Category Archives: Human reproductive or urinary

April 1, 2019

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In today’s digest read about covert pathogenesis in urinary tract, microbial fuel cells in treatment of organic acid fermentation wastewater, gut microbial metabolism in weanling pigs, and more. Enjoy!

Urinary microbiome

*Covert pathogenesis: Transient exposures to microbes as triggers of disease – Nicole M. Gilbert, Amanda L. Lewis – PlosPathogens

Evaluation of antibacterial efficacy of sulfur nanoparticles alone and in combination with antibiotics against multidrug-resistant uropathogenic bacteria – Priti Paralikar – Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A

Review: A Comprehensive Review of Overactive Bladder Pathophysiology: On the Way to Tailored Treatment – Benoit Peyronnet – European Urology

Vaginal microbiome

Effect of progesterone on Candida albicans biofilm formation under acidic conditions: a transcriptomic analysis – Bruna Gonçalves – bioRxiv

Skin microbiome

Cutibacterium acnes antibiotic production shapes niche competition in the human skin microbiome – Jan Claesen – bioRxiv

Neutral Processes Drive Seasonal Assembly of the Skin Mycobiome – Xinzhao Tong – mSystems

Gut Microbiome

The Perturbation of Infant Gut Microbiota Caused by Cesarean Delivery Is Partially Restored by Exclusive Breastfeeding – Yu Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Gut Microbiome Functional and Taxonomic Diversity within an Amazonian semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer group – Liliane Costa Conteville – bioRxiv

Risk of inflammatory bowel disease after Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter concisus infection: a population-based cohort study – Hans Mittle Nielsen – Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Unilateral ureteral obstruction causes gut microbial dysbiosis and metabolome disorders contributing to tubulointerstitial fibrosis – Lin Chen – Experimental & Molecular Medicine

Oral microbiome

Polymicrobial synergy within oral biofilm promotes invasion of dendritic cells and survival of consortia members – Ahmed El-Awady – Biofilms and Microbiomes

Animal microbiome

*Metagenomic reconstructions of gut microbial metabolism in weanling pigs – Weilan Wang – Microbiome

Probiotics/Prebiotics

Strain-level diversity of commercial probiotic isolates of Bacillus, Lactobacillus, and Saccharomyces species illustrated by molecular identification and phenotypic profiling – Juliana M. Ansari – PlosOne

Biosurfactant Production by Lactic Acid Bacterium Pediococcus dextrinicus SHU1593 Grown on Different Carbon Sources: Strain Screening Followed by Product Characterization – Abouzar Ghasemi – Scientific Reports

Phages and viruses

Bacteriophage adherence to mucus mediates preventive protection against pathogenic bacteria – Gabriel MF Almeida – bioRxiv

Review: The gut virome: the ‘missing link’ between gut bacteria and host immunity? – Indrani Mukhopadhya – Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology

Soil microbiome

Shift of the microbial communities from exposed sandstone rocks to forest soils during pedogenesis – Yaping Liu – International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Water and extremophile microbiome

Startup, performance, and microbial communities of an anammox reactor inoculated with indigenous sludge for the treatment of high-salinity and mesophilic underground brine – Nobuyuki Yokota – Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

*Power generation and microbial community analysis in microbial fuel cells: A promising system to treat organic acid fermentation wastewater – Tian Xia – Bioresource Technology

Techniques

Cultivating in situ triggers growth of previously uncultivated microorganisms via a growth initiation factor in nature – Dawoon Jung – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

Library preparation and sequencing platform introduce bias in metagenomics characterisation of microbial communities – Casper S. Poulse – bioRxiv

March 20, 2019

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Today’s digest features a longitudinal survey of maternal anti-viral antibodies in newborns that provides a blueprint for understanding infectious disease susceptibility, a detailed overview of antimicrobial resistance identification and characterization methods (from traditional antimicrobial susceptibility testing to recent deep-learning methods), and more. Happy reading!

Gut microbiome

Gut microbiota plasticity is correlated with sustained weight loss on a low-carb or low-fat dietary intervention – Jessica A Grembi – bioRxiv

The intestinal microbiota programs diurnal rhythms in host metabolism through histone deacetylase 3 – Zheng Kuang – bioRxiv

*Neuronal programming by microbiota enables environmental regulation of intestinal motility – Yuuki Obata – bioRxiv

Probiotics

Growth Mode and Carbon Source Impact the Surfaceome Dynamics of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG – Kirsi Savijoki – bioRxiv

Nasal microbiome

The nasal and oropharyngeal microbiomes of healthy livestock workers – Ashley E. Kates – PlosOne

Vaginal microbiome

Mini review: Vaginal microbiota transplantation for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis: a conceptual analysis – Dongwen Ma – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Comparative study of vulva and abdominal skin microbiota of healthy females with high and average BMI – Rebecca Vongsa – BMC Microbiology

Plant/root/soil microbiome

Biosurfactant production by a rhizosphere bacteria Bacillus altitudinis MS16 and its promising emulsification and antifungal activity – Madhurankhi Goswami & Suresh Deka – Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces

Microbial diversity and soil physiochemical characteristic of higher altitude – Saurabh Kumar – PlosOne

Water microbiome

Ecological processes underpinning microbial community structure during exposure to subinhibitory level of triclosan – Seungdae Oh – Scientific Reports

Microbial Ecology of Snow Reveals Taxa-Specific Biogeographical Structure – Shawn P. Brown & Ari Jumpponen – Microbial Ecology

Phages and viruses

*The repertoire of maternal anti-viral antibodies in human newborns – Christian Pou – Nature Medicine

Methods

*Review: Sequencing-based methods and resources to study antimicrobial resistance – Manish Boolchandani – Nature Reviews Genetics

March 17, 2019

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Have a good sunday! Today, we have a quite long digest, containing a variety of articles and studies: reviews about the microbiome and breastfeeding and Parkinson’s disease; microbiota alterations in pulmonary fibrosis, association with stress in pregnant women, and relationships between oral microbiome and pancreatic cancer. And so much more!

 

Human/General Microbiome

Review: Microbiome programming of brain development: implications for neurodevelopmental disorders – Hans Forssberg – Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Review: Microbiome, Parkinson’s Disease and Molecular Mimicry – Fabiana Miraglia – Cells

Review: The Use of Defined Microbial Communities To Model Host-Microbe Interactions in the Human Gut – Janneke Elzinga – Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Review: Indoles: metabolites produced by intestinal bacteria capable of controlling liver disease manifestation – T. Hendrikx – Journal of Internal Medicine

Review: Shaping the Gut Microbiota by Breastfeeding: The Gateway to Allergy Prevention? – Lieke W. J. van den Elsen – Frontiers in Pediatrics

Minireview: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and the gut microbiome: Are bacteria responsible for fatty liver? – Tien S Dong – Experimental Biology and Medicine

Perspectives: Is the fountain of youth in the gut microbiome? – John F. Cryan – The Journal of Physiology

Bugs to debug? The exploration of gut microbiome in human health and diseases – Yen-Hsuan Ni – Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

Impact of a bathing tradition on shared gut microbe among Japanese families – Toshitaka Odamaki – Scientific Reports

Metagenomic analysis of microbe-mediated vitamin metabolism in the human gut microbiome – Promi Das – BMC Genomics

Fecal and blood microbiota profiles and presence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in obese versus lean subjects – Yeojun Yun – PLoS One

H. pylori eradication with antibiotic treatment causes changes in glucose homeostasis related to modifications in the gut microbiota – Gracia Mª Martín-Núñez – PLoS One

Oral microbial dysbiosis in patients with Kostmann syndrome – Nursen Topcuoglu – Journal of Medical Microbiology

Alterations in the gut microbiota of patients with silica-induced pulmonary fibrosis – Yao Zhou – Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology

Association between Psychosocial Stress and Fecal Microbiota in Pregnant Women – C. Hechler – Scientific Reports

Differential composition of gut microbiota among healthy volunteers, morbidly obese patients and post-bariatric surgery patients – Fu‑Gang Wang – Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Role of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Maintenance of Remission in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis: A Pilot Study – Ajit Sood – Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis

Differential effects of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate administration on vaginal microbiome in Hispanic White and Black women – Liying Yang – Emerging Microbes & Infections

Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Stomach and Small-Intestinal Microbiota in Fasted Healthy Humans – Anna M. Seekatz – mSphere

Persistence of Candida albicans in the Oral Mucosa Induces a Curbed Inflammatory Host Response That Is Independent of Immunosuppression – Florian R. Kirchner – Frontiers in Immunology

Enrichment of oral microbiota in early cystic precursors to invasive pancreatic cancer – Rogier Aäron Gaiser – Gut

Disordered intestinal microbes are associated with the activity of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus – Yao Li – Clinical Science

Long-Term Azithromycin Reduces Haemophilus influenzae and Increases Antibiotic Resistance in Severe Asthma – Steven L Taylor – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Dietary Nutrients Involved in One-Carbon Metabolism and Colonic Mucosa-Associated Gut Microbiome in Individuals with an Endoscopically Normal Colon – Shawn Gurwara – Nutrients

Analysis of the Effects of Dietary Pattern on the Oral Microbiome of Elite Endurance Athletes – Nida Murtaza – Nutrients

 

Animal Microbiome / Animal Experiments

TLR4 May Be Involved in the Regulation of Colonic Mucosal Microbiota by Vitamin A – Lu Xiao – Frontiers in Microbiology

Tunicate-associated bacteria show a great potential for the discovery of antimicrobial compounds – Diah Ayuningrum – PLoS One

Effects of Arsenic on Gut Microbiota and Its Biotransformation Genes in Earthworm Metaphire sieboldi – Hong-Tao Wang – Environmental Science and Technology

A metagenomics investigation of carbohydrate-active enzymes along the goat and camel intestinal tract – Saad Al-Masaudi – International Microbiology

Species identity dominates over environment in shaping the microbiota of small mammals – S. C. L. Knowles – Ecology Letters

Three types of gut bacteria collaborating to improve Kui Jie’an enema treat DSS-induced colitis in mice – Wei Yu – Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

The Skin Commensal Yeast Malassezia Triggers a Type 17 Response that Coordinates Anti-fungal Immunity and Exacerbates Skin Inflammation – Florian Sparber – Cell Host Microbe

Dietary inulin alleviates diverse stages of type 2 diabetes mellitus via anti-inflammation and modulating gut microbiota in db/db mice – Ke Li – Food & Function

Apple consumption is associated with a distinctive microbiota, proteomics and metabolomics profile in the gut of Dawley Sprague rats fed a high-fat diet – Jose F. Garcia-Mazcorro – PLoS One

Sema3A – mediated modulation of NR1D1 expression may be involved in the regulation of axonal guidance signaling by the microbiota – Xunzhong Qia – Life Sciences

Multi-hit early life adversity affects gut microbiota, brain and behavior in a sex-dependent manner – Marion Rincel – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Letrozole treatment of adult female mice results in a similar reproductive phenotype but distinct changes in metabolism and the gut microbiome compared to pubertal mice – Pedro J. Torres – BMC Microbiology

Supplementation of dietary non-digestible oligosaccharides from birth onwards improve social and reduce anxiety-like behaviour in male BALB/c mice – Kirsten Szklany – Nutritional Neuroscience

Potential Functions of the Gastrointestinal Microbiome Inhabiting the Length of the Rat Digest Tract – Dongyao Li – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Alteration of GLP-1/GPR43 expression and gastrointestinal motility in dysbiotic mice treated with vancomycin – Xin Xu – Scientific Reports

Subchronic low-dose 2,4-D exposure changed plasma acylcarnitine levels and induced gut microbiome perturbations in mice – Pengcheng Tu – Scientific Reports

The influence of the host microbiome on 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-induced hyperthermia and vice versa – Emily A. Ridge – Scientific Reports

Effects of Dietary Supplementation With Enterococcus faecium and Clostridium butyricum, Either Alone or in Combination, on Growth and Fecal Microbiota Composition of Post-weaning Pigs at a Commercial Farm – Yoshiaki Sato – Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Saponin-Induced Shifts in the Rumen Microbiome and Metabolome of Young Cattle – Bing Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Intestinal dysbiosis augments liver disease progression via NLRP3 in a murine model of primary sclerosing cholangitis – Lijun Liao – Gut

 

Plant Microbiome

Long-Term Organic Farming Manipulated Rhizospheric Microbiome and Bacillus Antagonism Against Pepper Blight (Phytophthora capsici) – Huixiu Li – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Other Microbes

Preview: Strain-Level Diversity in the Gut: The P. copri Case  – Amira Metwaly – Cell Host Microbe

 

Bioinformatics and ‘-Omics’

Novel insights from uncultivated genomes of the global human gut microbiome – Stephen Nayfach – Nature

Complex Microbiome in Brain Abscess Revealed by Whole-Genome Culture-Independent and Culture-Based Sequencing – Jyun-Hong Lin – Journal of Clinical Medicine

Detection of critical antibiotic resistance genes through routine microbiome surveillance – Zachary M. Burcham – PLoS One

MNEMONIC: MetageNomic Experiment Mining to create an OTU Network of Inhabitant Correlations – Aleksandra I. Perz – BMC Bioinformatics

Rarity of microbial species: In search of reliable associations – Arnaud Cougoul – PLoS One

Stoplight: De novo Assembly Vastly Expands the Known Microbial Universe – Samuel S. Minot – Trends in Microbiology

 

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Guarana supplementation attenuated obesity, insulin resistance, and adipokines dysregulation induced by a standardized human Western diet via brown adipose tissue activation Rafael Calixto Bortolin – Phytotherapy Research

Prebiotic supplementation in frail older people affects specific gut microbiota taxa but not global diversity – Tam T. T. Tran – Microbiome

 

Water Microbiome

Composition and Dynamics of the Activated Sludge Microbiome during Seasonal Nitrification Failure – Juliet Johnston – Scientific Reports

 

March 8, 2019

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Happy Friday! Read on for insights into the relationship between the oral microbiome and taste perception, how earthworms interact with pathogens during vermicomposting, the use of phages against drug resistant bacterial pathogens, and how microbiota depletion affects brown adipose tissue thermogenesis. Plus, two new techniques for shotgun metagenomes.

General microbiome
Quorum Sensing Signal Selectivity and the Potential for Interspecies Cross Talk – Samantha Wellington – mBio

Streptomyces Volatile Compounds Influence Exploration and Microbial Community Dynamics by Altering Iron Availability – Stephanie E. Jones – mBio

Microbiome Imbalances: An Overlooked Potential Mechanism in Chronic Nonhealing Wounds – Mengru Pang – The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds

Human oral microbiome
New insights into the relationship between taste perception and oral microbiota composition – Camilla Cattaneo – Scientific Reports

The Supragingival Biofilm in Early Childhood Caries: Clinical and Laboratory Protocols and Bioinformatics Pipelines Supporting Metagenomics, Metatranscriptomics, and Metabolomics Studies of the Oral Microbiome – Kimon Divaris – Odontogenesis

Human vaginal microbiome
Comparison of the Vaginal Microbiomes of Premenopausal and Postmenopausal Women – Karol Gliniewicz – Frontiers in Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life
Dose-interval study of a dual probiotic in preterm infants – Claire Watkins – Archives of Disease in Childhood – Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Review: The Relationship Between Perinatal Mental Health and Stress: a Review of the Microbiome – Nusiebeh Redpath – Current Psychiatry Reports

Multi-site human microbiome
Preprint: Functional metagenomics-guided discovery of potent Cas9 inhibitors in the human microbiome – Kevin J Forsberg – bioRxiv

Human gut microbiome
Infectious Complications Are Associated With Alterations in the Gut Microbiome in Pediatric Patients With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia – Jacob T Nearing – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Preprint: HLA alleles associated with risk of ankylosing spondylitis and rheumatoid arthritis influence the gut microbiome – Mark Asquith – bioRxiv

Preprint: Gut feelings begin in childhood: how the gut metagenome links to early environment, caregiving, and behavior – Jessica Flannery – bioRxiv

Review: From gut microbiota dysfunction to obesity: could short-chain fatty acids stop this dangerous course? – Luigi Barrea – Hormones

Animal microbiome
Microbial communities in hummingbird feeders are distinct from floral nectar and influenced by bird visitation – Casie Lee – Proceedings of the Royal Society B

High individual variability in the transcriptomic response of Mediterranean mussels to Vibrio reveals the involvement of myticins in tissue injury – Magalí Rey-Campos – Scientific Reports

The Bos taurus maternal microbiome: Role in determining the progeny early-life upper respiratory tract microbiome and health – Svetlana Ferreira Lima – PLoS One

Contact with adult hen affects development of caecal microbiota in newly hatched chicks – Tereza Kubasova – PLoS One

Examination of the temporal and spatial dynamics of the gut microbiome in newborn piglets reveals distinct microbial communities in six intestinal segments – Ying Liu – Scientific Reports

Microbial diversity in the tick Argas japonicus (Acari: Argasidae) with a focus on Rickettsia pathogens – P. Yan – Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Mutual interactions of E. andrei earthworm and pathogens during the process of vermicomposting – Radka Roubalová – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Animal experiments
Microbiota Depletion Impairs Thermogenesis of Brown Adipose Tissue and Browning of White Adipose Tissue – Baoguo Li – Cell Reports

Fasting-Mimicking Diet Modulates Microbiota and Promotes Intestinal Regeneration to Reduce Inflammatory Bowel Disease Pathology – Priya Rangan – Cell Reports

Linseed oil and heated linseed grain supplements have different effects on rumen bacterial community structures and fatty acid profiles in cashmere kids – Xue Wang – Journal of Animal Science

Sodium butyrate supplementation in high-soybean meal diets for turbot (Scophthalmus maximus L.): Effects on inflammatory status, mucosal barriers and microbiota in the intestine – Yang Liu – Fish and Shellfish Immunology

The gut microbiota composition affects dietary polyphenols-mediated cognitive resilience in mice by modulating the bioavailability of phenolic acids – Tal Frolinger – Scientific Reports

Dietary lysozyme supplementation contributes to enhanced intestinal functions and gut microflora of piglets – Xia Xiong – Food and Function

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Potential role of weather, soil and plant microbial communities in rapid decline of apple trees – Jugpreet Singh – PLoS One

The structure of denitrifying microbial communities in constructed mangrove wetlands in response to fluctuating salinities – Guiping Fu – Journal of Environmental Management

Exploring the links between bacterial communities and magnetic susceptibility in bulk soil and rhizosphere of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) – Carolina Chiellini – Applied Soil Ecology

Impact of Fabricated Nanoparticles on the Rhizospheric Microorganisms and Soil Environment – Mokula Mohammed Raffi – Nanomaterials and Plant Potential

Variation in soil fungal community structure during successive rotations of Casuarina equisetifolia plantations as determined by high-throughput sequencing analysis – Zhou Liuting – Plant Growth Regulation

Water and extremophile microbiome
Microbial responses to anthropogenic dissolved organic carbon in Arctic and Antarctic coastal seawaters – Elena Cerro‐Gálvez – Environmental Microbiology

Microbes in Space
A Low-Diversity Microbiota Inhabits Extreme Terrestrial Basaltic Terrains and Their Fumaroles: Implications for the Exploration of Mars – Charles S. Cockell – Astrobiolgy

Phages and Viruses
Targeting antibiotic resistant bacteria with phage reduces bacterial density in an insect host – Lauri Mikonranta – Biology Letters

Bioinformatics
Autometa: automated extraction of microbial genomes from individual shotgun metagenomes – Ian J Miller – Nucleic Acids Research

Preprint: Toward perfect reads: short reads correction via mapping on compacted de Bruijn graphs – Antoine Limasset – bioRxiv

 

March 6, 2019

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In today’s digest read how DNA polymerase and number of rounds of amplification in PCR affect 16S rRNA gene sequence data, how urinary microbiota changes after Cesarean delivery, how diverse is microbial community of thermal pools in Kamchatka (Russia), and more. Enjoy!

General microbiome

Toward multiomics-based next-generation diagnostics for precision medicine – Qi Wang – Personalized Medicine

Pregnancy and early life

*Alterations in the Urinary Microbiota Are Associated With Cesarean Delivery –
Fengping Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Antimicrobial susceptibility and serotype distribution of Streptococcus agalactiae recto-vaginal colonizing isolates from pregnant women at a tertiary hospital in Pretoria, South Africa: an observational descriptive study letter – Mohamed Said – bioRxiv

Gut microbiome

Interplay between the human gut microbiome and host metabolism – Alessia Visconti – bioRxiv

A decrease in iron availability to human gut microbiome reduces the growth of potentially pathogenic gut bacteria; an in vitro colonic fermentation study – Bhavika A Parmanand – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Volatile organic compounds emitted from faeces as a biomarker for colorectal cancer – Ashley Bond – Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Animal experiments

Loading ceftriaxone, vancomycin, and Bifidobacteria bifidum TMC3115 to neonatal mice could differently and consequently affect intestinal microbiota and immunity in adulthood – RuYue Cheng – Scientific Reports

Probiotics/Prebiotics

Prebiotics from acorn and sago prevent high-fat-diet-induced insulin resistance via microbiome–gut–brain axis modulation – Shokouh Ahmadi – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Viruses

A Needle in A Haystack: Tracing Bivalve-Associated Viruses in High-Throughput Transcriptomic Data – Umberto Rosani – Viruses

Untargeted metabolomics analysis of the upper respiratory tract of ferrets following influenza A virus infection and oseltamivir treatment – David J. Beale – Metabolomics

Techniques

*The impact of DNA polymerase and number of rounds of amplification in PCR on 16S rRNA gene sequence data – Marc A Sze & Patrick D Schloss – bioRxiv

Utilisation of Ambient Laser Desorption Ionisation Mass Spectrometry (ALDI-MS) Improves Lipid-Based Microbial Species Level Identification – Simon J. S. Cameron – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome

Characterization of the otic bacterial microbiota in dogs with otitis externa compared to healthy individuals – Juraj Korbelik – Veterinary Dermatology

Water and extremophile microbiome

*Metagenome-assembled genomes provide new insight into the microbial diversity of two thermal pools in Kamchatka, Russia – Laetitia G. E. Wilkins – Scientific Reports

February 23, 2019

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Highlights: Today’s digest has articles on microbes associated with infants, vagina, gut, water and many more.

Events and jobs

Postdoctoral Researcher in mathematical modelling of the impact of host restriction on the transmission of bacteria – Amsterdam – Closing date: February 28, 2019

Pregnancy and early life

A role for the microbiome in mother–infant interaction and perinatal depression – Amanda Sanders – The International Review of Psychiatry

Multi-site human microbiome

Surgical site infections and the microbiome: An updated perspective – Richard P. Wenzel – Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

Human vaginal microbiome

The Endobiota Study: Comparison of Vaginal, Cervical and Gut Microbiota Between Women with Stage 3/4 Endometriosis and Healthy Controls – Baris Ata – Scientific Reports

Relationship between the Cervical Microbiome, HIV Status, and Precancerous Lesions – Cameron Klein – mBio

Human nearly-sterile sites 

Microbiome-based body fluid identification of samples exposed to indoor conditions – Akos Dobay – FSI Genetics

Human gut microbiome

Arabinoxylan oligosaccharides and polyunsaturated fatty acid effects on gut microbiota and metabolic markers in overweight individuals with signs of metabolic syndrome: a randomized cross-over trial – Louise Kjølbæk – Clinical Nutrition

The human microbiota and infection prevention – R. Araos – Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

Gut pathobionts as triggers for liver diseases – Peter Fickert – Nature Microbiology

Man and the Microbiome: A New Theory of Everything? – Mary I. Butler –  Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Is it true that gut microbiota is considered as panacea in cancer therapy? – Amir Salek Farrokhi –  Journal of Cellular Physiology

Composition of gut microbiota in patients with toxigenic Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile: Comparison between subgroups according to clinical criteria and toxin gene load – Sung-Hee Han – PLoS ONE

Effects of dietary fat on gut microbiota and faecal metabolites, and their relationship with cardiometabolic risk factors: a 6-month randomised controlled-feeding trial – Yi Wan – Gut

The Intestinal Microbiome, Plasma Metabolome and Liver Transcriptome‐ A Conspiracy Driving Hepatic Steatosis – Wajahat Z Mehal – Hepatology

A possible link between polyunsaturated fatty acids and uremic toxins from the gut microbiota in hemodialysis patients: A hypothesis – Julie Ann Kemp – Hemodialysis International 

Animal experiments 

Alterations of the mice gut microbiome via Schistosoma japonicum ova-induced granuloma – Yanqing Zhao – Frontiers in Microbiology

The functional repertoire encoded within the native microbiome of the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans – Johannes Zimmermann – bioRxiv

Helminth-Based Product and the Microbiome of Mice with Lupus – Hadar Neuman – mSystems

Gut microbiota regulates lacteal integrity by inducing VEGF-C in intestinal villus macrophages. – SH Suh – EMBO Reports

Animal microbiome

Gut Microbiome Analysis In Adult Tropical Gars (Atractosteus tropicus) – Roberto Mendez-Perez – bioRxiv

Moderate plant water stress improves larval development, and impacts immunity and gut microbiota of a specialist herbivore – Elena Rosa -PLoS ONE

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Chinese white truffles shape the ectomycorrhizal microbial communities of Corylus avellana – Mei Yang – Annals of Microbiology

Narrow safety margin in the phyllosphere during thermal extremes – Sylvain Pincebourde – PNAS

Nitrogen- and phosphorus-starved Triticum aestivum show distinct belowground microbiome profiles – Antoine P. Pagé – PLoS ONE

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Community ecology across bacteria, archaea and microbial eukaryotes in the sediment and seawater of coastal Puerto Nuevo, Baja California – Sabah Ul-Hasan – PLoS ONE

Editorial: Thermophilic and Halophilic Extremophiles in Eurasian Environments – Hongchen Jiang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Marine deep biosphere microbial communities assemble in near-surface sediments in Aarhus Bay – Caitlin Petro – bioRxiv

Quantifying population-specific growth in benthic bacterial communities under low oxygen using H218O – Ömer K. Coskun – The ISME Journal

Bacterial community pattern along the sediment seafloor of the Arctic fjorden (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard) – Xiao-Mei Fang – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Sources and selection of snow-specific microbial communities in a Greenlandic sea ice snow cover – Lorrie Maccario – Scientific Reports

Bacterial community composition shaped by water chemistry and geographic distance in an anthropogenically disturbed river – Peng Wang – Science of The Total Environment

Built environment 

Cell factories converting lactate and acetate to butyrate: Clostridium butyricum and microbial communities from dark fermentation bioreactors – Anna Detman – Microbial Cell Factories

Phages and viruses

Discovery of several thousand highly diverse circular DNA viruses – Michael J Tisza – bioRxiv

Techniques

Spatial metabolomics of in situ, host-microbe interactions – Benedikt K Geier – bioRxiv

Performance of Microbiome Sequence Inference Methods in Environments with Varying Biomass – Vincent Caruso – mSystems

 

 

February 12, 2019

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Today’s Digest features a major effect to tackle the dark matter in the human gut microbiome, comparison of 8 methods to extract DNA from the oral cavity that yielded an unexpected result, and the investigation on whether we can predict sex/age by our gut microbiota. Enjoy!

General microbiology

Perspective: Bridging the Holistic-Reductionist Divide in Microbial Ecology – Robin Tecon et al. – mSystems

Microbioime sister journal: Welcome to Animal Microbiome – Sharon A. Huws

Engineering microbial consortia by division of labor – Garrett W. Roell et al. – Microbial Cell Factories

Preprint: Revisiting the evolution and taxonomy of Clostridia, a phylogenomic update – Pablo Cruz-Morales et al. – bioRxiv

Human skin microbiome

Skin Microbiota in Contact Sports Athletes and Selection of Antiseptics for Professional Hygiene – Dilyara S. Martykanova et al. – BioMed Research International

Human oral microbiome

Qualitative and quantitative differences in the subgingival microbiome of the restored and unrestored teeth – Steven W. H. Rademacher et al. – Journal of Periodontal Research

Human respiratory microbiome

Comparison of Subtyping Approaches and the Underlying Drivers of Microbial Signatures for Chronic Rhinosinusitis – Kristi Biswas et al. – mSphere

Human gut microbiome

** 1,520 reference genomes from cultivated human gut bacteria enable functional microbiome analyses – Yuanqiang Zou et al. – Nature Biotechnology

Genomic insights from Monoglobus pectinilyticus: a pectin-degrading specialist bacterium in the human colon – Caroline C. Kim et al. – The ISME Journal

Pinning down the role of common luminal intestinal parasitic protists in human health and disease – status and challenges – Christen Rune Stensvold – Parasitology

Dynamics of the Gut Microbiota in Children Receiving Selective or Total Gut Decontamination Treatment During Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation – Vincent Bekker & Romy D. Zwittink et al. – Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Patients With Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: A Pilot Clinical Trial – Jessica Allegretti et al. – The American Journal of Gastroenterology

** Preprint: Age and sex-dependent patterns of gut microbial diversity in human adults – Jacobo de la Cuesta-Zuluaga et al. – bioRxiv

Human reproductive tract microbiome

Cervical microbiota in women with cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia, prior to and after local excisional treatment, a Norwegian cohort study – Johanna Wiik – BMC Women’s Health

Built environment microbiome

Spatial and seasonal variation of the airborne microbiome in a rapidly developing city of China – Hu Li et al. – Science of the Total Environment

Animal experiments

Synbiotic-driven improvement of metabolic disturbances is associated with changes in the gut microbiome in diet-induced obese mice – Xinxin Ke et al. – Molecular Metabolism

The gut microbiota is largely independent of host genetics in regulating fat deposition in chickens – Chaoliang Wen et al. – The ISME Journal

The Glucoamylase Inhibitor Acarbose Has a Diet-Dependent and Reversible Effect on the Murine Gut Microbiome – Nielsen T. Baxter et al. – mSphere

Animal microbiome

Effects of polyethylene microplastics on the gut microbial community, reproduction and avoidance behaviors of the soil springtail, Folsomia candida – Hui Ju et al. – Environmental Pollution

Effects of host blood meal source on reproductive output, nutrient reserves and gut microbiome of West Nile virus vector Culex quinquefasciatus – Aparna Telang & Jessica Skinner – Journal of Insect Physiology

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Soil microbes alter plant fitness under competition and drought – Connor R. Fitzpatrick et al. – Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Multi-resistant plant growth-promoting actinobacteria and plant root exudates influence Cr(VI) and lindane dissipation – María ZoleicaSimón Solá et al. – Chemosphere

Interactions between Pseudomonas spp. and their role in improving the red pepper plant growth under salinity stress – Sandipan Samaddar et al. – Microbiological Research

Plant Defense by VOC-Induced Microbial Priming – Hongwei Liu & Laura E. Brettell – Trends in Plant Science

Water and extremophile microbiome

Microbial ecology of the cryosphere (glacial and permafrost habitats): current knowledge – Rosa Margesin & Tony Collins – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Unique Patterns and Biogeochemical Relevance of Two-Component Sensing in Marine Bacteria – Noelle A. Held et al. – mSystems

Oil-Spill Triggered Shift in Indigenous Microbial Structure and Functional Dynamics in Different Marine Environmental Matrices – C. S. Neethu et al. – Scientific Reports

An integrated meta-omics approach reveals substrates involved in synergistic interactions in a bisphenol A (BPA)-degrading microbial community – Ke Yu et al. – Microbiome

Effects of biomass pyrolysis derived wood vinegar on microbial activity and communities of activated sludge – Fang Zhang et al. – Bioresource Technology

Anti-seasonal submergence dominates the structure and composition of prokaryotic communities in the riparian zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir, China – Yan Fang et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Phages and viruses

Cobaviruses – a new globally distributed phage group infecting Rhodobacteraceae in marine ecosystems – Vera Bischoff et al. – The ISME Journal

In plaque-mass spectrometry imaging of a bloom-forming alga during viral infection reveals a metabolic shift towards odd-chain fatty acid lipids – Guy Schleyer et al. – Nature Microbiology

Technology

The mucosal–luminal interface: an ideal sample to study the mucosa-associated microbiota and the intestinal microbial biogeography – Walid Mottawea et al. – Pediatric Research

Development and application of a HILIC UHPLC-MS method for polar fecal metabolome profiling – Nina Sillner et al. – Journal of Chromatography B

** Evaluation of Oral Cavity DNA Extraction Methods on Bacterial and Fungal Microbiota – Jennifer Rosenbaum et al. – Scientific Reports

Xin’s Non-microbiology pick

Preprint: Where do our graduates go? A toolkit for retrospective and ongoing career outcomes data collection for biomedical PhD students and postdoctoral scholars – Elizabeth A. Silva et al. – bioRxiv

February 1, 2019

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Today’s digest is quite diverse: the respiratory microbiome networks in cystic fibrosis patients, ketogenic diet effects on the gut microbiota in children with severe epilepsy, and insect-associated Streptomyces (spoiler: inhibit antimicrobial-resistant pathogens more than soil Streptomyces). Happy reading!

General microbiome

Minireview: The signatures of microorganisms and of human and environmental biomes can now be used to provide evidence in legal cases – A H Bishop – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Transforming medicine with the microbiome – Niv Zmora – Science Translational Medicine

Gut microbiome

Gut intraepithelial T cells calibrate metabolism and accelerate cardiovascular disease – Shun He – Nature

*The ketogenic diet influences taxonomic and functional composition of the gut microbiota in children with severe epilepsy – Marie Lindefeldt – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Vaginal microbiome

Association between vaginal washing and vaginal bacterial concentrations – Michelle C. Sabo – PlosOne

Skin microbiome

Investigation of the Skin Microbiome: Swabs vs Biopsies – S. Prast‐Nielsen – British Journal of Dermatology

Oral microbiome

Carbonic Anhydrase 6 Gene Variation influences Oral Microbiota Composition and Caries Risk in Swedish adolescents – A. Esberg – Scientific Reports

Respiratory microbiome

*Microbiome networks and change-point analysis reveal key community changes associated with cystic fibrosis pulmonary exacerbations – Mehdi Layeghifard – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Plant/root/soil microbiome

Effects of long-term fertilization on soil organic carbon mineralization and microbial community structure – Zhen Guo – PlosOne

Water microbiome

Functional screening for triclosan resistance in a wastewater metagenome and isolates of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus spp. from a large Canadian healthcare region – Andrew Camero – PlosOne

Animal experiments

Cream Cheese-Derived Lactococcus chungangensis CAU 28 Modulates the Gut Microbiota and Alleviates Atopic Dermatitis in BALB/c Mice – Jong-Hwa Kim – Scientific Reports

Animal Microbiome

*The antimicrobial potential of Streptomyces from insect microbiomes – Marc G. Chevrette – Nature Communications

January 28, 2019

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Human and General Microbiome

Book Chapter: Necrotizing Enterocolitis and the Preterm Infant Microbiome. – Jillian R. Baranowski – Part of the Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology book series

Book Chapter: Shaping Microbiota During the First 1000 Days of Life. – Marta Selma-Royo – Part of the Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology book series

Book Chapter: Targeting Food Allergy with Probiotics. – Lorella Paparo – Part of the Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology book series

Review: The relation of the vaginal microbiota to early pregnancy development during In Vitro Fertilization treatment-A meta-analysis. – M. Singer – Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction

Review: Neuropeptides in the microbiota-brain axis and feeding behavior in autism spectrum disorder. – Sergueï O.Fetissov – Nutrition (Elsevier)

Review: Gut microbiome and cancer immunotherapy. – Weina Li – Cancer Letters

Review: The Microbiome-Host Interaction as a Potential Driver of Anastomotic Leak. – Victoria M. Gershuni – Current Gastroenterology Reports

Review: The links between the gut microbiome and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). – Zahra Safari – Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Review: The role of chronic kidney disease-associated dysbiosis in cardiovascular disease.  – Mark A Bryniarski – Experimental Biology and Medicine

Review: The Interplay between Immunity and Microbiota at Intestinal Immunological Niche: The Case of Cancer. – Rossella Cianci – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Spotlight: Ethnicity-Influenced Microbiota: A Future Healthcare Perspective. – Madhusmita Dehingia – Trends in Microbiology

Exploration of microbiota targets for major depressive disorder and mood related traits. – Yu-Chu Ella Chung – Journal of Psychiatric Research

Altered fecal bacterial composition correlates with disease activity in inflammatory bowel disease and the extent of IL8 induction. – Farnaz Heidarian – Current Research in Translational Medicine

Metagenome – Inferred bacterial replication rates in cystic fibrosis airways. – Katarzyna Pienkowska – Journal of Cystic Fibrosis

Among older adults, age-related changes in the stool microbiome differ by HIV-1 serostatus. – Jay Liu – EBioMedicine

Deep sequencing reveals specific bacterial signatures in the subgingival microbiota of healthy subjects. – Eri Ikeda – Clinical Oral Investigations

Close social relationships correlate with human gut microbiota composition. – Kimberly A. Dill-McFarland – Scientific Reports

The gut microbiota heterogeneity and assembly changes associated with the IBD. – Yang Sun – Scientific Reports

The respiratory microbiota: new insights into pulmonary tuberculosis. – Setegn Eshetie – BMC Infectious Diseases

 

Faecal Transplants

Letter to the Editor: Faecal microbiota transplant for eradication of multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: a lesson in applying best practice? – Benjamin H. Mullish – Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Clinical characteristic and fecal microbiota responses to probiotic or antidepressant in patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome with depression comorbidity: a pilot study. – Lu Zhang – Chinese Medical Journal

Multi-session fecal microbiota transplantation using colonoscopy has favorable outcomes for the treatment of steroid-dependent ulcerative colitis. – Young-Seok Cho – Intestinal Research

 

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Effect of Probiotic Use on Adverse Events in Adult Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: a Retrospective Cohort Study. – Maria Pina Dore – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Identification of the novel role of butyrate as AhR ligand in human intestinal epithelial cells. – Ludovica Marinelli – Scientific Reports

Bifidobacterium bifidum ATCC 15696 and Bifidobacterium breve 24b metabolic interaction based on 2′-O-fucosyl-lactose studied in steady-state cultures in a Freter-style chemostat. – Manuela Centanni – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Oral supplements of combined fructo- and xylo-oligosaccharides during perinatal period significantly offsets acrylamide-induced oxidative impairments and neurotoxicity in rats. – Muralidhara Krishna – Journal Of Physiology And Pharmacology

Impact of Grain Sorghum Polyphenols on Microbiota of Normal Weight and Overweight/Obese Subjects during In Vitro Fecal Fermentation. – Danielle Ashley – Nutrients

Geographical location specific composition of cultured microbiota and Lactobacillus occurrence in human breast milk in China. – Mengfan Ding – Food & Function

 

Animal Microbiome

Review: The Road Not Taken: The Rumen Microbiome, Functional Groups, and Community States. – Sarah Moraïs – Trends in Microbiology

Gut microbiota affects development and olfactory behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. – Huili Qiao – Journal of Experimental Biology

Genomic diversity landscape of the honey bee gut microbiota. – Kirsten M. Ellegaard – Nature Communications

Abnormal composition of gut microbiota contributes to delirium-like behaviors after abdominal surgery in mice. – Jie Zhang – Neuroscience and Therapeutics

Functional Interactions between Gut Microbiota Transplantation, Quercetin and High Fat Diet Determine Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Development in Germ-Free Mice. – David Porras – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Metagenomic dissection of the canine gut microbiota: insights into taxonomic, metabolic and nutritional features. – Giulia Alessandri – Environmental Microbiology

 

Environmental Microbiome

Succession Patterns and Physical Niche Partitioning in Microbial Communities from Subsurface Coal Seams. – Silas H.W.Vick – iScience

 

Food Microbiome

Book Chapter: Microbial Ecology of Fermented Vegetables and Non-Alcoholic Drinks and Current Knowledge on Their Impact on Human Health. – Laura Lavefve – Advances in Food and Nutrition Research

 

Methodologies

Review: A crash course in sequencing for a microbiologist. – Aleksandra Kozińska – Journal of Applied Genetics

Review: The Quest for Novel Antimicrobial Compounds: Emerging Trends in Research, Development, and Technologies. – Pavan K. Mantravadi – Antibiotics

Effects of the long-term storage of human fecal microbiota samples collected in RNAlater. – Julien Tap – Scientific Reports

A sensitive GC/MS detection method for analyzing microbial metabolites short chain fatty acids in fecal and serum samples. – Shuming Zhang – Talanta

January 23, 2019

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Today’s digest is about the distinct microbial networks within disturbed gut microbiome, multifaceted roles of Staphylococcus epidermidis in skin physiology, and high-throughput cultivation techniques. Happy reading!

Urinary microbiome

Review: The Microbiome and Genitourinary Cancer: A Collaborative Review – Mark C. Markowski – European Urology

Gut microbiome

*Microbial network disturbances in relapsing refractory Crohn’s disease – Bahtiyar Yilmaz – Nature Medicine

Alteration in gut microbiota associated with hepatitis B and non-hepatitis virus related hepatocellular carcinoma – Qisha Liu – Gut Pathogens

Human gut microbes are susceptible to antimicrobial food additives in vitro – Lucia Hrncirova – Folia Microbiologica

Taxonomic and functional composition of the small intestinal microbiome in neonatal calves provide a framework for understanding early life gut health – Nilusha Malmuthuge – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Skin microbiome

*Microbial guardians of skin health – Apollo Stacy and Yasmine Belkaid – Science

Water microbiome

Comparison of microbial communities in the sediments and water columns of frozen cryoconite holes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica – Pacifica Sommers – Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant/root/soil microbiome

Invasive plant species identity affects soil microbial communities in a mesocosm experiment – Anna M. Stefanowicz – Applied Soil Ecology

Techniques

*High throughput cultivation-based screening on porous aluminum oxide chips allows targeted isolation of antibiotic resistant human gut bacteria – Dennis Versluis – PlosOne

*Cultivation-success of rare soil bacteria is not influenced by incubation time and growth medium – Viola Kurm – PlosOne