Category Archives: Food Microbiology

November 30, 2018

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Happy Friday! Today’s digest features the skin microbiome of lizards and frogs, bacterial changes during palm wine fermentation, and the impact of deforestation on soils in the Amazon.

General microbiome

Review: The microbiome in threatened species conservation – West – Biological Conservation

Human oral microbiome

Oxidative stress in the oral cavity is driven by individual-specific bacterial communities – Džunková – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Human gut microbiome

Alterations of the gut microbiome and plasma proteome in Chinese patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis – Shen – Bone

Animal experiments

Effect of gastric fluid aspiration on the lung microbiota of laboratory rats – Finn – Experimental Lung Research

Animal microbiome

Skin bacterial diversity is higher on lizards than sympatric frogs in tropical Australia – Weitzman – PeerJ

Impact of Bacillus spp. spores and gentamicin on the gastrointestinal microbiota of suckling and newly weaned piglets – Poulsen – PLoS One

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Land Use Influences Antibiotic Resistance in the Microbiome of Soil Collembolans Orchesellides sinensis – Zhu – Environmental Science and Technology

Deforestation Impacts Network Co-occurrence Patterns of Microbial Communities in Amazon Soils – Khan – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Review: VOCs-mediated hormonal signaling and crosstalk with plant growth promoting microbes – Tyagi – Critical Reviews in Biotechnology

Soil amendment alters soil physicochemical properties and bacterial community structure of a replanted apple orchard – Liang – Microbiological Research

Specialisation events of fungal metacommunities exposed to a persistent organic pollutant are suggestive of augmented pathogenic potential – Martins – Microbiome

Extemophile microbiome

Salino-alkaline lime of anthropogenic origin a reservoir of diverse microbial communities – Kalwasińska – Science of the Total Environment

Food microbiology

Preprint: Bacterial diversity and population dynamics during the fermentation of palm wine from Guerrero Mexico – Astudillo-Melgar – BioRxiv

Assessment of biogas production and microbial ecology in a high solid anaerobic digestion of major California food processing residues – Achmon – Bioresource Technology Reports

Science, publishing, and career

Preprint: Participation and Motivations of Grant Peer Reviewers: A Comprehensive Survey of the Biomedical Research Community – Gallo – BioRxiv

November 28, 2018

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Influence of bacterial biofilms from vats on cheese characteristics, the fecal virome of wild ducks, variation in fungal diversity associated with olive trees.

Pregnancy and early life

Review: Strategies for the Preservation, Restoration and Modulation of the Human Milk Microbiota. Implications for Human Milk Banks and Neonatal Intensive Care Units – Leónides Fernández – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human vaginal microbiome

Vaginal microbiome in pregnant women according to trimester and its association with preterm birth: critical appraisal of a cross-sectional study – Dimitrios Papoutsis – Obstetrics & Gynecology Science

Human gut microbiome

Microbial-Host Interactions in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Functional Bowel Disease, Obesity and Obesity-Related Metabolic Disease – Shailja C Shah – Gastroenterology

Animal experiments

Bioactive Food Abates Metabolic and Synaptic Alterations by Modulation of Gut Microbiota in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease – Tauqeerunnisa Syeda – Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease

Extract of the Microalga Nitzschia laevis Prevents High-Fat-Diet Induced Obesity in Mice by Modulating the Composition of Gut Microbiota – Bingbing Guo

Effects of Taste Signaling Protein Abolishment on Gut Inflammation in an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Mouse Model – Ya-Wen Du – Journal of Visualized Experiments

Animal microbiome

Use of next generation sequencing to investigate the microbiota of experimentally induced wounds and the effect of bandaging in horses – Louis J Kamus – PLOS ONE

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

The chirality of imazethapyr herbicide selectively affects the bacterial community in soybean field soil – Hao Wu – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Genome‐Wide Association studies on the phyllosphere microbiome: embracing complexity in host‐microbe interactions – Kathleen Beilsmith – The Plant Journal

Invasive plants differentially affect soil biota through litter and rhizosphere pathways: a meta‐analysis – Pei Zhang – Ecology Letters

Analysis of the community composition and bacterial diversity of the rhizosphere microbiome across different plant taxa – Shaonan Lei – MicrobiologyOpen

Spatial and temporal variation of fungal endophytic richness and diversity associated to the phyllosphere of olive cultivars – Patrick Materatski – Fungal Biology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Pre-print: Metagenomic Insights Unveil the Dominance of Undescribed Actinobacteria in Pond Ecosystem of an Indian Shrine – Radhakrishnan Manikkam – bioRxiv

Built environment

A procedure for identifying chemical and biological risks for books in historic libraries based on microclimate analysis – Eva Schito – Journal of Cultural Heritage

Food microbiology

Influence of the early bacterial biofilms developed on vats made with seven wood types on PDO Vastedda della valle del Belìce cheese characteristics – Raimondo Gaglio – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Probiotics/prebiotics

Microbial consortia: promising probiotics as plant biostimulants for sustainable agriculture – Sheridan L Woo – Frontiers in Plant Science

Phages and viruses

Fecal virome composition of migratory wild duck species – Luis Alfonso Ramírez-Martínez – PLOS ONE

November 20, 2018

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Here’s your Digest before the US Thanksgiving holiday with a burst of human gut microbiome/animal experiment papers. Science publishes a special edition on diet and health, how do human gut microbes fare against mouse gut commensals, and watch out for the water used in your microbiome studies!

Jobs

Open Rank Tenure Track Faculty Position – Baylor College of Medicine

General microbiology

Preprint: Natural strain diversity reveals novel biofilm regulation in squid-colonizing Vibrio fischeri – Ella R. Rotman et al. – bioRxiv

Preprint: Genotyping of Salmonella spp. on the basis of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) – Calvin Jiksing et al. – bioRxiv

Pregnancy and early life

Iron-containing micronutrient powders modify the effect of oral antibiotics on the infant gut microbiome and increase post-antibiotic diarrhoea risk: a controlled study in Kenya – Daniela Paganini et al. – Gut

Human skin microbiome

Review: The epithelial immune microenvironment (EIME) in atopic dermatitis and psoriasis – Teruki Dainichi et al. – Nature Immunology

Human oral microbiome

The Effect of Influenza Virus on the Human Oropharyngeal Microbiome – Elisa Ramos-Sevillano et al. – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Human vaginal microbiome

Review: Ecological dynamics of the vaginal microbiome in relation to health and disease – Shirley Greenbaum et al. – American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Human gut microbiome

Preprint: Acquired interbacterial defense systems protect against interspecies antagonism in the human gut microbiome – Benjamin D. Ross et al. – bioRxiv

Review: Calorie restriction and its impact on gut microbial composition and global metabolism – Xiaojiao Zheng et al. – Frontiers of Medicine

Fecal microbiota transplantation with frozen capsules for a patient with refractory acute gut graft-versus-host disease – Satoshi Kaito et al. – Blood Advances

Review: Salts and energy balance: A special role for dietary salts in metabolic syndrome –
Christopher W.Brey et al. – Clinical Nutrition

IL23R-protective coding variant promotes beneficial bacteria and diversity in the ileal microbiome in healthy individuals without inflammatory bowel disease – Martha Zakrzewski et al. – Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis

In vitro: A four-strain probiotic exerts positive immunomodulatory effects by enhancing colonic butyrate production in vitro – Frédéric Moens et al. – International Journal of Pharmaceutics

Review: Obesity and Cancer Risk: Emerging biological mechanisms and perspectives – Konstantinos I. Avgerinos et al. – Metabolism

Review: Endocrine regulation of gut function – a role for glucagon-like peptide-1 in the pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome – Dervla O’Malley – Experimental Physiology

The Human Metabolism of Nuts Proanthocyanidins Does not Reveal Urinary Metabolites Consistent with Distinctive Gut Microbiota Metabotypes – Adrián Cortés‐Martín et al. – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Review: The role of dietary factors in inflammatory bowel diseases: new perspectives – Yi Quan Zhou et al. – Journal of Digestive Diseases

Review: Interaction of gut microbiota with dysregulation of bile acids in the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and potential therapeutic implications of probiotics – Jiezhong Chen et al. – Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Review: Cross-Talk Between Gluten, Intestinal Microbiota and Intestinal Mucosa in Celiac Disease: Recent Advances and Basis of Autoimmunity – Atul Munish Chander et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Control and dysregulation of redox signalling in the gastrointestinal tract – Eric L. Campbell & Sean P. Colgan – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

** Review: The gut microbiota at the intersection of diet and human health – Christopher L. Gentile & Tiffany L. Weir – Science

Review: Gut Microbiota and Their Neuroinflammatory Implications in Alzheimer’s Disease – Vo Van Giau et al. – Nutrients

Review: Gut microbiota in diabetes and HIV: Inflammation is the link – Vicente Estrada & Noemi Gonzalez – EBioMedicine

Human gut-microbiome-brain axis

Can the gut be the missing piece in uncovering PD pathogenesis? – Guillaume Chapelet et al. – Parkinsonism & Related Disorders

Human multi-site microbiome

Characterization of human breast tissue microbiota from core needle biopsies through the analysis of multi hypervariable 16S-rRNA gene regions – Lara Costantini et al. – Scientific Reports

Review: Estimating the postmortem interval using microbes: Knowledge gaps and a path to technology adoption – Jessica L.Metcalf – Forensic Science International: Genetics

Boston Type I Keratoprosthesis: Antibacterial Resistance and Microbiota Evaluation of Soft Contact Lenses – Emilio A.Torres-Netto et al. – American Journal of Ophthalmology

Food microbiome

Combined effects of thymol, carvacrol and packaging on the shelf-life of marinated chicken – Layal Karam et al. – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Effect of post-harvest interventions on surficial carrot bacterial community dynamics, pathogen survival, and antibiotic resistance – Vaishali Dharmarha et al. – International Journal of Food Microbiology

The potential use of probiotic and beneficial bacteria in the Brazilian dairy industry – Monique Colombo et al. – Journal of Dairy Research

Animal experiments

In vitro: Environmental pollutant-mediated disruption of gut microbial metabolism of the prebiotic inulin – Jessie Hoffman et al. – Anaerobe

Assessment of the adverse impacts of aflatoxin B1 on gut-microbiota dependent metabolism in F344 rats – Jun Zhou et al. – Chemosphere

Dietary Tomato Powder Inhibits High-Fat Diet-Promoted Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Alteration of Gut Microbiota in Mice Lacking Carotenoid Cleavage Enzymes – Hui Xia et al. – Cancer Prevention Research

Chronic intermittent hypoxia disrupts cardiorespiratory homeostasis and gut microbiota composition in adult male guinea-pigs – Eric F.Lucking et al. – EBioMedicine

Microbiota-Derived Lactate Activates Production of Reactive Oxygen Species by the Intestinal NADPH Oxidase Nox and Shortens Drosophila Lifespan – Igor Iatsenko et al. – Immunity

A polysaccharide extracted from Astragalus membranaceus residue improves cognitive dysfunction by altering gut microbiota in diabetic mice – Yameng Liu et al. – Carbohydrate Polymers

Mouse: Role of Bile Acids and GLP-1 in Mediating the Metabolic Improvements of Bariatric Surgery – Vance L. Albaugh et al. – Gastroenterology

Evaluation of Sialyllactose Supplementation of a Prebiotic-Containing Formula on Growth, Intestinal Development, and Bacterial Colonization in the Neonatal Piglet – Marcia H Monaco et al. – Current Developments in Nutrition

Mouse: The Probiotic Effectiveness in Preventing Experimental Colitis Is Correlated With Host Gut Microbiota – Sharmila Suwal et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Soy-Induced Fecal Metabolome Changes in Ovariectomized and Intact Female Rats: Relationship with Cardiometabolic Health – Victoria J. Vieira-Potter et al. – Scientific Reports

** Selective colonization ability of human fecal microbes in different mouse gut environments – Wei Zhou et al. – The ISME Journal

Rat: Potential Involvement of Peripheral Leptin/STAT3 Signaling in the Effects of Resveratrol and Its Metabolites on Reducing Body Fat Accumulation – Andrea Ardid-Ruiz et al. – Nutrients

Bacteria engineered to produce IL-22 in intestine induce expression of REG3G to reduce ethanol-induced liver disease in mice – Tim Hendrikx et al. – Gut

Effects of polystyrene microplastics on the composition of the microbiome and metabolism in larval zebrafish – Zhiqin Wan et al. – Chemosphere

Animal microbiome

The microbiome of Escherichia coli and culture-negative nonsevere clinical mastitis: Characterization and associations with linear score and milk production – A.K. Vasquez et al. – Journal of Dairy Science

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Community diversity and potential functions of rhizosphere-associated bacteria of nickel hyperaccumulators found in Albania – Séverine Lopez et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Allorhizocola rhizosphaerae gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of Micromonosporaceae isolated from rhizosphere soil of the plant Calligonum mongolicum – Ye Sun et al. – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Linking bacterial community composition to soil salinity along environmental gradients – Kristin M. Rath et al. – The ISME Journal

Soil microbial community composition closely associates with specific enzyme activities and soil carbon chemistry in a long-term nitrogen fertilized grassland – Yue Li et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Water and extremophile microbiome

Periodic and spatial spreading of alkanes and Alcanivorax bacteria in deep waters of the Mariana Trench – Wen-Li Li et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Distinct bacterial and archaeal diversities and spatial distributions in surface sediments of the Arctic Ocean – Yuguang Wang et al. – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Microbial subnetworks related to short-term diel O2 fluxes within geochemically distinct freshwater wetlands – Dean J Horton et al. – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Adaptive shifts of bacterioplankton communities in response to nitrogen enrichment in a highly polluted river – Yuzhan Yang et al. – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Pressure and temperature effects on deep-sea hydrocarbon-degrading microbial communities in subarctic sediments – Luis J. Perez Calderon et al. – MicrobiologyOpen

Phages and viruses

Preprint: Complete genome of a Measles virus from Roraima state, Brazil – Catia Meneses et al. – bioRxiv

Safety Studies of Pneumococcal Endolysins Cpl-1 and Pal – Marek Harhala et al. – Viruses

Technology

Preprint: Controlling complex microbial communities: a network-based approach – Marco Tulio Angulo et al. – bioRxiv

** H2Oh No! The importance of reporting your water source in your in vivo microbiome studies – Jacqueline A. Barnett & Deanna L. Gibson – Gut Microbes

Bioinformatics

Taxonomic classification for microbiome analysis, which correlates well with the metabolite milieu of the gut – Yoshihisa Wakita et al. – BMC Microbiology

Non-microbiology picks

Preprint: Benchmarking university medical centres for responsible metrics. A cross sectional study on timely results dissemination across 36 German centres – Susanne Wieschowski et al. – bioRxiv

November 15, 2018

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Here’s your Thursday Digest. Highlights include a photo competition to showcase your research, Titanium ion enhancing fresh flower longevity, and an update on the UNITE database for fungal classification.

Event

** BMC ‘Research in progress’ photo competition – deadline tomorrow, November 16.

General microbiology

Review: The birth, evolution and death of metabolic gene clusters in fungi – Antonis Rokas et al. – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Considerations When Designing a Microbiome Study: Implications for Nursing Science – Katherine A. Maki et al. – Biological Research For Nursing

Review: Probiotics in human health and disease: from nutribiotics to pharmabiotics – Eun-Sook Lee et al. – Journal of Microbiology

Antimicrobial resistance

Review: Genome-based prediction of bacterial antibiotic resistance – Michelle Su et al. – Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life

Colonization of Cutibacterium avidum during infant gut microbiota establishment – Vanesa Natalin Rocha Martin et al. – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Human skin microbiome

The proteomic and metabolomic characterization of exercise-induced sweat for human performance monitoring: A pilot investigation – Sean W. Harshman et al. – PLoS One

Human oral microbiome

In vitro: The effect of the stress hormone cortisol on the metatranscriptome of the oral microbiome – Ana E. Duran-Pinedo et al. – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Human gut microbiome

Alterations of fecal bacterial communities in patients with lung cancer – Wei-Quan Zhang et al. – American Journal of Translational Research

Temporal Variability of Escherichia coli Diversity in the Gastrointestinal Tracts of Tanzanian Children with and without Exposure to Antibiotics – Taylor K. S. Richter et al. – mSphere

Review: An insight into the intestinal web of mucosal immunity, microbiota, ​and diet and their role in inflammation and infection – Eliana Marino & Yu Anne Yap – Frontiers in Immunology

Human multisite microbiome

Determinants of the urinary and serum metabolome in children from six European populations – Chung-Ho E. Lau et al. – BMC Medicine

Human gut-microbiome-brain axis

Alteration of gut microbiota-associated epitopes in children with autism spectrum disorders – Mingbang Wang et al. – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Metabolomics

Metabolomic biomarkers and novel dietary factors associated with gestational diabetes in China – Xuyang Chen et al. – Metabolomics

Animal experiments

An Interleukin-23-Interleukin-22 Axis Regulates Intestinal Microbial Homeostasis to Protect from Diet-Induced Atherosclerosis – Aliia R. Fatkhullina et al. – Immunity

Gut microbiota dysbiosis correlates with a low-dose PCB126-induced dyslipidemia and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease – Yulang Chi et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Animal microbiome

The Cloacal Microbiome of Five Wild Duck Species Varies by Species and Influenza A Virus Infection Status – Sarah M. Hird et al. – mSphere

Milk Metabolomics Data Reveal the Energy Balance of Individual Dairy Cows in Early Lactation – Wei Xu et al. – Scientific Reports

Food microbiome

An integrated metagenomic/metaproteomic investigation of microbiota in dajiang-meju, a traditional fermented soybean product in Northeast China – Mengxi Xie et al. – Food Research International

Plant, root and soil microbiome

The ability of plants to produce strigolactones affects rhizosphere community composition of fungi but not bacteria – Lilia Costa Carvalhais et al. – Rhizosphere

Root exudates induce soil macroaggregation facilitated by fungi in subsoil – Vera L. Baumert et al. – Frontiers in Environmental Science

Long-term combined application of manure and chemical fertilizer sustained higher nutrient status and rhizospheric bacterial diversity in reddish paddy soil of Central South China – Xinwei Cui et al. – Scientific Reports

** Titanium Ions Inhibit the Bacteria in Vase Solutions of Freshly Cut Gerbera jamesonii and Extend the Flower Longevity – Cai-Xia Li et al. – Microbial Ecology

Ectomycorrhizal fungi inoculation alleviates simulated acid rain effects on soil ammonia oxidizers and denitrifiers in Masson pine forest – Yan Li et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Compounded disturbance chronology modulates the resilience of soil microbial communities and N-cycle related functions – Kadiya Calderón et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Long-term elevated CO2 shifts composition of soil microbial communities in a Californian annual grassland, reducing growth and N utilization potentials – Sihang Yang et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Silver Toxicity Thresholds for Multiple Soil Microbial Biomarkers – Sotirios Vasileiadis et al. – Environmental Science & Technology

Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities and their functional traits mediate plant-soil interactions in trace element contaminated soils – Marta Gil-Martínez et al. – Frontiers in Plant Science

Modulation of litter decomposition by the soil microbial food web under influence of land use change – Amber Heijboer et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Response and recovery of microbial communities subjected to oxidative and biological treatments of 1,4-dioxane and co-contaminants – Yu Miao et al. – Water Research

In situ real-time quantification of microbial communities: Applications to cold and dry volcanic habitats – Linda S.Powers et al. – Global Ecology and Conservation

Long-term investigation of microbial community composition and transcription patterns in a biogas plant undergoing ammonia crisis – Martin Alexander Fischer et al. – Microbial Biotechnology

Importance of soil texture to the fate of pathogens introduced by irrigation with treated wastewater – Olabiyi Obayomi et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Active pathways of anaerobic methane oxidation across contrasting riverbeds – Li-dong Shen et al. – The ISME Journal

Drying and rainfall shape the structure and functioning of nitrifying microbial communities in riverbed sediments – Maria Isabel Arce et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbes in space

Inner Workings: Hunting for microbial life throughout the solar system – Adam Mann – PNAS

Confirmation of Microbial Ingress from Space – N. C. Wickramasinghe et al. – Advances in Astrophysics

Phages and viruses

Review: Targeting mechanisms of tailed bacteriophages – Franklin L. Nobrega et al. – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Viral diversity of Rhipicephalus microplus parasitizing cattle in southern Brazil – William Marciel de Souza et al. – Scientific Reports

Review: Respiratory Viral Infection-induced Microbiome Alterations and Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia – Shigeo Hanada et al. – Frontiers in Immunology

Technology

Review: Model Microbial Consortia as Tools for Understanding Complex Microbial Communities – Haruta, Shin & Yamamoto, Kyosuke – Current Genomics

Re-purposing 16S rRNA gene sequence data from within case paired tumor biopsy and tumor-adjacent biopsy or fecal samples to identify microbial markers for colorectal cancer – Manasi S. Shah et al. – PLoS One

Bioinformatics

** The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications – Rolf Henrik Nilsson et al. – Nucleic Acids Research

Bioinformatics tools to assess metagenomic data for applied microbiology – Otávio G. G. Almeida & Elaine C. P. De Martinis – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Pan-genomic analysis provides novel insights into the association of E. coli with human host and its minimal genome – Zhi-Kai Yang et al. – Bioinformatics

Microbes in the news

You Are What Your Bacteria Eat – Patricia Conway & Jorgen Schlundt – Innovation Magazine

November 10, 2018

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Human and General Microbiome

Review: Clinical Application and Potential of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation – R.E. Ooijevaar – Annual Review of Medicine

Editorial: A novel treatment for patients with constipation: Dawn of a new age for translational microbiome research? – Ayesha Shah – Indian Journal of Gastroenterology

Research Highlight: Of ethnicity, environment, and microbiota – Sundararajan Jayaraman – Cellular & Molecular Immunology

Minireview: Metabolic and Microbiota Measures as Peripheral Biomarkers in Major Depressive Disorder – Rachael Horne – Frontiers in Psychiatry

Case Report: Hirschsprung’s Associated Enterocolitis (HAEC) Personalized Treatment with Probiotics Based on Gene Sequencing Analysis of the Fecal Microbiome – Georg Singer – Case Reports in Pediatrics

News and Views: Rules of engagement in the gut microbiome – Elze Rackaityte – Nature Medicine

Preview: When Soluble Fibers Meet Hepatocellular Carcinoma: The Dark Side of Fermentation – Suchira Gallage – Cell Metabolism

Preview: A Microbiota Assimilation – Justin Sonnenburg – Cell Metabolism

Fecal microbiota transplantation: restoring the injured microbiome after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation – Zachariah DeFilipp – Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Studies of nonhuman primates: key sources of data on zoonoses and microbiota – B.Davoust – New Microbes and New Infections

Exploring Interactions between the Gut Microbiota and Social Behavior through Nutrition –  Cristian Pasquaretta – Genes

Gut Microbial and Metabolic Responses to Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium and Candida albicans – Jennifer R. Bratburd – mBio

A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial showing rifaximin to improve constipation by reducing methane production and accelerating colon transit: A pilot study – Uday C. Ghoshal – Indian Journal of Gastroenterology

Zinc Deficiency and the Recurrence of Clostridium difficile Infection after Fecal Microbiota Transplant: A Retrospective Cohort Study – Blake A. Niccum – Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism

Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection: Risk Factors, Treatment, and Prevention – Jung Hoon Song – Gut and Liver

Profiles and Perspectives: Mitochondrial dysfunction and gut microbiota imbalance: An intriguing relationship in chronic kidney disease – Denise Mafra – Mitochondrion

Cervicovaginal Fungi and Bacteria Associated With Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia and High-Risk Human Papillomavirus Infections in a Hispanic Population – Filipa Godoy-Vitorino – Frontiers in Microbiology

Cigarette Smoking Modulation of Saliva Microbial Composition and Cytokine Levels – Mary Rodríguez-Rabassa – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Minireview: Human bacterial repertoire of the urinary tract: a potential paradigm shift – Aurélie Morand – Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Review: Role of gut microbiota in intestinal wound healing and barrier function – Ashfaqul Alam – Tissue Barriers

Initial microbial community of the neonatal stomach immediately after birth – Sarah Bajorek – Gut Microbes

The Role of Diet, Micronutrients and the Gut Microbiota in Age-Related Macular Degeneration: New Perspectives from the Gut⁻Retina Axis – Emanuele Rinninella – Nutrients

Review: Candida Interactions with the Oral Bacterial Microbiota – Daniel Montelongo-Jauregui – Journal of Fungi

Microbial Community Dynamics in Mother’s Milk and Infant’s Mouth and Gut in Moderately Preterm Infants – Elena Biagi – Frontiers in Microbiology

First Insights into the Gut Microbiota of Mexican Patients with Celiac Disease and Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity – Jose F. Garcia-Mazcorro – Nutrients

Dietary Exposure to the Environmental Chemical, PFOS on the Diversity of Gut Microbiota, Associated With the Development of Metabolic Syndrome – Keng Po Lai – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Death Microbiome

Trace Evidence Potential in Postmortem Skin Microbiomes: From Death Scene to Morgue – Whitney A. Kodama – Journal of Forensic Sciences

 

Animal Microbiome / Animal Experiments

Review: Chicken Gut Microbiota: Importance and Detection Technology –  Yue Shang – Frontiers in Veterinary Sciences

Predator odor exposure in early adolescence influences the effects of the bacterial product, propionic acid, on anxiety, sensorimotor gating, and acoustic startle response in male rats in later adolescence and adulthood – Deanne Tak On Wah – Physiology & Behavior

Pharmacological Activation of PXR and CAR Down-regulates Distinct Bile Acid-metabolizing Intestinal Bacteria and Alters Bile Acid Homeostasis – Joseph L Dempsey – Toxicological Sciences

Protective effects of ghrelin on fasting-induced muscle atrophy in aging mice – Chia-Shan Wu – The Journals of Gerontology: Series A

The carbamate aldicarb altered the gut microbiome, metabolome and lipidome of C57BL/6J mice – Bei Gao – Chemical Research in Toxicology

Differential effects of coconut versus soy oil on gut microbiota composition and predicted metabolic function in adult mice – Vania Patrone – BMC Genomics

Pharmaceutical Impact of Houttuynia Cordata and Metformin Combination on High-Fat-Diet-Induced Metabolic Disorders: Link to Intestinal Microbiota and Metabolic Endotoxemia – Jing-Hua Wang – Frontiers in Endocrinology

Maternal High-Fat Diet Programs Offspring Liver Steatosis in a Sexually Dimorphic Manner in Association with Changes in Gut Microbial Ecology in Mice – Umesh D. Wankhade – Scientific Reports

Endotoxemia by Porphyromonas gingivalis Injection Aggravates Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Disrupts Glucose/Lipid Metabolism, and Alters Gut Microbiota in Mice – Naoki Sasaki –  Frontiers in Microbiology

Effect of Grifola frondosa 95% ethanol extract on lipid metabolism and gut microbiota composition in high-fat diet-fed rats – Yu-Yang Pan – Food & Function

Reduction in butyrate-producing Lachnospiraceae contributes to stress-induced visceral hypersensitivity in rats – Jindong Zhang – Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

 

Beneficial Compounds and Probiotics

Review: Potential Prebiotic Properties of Nuts and Edible Seeds and Their Relationship to Obesity – Clara S. A. Sugizaki – Nutrients

Review: Resveratrol, Metabolic Syndrome, and Gut Microbiota – Alice Chaplin – Nutrients

Isolation and Characterization of Potentially Probiotic Bacterial Strains from Mice: Proof of Concept for Personalized Probiotics – Larissa S. Celiberto – Nutrients

Two alkaline motifs in the Lactobacillus salivarius Lv72 OppA surface are important to its adhesin function – C. Martín – Beneficial Microbes

 

Protocols

Book Chapter: Activity-Based Protein Profiling-Enabling Multimodal Functional Studies of Microbial Communities – Christopher Whidbey – Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

 

Bioinformatics

Improving the Inference of Co-occurrence Networks in the Bovine Rumen Microbiome – Huiru Zheng – IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

 

Food and Nutritional Microbiome

Microbiomes Associated With Foods From Plant and Animal Sources – Karen G. Jarvis – Frontiers in Microbiology

Fecal microbiota responses to bran particles are specific to cereal type and in vitro digestion methods that mimic upper gastrointestinal tract passage – Yunus Emre Tuncil – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Gut carbohydrate inhibits GIP secretion via a microbiota/SCFA/FFAR3 pathway – : Eun-Young Lee – Journal of Endocrinology

Review: Human Breast Milk Bacteriome in Health and Disease – Anna Ojo-Okunola – Nutrients

Relative Validity and Reproducibility of a Food Frequency Questionnaire to Assess Nutrients and Food Groups of Relevance to the Gut Microbiota in Young Children – Claudia Leong – Nutrients

 

Other

Surface Exposure and Packing of Lipoproteins into Outer Membrane Vesicles Are Coupled Processes in Bacteroides – Ezequiel Valguarnera – mSphere

The Transferable Resistome of Produce – Khald Blau – mBio

November 3, 2018

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Human Microbiome

Defining Dysbiosis in Disorders of Movement and Motivation – Christopher T. Fields – The Journal of Neuroscience

The Microbiotic Highway to Health-New Perspective on Food Structure, Gut Microbiota, and Host Inflammation – Nina Wærling Hansen – Nutrients

Compounding to Prevent and Treat Dysbiosis of the Human Vaginal Microbiome – Riepl Mike – International Journal Of Pharmaceutical Compounding

Multiple sessions of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy associated with surgical periodontal treatment in patients with chronic periodontitis – Uislen B. Cadore – Journal of Periodontology

Gastrointestinal microbiota disruption and risk of colonization with carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in ICU patients – Melinda M Pettigrew – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Efficacy of Probiotics Supplementation On Chronic Kidney Disease: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – L. Jia – Kidney and Blood Pressure Research

Antibiotic resistance genes distribution in microbiomes from the soil-plant-fruit continuum in commercial Lycopersicon esculentum fields under different agricultural practices – Francisco Cerqueira – Science of The Total Environment

Repeated rectal application of a hyperosmolar lubricant is associated with microbiota shifts but does not affect PrEP drug concentrations: results from a randomized trial in men who have sex with men – Richard E Haaland – Journal of The International AIDS Society

Modulation of gut microbiome in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: pro-, pre-, syn-, and antibiotics – Min Seok Cho – Journal of Microbiology

Does Modification of the Large Intestinal Microbiome Contribute to the Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Fermentable Fiber? – Shiu-Ming Kuo – Current Developments in Nutrition

 

Animal Microbiome

Pubertal exposure to the endocrine disruptor mono-2-ethylhexyl ester at body burden level caused cholesterol imbalance in mice – Cui Wang – Environmental Pollution

Effects of hexavalent chromium on intestinal histology and microbiota in Bufo gargarizans tadpoles – Qiong Yao – Chemosphere

Dietary shifts influenced by livestock grazing shape the gut microbiota composition and co-occurrence networks in a local rodent species – Guoliang Li – Journal of Animal Ecology

The Impact of Fructo-Oligosaccharides on Gut Permeability and Inflammatory Responses in the Cecal Mucosa Quite Differs between Rats Fed Semi-Purified and Non-Purified Diets – Tomomi Genda – Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology

Temperature-mediated inhibition of a bumblebee parasite by an intestinal symbiont – Evan C. Palmer-Young – Proceedings of The Royal Society B

Combined Consumption of Beef-Based Cooked Mince and Sucrose Stimulates Oxidative Stress, Cardiac Hypertrophy, and Colonic Outgrowth of Desulfovibrionaceae in Rats – Thomas Van Hecke – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Host diet mediates a negative relationship between abundance and diversity of Drosophila gut microbiota – Berra Erkosar – Ecology and Evolution

 

Food Microbiome

Monitoring of assertive Lactobacillus sakei and Lactobacillus curvatus strains using an industrial ring trial experiment – Dorothee Janßen – Journal of Applied Microbiology

 

Plant Microbiome

The bacterial volatile dimethyl-hexa-decylamine reveals an antagonistic interaction between jasmonic acid and cytokinin in controlling primary root growth of Arabidopsis seedlings – Ernesto Vázquez-Chimalhua – Protoplasma

Smells from the desert: microbial volatiles that affect plant growth and development of native and non-native plant species – David A. Camarena‐Pozos – Plant, Cell and Environment

 

Bioinformatics, Methodologies and Analysis

Identification and removal of contaminating microbial DNA from PCR reagents: impact on low biomass microbiome analyses – Lisa F Stinson – Letters in Applied Microbiology

A computational framework to integrate high-throughput ‘-omics’ datasets for the identification of potential mechanistic links – Helle Krogh Pedersen – Nature Protocols

 

Other

Studying the microbiome and its complexities: an interview with Alan Walker – BMC Biology

When a physicist wanders into biology…: an interview with KC Huang – BMC Biology

From bacterial genomics to clinical epidemiology: an interview with Bill Hanage – BMC Biology

 

November 2, 2018

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Your Friday Digest features plentiful of soil/plant and gut microbiome papers. Highlights include correlation between infant metabolic functions and diet/gestational weight gain, profiling human gut microbiomes across India, and the absence of a placenta microbiota. There are many other more articles worth reading, enjoy!

General microbiology

Suboptimal community growth mediated through metabolite crossfeeding promotes species diversity in the gut microbiota – Michael A. Henson & Poonam Phalak – PLoS Computational Biology

A cohabiting bacterium alters the spectrum of short RNAs secreted by Escherichia coli – Olga V Alikina et al. – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Pregnancy and early life

Long-lasting effect of oral azithromycin taken by women during labour on infant nutrition: Follow-up cohort of a randomized clinical trial in western Gambia – Anna Roca et al. – PLoS One

** Infant diet and maternal gestational weight gain predict early metabolic maturation of gut microbiomes – Aimee M. Baumann-Dudenhoeffer et al. – Nature Medicine

Antibiotic and acid-suppression medications during early childhood are associated with obesity – Christopher M Stark et al. – Gut

** Lack of detection of a human placenta microbiome in samples from preterm and term deliveries – Jacob S. Leiby et al. – Microbiome

Human oral microbiome

Multi-species oral biofilm promotes reconstructed human gingiva epithelial barrier function – Lin Shang et al. – Scientific Reports

Review: Administration of systemic antibiotics during non-surgical periodontal therapy—a consensus report – B. Pretzl et al. – Clinical Oral Investigations

Human repiratory microbiome

Sputum Microbiome is Associated with 1-Year Mortality Following COPD Hospitalizations – Fernando Sergio Leitao Filho et al. – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Human gut microbiome

The co-existence of elevated high sensitivity C-reactive protein and homocysteine levels is associated with increased risk of metabolic syndrome: A 6-year follow-up study – Jinkwan Kim & Sangshin Pyo – PLoS One

** LogMPIE, pan-India profiling of the human gut microbiome using 16S rRNA sequencing – Ashok Kumar Dubey et al. – Scientific Data

Association between Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and Gut Microbiota in a Large Population: a Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study – Hee-Young Yoon et al. – Scientific Reports

Microbial nitrogen limitation in the mammalian large intestine – Aspen T. Reese et al. – Nature Microbiology

Analysis of 1135 gut metagenomes identifies sex-specific resistome profiles – Trishla Sinha et al. – Gut Microbes

Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Pentaherbs formula and Its Influence on Gut Microbiota in Allergic Asthma – Miranda Sin-Man Tsang et al. – Molecules

Identification of TMAO-producer phenotype and host–diet–gut dysbiosis by carnitine challenge test in human and germ-free mice – Wei-Kai Wu et al. – Gut

Campylobacter jejuni promotes colorectal tumorigenesis through the action of cytolethal distending toxin – Zhen He et al. – Gut

Distinct microbes, metabolites, and ecologies define the microbiome in deficient and proficient mismatch repair colorectal cancers – Vanessa L. Hale et al. – Genome Medicine

Comment: Targeting the microbiome: from probiotics to fecal microbiota transplantation – Alexander Khoruts – Genome Medicine

Human vaginal microbiome

Review: Endometrial microbes and microbiome: Recent insights on the inflammatory and immune “players” of the human endometrium – Silvia D’Ippolito et al. – American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Animal experiments

Effect of dietary fiber content on nutrient digestibility and fecal microbiota composition in growing-finishing pigs – Mathilde Le Sciellour et al. – PLoS One

Effects of ultraviolet radiation and nutrient level on the physiological response and organic matter release of the scleractinian coral Pocillopora damicornis following thermal stress – Lucile Courtial et al. – PLoS One

Dog: Balance of saccharolysis and proteolysis underpins improvements in stool quality induced by adding a fiber bundle containing bound polyphenols to either hydrolyzed meat or grain-rich foods – Matthew I. Jackson & Dennis E. Jewell – Gut Microbes

Ventilator-induced lung injury is aggravated by antibiotic mediated microbiota depletion in mice – Sandra-Maria Wienhold & Mario Macrì et al. – Critical Care

Mouse: Dioxin-like PCB 126 increases intestinal inflammation and disrupts gut microbiota and metabolic homeostasis – Michael C. Petriello et al. – Environmental Pollution

Review: Innate Immune Influences on the Gut Microbiome: Lessons from Mouse Models – Susan J. Robertson et al. – Trends in Immunology

Animal microbiome

Milk microbiome diversity and bacterial group prevalence in a comparison between healthy Holstein Friesian and Rendena cows – Paola Cremonesi & Camilla Ceccarani et al. – PLoS One

Comparing the bacterial communities of wild and captive golden mantella frogs: Implications for amphibian conservation – Luiza F. Passos et al. – PLoS One

Insect anal droplets contain diverse proteins related to gut homeostasis – Tianzhong Jing et al. – BMC Genomics

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Putative Nitrogen-fixing bacteria Associated with The Rhizosphere and Root Endosphere of wheat plants grown in an Andisol from southern Chile – Joaquin I. Rilling et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Land-use intensity rather than plant functional identity shapes bacterial and fungal rhizosphere communities – Ricardo Schöps et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial expression profiles in the rhizosphere of two maize lines differing in N use efficiency – Shamina Imran Pathan et al. – Plant and Soil

The rhizosphere of the halophytic grass Sporobolus robustus Kunth hosts rhizobium genospecies that are efficient on Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC and Vachellia seyal (Del.) P.J.H. Hurter seedlings – Fatoumata Fall et al. – Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Rhizosphere responses to environmental conditions in Radix pseudostellariae under continuous monoculture regimes – Hongmiao Wu et al. – Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Plant-microbe interactions endorse growth by uplifting microbial community structure of Bacopa monnieri rhizosphere under nematode stress – Rupali Gupta et al. – Microbiological Research

Review: Multifaceted interactions between endophytes and plant: Developments and Prospects – Naveen K. Arora et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Enhancing phytoextraction of HMs at real scale, by combining Salicaceae Trees with microbial consortia – CARMINE GUARINO et al. – Frontiers in Environmental Science

PhD Dissertation: Implications of land-use legacy on soil microbiomes of urban grasslands – Grant Lafayette Thompson – Cornell University

Body size determines soil community assembly in a tropical forest – Lucie Zinger et al. Molecular Ecology

Existing Climate Change Will Lead to Pronounced Shifts in the Diversity of Soil Prokaryotes – Joshua Ladau et al. – mSystems

Water and extremophile microbiome

Microbial diversity and antibiotic resistance in a final effluent-receiving lake – Kinga Bondarczuk & Zofia Piotrowska-Seget – Science of The Total Environment

Non‐random processes determine the colonization of groundwater sediments by microbial communities in a pristine porous aquifer – Lucas Fillinger et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Food microbiome

Changes of microbial community and metabolite in kimchi inoculated with different microbial community starters – Seong-Eun Park et al. – Food Chemistry

Phages and viruses

Quality control implementation for universal characterization of DNA and RNA viruses in clinical respiratory samples using single metagenomic next-generation sequencing workflow – A. Bal et al. – BMC Infectious Diseases

Technology

A high-throughput sequencing assay to comprehensively detect and characterize unicellular eukaryotes and helminths from biological and environmental samples – Matthew V. Cannon et al. – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

RefSeq database growth influences the accuracy of k-mer-based lowest common ancestor species identification – Daniel J. Nasko et al. – Genome Biology

* Species-level functional profiling of metagenomes and metatranscriptomes – Eric A. Franzosa et al. – Nature Methods

Striped UniFrac: enabling microbiome analysis at unprecedented scale – Daniel McDonald et al. – Nature Methods

Mechanistic microbiota models – Tal Nawy – Nature Methods

Microbes in the news

Club STEAM Powered students study bacteria, genetics – Cassie Gibb – The Southeast Sun

Media alert: New articles in The CRISPR Journal – MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC. – EurekAlert!

Electric shocks kill bacteria – Vienna University of Technology – PHYS.org

The Mad Science of Fermentation’s Funky Flavors – Joe Ray – Wired

How Nuclear Testing Transformed the Land in Nevada and New Mexico – Kealey Boyd – Hyperallergic

October 27, 2018

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Have a good weekend!

Today, in this Digest we have a good amount of articles, including: a study showing the importance of the gut microbiota in the development of thrombosis; the effect of a probiotic on patients with coronary artery disease; a study about vaginal microbiota and menopause; a study gaining insights about the natural microbiota transmission;  associations between microbiota and exercise, and more!

 

Gut Microbiome

Microbial Transplantation With Human Gut Commensals Containing CutC Is Sufficient to Transmit Enhanced Platelet Reactivity and Thrombosis Potential – Sarah M. Skye  – Circulation Research. Comment about this paper in the Editorial: Microbiota-Derived Trimethylamine, The Missing Jigsaw Piece in Thrombosis? – Klytaimnistra Kiouptsi

Gut microbiome and type 2 diabetes: where we are and where to go? – Sapna Sharma – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

The gut microbiome of Mexican children affected by obesity – Otoniel Maya-Lucas – Anaerobe

Endurance exercise and gut microbiota: A review – Núria Mach – Journal of Sport and Health Science

Fecal microbiota transplantation confers beneficial metabolic effects of diet and exercise on diet-induced obese mice – Zi-Lun Lai – Scientific Reports

Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality – Chanavuth Kanitsoraphan – Current Nutrition Reports

A comprehensive analysis of the faecal microbiome and metabolome of Strongyloides stercoralis infected volunteers from a non-endemic area – Timothy P. Jenkins – Scientific Reports

Clostridioides difficile uses amino acids associated with gut microbial dysbiosis in a subset of patients with diarrhea – Eric J. Battaglioli – Science Translational Medicine

Opportunistic bacteria confer the ability to ferment prebiotic starch in the adult cystic fibrosis gut – Yanan Wang – Gut Microbes

Towards an Individualized Nutrition Treatment: Role of the Gastrointestinal Microbiome in the Interplay Between Diet and Obesity – Solveig A. Adalsteinsdottir – Current Obesity Reports

Increasing Dietary Fiber Intake Is Associated with a Distinct Esophageal Microbiome – Yael R. Nobel – Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Clostridial Butyrate Biosynthesis Enzymes Are Significantly Depleted in the Gut Microbiota of Nonobese Diabetic Mice – Alessandro Tanca – mSphere

Modelling the role of microbial p-cresol in colorectal genotoxicity – Eiman Abdulla Al Hinai – Gut Microbes

Diet and Psychosis: A Scoping Review – M. Aucoin – Neuropsychobiology

Minireview: Inflammation and Gut-Brain Axis During Type 2 Diabetes: Focus on the Crosstalk Between Intestinal Immune Cells and Enteric Nervous System – Arnaud Bessac – Frontiers in Neuroscience

Effects of water decontamination methods and bedding material on the gut microbiota – Willie A. Bidot – PLOS One

Timing for the second fecal microbiota transplantation to maintain the long-term benefit from the first treatment for Crohn’s disease – Pan Li – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Gut microbiome disruption altered the biotransformation and liver toxicity of arsenic in mice – Liang Chi – Archives of Toxicology

 

Early Life Microbiome

Gut Microbiota in the First 2 Years of Life and the Association with Body Mass Index at Age 12 in a Norwegian Birth Cohort – Maggie A. Stanislawski – mBio

Differences in the fecal microbiota of neonates born at home or in the hospital – Joan L. Combellick – Scientific Reports

Distinct mucosal microbial communities in infants with surgical necrotizing enterocolitis correlate with age and antibiotic exposure – Joann Romano-Keeler – PLOS One

 

Oral, Nasal and Respiratory Tract Microbiome

Keystone Species in Pregnancy Gingivitis: A Snapshot of Oral Microbiome During Pregnancy and Postpartum Period – Preethi Balan – Frontiers in Microbiology

The Oral Microbiota Is Modified by Systemic Diseases – D.T. Graves – Journal of Dental Research

Prospective Study of Oral Microbiome and Colorectal Cancer Risk in Low-income and African American Populations – Yaohua Yang – International Journal of Cancer

Species-level bacterial community profiling of the healthy sinonasal microbiome using Pacific Biosciences sequencing of full-length 16S rRNA genes – Joshua P. Earl – Microbiome

The effect of maxillary sinus antrostomy size on the sinus microbiome – Alexander S. Kim – International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology

Microbiome dataset from the upper respiratory tract of patients living with HIV, HIV/TB and TB from Myanmar – Kyaw Soe Htun – Data in Brief

Variations of the lung microbiome and immune response in mechanically ventilated surgical patients – Ryan M. Huebinger – PLOS One

Root Microbiota in Primary and Secondary Apical Periodontitis – Serge Bouillaguet – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Reproductive / Urinary Tract Microbiome and Health

Association between the vaginal microbiota, menopause status, and signs of vulvovaginal atrophy – Rebecca M. Brotman – Menopause

Association of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease with Risk of Endometriosis: A Nationwide Cohort Study Involving 141,460 Individuals – Fei-Wu Tai – Journal of Clinical Medicine

 

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Lactobacillus plantarum 299v Supplementation Improves Vascular Endothelial Function and Reduces Inflammatory Biomarkers in Men With Stable Coronary Artery Disease – Mobin Malik – Circulation Research. About this article: The Microbiome and Endothelial Function – Jhansi L. Leslie 

Probiotics for gastrointestinal and liver diseases: an updated review of the published literature – Francis E. Dailey – Endocrine, Metabolic & Immune Disorders – Drug Targets

Review: Immunological Tolerance and Function: Associations Between Intestinal Bacteria, Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Phages – Luis Vitetta – Frontiers in Immunology

Protective Effect of Pediococcus pentosaceus LI05 Against Clostridium difficile Infection in a Mouse Model – Qiaomai Xu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Mixture of Two Lactobacillus plantarum Strains Modulates the Gut Microbiota Structure and Regulatory T Cell Response in Diet-Induced Obese Mice – Jieun Lee – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Microbiota stability in healthy individuals after single-dose lactulose challenge-A randomized controlled study – Sandra Y. Wotzka – PLOS One

Review: Interactions of Surface Exopolysaccharides From Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus Within the Intestinal Environment – Nuria Castro-Bravo – Frontiers in Microbiology

Rapid differentiation of Lactobacillus species via metabolic profiling – Kundi Yang – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Combining probiotics and an angiotensin-II type 1 receptor blocker has beneficial effects on hepatic fibrogenesis in a rat model of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis – Yasuhiko Sawada – Hepatology Research

Antidepressant Effects of Rosemary Extracts Associate With Anti-inflammatory Effect and Rebalance of Gut Microbiota – Ying Guo – Frontiers in Pharmacology

Association of dietary fibre intake and gut microbiota in adults – Daniel Lin – British Journal of Nutrition

Effect of prebiotic and probiotic supplementation on neurodevelopment in preterm very low birth weight infants: findings from a meta-analysis – Ravi Prakash Upadhyay – Pediatric Research

Potential of Maintaining a Healthy Vaginal Environment by Two Lactobacillus Strains Isolated from Cocoa Fermentation – Ana Clara Correia Melgaço – BioMed Research International

Viability of microencapsulated Akkermansia muciniphila and Lactobacillus plantarum during freeze-drying, storage and in vitro simulated upper gastrointestinal tract passage – Martín Sebastián Marcial-Coba – Food & Function

Single probiotic supplement suppresses colitis-associated colorectal tumourigenesis by modulating inflammatory development and microbial homeostasis – Jingjing Rong – Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Exploring Effects of Chitosan Oligosaccharides on Mice Gut Microbiota in in vitro Fermentation and Animal Model – Chen Zhang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbiome Analysis of Biofilms of Silver Nanoparticle-Dispersed Silane-Based Coated Carbon Steel Using a Next-Generation Sequencing Technique – Akiko Ogawa – Antibiotics

Formation of silver nanoparticles by human gut microbiota – Naiyi Yin – Science of The Total Environment

 

Skin Microbiome

Effect of an Emollient on the Mycobiome of Atopic Dermatitis Patients – Jyotsna Chandra – Journal of Drugs in Dermatology

 

General Microbiome

Transmission modes of the mammalian gut microbiota – Andrew H. Moeller – Science

Ecologically informed microbial biomarkers and accurate classification of mixed and unmixed samples in an extensive cross-study of human body sites – Janko Tackmann – Microbiome

Repertoire of the gut microbiota from stomach to colon using culturomics and next-generation sequencing – Morgane Mailhe – BMC Microbiology

gcMeta: a Global Catalogue of Metagenomics platform to support the archiving, standardization and analysis of microbiome data – W. Shi – Nucleic Acid Research

Antibiotics and autoimmune and allergy diseases: Causative factor or treatment? – Anna Strzępa – International Immunopharmacology

Pearls: Bacteriophages shift the focus of the mammalian microbiota – Breck A. Duerkop – PLOS Pathogens

 

Environmental Microbiome

Bleaching-Associated Changes in the Microbiome of Large Benthic Foraminifera of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia – Martina Prazeres – Frontiers in Microbiology

October 22, 2018

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Today’s digest features a novel fecal species [Prevotella rara sp. nov.], the virome in feces from healthy children from three Amerindian villages with minimal outside contact, a review of statistical challenges in the design and analysis of longitudinal microbiome studies, and more. Happy reading!

Gut microbiome

*Prevotella rara sp. nov., isolated from human faeces – Boris A. Efimov – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women – Eveliina Munukka – Frontiers in Microbiology

Association of serum bilirubin in newborns affected by jaundice with gut microbiota dysbiosis – Shaoming Zhou – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Review: Gut-microbiota-on-a-chip: an enabling field for physiological research – Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago – MicroPhysiological Systems

Review: Microbiome and diabetes: Where are we now? – Natalia G. Vallianou – Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Oral microbiome

Review: Biology of Oral Streptococci – Jacqueline Abranches – Microbiology Spectrum

Animal and plant microbiome

Review: How Can We Define “Optimal Microbiota?”: A Comparative Review of Structure and Functions of Microbiota of Animals, Fish, and Plants in Agriculture – Wakako Ikeda-Ohtsubo – Frontiers in Nutrition

Water microbiome

Temperature-controlled thermophilic bacterial communities in hot springs of western Sichuan, China – Jie Tang – BMC Microbiology

In situ production of core and intact bacterial and archaeal tetraether lipids in groundwater – Su Ding – Organic Geochemistry

Phages and viruses

*Complex virome in feces from Amerindian children in isolated Amazonian villages – Juliana D. Siqueira – Nature Communications

Bioinformatics

*Preprint Review: Statistical Considerations in the Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Microbiome Studies – Justin D Silverman – bioRxiv

October 19, 2018

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Today’s Digest provides much food for thought. Highlights include how to identify keystone species, a seminal review on the long-term and short-term effects of C-section on mom and child’s health, and a new de novo assembler for short metagenomic reads.

General microbiology

Antibiotic export by efflux pumps affects growth of neighboring bacteria – Xi Wen et al. – Scientific Reports

Proteomic analysis of four Clostridium botulinum strains identifies proteins that link biological responses to proteomic signatures – Brooke L. Deatherage Kaiser et al. – PLoS One

Biodiversity‐function relationships in methanogenic communities – Pawel Sierocinski et al. – Molecular Ecology

Solubilization and degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) by naturally occurring facultative anaerobic bacteria – Gathanayana Pathiraja et al. – Science of the Total Environment

An improved neutral community model for temporal observations in microbial communities – Li Jie & Shen Xuzhu – Ecological Modelling

** Identifying Keystone Species In The Microbial Community Based On Cross-sectional Data – Min Li et al. – Current Gene Therapy

Does quorum sensing interference affect the fitness of bacterial pathogens in the real world? – Yiying Liu et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life

Microbiota and Derived Parameters in Fecal Samples of Infants with Non-IgE Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy under a Restricted Diet – María Díaz et al. – Nutrients

** Review: Short-term and long-term effects of caesarean section on the health of women and children – Jane Sandall et al. – Lancet

Human skin microbiome

The Skin Microbiota in Patients Hospitalized for Cellulitis and Association With Outcome – Duncan R Cranendonk et al. – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Human multi-site microbiome

Continuous Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Pediatric Urology – Douglas W.Storm et al. – Urologic Clinics of North America

Human gut microbiome

Impact of antibiotic use on survival in patients with advanced cancers treated on immune checkpoint inhibitor phase I clinical trials – S Sen et al. – Journal of Experimental Medicine

Review: Visceral pain: gut microbiota, a new hope? – Matteo M Pusceddu & Melanie G Gareau – Journal of Biomedical Science

Review: Vulnerability of long-term care facility residents to Clostridium difficile infection due to microbiome disruptions – Beth Burgwyn Fuchs et al. – Future Microbiology

Fecal Microbiota Transplant for Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Cho, Stanley et al. – Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Transcriptome meta-analysis identifies immune signature comprising of RNA binding proteins in ulcerative colitis patients – Saima Naz et al. – Cellular Immunology

Alterations of Gut Microbiome in the Patients With Severe Fever With Thrombocytopenia Syndrome – Honghai Xu et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Role of Gut Microbiota in the Development and Treatment of Colorectal Cancer – LIN C. et al. – Digestion

Human gut-microbiome-brain axis

A primer on investigating the role of the microbiome in brain and cognitive development – Caroline Kelsey et al. – Developmental Psychology

Animal experiments

Grape polyphenols reduce gut-localized reactive oxygen species associated with the development of metabolic syndrome in mice – Peter Kuhn et al. – PLoS One

Host developmental toxicity of BPA and BPA alternatives is inversely related to microbiota disruption in zebrafish – Tara R Catron et al. – Toxicological Sciences

Liver Injury, Endotoxemia, and Their Relationship to Intestinal Microbiota Composition in Alcohol-Preferring Rats – Brunella Posteraro et al. – Alcoholism Clinical & Experimental Research

Liver tumorigenesis is promoted by a high saturated-fat diet specifically in male mice and is associated with hepatic expression of the proto-oncogene Agap2 and enrichment of the intestinal microbiome with Coprococcus – Kim B Pedersen et al. – Carcinogenesis

Animal microbiome

Host species, pathogens and disease associated with divergent nasal microbial communities in tortoises – Chava L. Weitzman et al. – Royal Society Open Science

Review: Understanding the Milk Microbiota – Stephanie A.Metzger et al. – Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice

Evolution of the nasopharyngeal bacterial microbiota of beef calves from spring processing to 40 days after feedlot arrival – Christopher McMullen et al. – Veterinary Microbiology

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Review: The impact of microbes in the orchestration of plants’ resistance to biotic stress: a disease management approach – Matthew Chekwube Enebe & Olubukola Oluranti Babalola – pplied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Genome and evolution of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Diversispora epigaea (formerly Glomus versiforme) and its bacterial endosymbionts – Xuepeng Sun et al. New Phytologist

Facilitation promotes invasions in plant-associated microbial communities – Wei, Zhong et al. – Ecology Letters

Water and extremophile microbiome

Temperature Controls Crystalline Iron Oxide Utilization by Microbial Communities in Methanic Ferruginous Marine Sediment Incubations – David A. Aromokeye et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacterial community changes in a glacial-fed Tibetan lake are correlated with glacial melting – Keshao Liu et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Food microbiology

Review: Fermentation trip: amazing microbes, amazing metabolisms – Rong Feng et al. – Annals of Microbiology

Phages and viruses

Complete Genome Sequence of the Model Halovirus PhiH1 (ΦH1) – Mike Dyall-Smith et al. – Genes

Technology

Rapid identification of pathogens from positive blood culture bottles with the MinION nanopore sequencer – Sae Ashikawa et al. – Journal of Medical Microbiology

The use of broad-range bacterial PCR in the diagnosis of infectious diseases: a prospective cohort study – Jan Tkadlec et al. – Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Bioinformatics

BlasterJS: A novel interactive JavaScript visualisation component for BLAST alignment results – Aitor Blanco-Míguez et al. – PLoS One

Review: Integrating–omics data into genome-scale metabolic network models: principles and challenges – Charlotte Ramon et al. – Essays in Biochemistry

** High-quality genome sequences of uncultured microbes by assembly of read clouds – Alex Bishara et al. – Nature Biotechnology

Microbes in the news

Cecilia Jonsson Serenades Sewage Bacteria – Sofia Bergmann – Berlin Art Link