July 27, 2019

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

 

Human and General Microbiome

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Animal Microbiome and Animal Experiments

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

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

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

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

 

Water Microbiome

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

 

Built Environment Microbiome

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

 

Plant Microbiome

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

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

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

 

Bioinformatics

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

July 24, 2019

Welcome back! Today’s all-around Digest features an animal study identifying a single bacterium as therapy against rheumatoid arthritis, a field trial with bacteria colonizing and sterile Asian tiger mosquitoes to combat vector borne diseases, and a non-microbiology pick about the balance between longevity and immunity. Enjoy!

Event

Microbiome Movement – Oncology Response Summit – Boston

General microbiology

Motile curved bacteria are Pareto-optimal – Rudi Schuech et al. – PNAS

Press: ‘Curvy bacteria’ weigh the benefits of different shapes – Science Daily

Antimicrobial resistance

The burden of antimicrobial resistance at tertiary care hospital, southern Ethiopia: a three years’ retrospective study – Tsegaye Alemayehu et al. – BMC Infectious Diseases

Human oral microbiome

Review: Regulation of oral immune tolerance by the microbiome in food allergy – Emmanuel Stephen-Victor & Talal A Chatila – Current Opinion in Immunology

Human respiratory microbiome

Editorial: Changes in lung microbiome do not explain the development of ventilator-associated pneumonia – Lieuwe D. J. Bos & Andre C. Kalil – Intensive Care Medicine

Human gut microbiome

In vitro: Microbial communities in a dynamic in vitro model for the human ileum resemble the human ileal microbiota – Maria Stolaki et al. – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Pouchitis: Clinical, Endoscopic, Histologic, and Microbiota Results from a Pilot Study – Daniel Selvig et al. – Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Dysbiosis of the gut microbiome is associated with CKD5 and correlated with clinical indices of the disease: a case–controlled study – Yang Li et al. – Journal of Translational Medicine

Animal experiments

Supplementation of diet with non-digestible oligosaccharides alters the intestinal microbiota, but not arthritis development, in IL-1 receptor antagonist deficient mice – Rebecca Rogier et al. – PLoS One

Microbial metabolite deoxycholic acid shapes microbiota against Campylobacter jejuni chicken colonization – Bilal Alrubaye et al. – PLoS One

Lamb: A novel animal model for regional microbial dysbiosis of the pioneer microbial community – Nilusha Malmuthuge and Philip J. Griebel – Frontiers in Microbiology

** A single bacterium restores the microbiome dysbiosis to protect bones from destruction in a rat model of rheumatoid arthritis – Hudan Pan, Ruijin Guo, Yanmei Ju, Qi Wang et al. – Microbiome

Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers and Gut Microbiome Modulate Metabolic Syndrome–Related Aqueous Metabolites in Mice – David K. Scoville et al. – Drug Metabolism and Disposition

Animal microbiome

** Incompatible and sterile insect techniques combined eliminate mosquitoes – Xiaoying Zheng et al. – Nature

Commentary: Tiger mosquitoes tackled in a trial – Peter Armbruster – Nature

Host genetics and geography influence microbiome composition in the sponge Ircinia campana – Sarah M. Griffiths et al. – Journal of Animal Ecology

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Non-target Effects of Naphthalene on the Soil Microbial Biomass and Bacterial Communities in the Subalpine Forests of Western China – Liying Lan et al. – Scientific Reports

Drought modulates interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and barley genotype diversity – Agnieszka Sendek et al. – Scientific Reports

Variation in rhizosphere microbiota correlates with edaphic factor in an abandoned antimony tailing dump – Enzong Xiao et al. – Environmental Pollution

Structural changes of soil organic matter and the linkage to rhizosphere bacterial communities with biochar amendment in manure fertilized soils – Ruilin Huang & Zhenyi Zhang et al. – Science of the Total Environment

Review: The Postharvest Microbiome: The Other Half of Sustainability – Michael Wisniewski & Samir Droby – Biological Control

Water and extremophile microbiome

Oil degradation potential of microbial communities in water and sediment of Baltic Sea coastal area – Hanna Miettinen et al. – PLoS One

Linking dissolved organic matter composition and bacterioplankton communities in an Amazon floodplain system – Michaela L. de Melo et al. – Limnology and Oceanography

Pollution shapes the bacterial community of a river: a case study – N. Yadav & S. Sharma – International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

A pollution gradient contributes to the taxonomic, functional, and resistome diversity of microbial communities in marine sediments – Jiarui Chen & Shelby E. McIlroy et al. – Microbiome

Phages and viruses

Review: Human Virome and Disease: High-Throughput Sequencing for Virus Discovery, Identification of Phage-Bacteria Dysbiosis and Development of Therapeutic Approaches with Emphasis on the Human Gut – Tasha M. Santiago-Rodriguez & Emily B. Hollister – Viruses

Technology

Targeting 16S rDNA for Stable Recombinant Gene Expression in Pseudomonas – Maike Otto et al. – ACS Synthetic Biology

Microbes in the news

Gut microbes may help malnourished children – Elizabeth Pennisi – Science

The microbiota–gut–brain axis – Natasha Bray – Nature

Nam June Paik Art Center looks at ecosystems, up close – Shim Woo-hyun – The Korea Herald

DuPont Opens State-of-the-Art Probiotics Fermentation Unit – WholeFoods Magazine

The Art Of Solving Antibiotic Overuse in America – ArtIHolics

MICROBIOME RESEARCH IS MORE THAN CHASING GUT FEELINGS – Chad Campbell – Purdue University

NIH grant to fund research on microbiome’s role in cancer – Healio

PET TALK: Balanced GI tract plays large role in dog’s overall well-being – Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences

Mathematics helps us understand the complexity of our microbiome – Tim Sandle – Digital Journal

Good bacteria, bad products – Gali Weinreb – Globes

Gut Microbiome May Alter ALS Progression in Mice – Julianna LeMieux – GenEngNews

Xin’s non-microbiology pick

** The longevity-promoting factor, TCER-1, widely represses stress resistance and innate immunity – Francis R. G. Amrit et al. – Nature Communications

July 18, 2019

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

 

Human and General Microbiome

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Animal Models / Animal Experiments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Beneficial Compounds and Microbes

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

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

 

Plant Microbiome

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

 

Environmental Microbiome

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

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

July 9, 2019

Today’s digest features an overview of the “microbiota–nutrient metabolism–epigenetics” axis, a study on the human bile microbiota, an interesting selection of probiotics studies, and more. Check out the new Everything Hertz podcast episode “Improving the scientific poster”. Happy reading/listening!

Gut microbiome

*Epigenetic Regulation at the Interplay Between Gut Microbiota and Host Metabolism – Joan Miro-Blanch and Oscar Yanes – Frontiers in Genetics

Microbiome and type 1 diabetes – Heli Siljander – EBioMedicine

Framework for rational donor selection in fecal microbiota transplant clinical trials – Claire Duvallet – medRxiv

A calcium-rich multi-mineral intervention to modulate colonic microbial communities and metabolic profiles in humans: Results from a 90-day trial – Muhammad N. Aslam – medRxiv

*The human gallbladder microbiome is related to the physiological state and the biliary metabolic profile – Natalia Molinero – Microbiome

Oral microbiome

Microbial differences between dental plaque and historic dental calculus are related to oral biofilm maturation stage – Irina M. Velsko – Microbiome

Respiratory microbiome

Microbial Composition of the Human Nasopharynx Varies According to Influenza Virus Type and Vaccination Status – Tao Ding – mBio

Skin microbiome

Trait-based analysis of the human skin microbiome – Sharon Bewick – Microbiome

Probiotics

Intermittent Lactobacilli-containing Vaginal Probiotic or Metronidazole Use to Prevent Bacterial Vaginosis Recurrence: Safety and Preliminary Efficacy by Microscopy and Sequencing – Janneke H.H.M. van de Wijgert – medRxiv

Impact of spray‐drying on the pili of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG – Shari Kiekens – Microbial Biotechnology

The Probiotic Mixture VSL#3 Reverses Olanzapine-Induced Metabolic Dysfunction in Mice – Navneet Dhaliwal – Psychiatric Disorders

Prophylactic Effects of Bifidobacterium adolescentis on Anxiety and Depression-Like Phenotypes After Chronic Stress: A Role of the Gut Microbiota-Inflammation Axis – Ying Guo – Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Water microbiome

Active eukaryotes in drinking water distribution systems of ground and surface waterworks – Jenni Inkinen – Microbiome

Detection of introduced and resident marine species using environmental DNA metabarcoding of sediment and water – Luke E. Holman – bioRxiv

Plant/root/soil microbiome

Microscale interactions between immigrant bacteria and plant leaf microbiota as revealed by live imaging – Shifra Steinberg – bioRxiv

Soil bacterial populations are shaped by recombination and gene-specific selection across a meadow – Alexander Crits-Christoph – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

DeepMicrobes: taxonomic classification for metagenomics with deep learning – Qiaoxing Liang – bioRxiv

Misclassification of a whole genome sequence reference defined by the Human Microbiome – DJ Darwin R. Bandoy – medRxiv

CarboLogR: a Shiny/R application for statistical analysis of bacterial utilisation of carbon sources – Kevin Vervier – bioRxiv

Using collaboration networks to identify authorship bias in meta-analyses – Thiago C. Moulin and Olavo B. Amaral – medRxiv

Podcast

*Episode 87: Improving the scientific poster (with Mike Morrison) – Dan Quintana and James Heathers – Everything Hertz

A terrific interview with @mikemorrison about the Better Poster format and UX design principles in science.

July 2, 2019

This Tuesday, read about the fecal microbial transplantation for cardiometabolic syndrome treatment, oral microbiome of early stage Parkinson’s disease, Finnish Health and Early Life Microbiota (HELMi) project, and more. Happy reading!

General microbiome

Review: Defining Division of Labour in Microbial Communities – Samir Giri – JMB

Review: Selective pressures during chronic infection drive microbial competition and cooperation – Jiwasmika Baishya & Catherine A. Wakeman – Biofilms and Microbiomes

Gut microbiome

*Review: Fecal Microbial Transplantation and Its Potential Application in Cardiometabolic Syndrome – Avner Leshem – Frontiers in Immunology

Review: The Microbiome and Irritable Bowel Syndrome – A Review on the Pathophysiology, Current Research and Future Therapy – Pei Pei Chong – Frontiers in Microbiology

Alterations of the bile microbiome in primary sclerosing cholangitis – Timur Liwinski – BMJ Gut Microbiota

Selective and suppressive effects of antibiotics on donor and recipient bacterial strains in gut microbiota determine transmission efficiency of blaNDM-1-bearing plasmids – Lianwei Ye – Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Pregnancy and early life

Contributions to human breast milk microbiome and enteromammary transfer of Bifidobacterium breve – Kattayoun Kordy – bioRxiv

Experimental support for multidrug resistance transfer potential in the preterm infant gut microbiota – Mari Hagbø – Paediatric research

*Cohort profile: Finnish Health and Early Life Microbiota (HELMi) longitudinal birth cohort – Katri Korpela – BMJ Paediatrics

Oral microbiome

*The oral microbiome of early stage Parkinson’s disease and its relationship with functional measures of motor and non-motor function – Dragos Mihaila – PlosOne

Phages and viruses

What is (not) known about the dynamics of the human gut virome in health and disease – Leen Beller Jelle Matthijnssens – Current Opinion in Virology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Characterization of indigenous bacteria from radon-rich groundwater and their tolerance to physicochemical stress – T. Nayak – International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

Sewage effluent from an Indian hospital harbors novel carbapenemases and integron-borne antibiotic resistance genes – Nachiket P. Marathe – Microbiome

Techniques

Primer-free FISH probes from metagenomics/metatranscriptomics data permit the study of uncharacterised taxa in complex microbial communities – Shi Ming Tan – Biofilms and microbiomes

Bioinformatics

Use and abuse of correlation analyses in microbial ecology – Alex Carr – ISME Journal

Education

From trainees to trainers to instructors: Sustainably building a national capacity in bioinformatics training – Annette McGrath – Plos Computational Biology

Ten quick tips for effective dimensionality reduction – Lan Huong Nguyen and Susan Holmes – Plos Computational Biology

June 29, 2019

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

 

Human or General Microbiome

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Animal Microbiome / Animal Experiments

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Microbiome and Therapeutics (Compounds, Microbes or Procedures)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Bioinformatics, Methods and Techniques

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

June 27, 2019

This Thursday, read about the well-to-well contamination in microbiome research, antibiotic resistance gene pool in avian microbiomes, a novel robust taxonomic framework (AutoTax), and more. Happy reading!

General microbiome

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

Controlling for Contaminants in Low-Biomass 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing Experiments – Lisa Karstens – mSystems

Skin microbiome

The impact of skin care products on skin chemistry and microbiome dynamics – Amina Bouslimani – BMC Biology

Animal microbiome

*Meta-transcriptomics reveals a diverse antibiotic resistance gene pool in avian microbiomes – Vanessa R. Marcelin – BMC Biology

Soil microbiome

Defoliation management and grass growth habits modulated the soil microbial community of turfgrass systems – Qing Xia – PlosOne

Comparative overview of red kidney bean (Phaseolus valgaris) rhizospheric bacterial diversity in perspective of altitudinal variations – Deep Chandra Suyal – Biologia

Animal experiments

Puerarin prevents high-fat diet-induced obesity by enriching Akkermansia muciniphila in the gut microbiota of mice – Lei Wang – PlosOne

Water and extremophile microbiome

The anaerobic digestion microbiome: a collection of 1600 metagenome-assembled genomes shows high species diversity related to methane production – Stefano Campanaroa – bioRxiv

In situ transformation of ethoxylate and glycol surfactants by shale-colonizing microorganisms during hydraulic fracturing – Morgan V. Evans – ISME Journal

Bioinformatics

*Comprehensive ecosystem-specific 16S rRNA gene databases with automated taxonomy assignment (AutoTax) provide species-level resolution in microbial ecology – Morten Simonsen Dueholm – bioRxiv

June 20, 2019

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

General microbiology

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

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

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

Antimicrobial resistance

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

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

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

Human oral microbiome

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

Human gut microbiome

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Metabolomics

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

Animal experiments

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

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

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

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

Animal microbiome

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

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

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

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

Food microbiome

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

Plant, root and soil microbiome

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Water and extremophile microbiome

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

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

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

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

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

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

Phages and viruses

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

Technology

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

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

Bioinformatics

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

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

Microbes in the news

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

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

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

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

Non-microbiology picks

** The State of Open Data Report 2018

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

June 11, 2019

Today’s digest is about microbiome and Alzheimer’s disease association, global survey of arsenic related genes in soil microbiome,  Bifidobacterium bifidus in infant gut and a preprint on selection in host microbiome evolution.

General microbiome

Understanding the Role of the Gut Microbiome and Microbial Metabolites in Obesity and Obesity-Associated Metabolic Disorders: Current Evidence and Perspectives – Natalia Vallianou – Current Obesity Reports

Alzheimer’s disease and symbiotic microbiota: an evolutionary medicine perspective – Molly Fox – Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Biogeography of the Oral Microbiome: The Site-Specialist Hypothesis – Jessica L. Mark Welch – Annual Review of Microbiology

Human microbiome

Colonic mucosal and exfoliome transcriptomic profiling and fecal microbiome response to a flaxseed lignan extract intervention in humans – Johanna W. Lampe – American journal of Clinical Nutrition

Analysis of Transcriptionally Active Bacteria Throughout the Gastrointestinal Tract of Healthy Individuals – Riccardo Vasapolli – Gastroenterology

Identification of Salivary Microbiota and its Association with Host Inflammatory Mediators in Periodontitis – Anna Lundmark – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Effect of the Degree of Polymerization of Fructans on Ex Vivo Fermented Human Gut Microbiome – Erola Astó – Nutrients

Inflammatory skin is associated with changes in the skin microbiota composition on the back of severe acne patients – Marie-Ange Dagnelie – Experimental Dermatology

Gut microbiota development of preterm infants hospitalised in intensive care units – H. Tauchi – Beneficial Microbes

Animal experiments

Antibiotic treatment in feedlot cattle: a longitudinal study of the effect of oxytetracycline and tulathromycin on the fecal and nasopharyngeal microbiota – Devin B. Holman – Microbiome

Sequential changes in the host gut microbiota during infection with the intestinal parasitic nematode Strongyloides venezuelensis – Tanzila Afrin – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Plant, root, soil microbiome

A global survey of arsenic-related genes in soil microbiomes – Taylor K. Dunivin – BMC Biology

Geochemical-Compositional-Functional Changes in Arctic Soil Microbiomes Post Land Submergence Revealed by Metagenomics – Nengfei Wang – Microbes and Environments

Water microbiome and extremophiles

Comparison of the microbiomes of two drinking water distribution systems—with and without residual chloramine disinfection – Michael B. Waak – Microbiome

Probiotics

Probiotics may not prevent the deterioration of necrotizing enterocolitis from stage I to II/III – Zheng-Li Wang – BMC Pediatrics

Bifidobacterium bifidum and the infant gut microbiota: an intriguing case of microbe‐host co‐evolution – Sabrina Duranti – Environmental Microbiology

Techniques

NanoARG: a web service for detecting and contextualizing antimicrobial resistance genes from nanopore-derived metagenomes – G.A.Arango-Argoty – Microbiome

Metabolic route computation in organism communities – Markus Krummenacker – Microbiome

The role of multilevel selection in host microbiome evolution – Simon van Vliet – BioRxiv

Microbes and the market

Human Microbiome Therapeutics Market Analysis 2019: With Top 20 Countries data, Product Types, Segmentation, Market Share Analysis, Influential Trends And Challenges, Forecast To 2023 – Saginaw Daily

Global Human Microbiome Based Drugs and Diagnostics Market Potential Growth 2019 | Second Genome Inc., Enterome Bioscience, Yakult – Business Tech Hub

Human Microbiome Market 2024 Significant Development | Future Trends of Key Players by Size and Share – The Warren Daily

In-Depth Research Report of Global Microbiome Sequencing Services Market (2019 Version), with Types, Application, and Manufactures – the Pueblo Daily

Microbiome Sequencing Services Market Key Players, Industry Overview, Demand & Supply Chain Analysis, Forecast To 2024 – Burbank Observer

Human Microbiome Market Growth, Trend and Forecast 2018-2026 – Business Herald

 

May 29, 2019

Changes to the pig gut microbiome based on age, gut bacteria community composition in aquatic invertebrates, fungal diversity on limestone cathedral walls, chalk-talk vs PowerPoint in large microbiology lectures.

Human oral microbiome

Applications of the oral microbiome in personalized dentistry – Georgios N Belibasakis – Archives of Oral Biology

Human vaginal microbiome

Detection of Methanobrevibacter smithii in vaginal samples collected from women diagnosed with bacterial vaginosis – Ghiles Grine – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Human gut microbiome

Gut Microbial Dataset of a foraging tribe from rural West Bengal – insights into unadulterated and transitional microbial abundance – Sayak Ganguli – Data in Brief

Gut microbiome of pre-adolescent children of two ethnicities residing in three distant cities – Wei Wei Thwe Khine – Scientific Reports

The eradication of Helicobacter pylori restores rather than disturbs the gastrointestinal microbiota in asymptomatic young adults – Cong He – Helicobacter

Pre-print: Cytometric fingerprints of gut microbiota predict Crohn’s disease state – Peter Rubbens – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Rapamycin modulates tissue aging and lifespan independently of the gut microbiota in Drosophila – Joseph M Schinaman – Scientific Reports

Age-based dynamic changes of phylogenetic composition and interaction networks of health pig gut microbiome feeding in a uniformed condition – Shanlin Ke – BMC Veterinary Research

Pre-print: Effects of Five Products on Gut Microbiota and Short-Chain Fatty Acids of Obese Rats – Simin Tan – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Effect of different forage-to-concentrate ratios on ruminal bacterial structure and real-time methane production in sheep – Runhang Li – PLOS ONE

Pre-print: Microbiomes from feces vs. gut in aquatic vertebrates: distinct community compositions between substrates and preservation methods – Sten Anslan – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Glycoside Hydrolase Genes Are Required for Virulence of Agrobacterium tumefaciens on Bryophyllum daigremontiana and Tomato – Stephanie L Mathews – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Effect of water-driven changes in rice rhizosphere on Cd lability in three soils with different pH – Jinjin Wang – Journal of Environmental Sciences

Impact of AMF Claroideoglomus etunicatum on the structure of fungal communities in the tomato rhizosphere – Agnieszka Jamiołkowska – Acta Mycologica

Effect of land use and carbonates on organic matter stabilization and microbial communities in Mediterranean soils – Mireia Martí-Roura – Geoderma

Pre-print: Close-Range Interactions Favor Growth in Random-Paired Extracted Soil Bacteria – Manupriyam Dubey – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome

New microbial lineages capable of carbon fixation and nutrient cycling in deep-sea sediments of the northern South China Sea – Jiao-Mei Huang – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Pre-print: Spatial variations of microbial communities in abyssal and hadal sediments across the Challenger Deep – Guojie Cui – PeerJ

Taxonomic structure and potential nitrogen metabolism of microbial assemblage in a large hypereutrophic steppe lake – Xiaodong Qu – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Built environment

Fungal diversity and distribution across distinct biodeterioration phenomena in limestone walls of the old cathedral of Coimbra, UNESCO World Heritage Site – João Trovão – International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Probiotics/prebiotics

Dietary probiotics have different effects on the composition of fecal microbiota in farmed raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) and silver fox (Vulpes vulpes fulva) – Yongjia Peng – BMC Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Microbiome therapies could be the next frontier in medicine. But how exactly do you make them? – Kate Sheridan – STAT

Possible link between infant gut microbiome and development of allergies – Bob Yirka – Medical Xpress

Science, career, and publishing

Pre-print: Rock the Chalk: A five-year comparative analysis of a large microbiology lecture course reveals improved outcomes of chalk-talk compared to PowerPoint – Christopher M Waters – bioRxiv