July 26, 2018

Altered intestinal phage populations in murine colitis, degradation of aromatic compounds by the wheat rhizosphere, barley products change the gut microbiota composition of rats.

General microbiome

Defining microbiome function – Jonathan L Klassen – Nature Microbiology

Electroactive microorganisms and microbial consortia – Enrico Marsili – Bioelectrochemistry

Humanome Versus Microbiome: Games of Dominance and Pan-Biosurveillance in the Omics Universe – Manousos E Kambouris – OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology

Human respiratory microbiome

The nasopharyngeal microbiota in patients with viral respiratory tract infections is enriched in bacterial pathogens – Sophie Edouard – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Human oral microbiome

Paired analysis of the microbiota between surface tissue swabs and biopsies from pediatric patients undergoing adenotonsillectomy – James Johnston – International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Bacterial endotoxins and microorganisms in the oral cavities of patients on cancer therapy – J Mathews – Microbial Pathogenesis

Human gut microbiome

Assessing the Viability of a Synthetic Bacterial Consortium on the In Vitro Gut Host-microbe Interface – Marta Calatayud Arroyo – Journal of Visualized Experiments

Altered gut microbiota profile in patients with generalized anxiety disorder – Hai-yin Jiang – Journal of Psychiatric Research

Animal experiments

Beneficial changes of gut microbiota and metabolism in weaned rats with Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM and Bifidobacterium lactis Bi-07 supplementation – Mengxia Wang – Journal of Functional Foods

Diammonium Glycyrrhizinate Protects against Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in mice through modulation of gut microbiota and restoring intestinal barrier – Yun Li – Molecular Pharmaceuticals

Animal microbiome

Altering the Gut Microbiome of Cattle: Considerations of Host-Microbiome Interactions for Persistent Microbiome Manipulation – Brooke A Clemmons – Microbial Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Microbial community response to growing season and plant nutrient optimisation in a boreal Norway spruce forest – Julia C Haas – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Diversity and Co-occurrence Patterns of Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities in Seven Intercropping Systems – Sen Li – Frontiers in Microbiology

Metatranscriptome Analysis Deciphers Multifunctional Genes and Enzymes Linked With the Degradation of Aromatic Compounds and Pesticides in the Wheat Rhizosphere – Dhananjaya P Singh – Frontiers in Microbiology

Genome variations between rhizosphere and bulk soil ecotypes of a Pseudomonas koreensis population – Lucas Dantas Lopes – Environmental Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Comparative microbial communities in tidal flats sediment on Incheon, South Korea – Hye Jin Choi – The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Food microbiology

Fucoidan alleviates dyslipidemia and modulates gut microbiota in high-fat diet-induced mice – Min Liu – Journal of Functional Foods

Polyphenolic derivatives from mango (Mangifera Indica L.) modulate fecal microbiome, short-chain fatty acids production and the HDAC1/AMPK/LC3 axis in rats with DSS-induced colitis – Hyemee Kim – Journal of Functional Foods

Jaboticaba berry peel intake increases short chain fatty acids production and prevent hepatic steatosis in mice fed high-fat diet – Ângela Giovana Batista – Journal of Functional Foods

Bioavailability of Isoflavone Metabolites After Korean Fermented Soybean Paste (Doenjang) Ingestion in Estrogen‐Deficient Rats – Da-Hye Lee – Journal of Food Science

Barley Products of Different Fibre Composition Selectively Change Microbiota Composition in Rats – Cristina Teixeira – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Probiotics/prebiotics

A soy-based probiotic drink modulates the microbiota and reduces body weight gain in diet-induced obese mice – Juliana de Carvalho Marchesin – Journal of Functional Foods

Probiotics in cystic fibrosis patients: A double blind crossover placebo controlled study: Pilot study from the ESPGHAN Working Group on Pancreas/CF – Stephanie Van Biervliet – Clinical Nutrition ESPEN

Probiotics in Pediatric Gastroenterology: Emerging Indications – Elena Scarpato – Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Phages and viruses

Murine colitis reveals a disease-associated bacteriophage community – Breck A Duerkop – Nature Microbiology

Widespread anti-CRISPR proteins in virulent bacteriophages inhibit a range of Cas9 proteins – Alexander P Hynes – Nature Communications

Bioinformatics

A marginalized two-part Beta regression model for microbiome compositional data – Haitao Chai – PLOS Computational Biology

Metabolomics

Simultaneous HS-SPME GC-MS determination of short chain fatty acids, trimethylamine and trimethylamine N-oxide for gut microbiota metabolic profile – Jessica Fiori – Talanta

Techniques

Balances: a New Perspective for Microbiome Analysis – J Rivera-Pinto – mSystems

Coupling magnetic-nanoparticle mediated isolation (MMI) and stable isotope probing (SIP) for identifying and isolating the active microbes involved in phenanthrene degradation in wastewater with higher resolution and accuracy – Jibing Li – Water Research

July 25, 2018

Today’s digest consists of opinion paper from European MyNewGut project, review article on gut microbiota dysbiosis, and meta-analysis to find association between antibiotic associated microbiota perturbation and childhood obesity. Also includes application of contraceptive rings and probiotic capsules to increase vaginal lactobacilli, and how preprint publishing could create confusion in public journalism!

General microbiome

Towards microbiome-informed dietary recommendations for promoting metabolic and mental health: Opinion papers of the MyNewGut project – Yolanda Sanz – Clinical Nutrition

Review: The gut microbiota: A new target in the management of alcohol dependence? – Sophie Leclercq – Alcohol

Review: Low diversity gut microbiota dysbiosis: drivers, functional implications and recovery – Michael Kriss – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Review: Environmental factors, gut microbiota, and colorectal cancer prevention – Mingyang Song – Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Review: The association between antibiotic use in infancy and childhood overweight or obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis – SA Miller – Obesity Reviews

Multi-site human microbiome

Unique subgingival microbiota associated with periodontitis in cirrhosis patients – Anders Jensen – Scientific Reports

Human respiratory microbiome

A Metagenomic Comparison of Tracheal Aspirate and Mini-Bronchial Alveolar Lavage for Assessment of Respiratory Microbiota – Katrina Kalantar – bioRxiv

Human vaginal microbiome

Contraceptive rings promote vaginal lactobacilli in a high bacterial vaginosis prevalence population: A randomised, open-label longitudinal study in Rwandan women – Tania Crucitti – PlosOne

Comparative phase I randomized open-label pilot clinical trial of Gynophilus® (Lcr regenerans®) immediate release capsules versus slow release muco-adhesive tablets – Caroline Dausset – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Human gut microbiome

Association Between Intestinal Microbiota Collected at Hospital Admission and Outcomes of Patients with Cirrhosis – Jasmohan S Bajaj – Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Animal experiments

Butyrate regulates inflammatory cytokine expression without affecting oxidative respiration in primary astrocytes from spontaneously hypertensive rats – Tao Yang – Physiological Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Quantitative stable isotope probing with H218O reveals that most bacterial taxa in soil synthesize new ribosomal RNA – Katerina Papp – The ISME Journal

Community structure and plant growth-promoting potential of cultivable bacteria isolated from Cameroon soil – Gylaine VT Tchakounte – Microbiological Research

Water and extremophile microbiome

Effects of mercury addition on microbial community composition and nitrate removal inside permeable reactive barriers – Kenly Hiller-Bittrolff – Environmental Pollution

Food microbiology

Food Chemicals Disrupt Human Gut Microbiota Activity And Impact Intestinal Homeostasis As Revealed By In Vitro Systems – Clemence Defois – Scientific Reports

Polyol-producing lactic acid bacteria isolated from sourdough and their application to reduce sugar in a quinoa-based milk substitute – Stephanie Jeske – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics

Probiotics in cystic fibrosis patients: A double blind crossover placebo controlled study: Pilot study from the ESPGHAN Working Group on Pancreas/CF – Stephanie Van Biervliet – Clinical Nutrition ESPEN

Phages and viruses

Parvovirus Minute Virus of Mice Interacts with Sites of Cellular DNA Damage to Establish and Amplify its Lytic Infection – Kinjal Majumder – eLife

Techniques

Review: The evolving interface between synthetic biology and functional metagenomics – Eric Van der Helm – Nature Chemical Biology

Targeted analysis of microbial-generated phenolic acid metabolites derived from grape flavanols by gas chromatography-triple quadrupole mass spectrometry – Eileen Carry – Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

Science, publishing, and career 

Preprints could promote confusion and distortion – Nature News

Science-adjacent’ conferences and why they matter – Nature News

Tulika’s non-microbiology picks

Metformin inhibits gluconeogenesis via a redox-dependent mechanism in vivo – Anila K Madiraju – Nature Medicine

 

July 19, 2018

An all-around Digest today features newly discovered Wolbachia in Anopheles mosquitoes that can lead to probiotic therapy for malaria, a novel mechanism for the plants to control rhizosphere microbiota, growth and defense, and fascinating art produced entirely by microbes. Enjoy!

General microbiology

Review: Large noncoding RNAs in bacteria – Kimberly A. Harris & Ronald R. Breaker – Microbiology spectrum

Bioremediation and microbial metabolism of benzo(a)pyrene – E M Ostrem Loss & J H Yu – Molecular Microbiology

Changing of the Genomic Pattern of Salmonella Enteritidis Strains Isolated in Brazil Over a 48 year-period revealed by Whole Genome SNP Analyses – Fábio Campioni et al. – Scientific Reports

Preprint: Host adaptation and convergent evolution increases antibiotic resistance without loss of virulence in a major human pathogen – Alicia Fajardo-Lubian et al. – bioRxiv

Pregnancy and early life

Pregestational overweight and obesity are associated with differences in gut microbiota composition and systemic inflammation in the third trimester – María Florencia Zacarías et al. – PLoS One

Mini-Review: Antibiotics and lactation: An overview of relative infant doses and a systematic assessment of clinical studies – J.J. van Wattum et al. – Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology

Human respiratory microbiome

Characterisation of the nasal microbiota in granulomatosis with polyangiitis – Rennie L Rhee et al. – Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Human skin microbiome

Human skin commensals augment Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis – Emma Boldock et al. – Nature Microbiology

Human oral microbiome

Unique subgingival microbiota associated with periodontitis in cirrhosis patients – Anders Jensen et al. – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

ACI‐1 beta‐lactamase is widespread across human gut microbiomes in Negativicutes due to transposons harboured by tailed prophages – Chris M Rands et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Review: Recent advances in probiotics as live biotherapeutics against gastrointestinal diseases – Kota RK et al. – Current Pharmaceutical Design

Review: Microbiota–Host Crosstalk: A Bridge Between Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Diet, and Cardiovascular Disease – Jacques Amar – American Journal of Hypertension

Human built environment microbiome

β-Lactam and Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Recovered from the Environment of Human and Veterinary Tertiary Care Hospitals – Dimitria A. Mathys et al. – Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Metabolomics

Quantitative metabolomics comparison of traditional blood draws and TAP capillary blood collection – Alexis Catala et al. – Metabolomics

Functional genetic discovery of enzymes using full-scan mass spectrometry metabolomics – Amy A. Caudy et al. – Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Animal experiments

Dietary L-Arginine Supplementation Alleviates the Intestinal Injury and Modulates the Gut microbiota in Broiler Chickens Challenged by Clostridium perfringens – Beibei Zhang et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Dissertation: Recent Evolution of Host Genetic Control of Microbiota in Cichlid Fishes and Humans – Kaitlin Patricia Coyle – North Carolina State University

Mouse: Gut Microbiota-Stimulated Innate Lymphoid Cells Support b-Defensin 14 Expression in Pancreatic Endocrine Cells, Preventing Autoimmune Diabetes – Michela Miani et al. – Cell Metabolism

Mouse: In vitro probiotic properties of vaginal Lactobacillus fermentum MG901 and Lactobacillus plantarum MG989 against Candida albicans – Chang-Ho Kang et al. – European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Betaine Improves Intestinal Functions by Enhancing Digestive Enzymes, Ameliorating Intestinal Morphology, and Enriching Intestinal Microbiota in High-salt stressed Rats – Haichao Wang et al. – Nutrients

The evolution of ecological facilitation within mixed-species biofilms in the mouse gastrointestinal tract – Xiaoxi B. Lin et al. – The ISME Journal

Differences Between the Intestinal Lumen Microbiota of Aberrant Crypt Foci (ACF)-Bearing and Non-bearing Rats – Xiuli Xiao et al. – Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Mouse: A selective gut bacterial bile salt hydrolase alters host metabolism – Lina Yao et al. – eLife

Diabetes-Associated Alterations in the Cecal Microbiome and Metabolome are Independent of Diet or Environment in the UC Davis Type 2-Diabetes Mellitus Rat Model – Brian D. Piccolo et al. – American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism

Animal microbiome

Effects of dietary energy levels on rumen bacterial community composition in Holstein heifers under the same forage to concentrate ratio condition – Yanliang Bi et al. – BMC Microbiology

The cecal microbiome of commercial broiler chickens varies significantly by season – Brian B Oakley et al. – Poultry Science

American beaver: Metagenomics reveals functional synergy and novel polysaccharide utilization loci in the Castor canadensis fecal microbiome – Zachary Armstrong et al. – The ISME Journal

High Gut Microbiota Diversity Provides Lower Resistance against Infection by an Intestinal Parasite in Bumblebees – Kathrin Näpflin & Paul Schmid-Hempel – The American Naturalist

Effect of Dietary Fructooligosaccharide (FOS) Supplementation on Ileal Microbiota in Broiler Chickens – Yue Shang et al. – Poultry Science

Arrival date and microorganisms in barn swallows – Z. Al Rubaiee et al. – Journal of Avian Biology

* Preprint: Novel Wolbachia strains in Anopheles malaria vectors from Sub-Saharan Africa – Claire L Jeffries et al. – bioRxiv

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Metabolomics analysis of Cajanus cajan L. seedlings unravelled amelioration of stress induced responses to salinity after halopriming of seeds – Sabarni Biswas, Asok K. Biswas & Bratati De – Plant Signaling & Behavior

* Root exudate metabolites drive plant-soil feedbacks on growth and defense by shaping the rhizosphere microbiota – Lingfei Hu et al. – Nature Communications

Water and extremophile microbiome

Abstract: Exploring the relative importance of surficial cyanobacteria communities versus physical, chemical and bioloigical processes at depth on sulfur cycling in two microbial mat environments – Maya Gomes et al. – Caltech Authors

Temperature driven changes in benthic microbial diversity influences biogeochemical cycling in coastal sediments – Natalie Hicks et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Resistance and Recovery of Methane-Oxidizing Communities depends on Stress Regime and History; a Microcosm Study – Henri van Kruistum et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Enterococci Concentrations in a Coastal Ecosystem are a Function of Fecal Source Input, Environmental Conditions, and Environmental Sources – Derek Rothenheber & Stephen Jones – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Agulhas Current properties shape microbial community diversity and potential functionality – Sandra Phoma et al. – Scientific Reports

Microscale ecology regulates particulate organic matter turnover in model marine microbial communities – Tim N. Enke et al. – Nature Communications

Abundance and diversity of prokaryotes in ephemeral hypersaline lake Chott El Jerid using Illumina Miseq sequencing, DGGE and qPCR assays – Manel Ben Abdallah et al. – Extremophiles

Microplastic bacterial communities in the Bay of Brest: Influence of polymer type and size – Laura Frère et al. – Environmental Pollution

Systematic, continental scale temporal monitoring of marine pelagic microbiota by the Australian Marine Microbial Biodiversity Initiative – Mark V. Brown et al. – Scientific Data

Microbes in space

The influence of bioregenerative life‐support system (BLSS) dietary structure and lifestyle on the gut microbiota: A 105‐day ground‐based space simulation in Lunar Palace 1 – Zikai Hao et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Probiotics, Prebiotics and Synbiotics

Harms Reporting in Randomized Controlled Trials of Interventions Aimed at Modifying Microbiota: A Systematic Review – Aïda Bafeta et al. – Annals of Internal Medicine

Lactobacillus acidophilus and Clostridium butyricum ameliorate colitis in murine by strengthening the gut barrier function and decreasing inflammatory factors – Y. Wang et al. – Beneficial Microbes

Technology

Review: Interkingdom microbial consortia mechanisms to guide biotechnological applications – Shu Zhang et al. – Microbial Biotechnology

Establishing a mucosal gut microbial community in vitro using an artificial simulator – LinShu Liu et al. – PLoS One

Bioinformatics

Minimizing confounders and increasing data quality in murine models for studies of the gut microbiome – Jun Miyoshi et al. – PeerJ

Preprint: Macroecological relationships in the dynamics of gut microbiota – Brian W. Ji et al. – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Designer microbiomes – Alfie Gleeson & Abigail Sawyer – BioTechniques

* You need to see this award-winning artwork made entirely from microbes – Irish News

Disgusting Things You Never Knew Your Pets Are Bringing Into Your Home – Amanda Harding – Cheat Sheet

Scientific education

Preprint: Long term impact of intensive post graduate laboratory training at the Cold Spring Harbor Neurobiology of Drosophila summer course – Sarah Ly et al. – bioRxiv

July 13, 2018

Comparing affects of host physiology and diet on primate gut microbiomes, oral bacterial and fungal dysbiosis in people with HIV, contribution of non-fermentable dietary fiber to prevention of autoimmune neurological disease via the gut microbiota.

General microbiome

Tools for engineering coordinated system behaviour in synthetic microbial consortia – Nicolas Kylilis – Nature Communications

Human oral microbiome

Dysbiosis in the oral bacterial and fungal microbiome of HIV-infected subjects is associated with clinical and immunologic variables of HIV infection – Pranab K Mukherjee – PLOS ONE

Human gut microbiome

Dietary non-fermentable fiber prevents autoimmune neurological disease by changing gut metabolic and immune status – Kerstin Berer – Scientific Reports

Physiology and central carbon metabolism of the gut bacterium Prevotella copri – Thomas Franke – Molecular Microbiology

Chemotaxis of Escherichia coli to major hormones and polyamines present in human gut – Joana G Lopes – The ISME Journal

Stool Microbiota Composition Differs in Patients with Stomach, Colon, and Rectal Neoplasms – Omar Youssef – Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Animal experiments

Of Mice and Men . . . and Microbes: Conclusions and Cautions from a Murine Study of the Lung Microbiome and Microbiome-Immune Interactions – John E McGinniss – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Modulation of gut microbiota by mulberry fruit polysaccharide treatment of obese diabetic db/db mice – Chun Chen – Food & Function

Evidence for the Role of the Cecal Microbiome in Maintenance of Immune Regulation and Homeostasis – Preeti Chhabra – Annals of Surgery

Human Milk Fortification with Bovine Colostrum Is Superior to Formula‐Based Fortifiers to Prevent Gut Dysfunction, Necrotizing Enterocolitis, and Systemic Infection in Preterm Pigs – Jing Sun – Journal of Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Is Effective in Relieving Visceral Hypersensitivity in a Postinfectious Model – Tao Bai – BioMed Research International

Animal microbiome

First report of foregut microbial community in proboscis monkeys: Are diverse forests a reservoir for diverse microbiomes? – Takashi Hayakawa – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Evolutionary trends in host physiology outweigh dietary niche in structuring primate gut microbiomes – Katherine R Amato – The ISME Journal

The composition of the perinatal intestinal microbiota in cattle – Mohammad Jaber Alipour – Scientific Reports

Metagenomic evaluation of the effects of storage conditions on the bacterial microbiota of oysters Crassostrea gasar (Adanson, 1757) – Antonio Ostrensky – Journal of Applied Microbiology

16S rRNA sequencing reveals likely beneficial core microbes within faecal samples of the EU protected slug Geomalacus maculosus – Inga Reich – Scientific Reports

A Robust Noninvasive Approach to Study Gut Microbiota Structure of Amphibian Tadpoles by Feces – Xiaowei Song – Herpetology Research

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Isolation and characterization of two phosphate-solubilizing fungi from rhizosphere soil of moso bamboo and their functional capacities when exposed to different phosphorus sources and pH environments – Yang Zhang – PLOS ONE

Water and extremophile microbiome

Hydrothermal chimneys host habitat-specific microbial communities: analogues for studying the possible impact of mining seafloor massive sulfide deposits – Yuchen Han – Scientific Reports

Food microbiology

Changes in Quality and Microbial Succession of Lightly Salted and Sugar-Salted Blunt Snout Bream (Megalobrama amblycephala) Fillets Stored at 4°C – Yan Li – Journal of Food Protection

Review: Novel approaches for Chemical and Microbiological shelf life extension of cereal crops – Marcus Schmidt – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Probiotics/prebiotics

The short-term impact of probiotic consumption on the oral cavity microbiome – Erik Dassi – Scientific Reports

Bioinformatics

The evolutionary signal in metagenome phyletic profiles predicts many gene functions – Vedrana Vidulin – Microbiome

More microbes

Pre-print: Listeria monocytogenes cell-to-cell spread in epithelia is heterogeneous and dominated by rare pioneer bacteria – Fabian E Ortega – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Gut microbiota: a new way to take your vitamins – João Carlos Gomes-Neto – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

11 July, 2018

Today’s digest is short but full of exciting research. Firstly, a look at how maternal diet can influence infant microbiome and a brilliant preprint highlighting the role women have played in science

General Microbiome

Maternal diet during pregnancy is related with the infant stool microbiome in a delivery mode-dependent manner. Lundgren SN. Microbiome.

Oral Microbiome

Dysbiosis of oral microbiota and its association with salivary immunological biomarkers in autoimmune liver disease.Kazumichi Abe. PLos ONE

Gut Microbiome

Gut microbiota-immune-brain interactions in chemotherapy-associated behavioral comorbidities.Jordan KR Cancer

Analysis of the Gut Microbiome of Rural and Urban Healthy Indians Living in Sea Level and High Altitude Areas. Das B. Scientific Reports

Commentary:Reducing Viability Bias in Analysis of Gut Microbiota in Preterm Infants at Risk of NEC and Sepsis.Agustí G. Frontier in Cellular and Infection Microbiology .

Animal Experiments and Microbiome

Non-nutritive sweeteners possess a bacteriostatic effect and alter gut microbiota in mice.Wang. PLoS One

The spleen microbiota of small wild mammals reveals distinct patterns with tick-borne bacteria. Ge Y. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Drosophila melanogaster establishes a species-specific mutualistic interaction with stable gut-colonizing bacteria.Pais IS. PLoS Biology

Plant, Soil, and Water Microbiome

Microbial community of tannery wastewater involved in nitrification revealed by Illumina MiSeq sequencing.Ma X. Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Rhizosphere fungal community dynamics associated with Rehmannia glutinosa replant disease in a consecutive monoculture regime. Wu L Phytopathology.

Effects of soil erosion on agro-ecosystem services and soil functions: A multidisciplinary study in nineteen organically farmed European and Turkish vineyards. Costantini EAC. Journal of Environmental Management

Virome

Temporal dynamics of the lung and plasma viromes in lung transplant recipients Maia Segura-Wang. PLos ONE

Techniques

Mining Novel Constitutive Promoter Elements in Soil Metagenomic Libraries in <i>Escherichia coli</i>.Westmann CA. Frontier in Microbiology.

Taxonomic and Functional Compositions Impacted by the Quality of Metatranscriptomic Assemblies.Lau MCY. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Preprint

Illuminating women’s hidden contribution to the foundation of theoretical population genetics. Samantha Dung. bioRxiv

July 8, 2018

Today’s Microbiome Digest blog comes up with the current research articles on the microbiome of GIT, Respiratory, UT, Vagina, Infant, Oral, Marine, Plant-Soil and Animal- Bird. It also features the articles on the bioremediation, pre/pro-biotics, nutrient and dietary effects on microbiome, the potential prognosis, biofilm reduction and multi-omics study of pregnancy cohort, role of Environmental Contaminants(ECs), spore-forming bacteria, attenuation of colitis score, systematic repercussions by antibiotics, glucocorticoid signaling, TMAO, drug-induced liver injury (DILI), neurotransmitter interactions, effect of glycation of fish proteins, NOD2-IBD, Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE).

Have a look and enjoy SUNDAY!

EVENTS, JOBS, PhD POSITIONS:

EVENT – Third Annual Microbiome Symposium on September 24 , 8:00AM – 7:00PM at the Stanford Faculty Club

 

GASTRO-INTESTINAL MICROBIOME: 

Analysis of the Gut Microbiome of Rural and Urban Healthy Indians Living in Sea Level and High Altitude Areas – Bhabatosh Das – Scientific Reports 

Review – The Mammalian Intestinal Microbiome: Composition, Interaction with the Immune System, Significance for Vaccine Efficacy, and Potential for Disease Therapy – Desselberger U – Pathogens

The presence of genetic risk variants within PTPN2 and PTPN22 is associated with intestinal microbiota alterations in Swiss IBD cohort patients – Bahtiyar Yilmaz – PLoS One

Absence of NOD2 receptor predisposes to intestinal inflammation by a deregulation in the immune response in hosts that are unable to control gut dysbiosis – Patrícia Reisde Souza – Immunobiology

Review – Outside the liver box: The gut microbiota as pivotal modulator of liver diseases – Annika Wahlström – Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Molecular Basis of Disease

 

RESPIRATORY MICROBIOME:

Review – Microbiome in the primary prevention of allergic diseases and bronchial asthma – B.Sozańska – Allergologia et Immunopathologia

Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea is Associated with Alterations in the Nasal Microbiome and Increase in Inflammation – Benjamin G Wu – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

URINARY TRACT MICROBIOME:

Review – Infections – The Urinary Tract Microbiome: The Answer to All Our Open Questions? – Giuseppe Magistro – European Urology focus

VAGINAL MICROBIOME:

Anti-HIV-1 Activity of Lactic Acid in Human Cervicovaginal Fluid – Tyssen D – mSphere

INFANT MICROBIOME:

Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis EVC001 stably restores the infant gut microbiome over the first year of life in breastfed infants – Jennifer Smilowitz – Pediatrics

Review – Does antibiotic choice for the treatment of suspected late-onset sepsis in premature infants determine the risk of developing necrotising enterocolitis? A systematic review – Josephine V.Seale – Early Human Developmment

ORAL MICROBIOME: 

Review – Cariogenic microbiome and microbiota of the early primary dentition: a contemporary overview – Fakhruddin KS – Oral Diseases

Differential preservation of endogenous human and microbial DNA in dental calculus and dentin – Mann AE – Scientific Reports

Distinctions and associations between the microbiota of saliva and supragingival plaque of permanent and deciduous teeth – Shi W – PLoS One

Dysbiosis of oral microbiota and its association with salivary immunological biomarkers in autoimmune liver disease – Kazumichi Abe – PLoS One

GENERAL HUMAN MICROBIOME:

Human-associated microbial populations as evidence in forensic casework – Frederike C.A – Forensic Science International: Genetics

Book chapter – Genomics and Drug-Metabolizing Enzymes and Its Application in Drug Delivery: Evaluating the Influence of the Microbiome – Sheeba Varghese Gupta

Effects of Substance Use and Sex Practices on the Intestinal Microbiome During HIV-1 Infection – Jennifer A Fulcher –The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Preview – Interactions between Clostridioides difficile and fecal microbiota in in vitro batch model: growth, sporulation and microbiota changes – Sabina Horvat – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review – Metagenomic and clinical microbiology – Sophie Amrane – Human Microbiome

Implants induce a new niche for microbiomes – Tim H. Jakobsen – Wiley Online Library

Short Communication Transmission of IMI-2 carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae from river water to human – Chrislène Laurens – Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance

Review – The hygiene hypothesis: immunological mechanisms of airway tolerance – Eline Haspeslagh – Current Opinion in Immunology

Microbiota affects the expression of genes involved in HPA axis regulation and local metabolism of glucocorticoids in chronic psychosocial stress – M. Vodička – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Review – The Role of Microbiota in Cardiovascular Risk: Focus on Trimethylamine Oxide – HusseinAl-Rubaye – Current Problems in Cardiology

 

HUMAN-MICROBE CROSS-TALK:

Gut Microbiota-Dependent Trimethylamine N-Oxide Predicts Risk of Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Stroke and Is Related to Proinflammatory Monocytes – Haghikia A – Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol.

Cutting Edge: Critical Roles for Microbiota-Mediated Regulation of the Immune System in a Prenatal Immune Activation Model of Autism – Catherine R. Lammert – J Immunol

Critical Role for the Microbiota in CX3CR1+ Intestinal Mononuclear Phagocyte Regulation of Intestinal T Cell Responses – Myunghoo Kim – Immunity

 

MARINE/WATER MICROBIAL ECOLOGY:

Review – Ecology and evolution of seafloor and subseafloor microbial communities – WD Orsi – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Metabolic potential of microbial communities from ferruginous sediments – Aurèle Vuillemin – Environmental Microbiology

Metagenomic analysis of basal ice from an Alaskan glacier – Kayani MUR – Microbiome

Patterns of Change in Metabolic Capabilities of Sediment Microbial Communities in River and Lake Ecosystems – Oest A1 – Int J Microbiol

Succession of toxicity and microbiota in hydraulic fracturing flowback and produced water in the Denver–Julesburg Basin – Natalie M Hull – Science of The Total Environment

 

PLANT or SOIL MICROBIOME:

Preview – New Biological Insights Into How Deforestation in Amazonia Affects Soil Microbial Communities Using Metagenomics and Metagenome-Assembled Genomes – Marie E. Kroeger – Frontiers in Microbiology

Litter quality drives the differentiation of microbial communities in the litter horizon across an alpine treeline ecotone in the eastern Tibetan Plateau – Haifeng Zheng – Scientific Reports

Preview – Unravelling the composition of the root-associated bacterial microbiota of Phragmites australis and Typha latifolia – Laura Pietrangelo – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

BIOREMEDIATION:

Characterization and Dynamic Shift of Microbial Communities during Start-Up, Overloading and Steady-State in an Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor – Nsanzumukiza Martin Vincent – Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health

Review – Response of microbial communities to oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: A review – Linda Adzigbli – Afr. J. Microbiol. Res

A two-staged system to generate electricity in microbial fuel cells using methane – Jaewook Myung – Chemical Engineering Journal

The influence of pressure on crude oil biodegradation in shallow and deep Gulf of Mexico sediments – Nguyen UT – PLoS One

Microbial Community Cohesion Mediates Community Turnover in Unperturbed Aquifers – Robert E. Danczak – mSystems

Energy efficiency: Importance of indigenous microorganisms contained in the municipal solid wastes – S.Zahedi – Waste management

Systematic characterization and proposed pathway of tetracycline degradation in solid waste treatment by Hermetia illucens with intestinal microbiota – Minmin Cai – Environmental Pollution

 

NUTRITION or DIET and TREATMENTS:

Functional Effects of the Buckwheat Iminosugar d-Fagomine on Rats with Diet-Induced Prediabetes – Ramos-Romero S – Mol Nutr Food Res

Long-Term Genistein Consumption Modifies Gut Microbiota, Improving Glucose Metabolism, Metabolic Endotoxaemia and Cognitive Function in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet – López P – Mol Nutr Food Res

Brown rice-specific γ-oryzanol as a promising prophylactic avenue to protect against diabetes mellitus and obesity disease in humans – Masuzaki H – J Diabetes Investig

Intestinal Inflammation in Chilean Infants Fed With Bovine Formula vs. Breast Milk and Its Association With Their Gut Microbiota – Ossa JC – Front Cell Infect Microbiol.

Trigonelline inhibits intestinal microbial metabolism of choline and its associated cardiovascular risk – Anwar S – J Pharm Biomed Anal

Off-target effects of tribendimidine, tribendimidine plus ivermectin, tribendimidine plus oxantel-pamoate, and albendazole plus oxantel-pamoate on the human gut microbiota – Pierre H.H.Schneeberger – International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance

Isoquercetin and inulin synergistically modulate the gut microbiome to prevent development of the metabolic syndrome in mice fed a high fat diet – Si Tan – Scientific Reports

Glycation of fish protein impacts its fermentation metabolites and gut microbiota during in vitro human colonic fermentation – Yuhong Yang – Food Research International

Correlation between microbiota and flavours in fermentation of Chinese Sichuan Paocai – YangshengXiao – Food Research International

Review – Relationship between fatty acids intake and Clostridium coccoides in obese individuals with metabolic syndrome – Giovana Jamar – Food Research International

Review – Microbiota of milk powders and the heat resistance and spoilage potential of aerobic spore-forming bacteria – Faizan A.Sadiq – International Diary Journal

Review – The debate over neurotransmitter interaction in aspartame usage – Arbind Kumar Choudhary – Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

 

METHODS:

Reevaluating approaches to cystic fibrosis pulmonary exacerbations – Schechter MS – Pediatr Pulmonol

Review – Bioresponsive drug delivery systems in intestinal inflammation: State-of-the-art and future perspectives – Niranjan G.Kotla – Advance Drug Delivery Reviews

Rapid analysis of photoautotroph microbial communities in soils by flow cytometric barcoding and fingerprinting – László Menyhárt – Applied Soil Ecology

Degradation studies of modified inulin as potential encapsulation material for colon targeting and release of mesalamine – MichaelWalz – Carbohydrate Polymers

Review – Advances in drug-induced cholestasis: Clinical perspectives, potential mechanisms and in vitro systems – M. LeonorFernández-Murga – Food and Chemical Toxicology

 

ANIMAL and BIRD MICROBIOME:

Characteristics of microbial communities and intestinal pathogenic bacteria for migrated Larus ridibundus in southwest China – Liao F – Microbiology Open

Gut microbiota correlates with fiber and apparent nutrients digestion in goose – Guojun Liu – Poultry Science

Feeding sows resistant starch during gestation and lactation impacts their faecal microbiota and milk composition but shows limited effects on their progeny – Julie Leblois – PLoS One

Analysis of temporal fecal microbiota dynamics in weaner pigs with and without exposure to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli – J. Pollock – Journal of Animal Science

 

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS:

Aryl hydrocarbon receptor/IL-22/Stat3 signaling pathway is involved in the modulation of intestinal mucosa antimicrobial molecules by commensal microbiota in mice – Wang J – Innate Immun.

Oral infection of mice with Fusobacterium nucleatum results in macrophage recruitment to the dental pulp and bone resorption – Larry Johnson – Biomedical Journal

Preview – Fecal Microbiota Transplantation is Associated with Reduced Morbidity and Mortality in Porcine Circovirus Associated Disease – Megan C. Niederwerder – Frontiers in Microbiology

Oral treatment with Lactobacillus rhamnosus 64 during the early postnatal period improves the health of adult rats with TNBS-induced colitis – Stanislava Stanojević – Journal of Functional Foods

Antibiotic-induced dysbiosis effects on the murine gastrointestinal tract and their systemic repercussions – Caio PupinRosa – Life Sciences

 

MICROBIOLOGY:

N-Acetyl-glucosamine influences the biofilm formation of Escherichia coli – Sicard JF – Gut Pathog

Benzoyl Peroxide Inhibits Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Formation by Gardnerella vaginalis 14018 – Ammar Algburi – Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology

 

PRE/PRO – BIOTICS:

Review : Benefaction of probiotics for human health: A review – George Kerry R – J Food Drug Anal

Review – Role of prebiotics in regulation of microbiota and prevention of obesity – Grethel T.Choque Delgado – Food Research International

Effects of the Administration of Probiotics on Fecal Microbiota Diversity and Composition in Healthy Individuals – Choong-Kyun Noh – J Neurogastroenterol Motil

 

METABOLOMICS:

Microbiome-related metabolite changes in gut tissue, cecum content and feces of rats treated with antibiotics – C.Behr – Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

 

MULTI-OMICS PICKS:

Multiomics Modeling of the Immunome, Transcriptome, Microbiome, Proteome, and Metabolome Adaptations During Human Pregnancy – Mohammad Sajjad Ghaemi – Bioinformatics

July 04, 2018

Today’s Digest is about association of the microbiome at various mucosal sites with different diseases in humans, germ-free chicken and microbial community in anoxic inter-tidal zone of Earth to study Lacustrine system of Mars. You can also read about BacStalk- software to analyze bacterial images, Chinese baby project and how air pollution is contributing to incidence of diabetes.

General microbiome

Review: Gut associated bacteria are critical to metabolism, inflammation and health – Philip Newsholme – Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Review: The Microbiome and Acute Kidney Injury – H Rabb – Nephron

Multi-site human microbiome

Review: Cariogenic microbiome and microbiota of the early primary dentition: a contemporary overview – Kausar Sadia Fakhruddin – Oral Diseases

Dysbiosis of oral microbiota and its association with salivary immunological biomarkers in autoimmune liver disease – Kazumichi Abe – PlosOne

Human respiratory microbiome

Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea is Associated with Alterations in the Nasal Microbiome and Increase in Inflammation – Benjamin G Wu – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Microbiota Composition and the Integration of Exogenous and Endogenous Signals in Reactive Nasal Inflammation – Francesco Antonio Salzano – Journal of Immunology Research

Human skin microbiome

Inflammatory cytokines and biofilm production sustain Staphylococcus aureus outgrowth and persistence: a pivotal interplay in the pathogenesis of Atopic Dermatitis – E.G.Di Domenico – Scientific reports

Human vaginal microbiome

Complex ecological interactions of Staphylococcus aureus in tampons during menstruation – Isaline Jacquemond – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Altered Intestinal Microbiota with Increased Abundance of Prevotella Is Associated with High Risk of Diarrhea-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Tingting Su – Gastroenterology Research and Practice

The presence of genetic risk variants within PTPN2 and PTPN22 is associated with intestinal microbiota alterations in Swiss IBD cohort patients – Bahtiyar Yilmaz – PlosOne

Animal experiments 

Gut Microbial succession during conventionalization of germfree chicken – Thomas Milton – bioRxiv

Early-life antibiotics attenuate regulatory T cell generation and increase the severity of murine house dust mite-induced asthma – Alexander J. Adami – Pediatric Research

Changes in intestinal gene expression and microbiota composition during late pregnancy are mouse strain dependent – Marlies Elderman – Scientific Reports

Critical Roles for Microbiota-Mediated Regulation of the Immune System in a Prenatal Immune Activation Model of Autism – Catherine R. Lammert – The Journal of Immunology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Cascading effects of elevated ozone on wheat rhizosphere microbial communities depend on temperature and cultivar sensitivity – F. Changey – Environmental Pollution

Litter quality drives the differentiation of microbial communities in the litter horizon across an alpine treeline ecotone in the eastern Tibetan Plateau – Haifeng Zheng – Scientific Reports

Identification of a Novel Feruloyl Esterase by Functional Screening of a Soil Metagenomic Library – Xuanxuan Li – Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Quorum sensing and iron regulate a two-for-one siderophore gene cluster in Vibrio harveyi – Darcy L. McRose – PNAS

Identifying labile DOM components in a coastal ocean through depleted bacterial transcripts and chemical signals – Alexey Vorobev – Environmental Microbiology

Metabolic potential of microbial communities from ferruginous sediments – Aurele Vuillemin – Environmental Microbiology

Microbes in space

The Microbial Community of a Terrestrial Anoxic Inter-Tidal Zone: A Model for Laboratory-Based Studies of Potentially Habitable Ancient Lacustrine Systems on Mars – Elliot Curtis-Harper – Microorganisms

Phages and viruses

Development of a high-throughput assay to detect antibody inhibition of low pH induced conformational changes of influenza virus hemagglutinin – Jessica F. Trost – PlosOne

Techniques

Review: Errors during Gene Expression: Single-Cell Heterogeneity, Stress Resistance, and Microbe-Host Interactions – Christpher R. Evans – mBio

BacStalk: a comprehensive and interactive image analysis software tool for bacterial cell biology – Raimo Hartmann – bioRxiv

Assessing the Mouse Intestinal Microbiota in Settings of Type-2 Immune Responses – Mei San Tang – Type 2 Immunity

Microbes in the news

Bacteria can ‘divide and conquer’ to vanquish their enemies – Science Daily

Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data – Nature News

Non-microbiology picks

The 2016 global and national burden of diabetes mellitus attributable to PM2·5 air pollution – Benjamin Bowe – The Lancet Planetary Health

July 03, 2018

In today’s Digest you can read about: soil microbes regulating forest succession by H. Liao,  sinking particles in the ocean microbiome by M. Mestre, ecology and evolution of seafloor and subseafloor microbial communities by W. D. Orsi, biotechnological potentials of marine bacteria by A. K.  Farha, differentiation of Candida species Raman spectroscopy by A. Silge. Enjoy your summer read!

General microbiome

Signatures of ecological processes in microbial community time series – Karoline Faust – Microbiome

Review: Metabolic reprogramming for cancer cells and their microenvironment: Beyond the Warburg Effect – Linchong Sun – Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Reviews on Cancer

Oral microbiota

Microbial similarity and preference for specific sites in healthy oral cavity and esophagus – Li Dong – Frontiers in Microbiology / Microbial Symbioses

Human gut microbiome

Altered Gut Microbiota: A Link Between Diet and the Metabolic Syndrome – Velasquez Manuel T. – Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders

The Stringent Response Determines the Ability of a Commensal Bacterium to Survive Starvation and to Persist in the Gut – Whitman B. Schofield – Cell Host & Microbe

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Trait-based patterns of microbial dynamics in dormancy potential and heterotrophic strategy: case studies of resource-based and post-press succession – Patrick J. Kearns – The ISME Journal

Links among warming, carbon and microbial dynamics mediated by soil mineral weathering – S. Doetterl – Nature Geoscience

In Planta Bacterial Transcriptomics Predict Plant Disease Outcomes – Stephen P.Cohen – Trends in Plant Science

Hymenobacter jeollabukensis sp. nov., isolated from soil – Leonid N. Ten -Journal of Microbiology

Ruegeria kandeliae sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere soil of a mangrove plant Kandelia candel – Lv Zhang –  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Soil microbes regulate forest succession in a subtropical ecosystem in China: evidence from a mesocosm experiment – Huixuan Liao – Plant and Soil

Solubilization of insoluble zinc compounds by zinc solubilizing bacteria (ZSB) and optimization of their growth conditions – Mohammad Yaghoubi Khanghahi – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Soil microbial communities differ according to fertiliser regimes and cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata L.) growth, but not aphid herbivory – Flora J. O’Brien – Frontiers in Microbiology / Terrestrial Microbiology

Paenibacillus elymi sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of Elymus tsukushiensis, a plant native to the Dokdo Islands, Republic of Korea – Ye-Ji Hwang – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Changes in rhizosphere microbial communities in potted cucumber seedlings treated with syringic acid – Zhilin Wang – PLOS One

Crop Rotation and Straw Application Impact Microbial Communities in Italian and Philippine Soils and the Rhizosphere of Zea mays – Sarah A. Maarastawi – Frontiers in Microbiology / Terrestrial Microbiology

Isolation of Pseudomonas putida from Harir/Erbil soil and screening for the presence of phosphate solubilizing genes – Aras Mohammed Khudhur – Polytechnic Journal

Environmental controls on soil microbial communities in a seasonally dry tropical forest – Silvia Pajaresa – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Temperature effects on structure and function of the methanogenic microbial communities in two paddy soils and one desert soil – Pengfei Liu – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Soil microbial communities differ according to fertiliser regimes and cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata L.) growth, but not aphid herbivory – Flora J. O’Brien – Frontiers in Microbiology

Natural forests maintain a greater soil microbial diversity than that in rubber plantations in Southwest China –  Jutamart Monkai – Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Sinking particles promote vertical connectivity in the ocean microbiome – Mireia Mestre – PNAS

Filtering artefacts in bacterial community composition can affect the outcome of dissolved organic matter biolability assays – Joshua F. Dean – Biogeosciences

Review: Ecology and evolution of seafloor and subseafloor microbial communities – William D. Orsi  – Nature Reviews Microbiology

The unexpected diversity of microbial communities associated with black corals revealed by high-throughput Illumina sequencing – Yong-Chun Liu  – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Effect of spatial origin and hydrocarbon composition on bacterial consortia community structure and hydrocarbon biodegradation rates – Lloyd D Potts – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Microbial distribution and turnover in Antarctic microbial mats highlight the relevance of heterotrophic bacteria in low-nutrient environments – Patricia M Valdespino-Castillo – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Cultivation and characterization of Candidatus Nitrosotenuis aquariensis, an ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from a freshwater aquarium biofilter – Laura A. Sauder – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Biofilm and planktonic bacterial communities in a drinking water distribution system supplied with untreated groundwater – Jianfei Chen – Archives of Microbiology

Hydrocarbon degradation and response of seafloor sediment bacterial community in the northern Gulf of Mexico to light Louisiana sweet crude oil  – Hernando P. Bacosa – The ISME Journal

A closely-related clade of globally distributed bloom-forming cyanobacteria within the Nostocales – Connor B.Driscoll – Harmful Algae

Review: Recent developments in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering in microalgae towards biofuel production – Sheeja Jagadevan – Biotechnology for Biofuels

Phylogenetic diversity and biotechnological potentials of marine bacteria from continental slope of eastern Arabian Sea – Arakkaveettil Kabeer Farha – Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Biochemical methane potential of microalgae biomass using different microbial inocula – Cristina Gonzalez-Fernandez – Biotechnology for Biofuels

Quorum sensing in thermophiles: prevalence of autoinducer-2 system – Amandeep Kaur – BMC Microbiology

Molecular Cloning and Characterization of a Novel α-Amylase from Antarctic Sea Ice Bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. M175 and Its Primary Application in Detergent – Xiaofei Wang – BioMed Research International

Low-temperature sulfidic-ice microbial communities, Borup Fiord Pass, Canadian high Arctic – Christopher B. Trivedi – Frontiers in Microbiology / Extreme Microbiology

Phages and viruses

Beyond members of the Flaviviridae family, sofosbuvir also inhibits chikungunya virus replication – Andre Ferreira – bioRxiv

Evaluation of bias induced by viral enrichment and random amplification protocols in metagenomic surveys of saliva DNA viruses – Marcos Parras-Moltó – Microbiome

Immuno-metabolic changes in herpes virus infection – Debprasa Chattopadhyay – Cytokine

Emergence of a Virulent Genotype VIIi of Newcastle Disease Virus in Iran – Arash Ghalyanchilangeroudi – Avian Pathology

Techniques

High-throughput microfluidic sorting of live magnetotactic bacteria – Andy Tay – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The application of UV resonance Raman spectroscopy for the differentiation of clinically relevant Candida species – Anja Silge – Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

June 20, 2018

This digest has a study on the human hair microbiome, lots of animal studies and experiments, the normal long list of soil/plant publications, some water/extremophile studies, and a few interesting bioinformatics articles.  Enjoy!

Events and jobs

There were some very cool events to check out from my employer, GENEWIZ, this past month.  Every year here there is a celebration with a number of different events called GENEWIZ Week.  Check out this past set of events below:

GENEWIZ Week

GENEWIZ Webinars – definitely check these cool talks out.  You can access past talks, like mine on Metagenomics from 2017, at GENEWIZ Webinars Archive and my past webinar here: Metagenomics for Biomarker Discovery: Precision Medicine Applications

GENEWIZ DNA Award Winners

GENEWIZ Scientist of the Day

General microbiome

[pre-print] Free-living Bacterial Communities Are Mostly Dominated by Oligotrophs – Yingnan Gao – bioxRiv

Pregnancy and early life

Pilot assessment of probiotics for pregnant women in Rwanda – Amy McMillan – PLOS ONE

Human respiratory microbiome

* The respiratory virome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – Marian Garcia-Nuñez – Future Medicine

TRANSPLANTING THE PULMONARY VIROME: DYNAMICS OF TRANSIENT POPULATIONS – Alicia B Mitchell – The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Human skin microbiome

** Spatial and Environmental Variation of the Human Hair Microbiota – Lauren Brinkac – Scientific Reports

Human oral microbiome

Denture-Associated Oral Microbiome and Periodontal Disease Causing an Anaerobic Pyogenic Liver Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Case report and Review of the Literature – Muhammad Bader Hammami – Gastroenterology Research

Human gut microbiome

Changes in Gastric Microbiota during Gastric Carcinogenesis – Sun-Young Lee – KoreaMed Synapse

ADTU-05 Gut microbial composition in the migrant south-asian IBD population in UK – Mohammed Quraishi – BMJ Journals (Gut)

Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis and Diarrhea in Kidney Transplant Recipients – Lee JR – American Journal of Transplantation

The microbiome in autoimmune diseases – Fabrizio De Luca – Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Suppression of IL-17F, but not of IL-17A, provides protection against colitis by inducing Treg cells through modification of the intestinal microbiota – Ce Tang – Nature Immunology

Characteristics of the bacterial microbiome in association with common intestinal parasites in irritable bowel syndrome – Laura Rindom Krogsgaard – Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection – Susy S. Hota – CMAJ

(not just human) The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis in Vertebrates: Gut Microbiota Effect, a Review – Chun Hua Huang – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Mediterranean Diet Score: Associations with Metabolic Products of the Intestinal Microbiome, Carotid Plaque Burden, and Renal Function – Michael Pignanelli – Nutrients

Animal experiments

Rumen Microbial Community of Saanen Goats Adapted to a High‐Fiber Diet in the Northeast of Iran – S.H. Ebrahimi – Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science

Humic substances alter ammonia production and the microbial populations within a RUSITEC fed a mixed hay – concentrate diet – Stephanie A. Terry – Frontiers in Microbiology

Intestinal Microbiota Ecological Response to Oral Administrations of Hydrogen-Rich Water and Lactulose in Female Piglets Fed a Fusarium Toxin-Contaminated Diet – Weijiang Zheng – Toxins

Animal microbiome

Archaeal and bacterial diversity and community composition from 18 phylogenetically divergent sponge species in Vietnam – Ton That Huu Dat​ – PeerJ Microbiology

Gut bacterial and fungal communities of the domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori) and wild mulberry-feeding relatives – Bosheng Chen – The ISME Journal

Gut bacterial and fungal communities of the domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori) and wild mulberry-feeding relatives – Bosheng Chen – The ISME Journal

Aetiological Characterization of the Cutaneous Ulcer Syndrome in Papua New Guinea using Shotgun Metagenomics – Marc Noguera-Julian – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Inter-population variation in the Atlantic salmon microbiome reflects environmental and genetic diversity – Tamsyn M. Uren Webster – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Influence of Belowground Herbivory on The Dynamics of Root and Rhizosphere Microbial Communities – Morgane Ourry – Frontiers of Ecological Evolution

* Plant species and heavy metals affect biodiversity of microbial communities associated with metal-tolerant plants in metalliferous soils – Sławomir Borymski – Frontiers in Microbiology

Functional Microbial Features Driving Community Assembly During Seed Germination and Emergence – Torres-Cortés Gloria – Frontiers in Plant Science

Influence of the Chemical Form of Antimony on Soil Microbial Community Structure and Arsenite Oxidation Activity – Kataoka T – Europe PMC

Recognizing Patterns: Spatial Analysis of Observed Microbial Colonization on Root Surfaces – Hannes Schmidt – Frontiers in Environmental Science

Microbial diversity of tobacco rhizosphere soil in different growth stages of marigold-tobacco intercropping system –  Xia TiYuan – Editorial Department of Southwest China Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Differences in rice rhizosphere bacterial community structure by application of lignocellulolytic plant-probiotic bacteria with rapid composting traits – Thounaojam Nevita – Ecological Engineering

Data on molecular identification, phylogeny and in vitro characterization of bacteria isolated from maize rhizosphere in Cameroon – Tchuisseu Tchakounté Gylaine Vanissa – Data in Brief

[pre-print] A comprehensive mycofloral diversity of pedosphere, phyllosphere and aerosphere of Som. (Persea bombycina Kost.) -Manjit Kumar Ray  – bioRxiv

Rhizosphere Microbiomes Modulated by Pre-crops Assisted Plants in Defense Against Plant-Parasitic Nematodes – Ahmed Elhady – Frontiers in Microbiology

The culturable endophytic fungal communities of switchgrass grown on a coal-mining site and their effects on plant growth – Ye Xia – PLOS ONE

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi stimulate organic phosphate mobilization associated with changing bacterial community structure under field conditions – Lin Zhang – Environmental Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Metagenomic insights into diazotrophic communities across Arctic glacier forefields – Maisie V. Nash – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Microbial community shifts in response to acid mine drainage pollution within a natural wetland ecosystem – Oscar E. Aguinaga – Frontiers in Microbiology

Heterogeneity of interactions of microbial communities in regions of Taihu Lake with different nutrient loadings: A network analysis – Xinyi Cao – Scientific Reports

Diversity and functionality of archaeal, bacterial and fungal communities in deep Archaean bedrock groundwater – Lotta Purkamo – FEMS Microbial Ecology

Reduced arsenic availability and plant uptake and improved soil microbial diversity through combined addition of ferrihydrite and Trichoderma asperellum SM-12F1 – Hongxiang Zhang – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Fungi from Admiralty Bay (King George Island, Antarctica) Soils and Marine Sediments – Lia Costa Pinto Wentzel – Microbial Ecology

Bioinformatics

When old metagenomic data meet newly sequenced genomes, a case study – Xin Li – PLOS ONE

PERFect: PERmutation Filtering test for microbiome data – Ekaterina Smirnova – Biostatistics

Ed’s non-microbiology picks

Photochemistry beyond the red limit in chlorophyll f–containing photosystems –  Dennis J. Nürnberg – Science

Research Finds Tipping Point for Large-scale Social Change

LACK OF PAID SICK LEAVE INCREASES POVERTY

Toxic toads could devastate Madagascar’s biodiversity – Science

Effects of 8-hour time restricted feeding on body weight and metabolic disease risk factors in obese adults: A pilot study – Kelsey Gabel – Nutrition and Healthy Aging

Forget in a Flash: A Further Investigation of the Photo-Taking-Impairment Effect – Julia S. Soares – Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

New discovery about the brain’s water system may prove beneficial in stroke

DNA repair processes are critical mediators of p53-dependent tumor suppression – Ana Janic – Nature Medicine

Astronomers find a galaxy unchanged since the early universe

June 18, 2018

Have a good Monday! Today in Microbiome Digest: reviews about the relationship between microbiome and brain function, vaccine response and dermatology. Studies about psoriasis and the gut microbiology, the effect of osmotic changes on the gut microbiota, protocols for oral microbiota profiling in lab classes, the role of indole in gut inflammation and more…

Human and General Microbiome

Review: Bile acids and FXR in functional gastrointestinal disorders – Paula Mosińska – Digestive and Liver Disease

Review: The Microbiome in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience – Amar Sarkar – Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Review: The influence of the intestinal microbiome on vaccine responses – Petra Zimmermann – Vaccine

Review: Close Encounters of Three Kinds: Bacteriophages, Commensal Bacteria, and Host Immunity – Eric C. Keen – Trends in Microbiology

The microbiome in dermatology – Shenara Musthaq – Clinics in Dermatology

Is psoriasis a bowel disease? Successful treatment with bile acids and bioflavonoids suggests it is – P. Haines Ely – Clinics in Dermatology

Microbial markers in colorectal cancer detection and/or prognosis – Romain Villéger – World Journal of Gastroenterology

Neurotransmitter modulation by the gut microbiota – Philip Strandwitz – Brain Research

Intestinal microbiota assessment in cirrhotic patients from a Mexican mestizo population – C. Pérez-Monter – Revista de Gastroenterología de México (Article in Spanish)

Profiling the Urinary Microbiota in Male Patients With Bladder Cancer in China – Peng Wu – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Analysis of human C24 bile acids metabolome in serum and urine based on enzyme digestion of conjugated bile acids and LC-MS determination of unconjugated bile acids – Pingping Zhu – Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Tobacco-smoking-related prevalence of methanogens in the oral fluid microbiota – Ghiles Grine – Scientific Reports

Effect of rectal douching/enema on rectal gonorrhoea and chlamydia among a cohort of men who have sex with men on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis – Adiba Hassan – Sexually Transmitted Infections

Effect of administration of a probiotic preparation on gut microbiota and immune response in healthy women in India: an open-label, single-arm pilot study – Ankita Singh – BMC Gastroenterology

The urinary microbiome in women with mixed urinary incontinence compared to similarly aged controls – Yuko M. Komesu – International Urogynecology Journal

The influence of in vitro pectin fermentation on the human fecal microbiome – So-Jung Bang – AMB Express

Host genetics and microbiome associations through the lens of genome wide association studies – Omer Weissbrod – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Cutibacterium acnes and the shoulder microbiome – Boyang Qiu – Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery

 

Animal Microbiome / Animal Experiments

Transient Osmotic Perturbation Causes Long-Term Alteration to the Gut Microbiota – Carolina Tropini – Cell

Probiotics L. acidophilus and B. clausii Modulate Gut Microbiota in Th1- and Th2-Biased Mice to Ameliorate Salmonella Typhimurium-Induced Diarrhea – Biswaranjan Pradhan – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Altered microRNA regulation of short chain fatty acid receptors in the hypertensive kidney is normalized with hydrogen sulfide supplementation – Gregory J. Weber – Pharmacological Research

The effect of antibiotics on social aversion following early life inflammation – Amanda C. Kentner – Physiology & Behavior

Analysis of the Gut Microbial Diversity of Dairy Cows During Peak Lactation by PacBio Single-Molecule Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing – Weicheng Li – Current Microbiology

Diet Modifies Colonic Microbiota and CD4+ T Cell Repertoire to Induce Flares of Colitis in Mice With Myeloid-cell Expression of Interleukin 23 – Lili Chen – Gastroenterology

Chronic exposure to fungicide propamocarb induces bile acid metabolic disorder and increases trimethylamine in C57BL/6J mice – Sisheng Wu – Science of The Total Environment

Distribution of Salmonella Enteritidis in internal organs and variation of cecum microbiota in chicken after oral challenge – Jinxin Zeng – Microbial Pathogenesis

The comparative genomics of Bifidobacterium callitrichos reflects dietary carbohydrate utilization within the common marmoset gut – Korin Albert – Microbial Genomics

The gut microbiota metabolite indole alleviates liver inflammation in mice – Martin Beaumont – The FASEB Journal

Alpha-Ketoglutarate in Low-Protein Diets for Growing Pigs: Effects on Cecal Microbial Communities and Parameters of Microbial Metabolism – Jiashun Chen – Frontiers in Microbiology

Berberine Regulates Treg/Th17 Balance to Treat Ulcerative Colitis Through Modulating the Gut Microbiota in the Colon

Screening of multimeric β-xylosidases from the gut microbiome of a higher termite, Globitermes brachycerastes – Huantian Cui – Frontiers in Pharmacology

Impact of Gut Microbiota and Diet on the Development of Atherosclerosis in Apoe-/- Mice – Annika Lindskog Jonsson – Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Saturated long-chain fatty acid-producing bacteria contribute to enhanced colonic motility in rats – Ling Zhao – Microbiome

News in Brief: Antibiotics Protect Against Liver Tumors in Mice in Cancer Discovery

 

Water Microbiome

Methanogenic community shifts during the transition from sewage mono-digestion to co-digestion of grass biomass – Justus Hardegen – Bioresource Technology

 

Protocols and Methodologies

Simple Protocol for Molecular Fingerprinting of Human Oral Microbiota Samples in Lab Classes – Ana C. Henriques – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education

Sample tracking in microbiome community profiling assays using synthetic 16S rRNA gene spike-in controls – Dieter M. Tourlousse – Scientific Reports

Taxonomy-aware feature engineering for microbiome classification – Mai Oudah – BMC Bioinformatics