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

 

June 15, 2018

Secondary metabolite biosynthetic genes from novel soil bacteria, a human viral protein cluster metagenomic database, sleep apnea symptoms alter the gut microbiota and metabolome.

Pregnancy and early life

16S ribosomal RNA-based gut microbiome composition analysis in infants with breast milk jaundice – Miao Duan – Open Life Sciences

Human respiratory microbiome

Pre-print: New insights into human nostril microbiome from the expanded Human Oral Microbiome Database (eHOMD): a resource for species-level identification of microbiome data from the aerodigestive tract – Isabel Fernández Escapa – bioRxiv

Human oral microbiome

Review: Live and let die: hydrogen peroxide production by the commensal flora and its role in maintaining a symbiotic microbiome – Sylvio Redanz – Molecular Oral Microbiology

Human nearly-sterile sites

Cultural Isolation and Characteristics of the Blood Microbiome of Healthy Individuals – Stefan Panaiotov – Advances In Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Sex differences in NSAID-induced perturbation of human intestinal barrier function and microbiota – Shoko Edogawa – The FASEB Journal

Animal experiments

Intermittent Hypoxia and Hypercapnia, a Hallmark of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Alters the Gut Microbiome and Metabolome – Anupriya Tripathi – mSystems

IL-1R and MyD88 Contribute to the Absence of a Bacterial Microbiome on the Healthy Murine Cornea – Stephanie J Wan – Frontiers in Microbiology

Aflatoxin B1 Disrupts Gut-Microbial Metabolisms of Short-Chain Fatty Acids, Long-Chain Fatty Acids, and Bile Acids in Male F344 Rats – Jun Zhou – Toxicological Sciences

Metabolome and gut microbiota variation with long-term intake of Panax ginseng extracts on rats – Yifan Sun – Food & Function

Animal microbiome

Partial incubation during egg laying reduces eggshell microbial loads in a temperate‐breeding passerine – Patricia B Bollinger – Journal of Avian Biology

Bacterial and Fungal Midgut Community Dynamics and Transfer Between Mother and Brood in the Asian Longhorned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis), an Invasive Xylophage – Charles J Mason – Microbial Ecology

Succession of embryonic and the intestinal bacterial communities of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) reveals stage‐specific microbial signatures – Jep Lokesh – MicrobiologyOpen

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Novel soil bacteria possess diverse genes for secondary metabolite biosynthesis – Alexander Crits-Christoph – Nature

Environment and host as large-scale controls of ectomycorrhizal fungi – Sietse van der Linde – Nature

Studies on Quantitative Analysis of Rhizosphere and Non-Rhizosphere Mycoflora at Different Stages of Plant Growth in Different Varieties of Pigeon Pea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] – V Jalander – International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience

The Functional Potential of the Rhizospheric Microbiome of an Invasive Tree Species, Acacia dealbata – Casper N Kamutando – Microbial Ecology

Review: Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria: Blessing to Agriculture – Twisha S Patel – International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience

Inorganic Nitrogen Application Affects Both Taxonomical and Predicted Functional Structure of Wheat Rhizosphere Bacterial Communities – Vanessa N Kavamura – Frontiers in Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Metagenomics Reveals the Influence of Land Use and Rain on the Benthic Microbial Communities in a Tropical Urban Waterway – Gourvendu Saxena – mSystems

Phages and viruses

The Human Virome Protein Cluster Database (HVPC): A Human Viral Metagenomic Database for Diversity and Function Annotation – Ali H A Elbehery – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bioinformatics

BioSankey: Visualization of Microbial Communities Over Time – Alexander Platzer – Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics

Pre-print: Understanding trivial challenges of microbial genomics: An assembly example – Delphine Lariviere – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Faecal transplants could help preserve vulnerable species – Sara Reardon – Nature

Science, career, and publishing

Pre-print: Researchers preferentially collaborate with same-gendered colleagues across the life sciences – Luke Holman – bioRxiv

Pre-print: Attitudes, Perceptions and Barriers to Research and Publishing among Research and Teaching Staff: A Case Study – Stanley Irobekhian Reuben Okoduwa – bioRxiv

June 13, 2018

Events and jobs

Computational scientists (from post-master to postdoc fellowships) in metagenomics and microbial genomics : Trento, Italy – The Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics

General microbiome

Meta-analysis of human genome-microbiome association studies: the MiBioGen consortium initiative – Jun Wang, Microbiome Announcement

Microbial ecology

Everything is not everywhere: a tale on the biogeography of cyanobacteria – Karine Felix Ribeiro, Hydrobiologia

A Meta‐Analysis of Temperature Sensitivity as a Microbial Trait – Charlotte J. Alster, Global Change Biology

Microbial island biogeography: isolation shapes the life history characteristics but not diversity of root-symbiotic fungal communities – John Davison, ISME

Bacillus thuringiensis produces the lipopeptide thumolycin to antagonize microbes and nematodes – Dehong Zheng, Microbiological Research

Qualitative analysis of biosurfactants from Bacillus species exhibiting antifungal activity – Ambrin Sarwar, Plos One

Antarctic cryptoendolithic fungal communities are highly adapted and dominated by Lecanoromycetes and Dothideomycetes – Claudia Coleine, Frontiers in Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life

The Microbiome and Metabolome of Preterm Infant Stool Are Personalized and Not Driven by Health Outcomes, Including Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Late-Onset Sepsis – Stephen Wandro, mSphere

The role of breast milk in the colonization of neonatal gut and skin with coagulase-negative staphylococci – Hiie Soeorg, Pediatric Research

Multisite human microbiome

Prion-like Propagation of α-synuclein in the gut-brain axis – Ying Chen, Brain Research Bulletin

Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis and Toll-Like Receptors in Parkinson’s Disease – Valentina Caputi, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Current Insights in Microbiome Shifts in Sjogren’s Syndrome and Possible Therapeutic Interventions – Christina Tsigalou, Frontiers in Immunology

Comparison of Infant Gut and Skin Microbiota, Resistome and Virulome between Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Environments – Suchitra K. Hourigan, Frontiers in Microbiology

Human skin microbiome

Skin Microbiota in Obese Women at Risk for Surgical Site Infection After Cesarean Delivery – Kara M. Rood, Scientific Reports

Cutibacterium acnes (Propionibacterium acnes) and acne vulgaris: a brief look at the latest updates – B. Dréno, Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Characterisation of Cutibacterium acnes phylotypes in acne and in vivo exploratory evaluation of Myrtacine® – S. Pécastaings, Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Human oral microbiome

Analysis of the oral microbiome on the surface of modified dental polymers – Denise  Tornavoi de Castro, Archives of Oral Biology

Genetic Association with Subgingival Bacterial Colonization in Chronic Periodontitis – Franco Cavalla, Genes

Biological and cultural drivers of oral microbiota in Medieval and Post-Medieval London, UK – Andrew G Farrer, bioRxiv

Human gut microbiome

Breath methane concentrations and markers of obesity in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders – Clive H. Wilder-Smith, United European Gastroenterology Journal

The Intersection Between Colonization Resistance, Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Clostridium difficile – Rossana Rosa, Current Infectious Disease Reports

Celiac Disease and Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: A New Beginning? – Shmuel Golfeyz MD, Correspondence

Gut microbiota metabolites, amino acid metabolites and improvements in insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism: the POUNDS Lost trial – Yoriko Heianza, Nutrition

Cutting the Gordian Knot of the Microbiota – Kimberly S.Vasquez, Molecular Cell

Host: Microbiome co-metabolic processing of dietary polyphenols – An acute, single blinded, cross-over study with different doses of apple polyphenols in healthy subjects – Kajetan Trost, Food Research International

Clinical trials of kimchi intakes on the regulation of metabolic parameters and colon health in healthy Korean young adults – Hee-Young Kim, Journal of Functional Foods

Animal experiments

Propolis from Different Geographic Origins Suppress Intestinal Inflammation in a Model of DSS‐Induced Colitis is Associated with Decreased Bacteroides spp. in the Gut – Kai Wang, Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Effect of direct-fed microbials on culturable gut microbiotas in broiler chickens: a meta-analysis of controlled trials – Chhaiden Heak, Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences

A dietary isothiocyanate-enriched moringa (Moringa oleifera) seed extract improves glucose tolerance in a high-fat-diet mouse model and modulates the gut microbiome – Asha Jaja-Chimedza, Journal of Functional Foods

The enteric microbiota regulates jejunal Paneth cell number and function without impacting intestinal stem cells – Alexi A. Schoenborn, Gut Microbes

Comprehensive longitudinal microbiome analysis of the chicken cecum reveals a shift from competitive to environmental drivers and a window of opportunity for Campylobacter – Umer Zeeshan Ijaz, bioRxiv

Microbial quantity impacts Drosophila nutrition, development, and lifespan – Erin S. Keebaugh, iScience

Absence of Gut Microbiota Reduces Emotional Reactivity in Japanese Quails (Coturnix japonica) – Narjis Kraimi, Frontiers in Physiology

Animal microbiome

Identification of circular single-stranded DNA viruses in faecal samples of Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis), moose (Alces alces) and snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) inhabiting the Colorado San Juan Mountains – Simona Kraberger, Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Diverse novel resident Wolbachia strains in Culicine mosquitoes from Madagascar – Claire L Jeffries, bioRxiv

Sample treatment optimization for fish stool metabolomics – Takeshi Hano, Journal of Chromatography B

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Two decades of altered snow cover does not affect soil microbial ability to catabolize carbon compounds in an oceanic alpine heath – E.R. Jasper Wubs, Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Grazing and resource availability control soil nematode body size and abundance‐mass relationship in semi‐arid grassland – W. S. Andriuzzi, Journal of Animal Ecology

Isolation and screening of antibiotic producing actinomycetes from rhizosphere and agricultural soils – Atsede Muleta, African Journal of Biotechnology

Responses of Bougainvillea spectabilis to elevated atmospheric CO2 under galaxolide (HHCB) pollution and the mechanisms of its rhizosphere metabolism – Minzhe Zhang, Journal of Soils and Sediments

Differential effect of the nitrogen form on the leaf gas exchange, amino acid composition, and antioxidant response of sweet pepper at elevated CO2 – María C. Piñero, Plant Growth Regulation

Viral metagenomics analysis and eight novel viral genomes identified from the Dushanzi mud volcanic soil in Xinjiang, China – Dan-Ting Yu, Journal of Soils and Sediments

Efficacy of Bacillus subtilis native strains for biocontrol of Phytophthora crown and root rot of pistachio in Iran – Mohammad Moradi, Tropical Plant Pathology

Modification of plant cell wall chemistry impacts metabolome and microbiome composition in Populus PdKOR1 RNAi plants – Allison M. Veach, Plant and Soil

Continuous application of different fertilizers induces distinct bulk and rhizosphere soil protist communities – Sai Guo, European Journal of Soil Biology

Microbial communities and natural fermentation of corn silages prepared with farm bunker-silo in Southwest China – Hao Guan, Bioresource Technology

Cultivated methanotrophs associated with rhizospheres of traditional rice landraces from Western India belong to Methylocaldum and Methylocystis – Monali C. Rahalkar, 3 Biotech

Metal(loid)-resistant bacteria reduce wheat Cd and As uptake in metal(loid)-contaminated soil – Xiao-Han Wang, Environmental Pollution

Enhanced removal of nitrate in the maize rhizosphere by plant growth-promoting Bacillus megaterium NCT-2, and its colonization pattern in response to nitrate – Shaohua Chu, Chemosphere

Bioactive luteoloside produced by Myroides odoratimimus, solvent-tolerant bacterium form the rhizosphere of Lonicera japonica –  Y. X. Zhao, Natural Product Research

Potential application of selected metal resistant phosphate solubilizing bacteria isolated from the gut of earthworm (Metaphire posthuma) in plant growth promotion – Jayanta  Kumar Biswas, Geoderma

Effects of Pseudomonas chenduensis and biochar on cadmium availability and microbial community in the paddy soil – Lingjuan Li, Science of The Total Environment

Continuous application of different fertilizers induces distinct bulk and rhizosphere soil protist communities – Sai Guo, European Journal of Soil Biology

Analysis on metabolic functions of stored rice microbial communities by BIOLOG ECO microplates – Zhiwen Ge, Frontiers in Microbiology

Effects of discrete bioactive microbial volatiles on plants and fungi – Birgit Piechulla, Plant, Cell, and Environment

Phylogenetic-scale disparities in the soil microbial diversity–ecosystem functioning relationship – Marta Goberna, ISME

Similar soil microbial community structure across different environments after long‐term succession: evidence from volcanoes of different ages – Shangqi Xu, Journal of Basic Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Comparison among the microbial communities in the lake, lake wetland, and estuary sediments of a plain river network – Wei Huang, Microbiology Open

The distinctive microbial community improves composting efficiency in a full-scale hyperthermophilic composting plant – Zhen Yu, Bioresource Technology

Co-occurrence Networks Among Bacteria and Microbial Eukaryotes of Lake Baikal During a Spring Phytoplankton Bloom – Ivan S. Mikhailov, Microbial Ecology

The Legacy Effects of Winter Climate on Microbial Functioning After Snowmelt in a Subarctic Tundra – Maria Väisänen, Microbial Ecology

Characterization of phototrophic microorganisms and description of new cyanobacteria isolated from the saline-alkaline crater-lake Dziani Dzaha (Mayotte, Indian Ocean) – M. Cellamare, FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Methanogens in the Antarctic Dry Valley Permafrost – Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya, FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Bacterial Diversity in an Alpine Debris-Free and Debris-Cover Accumulation Zone Glacier Ice, North Sikkim, India – Mingma Thundu Sherpa, Indian Journal of Microbiology

Culturing the ubiquitous freshwater actinobacterial acI lineage by supplying a biochemical ‘helper’ catalase – Suhyun Kim, bioRxiv

Assessing the effect of pretreatments on the structure and functionality of microbial communities for the bioconversion of microalgae to biogas – Olivia Córdova, Frontiers in Microbiology

Great Salt Lake microbiology: a historical perspective – Bonnie K. Baxter, International Microbiology

Life from the ashes: survival of dry bacterial spores after very high temperature exposure – Lynda Beladjal, Extremophiles

Microbial and geochemical controls on waste rock weathering and drainage quality – Sharon Blackmore, Science of The Total Environment

Characterization and high-throughput sequencing of a trichlorophenol-dechlorinating microbial community acclimated from sewage sludge – Jiaxiu Song, Journal of Cleaner Production

Impacts of surface-applied residues on N-cycling soil microbial communities in miscanthus and switchgrass cropping systems – Karen A. Thompson, Applied Soil Ecology

Water is a critical factor in evaluating and assessing microbial colonization and destruction of Angkor sandstone monuments – Xiaobo Liu, International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

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

Bacterial lineages putatively associated with the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes in a full-scale urban wastewater treatment plant – Carlos Narciso-da-Rocha, Environment International

Impact of organic waste composition on life cycle energy production, global warming and Water use for treatment by anaerobic digestion followed by composting – Sara A. Pace, Resources, Conservation and Recycling

1H NMR metabolomics of microbial metabolites in the four MW agricultural biogas plant reactors: A case study of inhibition mirroring the acute rumen acidosis symptoms – Boštjan Murovec, Journal of Environmental Management

Comparative Metagenomics Provides Insight into the Ecosystem Functioning of the Shark Bay Stromatolites, Western Australia – Joany Babilonia, Frontiers in Microbiology

Assessing the abundance of fungal populations in a full-scale membrane bioreactor (MBR) treating urban wastewater by using quantitative PCR (qPCR) – P. Maza-Márquez, Journal of Environmental Management

Food microbiology

Occurrence of lactic acid bacteria and yeasts at species and strain level during spontaneous fermentation of mawè, a cereal dough produced in West Africa – Marcel Houngbédji, Food Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics

Probiotics in IBD: Combining in vitro and in vivomodels for selecting strains with both anti-inflammatory potential as well as a capacity to restore the gut epithelial barrier – Mazen Zaylaa, Journal of Functional Foods

Can prebiotics assist in the management of cognition and weight gain in schizophrenia? – Amy Chia-Ching Kao, Psychoneuroendocrinology

Probiotic potentials of Lactobacillus plantarum isolated from fermented durian (Tempoyak), a Malaysian traditional condiment – Asmariah Ahmad, Food Science and Nutrition

Bioinformatics

Identifying Heritable Communities of Microbiome by Root-Unifrac and Wishart Distribution – Yunfan Tang, bioRxiv

PARTIE: a partition engine to separate metagenomic and amplicon projects in the Sequence Read Archive – Pedro J. Torres, Bioinformatics

Techniques

Dead or Alive? Molecular life-dead distinction in human stool samples reveals significantly different composition of the microbial community – Alexandra Perras, bioRxiv

Critical Assessment of Methods to Quantify Biofilm Growth and Evaluate Antibiofilm Activity of Host Defence Peptides – Evan F. Haney, Biomolecules

June 12, 2018

Gut and General Microbiome

Screening for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Cohort Study Using Transient Elastography – Chiara Saroli Palumbo – Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Review: A critical appraisal of advances in the diagnosis of diverticular disease – Antonio Tursi – Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology  

Antimicrobial-Induced Cytopenia and Bone Marrow Hypocellularity in Patients with Cirrhosis – Anupama Patil – Bone Marrow Research

Colonic Mucosal Microbiota in Colorectal Cancer: A Single-Center Metagenomic Study in Saudi Arabia – Ahmed O. Alomair – Gastroenterology Research and Practice

Connecting homocysteine and obesity through pyroptosis, gut microbiome, epigenetics, peroxisome proliferator-activator receptor γ (PPARγ) and zinc finger protein 407 (Zfp407) – Anwesha Laha – Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Review: Sexual dimorphism of cardiometabolic dysfunction: Gut microbiome in the play? – Tzu-Wen L. Cross – Molecular Metabolism

Individuality and convergence of the infant gut microbiota during the first year of life – Eric J. de Muinck – Nature Communications

Reconstruction of the bifidobacterial pan-secretome reveals the network of extracellular interactions between bifidobacteria and the infant gutGabriele Andrea Lugli – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Commentary: Beyond Oxalobacter: the gut microbiota and kidney stone formation – Gwen Falony – Gut

Nutritional modulation of the intestinal microbiota: future opportunities for the prevention and treatment of neuroimmune and neuroinflammatory disease – Vincent C.Lombardi – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

 

Reproductive and Urinary Tract Microbiome

Review: Implantation failure of endometrial origin: what is new? –  Jose Bellver – Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Detecting viral genomes in the female urinary microbiome – Andrea Garretto – Journal of General Virology

Commentary: Regional Caesarean Delivery Practices, the Maternal-Infant Microbiome, and Risk for Asthma – Rebecca Entz – Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

 

Skin Microbiome

Insights into the skin microbiome dynamics of leprosy patients during multi-drug therapy and in healthy individuals from Brazil – Paulo E. S. Silva – Scientific Reports

Skin Microbiota in Obese Women at Risk for Surgical Site Infection After Cesarean Delivery – Kara M. Rood – Scientific Reports

 

Oral and Respiratory Microbiome

Analysis of the oral microbiome on the surface of modified dental polymers – Denise Tornavoide Castro – Archives of Oral Biology

Bacterial biogeography of adult airways in atopic asthma – Juliana Durack – Microbiome

Review: Adenotonsillar microbiome: an update – James Jordan Johnston – Postgraduate Medical Journal

 

Animal Microbiome

The canine gut microbiome is associated with higher risk of gastric dilatation-volvulus and high risk genetic variants of the immune system – Meredith A. J. Hullar – PLOS ONE

Propolis from Different Geographic Origins Suppress Intestinal Inflammation in a Model of DSS‐Induced Colitis is Associated with Decreased Bacteroides spp. in the Gut – Kai Wang – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Deficiency of BrpA in Streptococcus mutans Reduces Virulence in Rat Caries Model – Zezhang T. Wen – Molecular Oral Microbiology

Huddling remodels gut microbiota to reduce energy requirements in a small mammal species during cold exposure – Xue-Ying Zhang – Microbiome

Abnormal gut microbiota composition contributes to cognitive dysfunction in SAMP8 mice – Gaofeng Zhan – Aging

The role of regulator FucP in Edwardsiella tarda pathogenesis and the inflammatory cytokine response in tilapia – Jiayan Wu – Fish & Shellfish Immunology

Malassezia pachydermatis from animals: Planktonic and biofilm antifungal susceptibility and its virulence arsenal – Raimunda Sâmia Nogueira Brilhante – Veterinary Microbiology

 

Beneficial Microbes

Oral administration of Bifidobacterium bifidum TMC3115 to neonatal mice may alleviate IgE-mediated allergic risk in adulthood – R.Y. Cheng – Beneficial Microbes

Three-Month Feeding Integration With Bifidobacterium Strains Prevents Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Healthy Newborns – Irene Aloisio – Frontiers in Nutrition

 

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Review: Interrogating the microbiome: experimental and computational considerations in support of study reproducibility – Carine Poussin – Drug Discovery Today

CowPI: A Rumen Microbiome Focussed Version of the PICRUSt Functional Inference Software – Toby J. Wilkinson – Frontiers in Microbiology

Benchmark Evaluation of True Single Molecular Sequencing to Determine Cystic Fibrosis Airway Microbiome Diversity – Andrea Hahn – Frontiers in Microbiology

Next-Generation Machine Learning for Biological Networks – Diogo M. Camacho – Cell