‐Kai Wu – Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

 

Animal Microbiome and Animal Experiments

The gut microbiota influences skeletal muscle mass and function in mice – Shawon Lahiri – Science Translational Science

Intestinal Clostridium species lower host susceptibility to enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection – Yukako Koyanagi – Pathogens and Disease

Preparation and characterization of selenium enriched-Bifidobacterium longum DD98, and its repairing effects on antibiotic-induced intestinal dysbacteriosis in mice – Hui Zhu – Food and Function 

The Ruminal Microbiome and Metabolome Alterations Associated with Diet-Induced Milk Fat Depression in Dairy Cows – Hongbo Zeng – Metabolites

 

Water Microbiome

Insights into the antibiotic resistance dissemination in a wastewater effluent microbiome:  bacteria, viruses and vesicles matter – Lucia Maestre‐Carballa – Environmental Microbiology

 

Built Environment Microbiome

Identification of city specific important bacterial signature for the MetaSUB CAMDA challenge microbiome data – Alejandro R. Walker – Biology Direct 

 

Plant Microbiome

Genome Evolution and Host Microbiome Shifts Correspond with Intraspecific Niche Divergence within Harmful Algal Bloom-Forming Microcystis aeruginosa – Sara L. Jackrel – Molecular Ecology

Novel insights into plant-associated archaea and their functioning in arugula (Eruca sativa Mill.) – Julian Taffner – Journal of Advanced Research

Seeds of native alpine plants host unique microbial communities embedded in cross-kingdom networks – Birgit Wassermann – Microbiome

 

Bioinformatics

Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2 – Evan Bolyen – Nature Biotechnology

July 18, 2019

Have a nice Thursday! Today in this Digest, we have papers with clinical implications for the use of microbiota in disease analysis; for example: a paper presenting a model for the use of gut microbiota for disease classification, or an article showing the impact of microbiota in cardiometabolic risk. Today we have several papers about animal microbiome or studies in animal models, including an interesting article showing a relationship between wasp adaptation and their microbiota. And, of course, more papers!

 

Human and General Microbiome

* Establishment and evaluation of prediction model for multiple disease classification based on gut microbial data – Sohyun Bang – Scientific Reports

* Gut microbiota composition explains more variance in the host cardiometabolic risk than genetic ancestry – Sandra J. Guzmán-Castañeda – Gut Microbes 

Species Deletions from Microbiome Consortia Reveal Key Metabolic Interactions between Gut Microbes – Natalia Gutiérrez – mSystems

The association between pneumococcal vaccination, ethnicity, and the nasopharyngeal microbiota of children in Fiji – Laura K. Boelsen – Microbiome

Crypt- and Mucosa-Associated Core Microbiotas in Humans and Their Alteration in Colon Cancer PatientsAzadeh Saffarian – mBio

A Bacteriophage Cocktail Eliminates Salmonella Typhimurium from the Human Colonic Microbiome while Preserving Cytokine Signaling and Preventing Attachment to and Invasion of Human Cells by Salmonella In Vitro – Zachary D. Moye – Journal of Food Protection

Discovery of potential genes contributing to the biosynthesis of short-chain fatty acids and lactate in gut microbiota from systematic investigation in E. coli – Chunhua Zhao – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Altered in Vitro Metabolomic Response of the Human Microbiota to Sweeteners – Emanuel Vamanu – Genes

Research Highlight: Microbiota supplements to improve metabolic health – Anna Kriebs – Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Review: Ketogenic Diet and Microbiota: Friends or Enemies? – Antonio Paoli – Genes

Review: Supporting a Healthy Microbiome for the Primary Prevention of Eczema – Sofia Szari – Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology

A Comparative Analysis of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters in Lean and Obese Humans – Shengqin Wang – BioMed Research International

 

Animal Models / Animal Experiments

* Phylosymbiosis Impacts Adaptive Traits in Nasonia Wasps – Edward J. van Opstal – mBio

The microbiota protects from viral-induced neurologic damage through microglia-intrinsic TLR signaling – D Garrett Brown – eLife

Pregnancy and lactation interfere with the response of autoimmunity to modulation of gut microbiota – Qinghui Mu – Microbiome

Polysaccharide A-Dependent Opposing Effects of Mucosal and Systemic Exposures to Human Gut Commensal Bacteroides Fragilis in Type 1 Diabetes – M. Hanief – Diabetes

Heart failure developed after myocardial infarction does not affect gut microbiota composition in the rat – Renata Maria Lataro – Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Effect of chrysin on changes in intestinal environment and microbiome induced by fructose-feeding in rats – Nelson Andrade – Food & Function

Microbiota of periodontal pockets and root canals in induced experimental periodontal disease in dogs – Cícero R. Gadê‐Neto – Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry

Frontline Science: Abnormalities in the gut mucosa of non-obese diabetic mice precede the onset of type 1 diabetes – Mariana Camila Gonçalves Miranda – Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Early Feeding Regime of Waste Milk, Milk, and Milk Replacer for Calves Has Different Effects on Rumen Fermentation and the Bacterial Community – Rong Zhang – Animals

 

Beneficial Compounds and Microbes

Modified apple polysaccharide regulates microbial dysbiosis to suppress high-fat diet-induced obesity in C57BL/6J mice – Yuhua Li – European Journal of Nutrition

Mulberry leaves ameliorate obesity through enhancing brown adipose tissue activity and modulating gut microbiota – Yao Sheng – Food & Function

 

Plant Microbiome

Root-specific camalexin biosynthesis controls the plant growth-promoting effects of multiple bacterial strains – Anna Koprivova – PNAS

 

Environmental Microbiome

An RNA-based quantitative and compositional study of ammonium-oxidizing bacteria and archaea in Lake Taihu, a eutrophic freshwater lake – Tong-tong Liu – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Exploring Biodiversity and Arsenic Metabolism of Microbiota Inhabiting Arsenic-Rich Groundwaters in Northern Italy – Lucia Cavalca – Frontiers in Microbiology

June 29, 2019

Happy Saturday! Today, in this Digest: a review about the relationship between hypertension and the gut (including the microbiome as a key player) and a systematic review of the associations between vaginal microbiota, HPV and cervical dysplasia. Today we have also several papers about bioinformatic tools, methods, and techniques associated with microbiome research, including the analysis of well-to-well contamination during microbiome research. And of course, many more papers!

 

Human or General Microbiome

Review: Hypertension as a Metabolic Disorder and the Novel Role of the Gut – Masami Tanaka – Current Hypertension Reports

Minireview: Antibiotics and immunotherapy in gastrointestinal tumors: Friend or foe? – Cong Yan – World Journal of Clinical Cases

Review: Proton pump inhibitors and dysbiosis: Current knowledge and aspects to be clarified – Giovanni Bruno – World Journal of Gastroenterology

Systematic Review: The vaginal microbiota, HPV and cervical dysplasia: a systematic review and network meta-analysis – Johanna Norenhag – BJOG

Microbiota therapy acts via a regulatory T cell MyD88/RORγt pathway to suppress food allergy – Azza Abdel-Gadir – Nature Medicine

Exploration of the Vaginal and Gut Microbiome in African American Women by Body Mass Index, Class of Obesity, and Gestational Weight Gain: A Pilot Study – Mary Ann Faucher - American Journal of Perinatology

Banking feces: a new frontier for public blood banks? – Simon Mark Dahl Jørgensen – Transfusion

Diet-microbiota-metabolite interaction networks reveal key players in inflammatory bowel disease – Yijie Weng – Journal of Digestive Diseases

The microbiome of calcium-based urinary stones – Ryan A. Dornbier – Urolithiasis

Scientometric analysis of the term “microbiota” in research publications (1999-2017): A second youth of a century-old concept – Lesya Baudoin – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Microbiome analysis as a platform R&D tool for parasitic nematode disease management – Glenn Hogan – The ISME Journal

Is the Oral Microbiome Associated with Blood Pressure in Older Women? – Joshua H. Gordon – High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention

An untargeted fecal and urine metabolomics analysis of the interplay between the gut microbiome, diet and human metabolism in Indian and Chinese adults – Abhishek Jain – Scientific Reports

Gut Microbiota Alteration is Characterized by a Proteobacteria and Fusobacteria Bloom in Kwashiorkor and a Bacteroidetes Paucity in Marasmus – Thi-Phuong-Thao Pham – Scientific Reports

The effects of perineal disinfection on infant’s oral microflora after transvaginal examination during delivery – Hongping Li – BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Metagenomic analysis of bile salt biotransformation in the human gut microbiome – Promi Das – BMC Genomics

 

Animal Microbiome / Animal Experiments

Metagenomic assessment of the Cebus apella gut microbiota – Jenni Firrman – American Journal of Primatology

Multipartner Symbiosis across Biological Domains: Looking at the Eukaryotic Associations from a Microbial Perspective – Marta Turon – mSystems

Arthropod-bacteria interactions influence assembly of aquatic host microbiome and pathogen defense – Sasha E. Greenspan – Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Intestinal microbiota contributes to altered glucose metabolism in simulated microgravity mouse model – Yifan Wang – The FASEB Journal

Impact of Low-dose Ionising Radiation on the Composition of the Gut Microbiota of Mice – Xiaodan Liu – Toxicological Sciences

Habitat fragmentation is associated with dietary shifts and microbiota variability in common vampire bats – Melissa R. Ingala – Ecology and Evolution

 

Microbiome and Therapeutics (Compounds, Microbes or Procedures)

Review: Effects of Fish n-3 PUFAs on Intestinal Microbiota and Immune System – Cinzia Parolini – Marine Drugs

Review: Updates in Treatment of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection – Tanveer Singh – Journal of Clinical Medicine Research

Synbiotics suppress colitis-induced tumorigenesis in a colon-specific cancer mouse model – Yasufumi Saito – PLOS One

Roles of Chinese Medicine and Gut Microbiota in Chronic Constipation – Zhenyuan Xu – Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Increasing the Dose and/or Repeating Faecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) Increases the Response in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) – Magdy El-Salhy – Nutrients

Interleukin-37 sensitize the elderly type 2 diabetic patients to insulin therapy through suppressing the gut microbiota dysbiosis – Tianyi Li – Molecular Immunology

Skin microbiome modulation induced by probiotic solutions – Bernhard Paetzold – Microbiome

Evaluation of Predation Capability of Periodontopathogens Bacteria by Bdellovibrio Bacteriovorus HD100. An in Vitro Study – Romeo Patini – Materials

 

Bioinformatics, Methods and Techniques

Quantifying and Understanding Well-to-Well Contamination in Microbiome Research – Jeremiah J. Minich – mSystems

Associated commentary: A Lot on Your Plate? Well-to-Well Contamination as an Additional Confounder in Microbiome Sequence Analyses – Alan W. Walker – mSystems

redbiom: a Rapid Sample Discovery and Feature Characterization System – Daniel McDonald – mSystems

Review: Methods and basic concepts for microbiota assessment – Marcio Costa – The Veterinary Journal

Long-read based de novo assembly of low-complexity metagenome samples results in finished genomes and reveals insights into strain diversity and an active phage system – Vincent Somerville – BMC Microbiology

Robust biomarker discovery for microbiome-wide association studies – Qiang Zhu – Methods

A Method for Comprehensive Proteomic Analysis of Human Faecal Samples to Investigate Gut Dysbiosis in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis – Griet Debyser – Emerging Sample Treatments in Proteomics

metaQuantome: An integrated, quantitative metaproteomics approach reveals connections between taxonomy and protein function in complex microbiomes – Caleb W. Easterly – Molecular & Cellular Proteomics

Review: The dark side of technological advances in analysis of microbial ecosystems – Mick Bailey – Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

June 24, 2019

Happy Monday! In today’s Digest, you’ll find a primer on metabolomics, a description of the fungal and bacterial communities involved in coffee fermentation, and several studies on extremophile communities.

General Microbiome
Staring into the void: Demystifying microbial metabolomics – Cynthia M Grim – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Bacterial metabolism-inspired molecules to modulate antibiotic efficacy – Yuan Liu – Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Deterministic processes structure bacterial genetic communities across an urban landscape – J. M. Hassell – Nature Communications

Gut Microbiome
Bifidobacterium dentium Fortifies the Intestinal Mucus Layer via Autophagy and Calcium Signaling Pathways – Melinda A. Engevik – mBio

Lipopolysaccharides modulate intestinal epithelial permeability and inflammation in a species-specific manner – Matthew Stephens – Gut Microbes

Fecal Microbiome Data Distinguish Liver Recipients with Normal and Abnormal Liver Function from Healthy Controls – Hai-feng Lu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human Microbiota and Personalized Cancer Treatments: Role of Commensal Microbes in Treatment Outcomes for Cancer Patients – Stephen Gately – Precision Medicine in Cancer Therapy

Animal Experiments
Intervening Effects of Total Alkaloids of Corydalis saxicola Bunting on Rats With Antibiotic-Induced Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis Based on 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing and Untargeted Metabolomics Analyses – Xi Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal Microbiome
Gestation alters the gut microbiota of an oviparous lizard – Brian K Trevelline – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Diversity of deep-water coral associated bacteria and comparison across depth gradients – Sigmund Jensen – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Plant, Root, and Soil Microbiome
Bacterial and archaeal spatial distribution and its environmental drivers in an extremely haloalkaline soil at the landscape scale – Martha Adriana Martínez-Olivas – PeerJ

The microbial community in an alkaline saline sediment of a former maar lake bed – Claudia L. Ibarra-Sánchez – Journal of Soils and Sediments

Impacts on soil microbial characteristics and their restorability with different soil disinfestation approaches in intensively cropped greenhouse soils – Tianzhu Meng – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Nonylphenol causes shifts in microbial communities and nitrogen mineralization in soil microcosms – Stefania Mattana – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Changes in Plant Rhizosphere Microbial Communities under Different Vegetation Restoration Patterns in Karst and Non-karst Ecosystems – Zhouzhou Fan – Scientific Reports

Water and Extremophile Microbiome
Culture independent bacterial diversity of Changme Khang and Changme Khangpu glaciers of North Sikkim, India – Mingma Thundu Sherpa – Environmental Sustainability

Selection of a Microbial Community in the Course of Formation of Acid Mine Drainage – V. V. Kadnikov – Microbiology

Thermophilic Bacteria in Lake Baikal Bottom Sediments Associated with Hydrocarbon Discharge – O. N. Pavlova – Microbiology

Bacterial alkylquinolone signaling contributes to structuring microbial communities in the ocean – Kristen E. Whalen – Microbiome

Food Microbiology
First description of bacterial and fungal communities in Colombian coffee beans fermentation analysed using Illumina-based amplicon sequencing – Ana C. de Oliveira Junqueira – Scientific Reports

Techniques
Functional Gene Array-Based Ultrasensitive and Quantitative Detection of Microbial Populations in Complex Communities – Zhou Shi – mSystems

June 20, 2019

After a week, our Microbiome Digest is back online with a rich collection of articles in all fields microbiome. Highlights include a review on colonization resistance to bacterial pathogens in the gut, a report on daily sampling of the individual microbiome response to similar diets, and, have you heard of the FAIR principles for scientific data? Happy reading!

General microbiology

Bacillus cereus infection in neonates and the absence of evidence for the role of banked human milk: Case reports and literature review – Antoine Lewin et al. – Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

Comment: Multiple levels of the unknown in microbiome research – Andrew Maltez Thomas & Nicola Segata – BMC Biology

Comparative genome analysis reveals niche-specific genome expansion in Acinetobacter baumannii strains – Harshita Yakkala & Devyani Samantarrai et al. – PLoS One

Antimicrobial resistance

Definitions and guidelines for research on antibiotic persistence – Nathalie Q. Balaban et al. – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Review: Genomic and metagenomic approaches for predictive surveillance of emerging pathogens and antibiotic resistance – Kimberley V. Sukhum et al. – Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Review: Antimicrobial Tolerance and Metabolic Adaptations in Microbial Biofilms – Aurélie Crabbé et al. – Trends in Microbiology

Human oral microbiome

Dysbiotic salivary microbiota in dry mouth and primary Sjögren’s syndrome patients – S. Rusthen et al. – PLoS One

Human gut microbiome

** Review: Gut Microbiota and Colonization Resistance against Bacterial Enteric Infection – Q. R. Ducarmon et al. – Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Review: Gastrointestinal Microbiota in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review – SeonYoon Chung et al. – Advances in Nutrition

Gut Microbial Associations to Plasma Metabolites Linked to Cardiovascular Phenotypes and Risk – Alexander Kurilshikov et al. – Circulation Research

Commentary: The Microbiome, Plasma Metabolites, Dietary Habits, and Cardiovascular Risk Unravelling Their Interplay – Dariush Mozaffarian – Circulation Research

Review: Macronutrient metabolism by the human gut microbiome: major fermentation by-products and their impact on host health – Kaitlyn Oliphant & Emma Allen-Vercoe – Microbiome

Review: Lactose digestion in humans: intestinal lactase appears to be constitutive whereas the colonic microbiome is adaptable – Richard A Forsgård – The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

** Daily Sampling Reveals Personalized Diet-Microbiome Associations in Humans – Abigail J. Johnson et al – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: HIV, Cancer, and the Microbiota: Common Pathways Influencing Different Diseases – Sergio Serrano-Villar et al. – Frontiers in Immunology

IDDF2019-ABS-0157 Fecal microbiota transplantations reconstitute gut fungal and viral microbiota in graft-versus-host disease – Fen Zhang et al. – Gut

Exploring the impact of Helicobacter pylori on gut microbiome composition – Nihar Ranjan Dash et al. – PLoS One

Metabolomics

Review: Translational Metabolomics: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities – Farhana R. Pinu et al. – Metabolites

Animal experiments

Consumption of post-fermented Jing-Wei Fuzhuan brick tea alleviates liver dysfunction and intestinal microbiota dysbiosis in high fructose diet-fed mice – Xiangnan Zhang et al. – RSC Advance

Mouse: B vitamin sharing promotes stability of gut microbial communities – Vandana Sharma et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Variability of the ability of complex microbial communities to exclude microbes carrying antibiotic resistance genes in rabbits – caroline s. achard et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Effects of BARLEYmax and high-β-glucan barley line on short-chain fatty acids production and microbiota from the cecum to the distal colon in rats – Seiichiro Aoe et al. – PLoS One

Animal microbiome

The “wildness” of the giant panda gut microbiome and its relevance to effective translocation – Ran Yao & Liangliang Xu et al. – Global Ecology and Conservation

Host genetics influence the rumen microbiota and heritable rumen microbial features associate with feed efficiency in cattle – Fuyong Li et al – Microbiome

Mosquito: Host species and site of collection shape the microbiota of Rift Valley fever vectors in Kenya – David P. Tchouassi et al – PLoS NTD

Longitudinal microbiome profiling reveals impermanence of probiotic bacteria in domestic pigeons – Kirsten Grond, Julie M. Perreau & Wesley T. Loo et al. – PLoS One

Food microbiome

Ground beef microbiome changes with antimicrobial decontamination interventions and product storage – Margaret D. Weinroth et al. – PLoS One

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Biocontrol of Root Diseases and Growth Promotion of the Tuberous Plant Aconitum carmichaelii Induced by Actinomycetes Are Related to Shifts in the Rhizosphere Microbiota – Yulong Li et al. – Microbial Ecology

Microbial communities from different soil types respond differently to organic waste input – Sophie Sadet-Bourgeteau et al. – Applied Soil Ecology

Plant-based oil-sorbents harbor native microbial communities effective in spilled oil-bioremediation under nitrogen starvation and heavy metal-stresses – N. Dashti et al. – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Effects of agricultural management on rhizosphere microbial structure and function in processing tomato – Jennifer E. Schmidt et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Microbial diversity in bulk and rhizosphere soil of Ranunculus glacialis along a high-alpine altitudinal gradient – Nadine Praeg et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Tripartite Interactions Between Endophytic Fungi, Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, and Leymus chinensis – Hui Liu et al. – Microbial Ecology

Review: Plant host-associated mechanisms for microbial selection – Piet Jones et al. – Frontiers in Plant Science

Soil Microbial Biomass and Fungi Reduced with Canola Introduced into Long-Term Monoculture Wheat Rotations – Jeremy C. Hansen et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Pearls: Microbiota-mediated disease resistance in plants – Nathan Vannier et al. – PLoS Pathogens

Effects of maize rotation on the physicochemical properties and microbial communities of American ginseng cultivated soil – Xiao-Lin Jiao et al. – Scientific Reports

Linking the response of soil microbial community structure in soils to long-term wastewater irrigation and soil depth – Qiuling Dang et al. – Science of the Total Environment

One-time nitrogen fertilization shifts switchgrass soil microbiomes within a context of larger spatial and temporal variation – Huaihai Chen et al. – PLoS One

Water and extremophile microbiome

Comparison of bacterial community structure and potential functions in hypoxic and non-hypoxic zones of the Changjiang Estuary – Dong-Mei Wu & Qiu-Ping Dai et al. – PLoS One

Review: Progress and promise of omics for predicting the impacts of climate change on harmful algal blooms – Gwenn M.M.Hennon & Sonya T.Dyhrman – Harmful Algae

Position-specific metabolic probing and metagenomics of microbial communities reveal conserved central carbon metabolic network activities at high temperatures – Scott C. Thomas et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Chemical composition of extracellular polymeric substances and evolution of microbial community in activated sludge exposed to ibuprofen – Guangqing Zhou et al. – Journal of Environmental Management

Enhancement of facultative anaerobic denitrifying communities by oxygen release from roots of the macrophyte in constructed wetlands – Haishu Sun et al. – Journal of Environmental Management

How does environmental inter-annual variability shape aquatic microbial communities? A 40-year annual record of sedimentary DNA from a boreal lake (Nylandssjön, Sweden) – Eric Capo et al. – Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Phages and viruses

Review: Virome and bacteriome: two sides of the same coin – Jonathan Stern et al. – Current Opinion in Virology

Technology

Gut microbiome analysis by post: Evaluation of the optimal method to collect stool samples from infants within a national cohort study – Georgina M. Williams et al. – PLoS One

Microbiota data from low biomass milk samples is markedly affected by laboratory and reagent contamination – Josef Dahlberg et al. – PLoS One

Bioinformatics

GRASP2: fast and memory-efficient gene-centric assembly and homolog search for metagenomic sequencing data – Cuncong Zhong et al. – BMC Bioinformatics

Proficiency testing of virus diagnostics based on bioinformatics analysis of simulated in silico high-throughput sequencing datasets – Annika Brinkmann et al. – Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Microbes in the news

FDA recalls certain tattoo inks for bacterial contamination – Fox 13 News

Viruses found to use intricate ‘treadmill’ to move cargo across bacterial cells – ScienceDaily

USDA issues reminder about how to safely meal prep – Erica Chayes Wida – Today

Highlights and key takeaways from the 2019 Boston Bacterial Meeting (BBM) – Dr. Tomislav Meštrović, MD, Ph.D. – News Medical

Non-microbiology picks

** The State of Open Data Report 2018

Network analysis to evaluate the impact of research funding on research community consolidation – Daniel J. Hicks et al. – PLoS One