June 24, 2019

Happy Monday! In today’s Digest, you’ll find a primer on metabolomics, a description of the fungal and bacterial communities involved in coffee fermentation, and several studies on extremophile communities.

General Microbiome
Staring into the void: Demystifying microbial metabolomics – Cynthia M Grim – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Bacterial metabolism-inspired molecules to modulate antibiotic efficacy – Yuan Liu – Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Deterministic processes structure bacterial genetic communities across an urban landscape – J. M. Hassell – Nature Communications

Gut Microbiome
Bifidobacterium dentium Fortifies the Intestinal Mucus Layer via Autophagy and Calcium Signaling Pathways – Melinda A. Engevik – mBio

Lipopolysaccharides modulate intestinal epithelial permeability and inflammation in a species-specific manner – Matthew Stephens – Gut Microbes

Fecal Microbiome Data Distinguish Liver Recipients with Normal and Abnormal Liver Function from Healthy Controls – Hai-feng Lu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human Microbiota and Personalized Cancer Treatments: Role of Commensal Microbes in Treatment Outcomes for Cancer Patients – Stephen Gately – Precision Medicine in Cancer Therapy

Animal Experiments
Intervening Effects of Total Alkaloids of Corydalis saxicola Bunting on Rats With Antibiotic-Induced Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis Based on 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing and Untargeted Metabolomics Analyses – Xi Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal Microbiome
Gestation alters the gut microbiota of an oviparous lizard – Brian K Trevelline – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Diversity of deep-water coral associated bacteria and comparison across depth gradients – Sigmund Jensen – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Plant, Root, and Soil Microbiome
Bacterial and archaeal spatial distribution and its environmental drivers in an extremely haloalkaline soil at the landscape scale – Martha Adriana Martínez-Olivas – PeerJ

The microbial community in an alkaline saline sediment of a former maar lake bed – Claudia L. Ibarra-Sánchez – Journal of Soils and Sediments

Impacts on soil microbial characteristics and their restorability with different soil disinfestation approaches in intensively cropped greenhouse soils – Tianzhu Meng – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Nonylphenol causes shifts in microbial communities and nitrogen mineralization in soil microcosms – Stefania Mattana – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Changes in Plant Rhizosphere Microbial Communities under Different Vegetation Restoration Patterns in Karst and Non-karst Ecosystems – Zhouzhou Fan – Scientific Reports

Water and Extremophile Microbiome
Culture independent bacterial diversity of Changme Khang and Changme Khangpu glaciers of North Sikkim, India – Mingma Thundu Sherpa – Environmental Sustainability

Selection of a Microbial Community in the Course of Formation of Acid Mine Drainage – V. V. Kadnikov – Microbiology

Thermophilic Bacteria in Lake Baikal Bottom Sediments Associated with Hydrocarbon Discharge – O. N. Pavlova – Microbiology

Bacterial alkylquinolone signaling contributes to structuring microbial communities in the ocean – Kristen E. Whalen – Microbiome

Food Microbiology
First description of bacterial and fungal communities in Colombian coffee beans fermentation analysed using Illumina-based amplicon sequencing – Ana C. de Oliveira Junqueira – Scientific Reports

Techniques
Functional Gene Array-Based Ultrasensitive and Quantitative Detection of Microbial Populations in Complex Communities – Zhou Shi – mSystems

June 20, 2019

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

General microbiology

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

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

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

Antimicrobial resistance

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

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

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

Human oral microbiome

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

Human gut microbiome

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Metabolomics

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

Animal experiments

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

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

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

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

Animal microbiome

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

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

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

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

Food microbiome

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

Plant, root and soil microbiome

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Water and extremophile microbiome

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

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

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

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

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

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

Phages and viruses

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

Technology

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

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

Bioinformatics

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

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

Microbes in the news

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

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

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

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

Non-microbiology picks

** The State of Open Data Report 2018

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

June 10, 2019

This Monday, read about the precision of microbiome wording, cryopreservation of the human gut microbiota, water infrastructure microbiomes, and more. Happy reading!

General microbiome

Determining Microbial Roles in Ecosystem Function: Redefining Microbial Food Webs and Transcending Kingdom Barriers – Kim M. Handley – mSystems

Digitalizing the Microbiome for Human Health – Kirti Nath and Christoph A. Thaiss – mSystems

New Approaches to Microbiome-Based Therapies – Andrea C. Wong and Maayan Levy – mSystems

Benefits and Costs of Animal Virulence for Microbes – Arturo Casadevall and Liise-anne Pirofski – mSystems

*Language, numeracy and logic in microbiome science – Fergus Shanahan and Colin Hill – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Gut microbiome

*Cryopreservation of the human gut microbiota: current state and perspectives – Daria V.Smirnovaa – International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Metaproteomics of the human gut microbiota: challenges and contributions to other OMICS – Ngom Issa Isaac – Clinical Mass Spectrometry

Mapping human microbiome drug metabolism by gut bacteria and their genes – Michael Zimmermann – Nature

MinION Sequencing of colorectal cancer tumour microbiomes – a comparison with amplicon-based and RNA-Sequencing – William S Taylor – bioRxiv

Assessment of Causal Direction Between Gut Microbiota-Dependent Metabolites and Cardiometabolic Health: Abi-Directional Mendelian Randomisation Analysis – Jinzhu Jia – Diabetes

Metagenomic and metabolomic analyses reveal distinct stage-specific phenotypes of the gut microbiota in colorectal cancer – Shinichi Yachida – Nature Medicine

Dysbiosis of gut microbiota in a selected population of Parkinson’s patients – Daniele Pietrucci – Parkinsonism & Related Disorders

Animal experiment

Heterochronic faecal transplantation boosts gut germinal centres in aged mice – Marisa Stebegg – Nature communications

High fat diet alters gut microbiota but not spatial working memory in early middle-aged Sprague Dawley rats – Nikita Girish Deshpande – PlosOne

Animal microbiome

Fibre digestion by rumen microbiota – a review of recent metagenomic and metatranscriptomic studies – Stephanie A Terry – Canadian Journal of Animal Science

Correlation between Disease Severity and the Intestinal Microbiome in Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Infected Rhesus Macaques – Sivaranjani Namasivayam – mBio

Water microbiome

*Integrating biotechnology and microbial ecology in urban water infrastructure through a microbiome continuum viewpoint – Lutgarde Raskin and Per Halkjær Nielsen – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Techniques

MOBN: an interactive database of multi-omics biological networks – Cheng Zhang – bioRxiv

May 31, 2019

Happy Friday!! Today’s digest contains reviews on the role of microbiota in immune memory formation and bioinformatic tools for soil microbiome analysis

General microbiome

*Review: The microbiome and immune memory formation – Kathy D. McCoy – Immunology and Cell biology

Preprint – Investigating Transfusion-Related Sepsis using Culture-Independent Metagenomic Sequencing – Emily Crawford – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Response of Fish Gut Microbiota to Toxin-Containing Cyanobacterial Extracts: A Microcosm Study on the Medaka (Oryzias latipes) – Sébastien Duperron – Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

*Book chapter : Bioinformatics Tools for Soil Microbiome Analysis – Rama Kant Dubey – Part of the SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science book series

Book chapter: Belowground Microbial Communities: Key Players for Soil and Environmental Sustainability – Rama Kant Dubey – Part of the SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science book series

Book chapter: Single-Cell Genomics and Metagenomics for Microbial Diversity Analysis – Rama Kant Dubey – Part of the SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science book series

In vitro digestion and fermentation of three polysaccharide fractions from Laminaria japonica and their impact on lipid metabolism-associated human gut microbiota – Jie Gao – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Preprint – Biogeographical patterns in soil bacterial communities across the Arctic region – Lucie A Malard – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome

In search of microbial indicator taxa: shifts in stream bacterial communities along an urbanization gradient – Marie Simonin – Environmental Microbiology

Phages and viruses

Analysis of Spounaviruses as a Case Study for the Overdue Reclassification of Tailed Phages – Jakub Barylski – Systematic Biology

Techniques

Protocol: Analysis of Microbial Siderophores by Mass Spectrometry – Tomas Pluhacek – Part of the Methods in Molecular Biology

Review: A guide to visualizing the spatial epigenome with super‐resolution microscopy – Jianquan Xu – The FEBS Journal

May 28, 2019

Today’s digest is about metaproteomics in microbial communities, infant and child microbiome and association with diseases, coral ecosphere, microbial biospherics and updates on new techniques to analyze microbiome sequencing data.

General microbiome

Metaproteomics: Much More than Measuring Gene Expression in Microbial Communities – Manuel Kleiner – mSystems

Associational effects in the microbial neighborhood – Anja Worrich – ISME Journal

Uncovering complex molecular networks in host–pathogen interactions using systems biology – Joshua M. Peters – Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Human microbiome

The skin microbiome of vertebrates – Ashley A. Ross – Microbiome

Patterns in the longitudinal oropharyngeal microbiome evolution related to ventilator-associated pneumonia – Rami Sommerstein – Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control

Microbial composition of the human nasopharynx varies according to influenza virus type and vaccination status – Tao Ding -BioRxiv

Cytometric fingerprints of gut microbiota predict Crohn’s disease state – Peter Rubbens – BioRxiv

Dynamic colonization of microbes and their functions after fecal microbiota transplantation for inflammatory bowel disease – Nathaniel D. Chu – BioRxiv

Pregnancy and infant microbiome

Paediatrician’s perspective of infant gut microbiome research: current status and challenges – Paul MacDaragh Ryan – Archives of Disease in Childhood

The Salivary Microbiome Is Altered in Children With Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Correlates With Disease Activity – Hiremath Girish – Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Influence of own mother’s milk and different proportions of formula on intestinal microbiota of very preterm newborns – Adriana Zanella – PlosOne

Influence of a Serratia marcescens outbreak on the gut microbiota establishment process in low-weight preterm neonates – Esperanza Escribano – PlosOne

Reviewing the evidence on breast milk composition and immunological outcomes – Alba Boix-Amorós – Nutrition Reviews

Characterization of Stool Virome in Children Newly Diagnosed With Moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis – Rafal Tokarz – Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Animal experiments

Effect of intestinal tapeworms on the gut microbiota of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio – Pei P. Fu – Parasites and Vectors

Comparison of Bacterial Populations in the Ceca of Swine at Two Different Stages and their Functional Annotations – Himanshu Kumar – Genes

Toll‐like receptor 2 and toll‐like receptor 4 responses regulate neutrophil infiltration into the junctional epithelium and significantly contribute to the composition of the oral microbiota – Ana M. Chang – Journal of Periodontology

Plant, root, soil microbiome

Mediterranean grassland soil C–N compound turnover is dependent on rainfall and depth, and is mediated by genomically divergent microorganisms – Spencer Diamond – Nature Microbiology

Rhizosphere microbiomes diverge among Populus trichocarpa plant-host genotypes and chemotypes, but it depends on soil origin – Allison M. Veach – Microbiome

Microbial community drivers of PK/NRP gene diversity in selected global soils – Chiara Borsetto – Microbiome

Decreased temporary turnover of bacterial communities along soil depth gradient during a 35-year grazing exclusion period in a semiarid grassland – Chao Zhang – Geoderma

Soil bacterial community dynamics following surfactant addition and bioaugmentation in pyrene-contaminated soils – D.C.Wolf – Chemosphere

Structural and Functional Responses of Soil Microbial Communities to Biodegradable Plastic Film Mulching in Two Agroecosystems – Sreejata Bandopadhyay – BioRxiv

Ecological and genomic attributes of novel bacterial taxa that thrive in subsurface soil horizons – Tess E. Brewer – BioRxiv

Water microbiome and extremophiles

The coral ecosphere: A unique coral reef habitat that fosters coral–microbial interactions – Laura Weber – Limnology and Oceanography

Tide driven microbial dynamics through virus-host interactions in the estuarine ecosystem – Xiaowei Chen – Water Research

Microbial biofilm formation and community structure on low-density polyethylene microparticles in lake water microcosms – Mengting Gong – Environmental Pollution

Diversity and relative abundance of ammonia- and nitrite-oxidizing microorganisms in the offshore Namibian hypoxic zone – Evan Lau – PlosOne

Consistent metagenome-derived metrics verify and define bacterial species boundaries – Matthew R. Olm – BioRxiv

Techniques

Competitive interaction with keystone taxa induced negative priming under biochar amendments – Lijun Chen – Microbiome

Strengthening Insights in Microbial Ecological Networks from Theory to Applications – Xiaofei Lv – mSystems

Microbial biospherics: The experimental study of ecosystem function and evolution Matthias C. Rillig – PNAS

NUFEB: A Massively Parallel Simulator for Individual-based Modelling of Microbial Communities – Bowen Li – BioRxiv

Detecting interaction networks in the human microbiome with conditional Granger causality – Kumar Mainali – Plos Computational Biology

M1CR0B1AL1Z3R—a user-friendly web server for the analysis of large-scale microbial genomics data – Oren Avram – Nucleic Acids Research

End-to-end assessment of fecal bacteriome analysis: from sample processing to DNA sequencing and bioinformatics results – Ana Paula Christoff – BioRxiv

Microbiome in news

Antibiotics may help curb Alzheimer’s symptoms – Medical News Today

SANISCALP®, to preserve the Microbiome for a soothed and healthy scalp! – Cosmetics desgin.com – Mamamia

Mother Dirt Expands Biome-Friendly Skincare Range With New Body Care Line – Mid Daily News

Microbes and the market

Global Microbiome Drugs Market Forecast 2019-2025: MaaT Pharma, Pfizer, Second Genome, Seres Therapeutics – Technology Market

Microbiome Therapeutics Market 2019 – By Future Growth, Trends Plans, Top Key Players, Business Opportunities, Region, Pricing Analysis, Opportunities and Forecast to 2024 – Norwalk Daily

Global Human Microbiome Modulators Market Report 2019: Trends and Opportunities for the Business Prediction over 2024 – Current News Magazine

Microbiome Sequencing Services Market 2019 Report Shows the Competitive Situation Among the Top Manufacturers, With Sales, Revenue and Share – Augusta Observer

 

May 24, 2019

Today we have a short Digest before the Memorial Day weekend in America. Highlights include a comparative metabolomic study on Mycobacterium tuberculosis and a live attenuated strain as a potential vaccine, a report on oral cavity resistome worldwide and last but not least, fossils of early fungi that are about 1 billion years old!

General microbiology

Quorum Sensing Circuits in the Communicating Mechanisms of Bacteria and Its Implication in the Biosynthesis of Bacteriocins by Lactic Acid Bacteria: a Review – Ourdia Kareb & Mohammed Aïder – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

** Early fungi from the Proterozoic era in Arctic Canada – Corentin C. Loron et al. – Nature

Antimicrobial resistance

** Preprint: Abundance and diversity of resistomes differ between healthy human oral cavities and gut – Victoria R. Carr et al. – bioRxiv

Human skin microbiome

Skin Microbiome Differences in Atopic Dermatitis and Healthy Controls in Egyptian Children and Adults, and Association with Serum Immunoglobulin E – Mohammed Ramadan et al. – OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology

Review: Microbiome and skin biology – Lunjani, Nonhlanhla et al. – Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology

Human oral microbiome

Intra‐oral single site comparisons of periodontal and peri‐implant microbiota in health and disease – Xiao‐Lin Yu et al. – Clinical Oral Implants Research

Built environment microbiome

Spatial Gradients of Fungal Abundance and Ecology throughout a Damp Building – Bridget Hegarty et al. – Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Metabolomics

** COMPARATIVE METABOLOMICS BETWEEN Mycobacterium tuberculosis AND THE MTBVAC VACCINE CANDIDATE – Caridad Díaz Navarro et al. – ACS Infectious Diseases

Animal microbiome

The Role of Tissue Type, Sampling and Nucleic Acid Purification Methodology on the Inferred Composition of Pacific Oyster (Crassostrea gigas) Microbiome – Erandi Pathirana et al. – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Vertical distribution of microbial communities in chromium-contaminated soil and isolation of Cr(Ⅵ)-Reducing strains – Bang Liu & Guirong Su et al. – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Preprint: Root development is maintained by specific bacteria-bacteria interactions within a complex microbiome – Omri M. Finkel et al. – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Microbiome: Small Organisms Play Big Shots in Plants – Soumya Kumar Sahoo et al. – Biomolecule Reports

May 11, 2019

Have a good weekend! Today, in this MD we recovered some papers released in the previous days. Some highlights: an interesting study about the relationship between Alzheimer’s disease and microbiome, connections between microbial anti-inflammatory pathways and Crohn’s disease exacerbations; the peripartum microbiome on glyphosate, the effect of the microbial metabolite butyrate on sleep and an interesting review about the probiotics concept.

 

Human or General Microbiome

Altered microbiomes distinguish Alzheimer’s disease from amnestic mild cognitive impairment and health in a Chinese cohort – Ping Liu – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Anti-inflammatory Gut Microbial Pathways Are Decreased During Crohn’s Disease Exacerbations – Marjolein A Y Klaassen – Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis

Fecal Microbiome, Metabolites, and Stem Cell Transplant Outcomes: A Single-Center Pilot Study – Jessica R Galloway-Peña – Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Dysbiosis of the Gut Microbiome in Lung Cancer – He Zhuang – Frontiers in Celullar and Infection Microbiology

Human gut derived-organoids provide model to study gluten response and effects of microbiota-derived molecules in celiac disease – Rachel Freire – Scientific Reports

Alzheimer’s Disease Microbiome Is Associated with Dysregulation of the Anti-Inflammatory P-Glycoprotein Pathway – John P. Haran – mBio

Modifications in Vaginal Microbiota and Their Influence on Drug Release: Challenges and Opportunities – Gerardo Leyva-Gómez – Pharmaceutics

Strong Multivariate Relations Exist Among Milk, Oral, and Fecal Microbiomes in Mother-Infant Dyads During the First Six Months Postpartum – Janet E Williams – The Journal of Nutrition

Identification of an intestinal microbiota signature associated with hospitalized patients with diarrhea – Mohammadzadeh Nima –  Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica

Surface glycan-binding proteins are essential for cereal beta-glucan utilization by the human gut symbiont Bacteroides ovatus – Kazune Tamura – Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Humoral response to Clostridium difficile in inflammatory bowel disease, including correlation with immunomodulatory treatment – Gunnel Henriksson – JGH Open

Review: Body site-dependent variations of microbiota in pancreatic cancer pathophysiology – Concetta Panebianco – Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences

Role of Gut Microbiota in Hepatocarcinogenesis – Haripriya Gupta – Microorganisms

 

Animal Microbiome and Experiments

Glyphosate and Glyphosate-based herbicide exposure during the peripartum period affects maternal brain plasticity, maternal behavior and microbiome – Julie Dechartres – Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Invited review: Application of meta-omics to understand the dynamic nature of the rumen microbiome and how it responds to diet in ruminants – R. J. Gruninger – Animal

Comparison of Co-housing and Littermate Methods for Microbiota Standardization in Mouse Models – Susan J. Robertson – Cell Reports

Faecal microbiota changes associated with the moult fast in chinstrap and gentoo penguins – Won Young Lee – PLoS ONE

Intestinal dysbacteriosis mediates the reference memory deficit induced by anaesthesia/surgery in aged mice – Xl Jiang – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Oral vitamin B12 supplement is delivered to the distal gut, altering the corrinoid profile and selectively depleting Bacteroides in C57BL/6 mice – Caleb J. Kelly – Gut Microbes

The role of gut microbiota in shaping the relapse-remitting and chronic-progressive forms of multiple sclerosis in mouse models – K. Alexa Orr Gandy – Scientific Reports

Haem iron reshapes colonic luminal environment: impact on mucosal homeostasis and microbiome through aldehyde formation – Océane C. B. Martin – Microbiome

 

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Effect of a Multistrain Probiotic on Cognitive Function and Risk of Falls in Patients With Cirrhosis: A Randomized Trial – Eva Román – Hepatology Communications

Perspective: The pros, cons, and many unknowns of probiotics – Jotham Suez – Nature Medicine

Review: Prospecting prebiotics, innovative evaluation methods, and their health applications: a review – Ishu Khangwal – 3 Biotech

Butyrate, a metabolite of intestinal bacteria, enhances sleep – Éva Szentirmai – Scientific Reports

Gut Microbiota-Mediated NLRP12 Expression Drives the Attenuation of Dextran Sulphate Sodium-Induced Ulcerative Colitis by Qingchang Wenzhong Decoction – Zhongmei Sun – Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Mulberry Leaf Polyphenols and Fiber Induce Synergistic Antiobesity and Display a Modulation Effect on Gut Microbiota and Metabolites – Qian Li – Nutrients

Probiotics mixture increases butyrate, and subsequently rescues the nigral dopaminergic neurons from MPTP and rotenone-induced neurotoxicity – Sunil Srivastav – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Beneficial effects of tea water extracts on the body weight and gut microbiota in C57BL/6J mice fed with a high-fat diet – Jianhui Liu – Food and Function

 

Extremophiles

Comparative Power Law Analysis for the Spatial Heterogeneity Scaling of the Hot-Spring Microbiomes – Lianwei Li – Molecular Ecology

 

Other

Comparative genomics of Bifidobacterium species isolated from marmosets and humans – Celeste J. Brown – American Journal of Primatology

May 10, 2019

Have a good Friday! Today was published a very interesting article about a longitudinal study using several tools (including microbiome analysis), finding several clinically actionable health discoveries and identified multiple molecular pathways associated with metabolic, cardiovascular and oncologic pathophysiology, in patients with type II diabetes. This article could represent an interesting contribution to precision medicine development.

In addition, this digest also contains papers about: the role of sphingolipids in symbiosis and gut health, the role of fecal microbiota transplantation in IBS relief, the stability of a probiotic strain in infants, and more…

 

Human/General Microbiome

A longitudinal big data approach for precision health – Sophia Miryam Schüssler-Fiorenza Rose – Nature Medicine

Turning points: Making the microbiome personal – Ami S. Bhatt – Nature Medicine

Bacteroides-Derived Sphingolipids Are Critical for Maintaining Intestinal Homeostasis and Symbiosis – Eric M. Brown – Cell Host & Microbe

Relief of irritable bowel syndrome by fecal microbiota transplantation is associated with changes in diversity and composition of the gut microbiota – Hong Li Huang – Journal of Digestive Diseases

Perspective: Do Interactions Between Environmental Chemicals and the Human Microbiome Need to Be Considered in Risk Assessments? – Joseph Rodricks – Risk Analysis

Association of the oral microbiome with the progression of impaired fasting glucose in a Chinese elderly population – Rui-Rui Wang – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Stroke Dysbiosis Index (SDI) in Gut Microbiome Are Associated With Brain Injury and Prognosis of Stroke – Geng-Hong Xia – Frontiers in Neurology

Review: Alpha-Synuclein Pathology and the Role of the Microbiota in Parkinson’s Disease – Emily Fitzgerald – Frontiers in Neuroscience

Mucosal-associated invariant T cells and oral microbiome in persistent apical periodontitis – Haleh Davanian – International Journal of Oral Science

Obesity, Xenobiotic Intake and Antimicrobial-Resistance Genes in the Human Gastrointestinal Tract: A Comparative Study of Eutrophic, Overweight and Obese Individuals – Marjorie Raquel Anariba Sarmiento – Genes

Effects of Intestinal Microbial⁻Elaborated Butyrate on Oncogenic Signaling Pathways – Jiezhong Chen – Nutrients

Composite Analysis of the Virome and Bacteriome of HIV/HPV Co-Infected Women Reveals Proxies for Immunodeficiency – Juliana D. Siqueira – Viruses

 

Animal Microbiome and Animal Model Experiments

Review: Veterinary ocular microbiome: Lessons learned beyond the culture – Kayla C. Banks – Veterinary Ophthalmology  

Antibiotic-Induced Disruption of Gut Microbiota Alters Local Metabolomes and Immune Responses – Lin Sun – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Cloacal microbiomes and ecology of individual barn swallows – Roberto Ambrosini – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Exposure to microplastics lowers arsenic accumulation and alters gut bacterial communities of earthworm Metaphire californica – Hong-Tao Wang – Environmental Pollution

Fermented carrot juice attenuates type 2 diabetes by mediating gut microbiota in rats – Rongkang Hu – Food and Function

Positive effects of a Clostridium butyricum-based compound probiotic on growth performance, immune responses, intestinal morphology, hypothalamic neurotransmitters, and colonic microbiota in weaned piglets – Guangtian Cao – Food and Function

Ripened Pu-erh tea extract protects mice from obesity by modulating gut microbiota composition – Xiaojie Lu – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Microbiota alter metabolism and mediate neurodevelopmental toxicity of 17β-estradiol – Tara R. Catron – Scientific Reports

 

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Vitamin C and B3 as New Biomaterials to Alter Intestinal Stem Cells – Yijun Qi – Journal of Biomedical Material Research

Bile salt hydrolase can improve Lactobacillus plantarum survival in gastrointestinal tract by enhancing their adhesion ability – Yanrong Liu – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Administration of the Probiotic Escherichia coli Strain A0 34/86 Resulted in a Stable Colonization of the Human Intestine During the First Year of Life – Lenka Micenková – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Minireview: Structures and Metabolic Properties of Bovine Milk Oligosaccharides and Their Potential in the Development of Novel Therapeutics – Randall C. Robinson – Frontiers in Nutrition

 

Bioinformatics and Analysis

An Adaptive Multivariate Two-Sample Test With Application to Microbiome Differential Abundance Analysis – Kalins Banerjee – Frontiers in Genetics

Identifying Gut Microbiota Associated With Colorectal Cancer Using a Zero-Inflated Lognormal Model – Dongmei Ai – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

May 4, 2019

Have a good weekend! Today, in this MB, we have interesting papers about different aspects of the microbiome. For example, we have a review overviewing the relationship between epigenetic changes, microbiome and metabolic diseases, as well as a paper focused in the use of a microbial metabolite in the prognosis of coronary issues. We have also the publication of an interesting study authored by the MB founder Elisabeth Bik.

There are also some papers about coral microbiome and an study about the homogenization of the microbiome between both US Air Force cadets and their built environment.

 

Human and General Microbiome

Review: Epigenetic Markers and Microbiota/Metabolite-Induced Epigenetic Modifications in the Pathogenesis of Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, Type 2 Diabetes, and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease – Daniela Stols-Gonçalves – Current Diabetes Reports

A novel sequencing-based vaginal health assay combining self-sampling, HPV detection and genotyping, STI detection, and vaginal microbiome analysis – Elisabeth Bik – PLoS ONE

Trimethyllysine, a trimethylamine N-oxide precursor, provides near- and long-term prognostic value in patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes – Xinmin S Li – European Heart Journal

Review: The interaction between Entamoeba histolytica and enterobacteria shed light on an ancient antibacterial response – Nancy Guillén – Cellular Microbiology

PCR Characterization of Microbiota on Contracted and Non-Contracted Breast Capsules – Yara Bachour – Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Decreased Cephalosporin Susceptibility of Oropharyngeal Neisseria Species in Antibiotic-Using Men-who-have-sex-with-men of Hanoi, Vietnam– Huan V Dong – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Review: Smoking and periodontal microorganisms – Takashi Hanioka – Japanese Dental Science Review

The influence of the vaginal microbiota on preterm birth: A systematic review and recommendations for a minimum dataset for future research – Myrthe JCS. Peelen – Placenta

Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease: Emerging Diagnostic Opportunities – Aonghus Lavelle – Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

Laryngotracheal Microbiota in Adult Laryngotracheal Stenosis – Alexander T. Hillel – mSphere

Antibiotic Resistance Gene Diversity and Virulence Gene Diversity Are Correlated in Human Gut and Environmental Microbiomes – Pedro Escudeiro –  mSphere

 

Beneficial Microbes

Review: Changing our microbiome: Probiotics in dermatology – Y. Yu – British Journal of Dermatology

Amelioration of obesity-related biomarkers by Lactobacillus sakei CJLS03 in a high-fat diet-induced obese murine model – Josep Ji – Scientific Reports

 

Animal Models / Animal Microbiome

Age-related analysis of the gut microbiome in a purebred dog colony – Keijiro Mizukami – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Addition of plant dietary fibre to a raw red meat high protein, high fat diet, alters the faecal bacteriome and organic acid profiles of the domestic cat (Felis catus) – Christina F. Butowski – PLoS ONE

Effects of diet on gut microbiota of soil collembolans – Qian Xiang – Science of The Total Environment

Multiple stressors interact primarily through antagonism to drive changes in the coral microbiome – Rebecca L. Maher – Scientific Reports

Structure and stability of the coral microbiome in space and time – Courtney M. Dunphy – Scientific Reports

The effect of dissolved nickel and copper on the adult coral Acropora muricata and its microbiome – Francesca Gissi – Environmental Pollution

 

Food Microbiome

Microbiota and Chemical Compounds in Fermented Pinelliae Rhizoma (Banxiaqu) from Different Areas in the Sichuan Province, China – Bo Shu – Polish Journal of Microbiology

 

Built Environment

Longitudinal homogenization of the microbiome between both occupants and the built environment in a cohort of United States Air Force Cadets –  Anukriti Sharma – Microbiome

 

Environmental Microbiome

The Influence of Temperature and Nitrogen Source on Cellulolytic Potential of Microbiota Isolated from Natural Environment –  Agnieszka Wita  – Polish Journal of Microbiology

 

Techniques

The potential of nanoflow liquid chromatography-nano electrospray ionisation-mass spectrometry for global profiling the faecal metabolome – Andrew J. Chetwynd – Journal of Chromatography A

May 2, 2019

In today’s digest read about variations in milk and infant fecal microbiome (Ethiopia, Gambia, USA, Ghana, Kenya, Peru, Spain, and Sweden), the microbiome, metabolome, and lipidome of obese and non-obese horses (USA), and Bacteroides fragilis adaptive evolution (Western countries and China). Happy reading!

Pregnancy and birth

*What’s normal? Microbiomes in human milk and infant feces are related to each other but vary geographically: the INSPIRE study – Kimberly A. Lackey – Frontiers in Nutrition

Progesterone Increases Bifidobacterium Relative Abundance during Late Pregnancy – Meital Nuriel-Ohayon – Cell Reports

Gut microbiome

Neonatal Vitamin A Supplementation and Vitamin A Status Are Associated with Gut Microbiome Composition in Bangladeshi Infants in Early Infancy and at 2 Years of Age – M Nazmul Huda – The Journal of nutrition

Fungi form interkingdom microbial communities in the primordial human gut that develop with gestational age – Kent A. Willis – bioRxiv

*Adaptive Evolution within Gut Microbiomes of Healthy People – Shijie Zhao – Cell Host & Microbe

Small intestinal microbial dysbiosis underlies symptoms associated with functional gastrointestinal disorders – George B. Saffouri – Nature Communications

Oral microbiome

Review: The Role of Exopolysaccharides in Oral Biofilms – C. Cugini – Journal of Dental Research

Human Salivary Amylase Gene Copy Number Impacts Oral and Gut Microbiomes – Angela C. Poole – Cell Host & Microbe

Animal microbiome

*Comparison of the microbiome, metabolome, and lipidome of obese and non-obese horses – Michelle C. Coleman – PlosOne

Utilizing the fecal microbiota to understand foal gut transitions from birth to weaning – Ubaldo De La Torre – PlosOne

Microbiome characterization of poultry products based on the poultry part and production label – Sang In Lee – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Metagenomic analysis of isolation methods of a targeted microbe, Campylobacter jejuni, from chicken feces with high microbial contamination – Junhyung Kim – Microbiome

Invited review: Advances and challenges in application of feedomics to improve dairy cow production and health – H.Z.Sun – Journal of Dairy Science

Characterization of pig saliva as the major natural habitat of Streptococcus suis by analyzing oral, fecal, vaginal, and environmental microbiota – Kazunori Murase – PlosOne

Insight into the microbial world of Bemisia tabaci cryptic species complex and its relationships with its host – Hua-Ling Wang – Scientific Reports

Water and extremophile microbiome

The Plastisphere – Uncovering tightly attached plastic “specific” microorganisms – Inga Vanessa Kirstein – PlosOne

The cooling tower water microbiota: Seasonal dynamics and co-occurrence of bacterial and protist phylotypes – Han-Fei Tsao – Water Research

Modular Assembly of Polysaccharide-Degrading Marine Microbial Communities – Tim N.Enke – Current Biology

Impact of a river flood on marine water quality and planktonic microbial communities – Annamaria Zoppini – Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Microbial ecological processes in MBBR biofilms for biological phosphorus removal from wastewater – Knut Rudi – Water Science & Technology

Highly diverse fungal communities in carbon-rich aquifers of two contrasting lakes in Northeast Germany – Anita Perkins – bioRxiv

Plant/root/soil microbiome

The rice leaf microbiome has a conserved community structure controlled by complex host-microbe interactions – Veronica Roman-Reyna – bioRxiv

Spatial vs. temporal controls over soil fungal community similarity at continental and global scales – Colin Averil – The ISME Journal

Metabolomics Reveal that Engineered Nanomaterial Exposure in Soil Alters Both Soil Rhizosphere Metabolite Profiles and Maize Metabolic Pathways – Lijuan Zhao – Environmental Science: Nano

High-throughput sequencing reveals the diversity and community structure of rhizosphere fungi of Ferula Sinkiangensis at different soil depths – Tao Zhang – Scientific Reports

Microplastics can change soil properties and affect plant performance – Anderson Abel de Souza Machado – Environmental Science and Technology