January 28, 2019

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

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

January 15, 2019

Highlights today include the organisms in the healthy infant intestinal microbiome that protect against food allergy, an algorithm to predict aging based on the gut microbiome, and how bacteria adapt to life on the International Space Station. Enjoy!

Pregnancy and early life
Healthy infants harbor intestinal bacteria that protect against food allergy – Taylor Feehley – Nature Medicine

Human gut microbiome
Preprint: Human microbiome aging clocks based on deep learning and tandem of permutation feature importance and accumulated local effects – Fedor Galkin – bioRxiv
(Covered in popular press as Your Gut Microbiome Could Actually Reveal Your Age, Study Shows)

Preprint: The virome in adult monozygotic twins with concordant or discordant gut microbiomes – J. Leonardo Moreno-Gallego – bioRxiv

Human nearly-sterile sites
Review: Microbiome–metabolome reveals the contribution of gut–kidney axis on kidney disease – Yuan-Yuan Chen – Journal of Translational Medicine

Animal experiments
Lactobacillus sakei Alleviates High-fat Diet-induced Obesity and Anxiety in Mice by Inducing AMPK Activation and SIRT1 Expression and Inhibiting Gut Microbiota-mediated NF-κB Activation – Hyo-Min Jang – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Aqueous raw and ripe Pu-erh tea extracts alleviate obesity and alter cecal microbiota composition and function in diet-induced obese rats – Yun Xia – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Impact of intramammary inoculation of inactivated Lactobacillus rhamnosus and antibiotics on the milk microbiota of water buffalo with subclinical mastitis – Carlotta Catozzi – PLOS One

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Superior dispersal ability can lead to persistent ecological dominance throughout succession – Primrose J. Boynton – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium Pseudomonas PS01 induces salt tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana – Thanh Nguyen Chu – BMC Research Notes

Diversity analysis of the rhizospheric and endophytic bacterial communities of Senecio vulgaris L. (Asteraceae) in an invasive range – Dandan Cheng – PeerJ\

Antifungal potential of bacterial rhizosphere isolates associated with three ethno-medicinal plants (poppy, chamomile, and nettle) – Marija Mojicevic – International Microbiology

Analysis of uranium removal capacity of anaerobic granular sludge bacterial communities under different initial pH conditions – Taotao Zeng – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Water and extremophile microbiomes
An interspecies malate–pyruvate shuttle reconciles redox imbalance in an anaerobic microbial community – Po-Hsiang Wang – The ISME Journal

Bacterial community assembly in a typical estuarine marsh with multiple environmental gradients – Zhiyuan Yao – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Effects of salinity on microbialite-associated production in Great Salt Lake, Utah – Melody R. Lindsay – Ecology

Preprint: Capturing the Diversity of Subsurface Microbiota – Choice of Carbon Source for Microcosm Enrichment and Isolation of Groundwater Bacteria – Xiaoqin Wu – bioRxiv

Genetic Evidence for Two Carbon Fixation Pathways (the Calvin-Benson-Bassham Cycle and the Reverse Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle) in Symbiotic and Free-Living Bacteria – Maxim Rubin-Blum – mSphere

Techniques
Generation of 13C-labeled MUC5AC mucin oligosaccharides for stable isotope probing of host-associated microbial communities – Clayton Evert – ACS Infectious Diseases

Transomics data-driven, ensemble kinetic modeling for system-level understanding and engineering of the cyanobacteria central metabolism – Hiroki Nishiguchi – Metabolic Engineering

Built environment/Microbes in Space
Pangenomic Approach To Understanding Microbial Adaptations within a Model Built Environment, the International Space Station, Relative to Human Hosts and Soil – Ryan A. Blaustein – mSystems
(Covered in the popular press as Good news: space bacteria (probably) aren’t evolving to destroy us)

Science, publishing, and career
Preprint: Tracking the popularity and outcomes of all bioRxiv preprints – Richard J. Abdill – bioRxiv

January 14, 2019

Human/General Microbiome

Establishment of vaginal microbiota composition in early pregnancy and its association with subsequent preterm prelabor rupture of the fetal membranes – Richard G. Brown – Translational Research

Sex differences in the gut microbiota as potential determinants of gender predisposition to disease – Jose A. Santos‐Marcos – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

AllergoOncology: microbiota in allergy and cancer – an EAACI position paper – E Untersmayr – Allergy

Comment: Gut microbiota and hypertension – Jun-ichi Oyama – Hypertension Research

Comment: Host-microbiota interactions: from holobiont theory to analysis – Jean-Christophe Simon – Microbiome

Longitudinal Analyses of Gut-Associated Bacterial Microbiota in Ulcerative Colitis Patients – Luma Al-Bayati – Archives of Iranian Medicine

What is the Healthy Gut Microbiota Composition? A Changing Ecosystem across Age, Environment, Diet, and Diseases – Emanuele Rinninella – Microorganisms

A Prospective Study In Severely Injured Patients Reveals An Altered Gut Microbiome Is Associated With Transfusion Volume – Susannah E. Nicholson – Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Review: Integration of microbiology, molecular pathology, and epidemiology: a new paradigm to explore the pathogenesis of microbiome-driven neoplasms – Tsuyoshi Hamada – The Journal of Pathology

Review: Targeting gut microbiota with dietary components on cancer: Effects and potential mechanisms of action – Jun Tao – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Disorganized Gut Microbiome Contributed to Liver Cirrhosis Progression: A Meta-Omics-Based Study – Li Shao – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Leveraging Multilayered “Omics” Data for Atopic Dermatitis: A Road Map to Precision Medicine – Debajyoti Ghosh – Frontiers in Immunology

Systemic instruction of cell-mediated immunity by the intestinal microbiome – John Grainger – F1000Research

Fecal microbiota transplantation in refractory ulcerative colitis – a case report – B. D. Moutinho – Journal of International Medical Research

Current Opinion: Acne, the Skin Microbiome, and Antibiotic Treatment – Haoxiang Xu – American Journal of Clinical Dermatology

Fusobacterium nucleatum promotes chemoresistance to 5-fluorouracil by upregulation of BIRC3 expression in colorectal cancer – Sheng Zhang – Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research

Enteric dysbiosis and fecal calprotectin expression in premature infants – Thao T. B. Ho – Pediatric Research

 

Animal Models

Obesity Aggravates Acute Pancreatitis via Damaging Intestinal Mucosal Barrier and Changing Microbiota Composition in Rats – Cheng Ye – Scientific Reports

Asperlin Stimulates Energy Expenditure and Modulates Gut Microbiota in HFD-Fed Mice – Chongming Wu – Marine Drugs

Preventive Effect of Spontaneous Physical Activity on the Gut-Adipose Tissue in a Mouse Model That Mimics Crohn’s Disease Susceptibility – Florie Maillard – Cells

Lactobacillus sakei Alleviates High-fat Diet-induced Obesity and Anxiety in Mice by Inducing AMPK Activation and SIRT1 Expression and Inhibiting Gut Microbiota-mediated NF-κB Activation – Hyo‐Min Jang – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

The Metabolic Response to a Low Amino Acid Diet is Independent of Diet-Induced Shifts in the Composition of the Gut Microbiome – Heidi H. Pak – Scientific Reports

 

More Animal Microbiomes

Generational conservation of composition and diversity of field-acquired midgut microbiota in Anopheles gambiae (sensu lato) during colonization in the laboratory – Jewelna Akorli – Parasites & Vectors

Potential role of host-derived quorum quenching in modulating bacterial colonization in the moon jellyfish Aurelia aurita – Nancy Weiland-Bräuer – Scientific Reports

 

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Review: Effect of Food Structure and Processing on (Poly)phenol-Gut Microbiota Interactions and the Effects on Human Health – Francisco A. Tomás-Barberán – Annual Reviews of Food Science and Technology

Dietary Fructooligosaccharide and Glucomannan Alter Gut Microbiota and Improve Bone Metabolism in Senescence-Accelerated Mouse – Kenichi Tanabe – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

 

Plant Microbiome

Characterizing both bacteria and fungi improves understanding of the Arabidopsis root microbiome – Joy Bergelson – Scientific Reports

 

January 9, 2019

Today’s digest is about the CRISPR tools for diverse bacteria, urinary microbiome associated with bladder cancer and OMeta, a data-driven metadata tracking system. Happy reading!

Gut microbiome

*Enabling genetic analysis of diverse bacteria with Mobile-CRISPRi – Jason M. Peters – Nature Microbiology

Urinary microbiome

*Review: The Urinary Microbiome: Implications in Bladder Cancer Pathogenesis and Therapeutics – Petar Bajic – Urology

Animal experiments

High-fat diet causes psychiatric disorders in mice by increasing Proteobacteria population – Mi-Young Jeong – Neuroscience Letters

Animal microbiome

Canine endometrial and vaginal microbiomes reveal distinct and complex ecosystems – Candace C. Lyman – PlosOne

Probiotic characterization of Lactobacillus isolates from canine faeces – Maria Magdalena Coman – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Water microbiome

Deciphering of microbial community and antibiotic resistance genes in activated sludge reactors under high selective pressure of different antibiotics – Renxin Zhao – Water Research

Desiccation events change the microbial response to gradients of wastewater effluent pollution – Ferran Romeroa – Water Research

Characteristics of pipe corrosion scales in untreated water distribution system and effect on water quality in Peshawar, Pakistan – Dilawar Farhan Shams – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Plant/root/soil microbiome

Microbial phyto-power systems – A sustainable integration of phytoremediation and microbial fuel cells – Beenish Saba – Bioelectrochemistry

A Plant‐Growth Promoting Bacterium Alters the Microbial Community of Continuous Cropping Poplar Trees Rhizosphere – Junkang Sui – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Bioinformatics

*OMeta: an ontology-based, data-driven metadata tracking system – Indresh Singh – BMC Bioinformatics

January 4, 2019

Highlights of today’s Digest include: animal microbiomes from snakes to bald eagles to porcupines, studies of bacteria promoting plant growth, and a nice review of ‘omics in fermented foods. Happy reading!

Human oral microbiome
Microcosm biofilms cultured from different oral niches in periodontitis patients – Fabian Cieplik – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Xylitol and sorbitol effects on the microbiome of saliva and plaque – Reisha Rafeek – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Human vaginal microbiome
Vaginal microbiome variances in sample groups categorized by clinical criteria of bacterial vaginosis – Hui-Mei Chen – BMC Genomics

Human gut microbiome
Five years of fecal microbiota transplantation – an update of the Israeli experience – Sharon A Greenberg – World Journal of Gastroenterology

Review: Association between the intestinal microbiota and allergic sensitization, eczema, and asthma: A systematic review – Petra Zimmermann – Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Interplay between food and gut microbiota in health and disease – Niels Banhos Danneskiold-Samsøe – Food Research International

Gut microbiome changes in overweight male adults following bowel preparation – Hui-Mei Chen – BMC Genomics

Animal Microbiome
Preprint: Bacterial Diversity in Feces of Wild Bald Eagles, Turkey Vultures and Common Ravens from the Pacific Northwest Coast, U.S.A. – Rocio Crespo – bioRxiv

Next-generation sequencing analysis reveals high bacterial diversity in wild venomous and non-venomous snakes from India – Sajesh Puthenpurackal Krishnankutty – Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases

Understanding the roles of surface proteins in regulation of Lactobacillus pentosus HC-2 to immune response and bacterial diversity in midgut of Litopenaeus vannamei – Yang Du – Fish & Shellfish Immunology

Characterization of novel lignocellulose-degrading enzymes from the porcupine microbiome using synthetic metagenomics – Mackenzie Thornbury – PLOS One

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Review: Planting the Microbiome – Jennifer K. Spinler – Trends in Microbiology

Arabidopsis thaliana responds to colonisation of Piriformospora indica by secretion of symbiosis-specific proteins – Johannes Thürich – PLOS One

Screening of plant growth promotion ability among bacteria isolated from field-grown sorghum under different managements in Brazilian drylands – Jéssica Fernanda da Silva – World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Streptomyces: implications and interactions in plant growth promotion – Oluwaseyi Samuel Olanrewaju – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Mycorrhizal features and leaf traits covary at the community level during primary succession – J. Rasmus P. Jespersen – Fungal Ecology

Microbial communities controlling methane and nutrient cycling in leach field soils – Cristina P.Fernandez-Baca – Water Research

Gradients of three coastal environments off the South China Sea and their impacts on the dynamics of heterotrophic microbial communities – Xianhua Liu – Science of the Total Environment

New insights into the impact of nZVI on soil microbial biodiversity and functionality – Carmen Fajardo – Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A

Syntrophic effect of indigenous and inoculated microorganisms in the leaching of rare earth elements from Western Australian monazite – Melissa K.Corbett – Research in Microbiology

Removal of veterinary antibiotics in constructed wetland microcosms – Response of bacterial communities – Filipa Santos – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Water and extremophile microbiome
Bacterial diversity in the water column of meromictic Lake Cadagno and evidence for seasonal dynamics – Francesco Danza – PLOS One

Microbial community succession and pollutants removal of a novel carriers enhanced duckweed treatment system for rural wastewater in Dianchi Lake basin – Guoke Chen – Bioresource Technology

Food Microbiology
Omics in traditional vegetable fermented foods and beverages – Jocelin Rizo – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Preprint: Construction of synthetic microbiota for reproducible flavor metabolism in Chinese light aroma type liquor produced by solid-state fermentation – Qun Wu – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics
A latent allocation model for the analysis of microbial composition and disease – Ko Abe – BMC Bioinformatics

Techniques
Metatranscriptomic and thermodynamic insights into medium-chain fatty acid production using an anaerobic microbiome – Matthew J. Scarborough – mSystems

December 30, 2018

In the midst of the festive season have a fiesta with the recent articles on Microbiome. Todays MicroBiome Digest covers the Techniques and Treatments, Drugs, Immunostimulatory Diet and Nutrition, Multivariate Count Data Model, Antimicrobials, Pre/Pro-biotcs, Host-Microbe Interactions, Genes, Genomics and Pathways of Microbiota, Infant Microbiome, Animal Models, Animal Microbiome, Microbial Ecology of plant and soil. Happy Reading!!! 

TECHNIQUES & TREATMENTS:

LEMMI: A Live Evaluation of Computational Methods for Metagenome Investigation – Mathieu Seppey – bioRxiv

Single-cell virus sequencing of influenza infections that trigger innate immunity – Alistair B Russell – bioRxiv

METHODS TO IMPROVE INDUCTION OF IGG AND IGA ANTIBODIES BY VACCINES – Boyaka, Prosper -United States Patent Application 20180360953 -PATENT

Are the Statins promising antifungal agents against invasive candidiasis? – William GustavoLima -Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

Bayesian variable selection for multivariate zero-inflated models: Application to microbiome count data – Lee KH – Biostatistics

Metatranscriptomic and comparative genomic insights into resuscitation mechanisms during enrichment culturing – Mu DS – Microbiome

Prognostic Impact of Fusobacterium nucleatum Depends on Combined Tumor Location and Microsatellite Instability Status in Stage II/III Colorectal Cancers Treated with Adjuvant Chemotherapy – Oh HJ – J Pathol Transl Med.

Loss of Gut Microbiota Alters Immune System Composition and Cripples Post-Infarction Cardiac Repair – Tang TW – Circulation

DRUG, DIET and NUTRITION:

Review article: implementation of a diet low in FODMAPs for patients with irritable bowel syndrome-directions for future research – Mitchell Hrticle – Aliment Pharmacol Ther.

Compound polysaccharides ameliorate experimental colitis by modulating gut microbiota composition and function – Cai Y – J Gastroenterol Hepatol.

Rifaximin Altered Gut Microbiota Components Associated with Liver/Neuropsychological Functions in Patients with Hepatic Encephalopathy: An Exploratory Data Analysis of a Phase II/III Clinical Trials – Kawaguchi T – Hepatol Res.

Inulin ameliorates alcoholic liver disease via suppressing LPS-TLR4-Mψ axis and modulating gut microbiota in mice – Yang X – Alcohol Clin Exp Res.

Effect of Resistant Starch on the Gut Microbiota and Its Metabolites in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease – Yoshida N – J Atheroscler Thromb.

Late gestation diet supplementation of resin acid-enriched composition increases sow colostrum immunoglobulin G content, piglet colostrum intake and improve sow gut microbiota – Hasan S – Animal

PRE/PRO- BIOTICS and ANTIMICROBIAL:

The human skin microbiota is a rich source of bacteriocin producing staphylococci which kill human pathogens – O’Sullivan JN – FEMS Microbiol Ecol.

Comparative immunostimulatory effect of probiotics and prebiotics in Channa punctatus against Aphanomyces invadans – Devi G – Fish Shellfish Immunol

GENES, GENOMICS & PATHWAYS:

Detection of a novel mutation G511T in the 530 loop in 16S rRNA in multi drugs resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from Sudanese patients – Yousif Mohammed Alfatih – bioRxiv

Review: Interactions Between Autophagy and the Unfolded Protein Response: Implications for Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Hooper KM – Inflamm Bowel Dis.

In vitro and in vivo characterization of Clostridium scindens bile acid transformations – Marion S- Gut Microbes

Bioinformatic, phylogenetic, and chemical analysis of the UV-absorbing compounds scytonemin and mycosporine-like amino acids from the microbial mat communities of Shark Bay, Australia – D’Agostino PM – Environ Microbiol

Genetic diversity of Escherichia coli in gut microbiota of patients with Crohn’s disease discovered using metagenomic and genomic analyses – Tyakht AV – BMC Genomics

Complete Genome Sequence of a blaKPC-2-Positive Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain Isolated from the Effluent of an Urban Sewage Treatment Plant in Japan Complete Genome Sequence of a blaKPC-2-Positive Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain Isolated from the Effluent of an Urban Sewage Treatment Plant in Japan – Sekizuka T – mSphere

HOST-MICROBE INTERACTION:

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

Bacterial secretion of histamine within the gut influences immune responses within the lung – Barcik W – Allergy

GUT MICROBIOME:

Extensive Transmission of Microbes along the Gastrointestinal Tract – Thomas SB Schmidt – bioRxiv

VAGINAL MICROBIOME:

Human β-defensin-2 as a biochemical indicator of vaginal environment in pregnant women – Hideko Kotani – Hypertension Research In Pregnancy

PREGNANCY AND EARLY LIFE:

Physiology of Stress and Use of Skin-to-Skin Care as a Stress-Reducing Intervention in the NICU – Britt Frisk Pados – Nursing for Women’s Health

Longitudinal analysis of infant stool bacteria communities before and after acute febrile malaria and artemether/lumefantrine treatment – Mandal RK – J Infect Dis.

Haemophilus-dominant nasopharyngeal microbiota is associated with delayed clearance of respiratory syncytial virus in infants hospitalized for bronchiolitis – Mansbach JM – J Infect Dis

ANIMAL MODEL EXPERIMENTS:

Dietary nucleotides can directly stimulate the immunity of zebrafish independent of the intestinal microbiota – Guo X – Fish Shellfish Immunol.

Antimicrobial assessment of phage therapy using a porcine model of biofilm infection – Milho C – Int J Pharm

ANIMAL MICROBIOME:

Effect of different levels of tryptophan on productive performance, egg quality, blood biochemistry, and caecal microbiota of hens housed in enriched colony cages under commercial stocking density – Khattak F -Poult Sci.

Exogenous carbohydrases added to a starter diet reduced markers of systemic immune activation and decreased Lactobacillus in weaned pigs – Li Q – J Anim Sci.

Gut microbiota dynamics and functionality in Reticulitermes grassei after a 7-day dietary shift and ciprofloxacin treatment – Berlanga M – PLoS One

MICROBIAL ECOLOGY:

Culturomics-Based Taxonomic Diversity of Bacterial Communities in the Hot Springs of Saudi Arabia – Yasir M – OMICS

Rhizosphere microorganisms can influence the timing of plant flowering – Lut T – Microbiome

December 21, 2018

Today’s digest is about the shortcomings of the midstream urine test for urinary tract infection, contacts between phages and bacterial hosts, and contamination in marker-gene and metagenomic sequencing. There is a very interesting podcast on “Seeing double” in scientific papers. Happy reading/listening!

Urinary microbiome

Cross-over data supporting long-term antibiotic treatment in patients with painful lower urinary tract symptoms, pyuria and negative urinalysis – Sheela Swamy – International Urogynecology Journal

*Reassessment of routine midstream culture in diagnosis of urinary tract infection – Sanchutha Sathiananthamoorthya – Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Gut microbiome

Drivers of human gut microbial community assembly: Coadaptation, determinism and stochasticity – Kaitlyn Oliphan – BioRxiv

Animal experiments

*Scaffolding bacterial genomes and probing host-virus interactions in gut microbiome by proximity ligation (chromosome capture) assay – Martial Marbouty – Science Advances

Antidepressant treatment modulates the gut microbiome and metabolome during pregnancy and lactation in rats with a depressive-like phenotype – Anouschka S Ramsteijn – BioRxiv

General Anesthesia Alters the Diversity and Composition of the Intestinal Microbiota in Mice – Mara A. Serbanescu – Anesthesia & Analgesia

Water microbiome

Bacterial community activity and dynamics in the biofilm of an experimental hybrid wetland system treating greywater – Marika Truu – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Plant/root/soil microbiome

Introducing THOR, a model microbiome for genetic dissection of community behavior – Gabriel L. Lozano – BioRxiv

Bacterial analogs of plant piperidine alkaloids mediate microbial interactions in a rhizosphere model system – Gabriel L. Lozano – BioRxiv

Bioinformatics

*Simple statistical identification and removal of contaminant sequences in marker-gene and metagenomics data – Nicole M. Davis – Microbiome

Nucleotide Archival Format (NAF) enables efficient lossless reference-free compression of DNA sequences – Kirill Kryukov – BioRxiv

Podcast

*Seeing double [Elisabeth Bik speaks about the problematic images in scientific papers, the state of microbiome research, and making the jump from academia to industry] – Dan Quintana and James Heathers – Everything Hertz.

December 19, 2018

Toady’s digest features research that gives insight on the formation of lower respiratory tract microbiota in infants and the differential role of TL1A in acute and chronic colitis.

General microbiome

Profiling mycobacterial communities in pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial disease – Steven A. Cowman – PLOS ONE


Pregnancy and early life

*Early-Life Formation of the Microbial and Immunological Environment of the Human Airways – CélinePattaroni – Cell Host & Microbe


Human reproductive microbiome

Review: Uterine microbiome—low biomass and high expectations – Iolanda Garcia-Grau – Biology of Reproduction


Human respiratory microbiome

Review: Microbiome and disease in the upper airway – Jivianne T. Lee – Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology


Human gut microbiome

Comparative analysis of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii genomes shows a high level of genome plasticity and warrants separation into new species-level taxa – Cormac Brian Fitzgerald – BMC Genomics

Retrospective analysis of long-term gastrointestinal symptoms after Clostridium difficile infection in a nonelderly cohort – Tamar F. Barlam – PLOS ONE

Review: Gut microbiota: a potential manipulator for host adipose tissue and energy metabolism – Bohan Rong – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry


Animal experiments

*Microbiota-Induced TNF-like Ligand 1A Drives Group 3 Innate Lymphoid Cell-Mediated Barrier Protection and Intestinal T Cell Activation during Colitis – Jim G.Castellanos – Immunity

LC–MS-Based Metabolomics and Lipidomics Study of High-Density-Lipoprotein-Modulated Glucose Metabolism with an apoA-I Knockout Mouse Model – Jia Liu – Journal of Proteome Research

TLR4 deficiency reduces pulmonary resistance to Streptococcus pneumoniae in gut microbiota-disrupted mice – Hongyan Wang – PLOS ONE

Zengye decoction induces alterations to metabolically active gut microbiota in aged constipated rats – Deliang Liu – Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy


Animal microbiome

Floral and Foliar Source Affect the Bee Nest Microbial Community – Jason A. Rothman – Microbial Ecology

Effects of urbanization on the foraging ecology and microbiota of the generalist seabird Larus argentatus – Matthew Fuirst – PLOS ONE

Disruption of the microbiota affects physiological and evolutionary aspects of insecticide resistance in the German cockroach, an important urban pest – Jose E. Pietri _ PLOS ONE

The composition and structure of the intestinal microflora of Anguilla marmorata at different growth rates: a deep sequencing study – Mao Lin – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Review: Composition and functional roles of the gut microbiota in mosquitoes – Michael R. Strand – Current Opinion in Insect Science

Review: Transcriptomic analyses uncover emerging roles of mucins, lysosome/secretory addressing and detoxification pathways in insect midguts – Walter R. Terra – Current Opinion in Insect Science

Terrestriality and bacterial transfer: a comparative study of gut microbiomes in sympatric Malagasy mammals – Amanda C. Perofsky – The ISME Journal


Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Dead or alive; or does it really matter? Level of congruency between trophic modes in total and active fungal communities in High Arctic soil – Magdalena Wutkowska – Frontiers in Microbiology


Water and extremophile microbiome

Reduced TCA cycle rates at high hydrostatic pressure hinder hydrocarbon degradation and obligate oil degraders in natural, deep-sea microbial communities – Alberto Scoma- The ISME Journal

Evidence of selective pressure in whale fall microbiome proteins and its potential application to industry – Robert Cardoso deFreitas – Marine Genomics

AgNPs change microbial community structures of wastewater – Yuting Guo – Frontiers in Microbiology

Performance and microbial community of an electric biological integration reactor (EBIR) for treatment of wastewater containing ibuprofen – Yan Feng – Bioresource Technology

 

Food microbiology

Spoilage microbial community profiling by 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing of modified atmosphere packaged live mussels at cold storage temperature – Olumide A.Odeyemi – Food Research International

Genomic resolution of bacterial populations in saccharin and cyclamate degradation – YuDeng – Science of The Total Environment


Phages and viruses

Nanopore-based detection and characterization of yam viruses – Denis Filloux – Scientific Reports


Metabolomics

Active Acupoints Differ from Inactive Acupoints in Modulating Key Plasmatic Metabolites of Hypertension: A Targeted Metabolomics Study – Mingxiao Yang – Scientific Reports


Techniques

Review: Quantifying microbial chatter: scanning electrochemical microscopy as a tool to study interactions in biofilms – Sophie E. Darch – Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Metabolic Fingerprinting of Bacteria Exposed to Nanomaterials, Using Online Databases, NMR, and High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry – Theodoros G. Chatzimitakos – Nanotoxicity

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Science, publishing, and career

Commentary : Communicating health risks in science publications: time for everyone to take responsibility – Alexandra L. J. Freeman – BMC Medicine

Could a double blind peer review process reduce gender bias?

Preprint: The Case For and Against Double-blind Reviews – Amelia R – bioRxiv

December 16, 2018

A Happy Weekend to one and all. 

Today’s Microbiome Digest features the recent articles covering the techniques and treatments, microbiome of infants, gut, oral, eye and vaginal microbiome, host-microbe interactions, diet and probiotic supplementations, co-culture models and its impact on biofilm reduction, soil microbiome and microbial ecology, comparative study of microbiome in various diseases, role of microbiome on various cancers, metabolomics, animal and insect microbiome, myco and yeast biome, genes and genomics of good and bad bacteria.  ENJOY READING.

TECHNIQUES:

Rapid Determination of Antibiotic Susceptibility by Stimulated Raman Scattering Imaging of D2O Metabolism – Weili Hong – bioRxiv

CaptureSeq: Capture-based enrichment of cpn60 gene fragments empowers pan-Domain profiling of microbial communities without universal PCR – Matthew G Links – bioRxiv

Characterization of Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria in Constructed Wetland Microcosms Used to Treat Crude Oil Polluted Water– Amer Jamal Hashmat- Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

A Probe-Enabled Approach for the Selective Isolation and Characterization of Functionally Active Subpopulations in the Gut Microbiome – Whidbey C – J Am Chem Soc.

Combined extraction method for metabolomic and PLFA analysis of soil – Jeffrey S.Buyer – Applied Soil Ecology

CLAME: a new alignment-based binning algorithm allows the genomic description of a novel Xanthomonadaceae from the Colombian Andes – Andres Benavides – BMC Genomics

Harnessing CRISPR-Cas systems for precision engineering of designer probiotic lactobacilli – Yong JunGoh – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Evaluating the Efficiency of Primer Extension Capture as a Method to Enrich DNA Extractions – Winters M – J Forensic Sci

TREATMENTS:

Intestinal Anti-Inflammatory Activity of the Aqueous Extract from Ipomoea asarifolia in DNBS-Induced Colitis in Rats – da Silva VC – Int J Mol Sci.

Effect of Marine Microalga Chlorella pyrenoidosa Ethanol Extract on Lipid Metabolism and Gut Microbiota Composition in High-Fat Diet-Fed Rats – Wan X – Mar Drugs

Flavonoids and Colorectal Cancer Prevention – Li Y – Antioxidants (Basel)

Effects of Rich-Polyphenols Extract of Dendrobium loddigesii on Anti-Diabetic, Anti-Inflammatory, Anti-Oxidant, and Gut Microbiota Modulation in db/db Mice – Li XW – Molecules

Evidence-based mixture containing Lactobacillus strains and lactoferrin to prevent recurrent bacterial vaginosis: a double blind, placebo controlled, randomised clinical trial – R. Russo – Beneficial Microbes

ORAL MICROBIOME:

Bacterial profile of the supragingival dental biofilm in children with deciduous and early mixed dentition using next generation sequencing (HOMINGS) technique – Harris-Ricardo J – Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin.

Oral Dysbiosis in Pancreatic Cancer and Liver Cirrhosis: A Review of the Literature – Mohammed H – Biomedicines

Subgingival lipid A profile and endotoxin activity in periodontal health and disease – Strachan A – Clin Oral Investig

GENOME AND GENOMICS:
Iron-associated protein interaction networks reveal the key functional modules related to survival and virulence of Pasteurella multocida – Theeraphol Jatuponwiphat – Microbial Pathogenesis

Identification of putative non-host essential genes and novel drug targets against Acinetobacter baumannii by in silico comparative genome analysis – Reaz Uddin – Microbial pathogenesis

Epilithic Biofilms in Lake Baikal: Screening and Diversity of PKS and NRPS Genes in the Genomes of Heterotrophic Bacteria – Sukhanova E – Pol J Microbiol.

Comparative analysis of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii genomes shows a high level of genome plasticity and warrants separation into new species-level taxa – Fitzgerald CB – BMC Genomics

INSECT MICROBIOME:

Metagenomic 16S rRNA gene sequencing survey of Borrelia species in Irish samples of Ixodes ricinus ticks – John S Lambert – bioRxiv

MARINE MICROBIOME:

Uncultured marine cyanophages encode for active NblA, phycobilisome proteolysis adaptor protein – Omer Nadal – bioRxiv

A fundamental difference between macrobiota and microbial eukaryotes: Protistan plankton has a species maximum in the freshwater-marine transition zone of the Baltic Sea – Filker S – Environ Microbiol

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE:

Antibiotic usage promotes the evolution of resistance against gepotidacin, a novel multi-targeting drug – Petra Szili – bioRxiv

Role of Bentonite on the Mobility of Antibiotic Resistance Genes, and Microbial Community in Oxytetracycline and Cadmium Contaminated Soil – Guo H – Front Microbiol

HflXr, a homolog of a ribosome-splitting factor, mediates antibiotic resistance – Duval M – Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.

Antibiotics may increase triazine herbicide exposure risk via disturbing gut microbiota – Zhan J – Microbiome

SOIL MICROBIOME:

REVIEW: The rhizosphere microbiome: A key component of sustainable cork oak forests in trouble – Fatima Zahra Maghnia – Forest Ecology and Management

VIROME:

The intestinal virome of malabsorption syndrome-affected and unaffected broilers through shotgun metagenomics – Diane A.Lima – Virus Research

MYCO and YEAST-BIOME:

Snf2 controls pulcherriminic acid biosynthesis and connects pigmentation and antifungal activity of the yeast Metschnikowia pulcherrima – Deborah Gore-Lloyd – bioRxiv

Nitrogen deprivation in Fusarium oxysporum promotes mycotoxin production via intermediates in the Krebs cycle and unreported methylmalonyl-CoA mutase activity – A. V. Karpe – Metabolomics

METABOLOMICS:

Gut microbiome structure and metabolic activity in inflammatory bowel disease – Eric A. Franzosa – Nature Microbiology

Active Acupoints Differ from Inactive Acupoints in Modulating Key Plasmatic Metabolites of Hypertension: A Targeted Metabolomics Study – Yang M – Sci Rep

Isobaric Labeling Quantitative Metaproteomics for the Study of Gut Microbiome Response to Arsenic – Liu CW – J Proteome Res.

GENERAL MICROBIOME:

The Human Microbiome in Health and Disease – Wyatt M. Arnold – Genomic Applications in Pathology

Microbes: possible link between modern lifestyle transition and the rise of metabolic syndrome – Moossavi S – Obes Rev.

CANCER and MICROBIOTA:

Microbiota in cancer development and treatment – Muhammad Hassan Raza – Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology

Alcohol and gastrointestinal cancers – Vanella G – Curr Opin Gastroenterol.

Gut microbiota in patients after surgical treatment for colorectal cancer – Jin Y – Environ Microbiol

The Microbiome in Bipolar Depression: A Longitudinal Study of One Pair of Monozygotic Twins – Jiang HY – Bipolar Disord.

Gut Microbiota, Fusobacteria, and Colorectal Cancer – Kelly D – Diseases

PRENATAL AND INFANT MICROBIOME:

The Prenatal Microbiome: A New Player for Human Health – D’Argenio V – High Throughput

Enteric dysbiosis and fecal calprotectin expression in premature infants – Thao T. B. Ho – Pediatric Research

Long-term colonization exceeding six years from early infancy of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum in human gut. – Oki K – BMC Microbiol.

EYE MICROBIOME:

Alterations in gut bacterial and fungal microbiomes are associated with bacterial Keratitis, an inflammatory disease of the human eye – Jayasudha R – J Biosci.

GUT MICROBIOME:

Gut microbiota dysbiosis in male patients with chronic traumatic complete spinal cord injury – Zhang C – J Transl Med.

Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice Induces Acute Bacterial Dysbiosis Within the Fecal Microbiome – Treangen TJ – Front Immunol.

A comparative study of the gut microbiota in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases-does a common dysbiosis exist – Forbes JD – Microbiome.

Microbiome-The Missing Link in the Gut-Brain Axis: Focus on Its Role in Gastrointestinal and Mental Health – Skonieczna-Żydecka K – J Clin Med.

ANIMAL MICROBIOME:

The valproic acid rat model of autism presents with gut bacterial dysbiosis similar to that in human autism – Fang Liu – Molecular Aurtism

Effects of smoking on the lower respiratory tract microbiome in mice – Zhang R – Respir Res

Evaluating the profound effect of gut microbiome on host appetite in pigs – Yang H – BMC Microbiol.

Comparative analysis of the intestinal bacterial community and expression of gut immunity genes in the Chinese Mitten Crab (Eriocheir sinensis) – Dong J – AMB Express.

Rumen methanogen and protozoal communities of Tibetan sheep and Gansu Alpine Finewool sheep grazing on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China – Huang J – BMC Microbiol.

PSXIV-15 The Effect Of Intravaginal Progesterone Implant In The Vaginal Microbiota Of Holstein Cows – E Zanella – Journal of Animal Science

The role of the bovine respiratory microbiota in health and disease – T Alexander – Journal of Animal Science

MICROBIAL ECOLOGY:

Polychaete mucopolysaccharide alters sediment microbial diversity and stimulates ammonia-oxidising functional groups – Dale H – FEMS Microbiol Ecol.

Profiling grapevine trunk pathogens in planta: a case for community-targeted DNA metabarcoding – Morales-Cruz A – BMC Microbiol.

The bacterial community significantly promotes cast iron corrosion in reclaimed wastewater distribution systems – Zhang G – Microbiome

Long-term soil metal exposure impaired temporal variation in microbial metatranscriptomes and enriched active phages – Jacquiod S – Microbiome

Shotgun Metagenomics Reveals Taxonomic and Functional Shifts in Hot Water Microbiome Due to Temperature Setting and Stagnation – Dai D – Front Microbiol

HOST-MICROBE CROSSTALK:

Neutrophils Restrict Tumor-Associated Microbiota to Reduce Growth and Invasion of Colon Tumors in Mice – Triner D – Gastroenterology

Impact of CFTR modulation with Ivacaftor on Gut Microbiota and Intestinal Inflammation– Ooi CY – Sci Rep

Using Enteric Pathogens to Probe the Gut Microbiota – Spiga L – Trends Microbiol.

DIET, NUTRITION AND PROBIOTICS:

Treatment of Active Crohn’s Disease With an Ordinary Food-based Diet That Replicates Exclusive Enteral Nutrition – Svolos V – Gastroenterology

The Dietary Intervention of Transgenic Low-Gliadin Wheat Bread in Patients with Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity (NCGS) Showed No Differences with Gluten Free Diet (GFD) but Provides Better Gut Microbiota Profile – Haro C – Nutrients.

SIRT3 Deficiency Promotes High-Fat Diet-Induced Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease In Correlation With Impaired Intestinal Permeability Through Gut Microbial Dysbiosis – Chen M – Mol Nutr Food Res

Maternal probiotic supplementation for prevention of morbidity and mortality in preterm infants – Grev J – Cochrane Database Syst Rev

Role of prebiotics and probiotics in the functionality of the microbiota in the patients receiving enteral nutrition – Ballesteros Pomar – Nutr Hosp.

Probiotics Streptococcus salivarius 24SMB and Streptococcus oralis 89a interfere with biofilm formation of pathogens of the upper respiratory tract – Bidossi A – BMC Infect Dis

VAGINAL MICROBIOME:

Vaginal dysbiosis, and the risk of human papillomavirus and cervical cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis – Brusselaers N – Am J Obstet Gynecol.

Microbiota dysbiosis is associated with HPV-induced cervical carcinogenesis – Kwasniewski W – Oncol Lett.

CO-CULTURE MODEL and EFFECTS:

Dynamics of Biofilm Formation by Salmonella Typhimurium and Beef Processing Plant Bacteria in Mono- and Dual-Species Cultures – Visvalingam J – Microb Ecol

Anaerobic Degradation of the Plant Sugar Sulfoquinovose Concomitant With H2S Production: Escherichia coli K-12 and Desulfovibrio sp. Strain DF1 as Co-culture Model – Burrichter A – Front Microbiol.