Category Archives: Phages and viruses

February 24, 2018

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100+ alerts today with interesting papers across every category. Some highlights include choosing FMT donors, viral insulin-like peptides, and 2 papers on detecting duplicated figures.

General microbiome
Review: The microbiome in precision medicine: the way forward. – Joseph F Petrosino – Genome Medicine

Motivations of participants in the citizen science of microbiomics: data from the British Gut Project. – Lorenzo Del Savio – Genetics In Medicine : Official Journal Of The American College Of Medical Genetics

Pregnancy and early life
The Role of the Genitourinary Microbiome in Pediatric Urology: a Review. – Daniel Gerber – Current Urology Reports

Review: Reproductive outcome of patients undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment and diagnosed with bacterial vaginosis or abnormal vaginal microbiota: a systematic PRISMA review and meta-analysis. – Thor Haahr – Bjog : An International Journal Of Obstetrics And Gynaecology

Multi-site human microbiome
Review: The Vagus Nerve at the Interface of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis. – Bruno Bonaz – Frontiers In Neuroscience

Human vaginal microbiome
Protein Content of Cervicovaginal Fluid Is Altered During Bacterial Vaginosis. – Carolina Sanitá Tafner Ferreira – Journal Of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Human nearly-sterile sites
Microbiome-Host Interactions in Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplant Recipients. – Tessa Andermann – Biology Of Blood And Marrow Transplantation : Journal Of The American Society For Blood And Marrow Transplantation

Human gut microbiome
** Competitively Selected Donor Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: Butyrate Concentration and Diversity as Measures of Donor Quality. – Danielle Barnes – Journal Of Pediatric Gastroenterology And Nutrition

Metagenomic Characterization of the Human Intestinal Microbiota in Fecal Samples from STEC-Infected Patients. – Federica Gigliucci – Frontiers In Cellular And Infection Microbiology

Review: Human Gut Microbiota and Gastrointestinal Cancer. – Changting Meng – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Review: Impact of the Gut Microbiota on Intestinal Immunity Mediated by Tryptophan Metabolism. – Jing Gao – Frontiers In Cellular And Infection Microbiology

Microbial interactions
Competitive resource allocation to metabolic pathways contributes to overflow metabolisms and emergent properties in cross-feeding microbial consortia. – Ross P Carlson – Biochemical Society Transactions

Worlds Apart – Transcriptome Profiles of Key Oral Microbes in the Periodontal Pocket Compared to Single Laboratory Culture Reflect Synergistic Interactions. – Zhi-Luo Deng – Frontiers In Microbiology

Using niche breadth theory to explain generalization in mutualisms – Rebecca T. Batstone – Ecology

Metabolic division of labor in microbial systems – Ryan Tsoi – PNAS

Expanded diversity of microbial groups that shape the dissimilatory sulfur cycle – Karthik Anantharaman – ISME

Review: Bacterial – Fungal Interactions: ecology, mechanisms and challenges. – A Deveau – Fems Microbiology Reviews

Role of extracellular polymeric substances in polymicrobial biofilm infections of Staphylococcus epidermidis and Candida albicans modelled in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. – Jillian E Holt – Pathogens And Disease (older, from July 2017)

Animal experiments
Acute and repeated exposure to social stress reduces gut microbiota diversity in Syrian hamsters. – Katherine A Partrick – Behavioural Brain Research

1H NMR based identification of intestinally-absorbed metabolites by Ussing chamber analysis of the rat cecum. – Meredith Dinges – Analytical Chemistry

Influence of gemcitabine chemotherapy on the microbiota of pancreatic cancer xenografted mice. – Concetta Panebianco – Cancer Chemotherapy And Pharmacology

Grape seed proanthocyanidins influence gut microbiota and enteroendocrine secretions in female rats. – Àngela Casanova-Martí – Food & Function

Combined Dietary Anthocyanins, Flavonols, and Stilbenoids Alleviate Inflammatory Bowel Disease Symptoms in Mice. – Aurelia Scarano – Frontiers In Nutrition

Ubc9 overexpression and SUMO1 deficiency blunt inflammation after intestinal ischemia/reperfusion. – Jörn Karhausen – Laboratory Investigation; A Journal Of Technical Methods And Pathology

Glucocorticosteroids and ciclosporin do not significantly impact canine cutaneous microbiota. – Giovanni Widmer – Bmc Veterinary Research

The effects of high dose of two manganese supplements (organic and inorganic) on the rumen microbial ecosystem. – Svetlana Kišidayová – Plos One

Hydrogen peroxide production by lactobacilli promotes epithelial restitution during colitis. – Ashish K Singh – Redox Biology

Neuroprotective effects of fecal microbiota transplantation on MPTP-induced Parkinson’s disease mice: gut microbiota, glial reaction and TLR4/TNF-α signaling pathway. – Meng-Fei Sun – Brain, Behavior, And Immunity

Rotenone induces gastrointestinal pathology and microbiota alterations in a rat model of Parkinson’s disease. – Michaela E Johnson – Neurotoxicology

Prenatal Androgen Exposure Causes Hypertension and Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis. – Shermel Sherman – Gut Microbes

Dominance of Endozoicomonas bacteria throughout coral bleaching and mortality suggests structural inflexibility of the Pocillopora verrucosa microbiome – Claudia Pogoreutz – Ecology And Evolution

Gut microbiota modulates adoptive cell therapy via CD8α dendritic cells and IL-12. – Mireia Uribe-Herranz – Jci Insight

Animal microbiome
Spatial Heterogeneity and Co-occurrence of Mucosal and Luminal Microbiome across Swine Intestinal Tract. – Li Zhang – Frontiers In Microbiology

Characterization of gut bacterial flora of Apis mellifera from north-west Pakistan – Syed Ishtiaq Anjum – Saudi Journal Of Biological Sciences

A Member of the Roseobacter Clade, Octadecabacter sp., is the Dominant Symbiont in the Brittle Star Amphipholis squamata. – Kathleen M Morrow – Fems Microbiology Ecology

Alimentary microbes of winter-form Drosophila suzukii. – M T Fountain – Insect Molecular Biology

The development of gut microbiota in ostriches and its association with juvenile growth – Elin Videvall – bioRxiv

Review: Regulation of intestinal health by branched-chain amino acids. – Hua Zhou – Animal Science Journal = Nihon Chikusan Gakkaiho

Book chapter: Termite Gut Microbiome – Navodita Maurice – Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Compositional shifts in root-associated bacterial and archaeal microbiota track the plant life cycle in field-grown rice. – Joseph A Edwards – Plos Biology

Quantitative Genetic Analysis of the Maize Leaf Microbiome – Jason G. Wallace – bioRxiv

 

Variable response of nirK and nirS containing denitrifier communities to long term pH manipulation and cultivation. – Miriam B Herold – Fems Microbiology Letters

Landscape topography structures the soil microbiome in arctic polygonal tundra. – Neslihan Taş – Nature Communications

Effects of soil depth and plant-soil interaction on microbial community in temperate grasslands of northern China. – Xiaodong Yao – The Science Of The Total Environment

Seasonal dynamics in the community structure and trophic structure of testate amoebae inhabiting the Sanjiang peatlands, Northeast China. – Lihong Song – European Journal Of Protistology

Investigation of rhizospheric microbial communities in wheat, barley and two rice varieties at the seedling stage. – Tao Lu – Journal Of Agricultural And Food Chemistry

Increasing N deposition impacts neither diversity nor functions of deadwood-inhabiting fungal communities, but adaptation and functional redundancy warrants ecosystem function. – Witoon Purahong – Environmental Microbiology

Belowground Interactions Impact the Soil Bacterial Community, Soil Fertility, and Crop Yield in Maize/Peanut Intercropping Systems. – Qisong Li – International Journal Of Molecular Sciences

Lost in diversity: the interactions between soil-borne fungi, biodiversity and plant productivity. – Liesje Mommer – The New Phytologist

Isolation and characterization of N2 -fixing bacteria from giant reed and switchgrass for plant growth promotion and nutrient uptake – Jia Xu – Journal of Basic Microbiology

Structural diversity across arbuscular mycorrhizal, ectomycorrhizal, and endophytic plant-fungus networks – Hirokazu Toju – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome
Seasonal variability in the persistence of dissolved environmental DNA (eDNA) in a marine system: The role of microbial nutrient limitation. – Ian Salter – Plos One

Elevated temperature drives kelp microbiome dysbiosis, while elevated carbon dioxide induces water microbiome disruption. – Jeremiah J Minich – Plos One

Elevated seawater temperature disrupts the microbiome of an ecologically important bioeroding sponge. – Blake D Ramsby – Molecular Ecology

Microbial Diversity and Mineralogical-Mechanical Properties of Calcitic Cave Speleothems – Navdeep K Dhami – Frontiers In Microbiology

Microbial Community Structure and Function Indicate the Severity of Chromium Contamination of the Yellow River. – Yaxin Pei – Frontiers In Microbiology

Assessing the microbial communities inhabiting drinking water networks and nitrifying enrichments with special respect on nitrifying microorganisms. – Zsuzsanna Nagymáté – Acta Microbiologica Et Immunologica Hungarica

Microbial community composition along a 50,000 year lacustrine sediment sequence. – Aurèle Vuillemin – Fems Microbiology Ecology

Diversity of Rare and Abundant Prokaryotic Phylotypes in the Prony Hydrothermal Field and Comparison with Other Serpentinite-Hosted Ecosystems. – Eléonore Frouin – Frontiers In Microbiology

Sediment bacteria in an urban stream: Spatiotemporal patterns in community composition – Alescia A. Roberto – Water Research

Built environment
Dog introduction alters the home dust microbiota. – Alexandra Sitarik – Indoor Air

Urbanization Reduces Transfer of Diverse Environmental Microbiota Indoors. – Anirudra Parajuli – Frontiers In Microbiology

Removal of artificial sweeteners and their effects on microbial communities in sequencing batch reactors. – Shaoli Li – Scientific Reports

Microbes in space
Soil microbial habitats in an extreme desert Mars-analogue environment – Kimberley Warren-Rhodes – bioRxiv

Food microbiology
** Editorial: Microbiome Yarns: human milk oligosaccharides, Bifidobacterium and immunopowergames. – Kenneth Timmis – Microbial Biotechnology

Detection of Bacterial DNA During the Process of Sake Production Using Sokujo-Moto. – Momoka Terasaki – Current Microbiology

A Walnut-Enriched Diet Affects Gut Microbiome in Healthy Caucasian Subjects: A Randomized, Controlled Trial. – Charlotte Bamberger – Nutrients

Impact of Chemical and Biological Fungicides Applied to Grapevine on Grape Biofilm, Must, and Wine Microbial Diversity. – Rocío Escribano-Viana – Frontiers In Microbiology

Review: The Promising Pharmacological Effects and Therapeutic/Medicinal applications of Punica Granatum L. (Pomegranate) as a Functional Food in Humans and Animals. – Kuldeep Dhama – Recent Patents On Inflammation & Allergy Drug Discovery

Probiotics / prebiotics / antibiotics
Bile-Salt-Hydrolases from the Probiotic Strain – Thibault Allain – Frontiers In Microbiology

** A reservoir of ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes in remote pristine Antarctic soils. – Marc W Van Goethem – Microbiome

PAHs accelerate the propagation of antibiotic resistance genes in coastal water microbial community. – Jing Wang – Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)

Short-term Oral Antibiotics Treatment Promotes Inflammatory Activation of Colonic Invariant Natural Killer T and Conventional CD4 – Claudia Burrello – Frontiers In Medicine

Comparative genomic analysis of the multispecies probiotic-marketed product VSL#3 – François P. Douillard – Plos One

A probiotic complex, rosavin, zinc, and prebiotics ameliorate intestinal inflammation in an acute colitis mouse model. – Jin-Sil Park – Journal Of Translational Medicine

Phages and viruses
** Viral insulin-like peptides activate human insulin and IGF-1 receptor signaling: A paradigm shift for host-microbe interactions. – Emrah Altindis – Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America

Quantitative Viral Community DNA Analysis Reveals the Dominance of Single-Stranded DNA Viruses in Offshore Upper Bathyal Sediment from Tohoku, Japan. – Mitsuhiro Yoshida – Frontiers In Microbiology

A virus or more in (nearly) every cell: ubiquitous networks of virus-host interactions in extreme environments. – Jacob H Munson-McGee – The Isme Journal

Bioinformatics
MUGAN: Multi-GPU accelerated AmpliconNoise server for rapid microbial diversity assessment. – Byunghan Lee – Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)

Techniques
Time Radically Alters Ex Situ Evidentiary Soil 16S Bacterial Profiles Produced Via Next-Generation Sequencing – Alyssa J. Badgley – Forensic Sciences

Non-biological synthetic spike-in controls and the AMPtk software pipeline improve mycobiome data – Jonathan M Palmer – bioRxiv

Genomes
Complete Genome Sequence and Genomic Characterization of – Won-Hyong Chung – Frontiers In Pharmacology

Luteimonas rhizosphaerae sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of Triticum aestivum L. –  Guo-Yan Zhao – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Science, publishing, and career
Testing Hypotheses on Risk Factors for Scientific Misconduct via Matched-Control Analysis of Papers Containing Problematic Image Duplications – Daniele Fanelli – Scientific and Engineering Ethics

Bioscience-scale automated detection of figure element reuse – Daniel E Acuna – bioRxiv

February 21, 2018

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Events and jobs

BioData World West 2018 – March 13-14 – Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco, CA

General microbiome

[editorial] Systems biology of the human microbiome – BP Bernabé, L Cralle, JA Gilbert – Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2018

[pre-print] Growth tradeoffs produce complex microbial communities without direct interactions – Michael Manhart – bioRxiv

Exploring the Multifaceted Role of Microbes in Pharmacology – Mitali Mishra – Microbial Biotechnology

Human reproductive or urinary microbiome

Seminal bacterial composition in patients with obstructive and non-obstructive azoospermia – Houyang Chen – Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Human respiratory microbiome

Virome and bacteriome characterization of children with pneumonia and asthma in Mexico City during winter seasons 2014 and 2015 – Jose A. Romero-Espinoza – PLOS One

Human gut microbiome

[pdf[ Phytochemicals that influence gut microbiota as prophylactics and for the treatment of obesity and inflammatory diseases – Lucrecia Carrera-Quintanar – Hindawi

Dietary Fiber Treatment Corrects the Composition of Gut Microbiota, Promotes SCFA Production, and Suppresses Colon Carcinogenesis – F Bishehsari – Genes

A Cross-Talk Between Microbiota-Derived Short-Chain Fatty Acids and the Host Mucosal Immune System Regulates Intestinal Homeostasis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Pedro Gonçalves – Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Animal microbiome

Differential microbial communities of omnivorous and herbivorous cattle in Southern China – Susanna K.P. Lau – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

The gills of reef fish support a distinct microbiome influenced by host-specific factors – Zoe A. Pratte – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Metagenomic analysis of orange colored protrusions from the muscle of Queen Conch Lobatus gigas (Linnaeus, 1758) – Jaison H. Cuartas – PeerJ

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Bulk soil and maize rhizosphere resistance genes, mobile genetic elements and microbial communities are differently impacted by organic and inorganic fertilization – Birgit Wolters – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Structural and metabolic diversity of rhizosphere microbial communities of Phragmites karka in a tropical coastal lagoon – Pratiksha Behera – Applied Soil Ecology

Responses of soil microbial communities to a short-term application of seaweed fertilizer revealed by deep amplicon sequencing – Mingpeng Wang – Applied Soil Ecology

[pdf] The Green Roof Microbiome: Improving Plant Survival for Ecosystem Service Delivery – Roberta Fulthorpe – Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Microbes and Their Role in Drought Tolerance of Agricultural Food Crops – Rout George Kerry – Microbial Biotechnology

Microscopic and Metagenomic Analyses of Peltigera ponojensis (Peltigerales, Ascomycota) – Linda E. Graham – International Journal of Plant Sciences

Frankia Diversity in Host Plant Root Nodules Is Independent of Abundance or Relative Diversity of Frankia Populations in Corresponding Rhizosphere Soils – Seifeddine Ben Tekaya – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

High frequency cropping of pulses modifies soil nitrogen level and the rhizosphere bacterial microbiome in 4-year rotation systems of the semiarid prairie – Chantal Hamel – Applied Soil Ecology

Bulk soil and maize rhizosphere resistance genes, mobile genetic elements and microbial communities are differently impacted by organic and inorganic fertilization – Birgit Wolters – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Variability in metagenomic samples from the Puget Sound: Relationship to temporal and anthropogenic impacts – James C. Wallace – PLOS One

Linking the effect of antibiotics on partial-nitritation biofilters: performance, microbial communities and microbial activities – Alejandro Gonzalez-Martinez – Frontiers in Microbiology

The effect of epiphytic macroinvertebrates on microbial communities in different types of macrophyte-dominated shallow lakes – Tomasz Mieczan –  Knowl. Manag. Aquat. Ecosyst

Watershed-induced limnological and microbial status in two oligotrophic Andean lakes exposed to the same climatic scenario – Alex Echeverría-Vega – Frontiers in Microbiology

** A novel β-glucosidase isolated from the microbial metagenome of Lake Poraquê (Amazon, Brazil) – Danyelle Toyama – Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Proteins and Proteomics

Variations in culturable bacterial communities and biochemical properties in the foreland of the retreating Tianshan No. 1 glacier – Xiukun Wu – Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

Food microbiology

Microbial diversity and component variation in Xiaguan Tuo Tea during pile fermentation – Haizhou Li – PLOS One

Metagenomic Insights into Environmental Microbiome and Their Application in Food/Pharmaceutical Industry – Ramya Sree Boddu – Microbial Biotechnology

Phages and viruses

[pre-print] THEA: A novel approach to gene identification in phage genomes – Katelyn McNair – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

* [pdf] Microbiome Data Accurately Predicts the Postmortem Interval Using Random Forest Regression Models – Aeriel Belk – Genes

COREMIC: a web-tool to search for a niche associated CORE MICrobiome – Richard R. Rodrigues – PeerJ

Techniques

Isotope fractionation in biogas allows direct microbial community stability monitoring in anaerobic digestion – Jo De Vrieze – Environmental Science & Technology

Statistical assessment of DNA extraction methodology for culture-independent analysis of microbial community associated with diverse environmental samples – Rishi Mahajan – Molecular Biology Reports

Microbes in the news

These Bacteria Eat Toxic Metal, ‘Poop’ Gold Nuggets – Live Science

Ed’s non-microbiology picks (can use your own name of course!) (cool non-microbiology science)

Earthquakes follow wastewater disposal patterns in southern Kansas

Ultra-processed foods ‘linked to cancer’

Promising cancer vaccine would use patient’s own cells to train the immune system

Does GMO corn increase crop yields? 21 years of data confirm it does—and provides substantial health benefits

Poor fitness linked to weaker brain fiber, higher dementia risk

Low cigarette consumption and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: meta-analysis of 141 cohort studies in 55 study reports

Fewer Infants Died In States That Allowed Affordable Care Act

February 20, 2018

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In today’s digest you can read: about advantages of Atomic Force Microscopy in studying of oral microbiota in the paper by S. S. Salavadhi; about gut microbiome association with Type 1 diabetes in the paper by J.A. Mullaney; about influence of steroids on the gut microbiota in the review by M.J Tetel and about the ability of Synechococcus cyanobacteria to dynamically change their pigment content to match the ambient light color, in the paper by T. Grébert. These are of course just a few of many interesting articles today. Enjoy!

Events and jobs

MS graduate position: Amoeba microbiome, Conway, Arkansas, US

Research Fellow in Cell Biology – Microscopy, Warwick, UK

PhD Student, ROYAL NIOZ-TEXEL, Texel, the Netherlands

General microbiome

Review: A new piece in the microbiome puzzle – Lindsay J. Pike – Nature Reviews Microbiology

The importance of resolving biogeographic patterns of microbial microdiversity – Alexander B Chase – Microbiology Australia

Consistent changes in the taxonomic structure and functional attributes of bacterial communities during primary succession – Rüdiger Ortiz-Álvarez – the ISME Journal

Pregnancy and early life

Infant formulae supplemented with prebiotics: Are they better than unsupplemented formulae? An updated systematic review – Agata Skórka – British Journal of Nutrition

Early Dietary Patterns and Microbiota Development: Still a Way to Go from Descriptive Interactions to Health-Relevant Solutions – Patricia Iozzo – Frontiers in Nutrition

Roles of Birth Mode and Infant Gut Microbiota in Intergenerational Transmission of Overweight and Obesity From Mother to Offspring – Hein M. Tun – JAMA Pediatrics

Multi-site human microbiome

A blinded observational cohort study of the microbiological ecology associated with pyuria and overactive bladder symptoms – Kiren Gill – International Urogynecology Journal

Oral microbiome

Atomic force microscopy: A three-dimensional reconstructive tool of oral microbiota in gingivitis and periodontitis – Shyam Sunder Salavadhi – Journal of Indian Society of Periodontology

Human gut microbiome

Review: Steroids, stress and the gut microbiome-brain axis – M. J. Tetel – Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Alterations of the Gut Microbiota in Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis Patients – Zhao Fuya – Thyroid

Endospores and other lysis-resistant bacteria comprise a widely shared core community within the human microbiota – Sean Michael Kearney – bioRxiv

Alterations in Intestinal Microbiota Lead to Production of Interleukin 17 by Intrahepatic γδ T-cell Receptor-positive Cells and Pathogenesis of Cholestatic Liver Disease – Dana Tedesco – Gastroenterology

Type 1 diabetes susceptibility alleles are associated with distinct alterations in the gut microbiota – Jane A. Mullaney – BMC Microbiome

Animal experiments

Effect of Dietary Chestnut or Quebracho Tannin Supplementation on Microbial Community and Fatty Acid Profile in the Rumen of Dairy Ewes – Arianna Buccioni – BioMed Research International

Long-Term Treatment with Green Tea Polyphenols Modifies the Gut Microbiome of Female Sprague-Dawley Rats – Jincheng Wang – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Microbiota-Derived Indole Metabolites Promote Human and Murine Intestinal Homeostasis through Regulation of Interleukin-10 Receptor – Erica E. Alexeev – The Americn Journal of Pathology

Interrelations between the rumen microbiota and production, behavioral, rumen-fermentation, metabolic, and immunological attributes of dairy cows – M. Schären – Journal of Diary Science

Animal microbiome

Disentangling metabolic functions of bacteria in the honey bee gut – Lucie Kešnerová – PLOS One

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Soil mixture composition alters Arabidopsis susceptibility to Pseudomonas syringae infection – Jana A. Hassan – Plant Direct

Taxonomic structure and function of seed-inhabiting bacterial microbiota from common reed (Phragmites australis) and narrowleaf cattail (Typha angustifolia L.) – Ting Gao – Archives of Microbiology

The soil microbiome — from metagenomics to metaphenomics – Janet K Jansson – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Exometabolomic profiling of bacterial strains cultivated using Arabidopsis root extract as the sole carbon source – Richard Paul Jacoby – Molecular Plant-Microbiome Interactions

A strain of Streptomyces sp. isolated from rhizospheric soil of Crataegus oxycantha producing Nalidixic acid, a synthetic antibiotic – Nidhi Arora – Journal of Applied Microbiology

High microbial diversity promotes soil ecosystem functioning – Pierre-Alain Maron – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Apportioning bacterial carbon source utilization in soil using 14C isotope analysis of FISH-targeted bacterial populations sorted by Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS): 14C-FISH-FACS – Christos Gougoulias – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Insights into the fundamental physiology of the uncultured Fe-oxidizing bacterium Leptothrix ochracea – E. J. Fleming – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Light color acclimation is a key process in the global ocean distribution of Synechococcus cyanobacteria – Théophile Grébert – PNAS

Microbial Functional Gene Diversity Predicts Groundwater Contamination and Ecosystem Functioning – Zhili He – mBio

Iron and phosphorus deprivation induce sociality in the marine bloom-forming cyanobacterium Trichodesmium – Yael Tzubari – the ISME Journal

Cryptophyta as major bacterivores in freshwater summer plankton – Vesna Grujcic – the ISME Journal

Phages and viruses

The impact of bacteriophages on phyllosphere bacterial abundance and composition – Norma M. Morella – Molecular Ecology

Microbes in the news 

Guts and gory: vampire bats need bacteria to digest blood

Using mutant bacteria to study how changes in membrane proteins affect cell functions

February 16, 2018

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Happy Lunar New Year of the Dog!

Today’s Digest contains many news pieces, and also features a major paper on strain tracking post fecal microbiota transplantation, a review on antibacterial proteins shaping the intestinal microbiota, and a call for action to build communities for bioinformatics programming.

Jobs

Postdoctoral Scholars of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences – University of Nevada Las Vegas

General microbiology

Book chapter: Agro-industrial Lignocellulosic Waste: An Alternative to Unravel the Future Bioenergy – Nidhi V. Maheshwari – Biofuels: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Global Warming

Review: Evolutionary Mechanisms Shaping the Maintenance of Antibiotic Resistance – Paulo Durão et al. – Trends in Microbiology

A single amino acid change in the response regulator PhoP acquired during Yersinia pestis evolution affects PhoP target gene transcription and polymyxin B susceptibility – Fukuto HS et al. – Journal of Bacteriology

Validated measurements of microbial loads on environmental surfaces in intensive care units before and after disinfecting cleaning – H. Frickmann et al. – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Review: Proceedings of the 2017 ASPEN Research Workshop—Gastric Bypass: Role of the Gut – Ajay Kumar Jain et al. – Journal of Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition

A Phase 1 Study in Healthy Subjects to Assess the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of Multiple Oral Doses of DS-2969b, a Novel GyrB Inhibitor – Vandell AG et al. – Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

* Antibacterial Weapons: Targeted Destruction in the Microbiota – Benoit Chassaing and Eric Cascales – Trends in Microbiology

Perspective: How to train your microbiome to eat broccoli – Sam H. Au – Science Translational Medicine

* Strain Tracking Reveals the Determinants of Bacterial Engraftment in the Human Gut Following Fecal Microbiota Transplantation – Christopher S. Smillie – Cell Host & Microbe

Press: Model of fecal transplantation predicts which bacteria will flourish – Medical Xpress

Preprint: Spatial variation of the native colon microbiota in healthy adults – Kaitlin J Flynn et al. – bioRxiv

Preprint: The intestinal microbiota predisposes to traveller’s diarrhoea and to the carriage of multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae after travelling to tropical regions – Stefano Leo et al. – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Extracellular cholesterol oxidase production by Streptomyces aegyptia, in vitro anticancer activities against rhabdomyosarcoma, breast cancer cell-lines and in vivo apoptosis – Noura El-Ahmady El-Naggar et al. – Scientific Reports

Molecular analyses of two bacterial sampling methods in ligature-induced periodontitis in rats – Carla Raquel Fontana et al. – Clinical and Experimental Dental Research

Animal microbiome

Preprint: Drosophila melanogaster establishes a species-specific mutualistic interaction with stable gut-colonizing bacteria – Ines Silva Pais et al. – bioRxiv

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Removal of metals and their pools in plant in response to plant diversity in microcosms of floating constructed wetlands – Wenjuan Han et al. – Ecological Engineering

The Sesamum indicum rhizosphere associated bacterium: A source of Antifungal compound – Renu Chaudhary et al. – Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

Intensifying rotations increases soil carbon, fungi, and aggregation in semi-arid agroecosystems – Steven T. Rosenzweig et al. – Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Impact of oxytetracycline and bacterial bioaugmentation on the efficiency and microbial community structure of a pesticide-degrading biomixture – Víctor Castro-Gutiérrez et al. – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Indigenous endophytic seed bacteria promote seedling development and defend against fungal disease in browntop millet (Urochloa ramosa L.) – S.K. Verma and J.F. White – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Halophilic starch degrading bacteria isolated from Sambhar Lake, India, as potential anode catalyst in Microbial fuel cell: A promising process for saline water treatment – Ankisha Vijay et al. – Bioresource Technology

Sequestration and utilization of carbon dioxide by chemical and biological methods for biofuels and biomaterials by chemoautotrophs: Opportunities and challenges – Indu Shekhar Thakur et al. – Bioresource Technology

Small eukaryotic phytoplankton communities in tropical waters off Brazil are dominated by symbioses between Haptophyta and nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria – Catherine Gérikas Ribeiro et al. – ISME

Neobodonids are dominant kinetoplastids in the global ocean – Olga Flegontova et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Food microbiology

Review: Whole genome sequencing as a typing tool for foodborne pathogens like Listeria monocytogenes – The way towards global harmonisation and data exchange – StefanieLüth et al. – Trends in Food Science & Technology

Phages and viruses

Book chapter: Tick-Borne Viruses and Host Skin Interface – Mária Kazimírová et al. – Skin and Arthropod Vectors

Preprint: The virome of Drosophila suzukii, an invasive pest of soft fruit – Nathan C Medd et al. – bioRxiv

Technology

Microfluidics-based liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry multiple reaction monitoring approach for the relative quantification of Burkholderia cenocepacia secreted virulence factors – Sofie Depluverez et al. – Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Microbes in the news

Surgeon sets new frontiers in battle against bacteria! – WBWire

The effect of antibacterials on the skin – Zoe Diana Draelo – Dermatology Times

Donor, Recipient Strain Analyses Offer Fecal Transplant Engraftment Clues – Genome Web

Australian Scientist Gets $1 Million to See if Probiotics Can Help Children with CF – Carolina Henriques – Cystic Fibrosis News Today

Do probiotics work? Answers to this and other gut-wrenching questions – Joanna Clay – USC News

Monitoring bacteria on whale skin – EurekAlert

Bacteria Hidden Under Our Feet May Be a New Weapon Against Superbugs – Kristin Houser – Futurism

Which probiotic is right for you? These are the exact bacteria strains to look for – Emily Laurence – Well and Good

How can we harness the power of bacteria-killing viruses? – Claire O’Connell – Sillcon Republic

Manipulating gut bacteria may cut obesity, diabetes risk – The Peninsula

Microbes on the market

Carbiotix launches world’s lowest cost microbiome test – Nathan Gray – Nutra Ingredients

Scientific Communication and Education

* Preprint: Building a local community of practice in scientific programming for Life Scientists – Sarah L.R. Stevens et al. – bioRxiv

 

February 15, 2018

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An especially interesting article on engineered bacteria in the treatment of colon cancer today: Chun Loong Ho and colleagues engineered an E. coli strain to bind to colon cancer cells and constitutively secrete an enzyme that can turn dietary derived glucosinolates (from cruciferous vegetables) into cancer fighting isothiocynates. Mice exposed to carcinogens and fed both the engineered bacteria and broccoli developed fewer and smaller colorectal tumors than exposed mice who were fed 1) neither bacteria or brocoli, 2) only bacteria, or 3) only broccoli.  Engineered probiotics anyone?

Also : A cultured community developed from wastewater that can reduce the greenhouse gas N2O to N2 and help mitigate global warming; the majority of Daphnia microbiomes are not passed from parent to offspring but absorbed from the surrounding environment; and the impacts of CRISPR-Cas9 selection pressure on phage evolution.

Events and jobs

Postdoctoral Scholars of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences – University of Nevada Las Vegas

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General microbiome

Review: The genome, microbiome and evolutionary medicine – Robert C. Brunham – cmaj

Pregnancy and early life

Survey of Staphylococcus aureus in a general pediatric population and focus on isolates with three clinically relevant toxin-encoding genes – Anne Filleron – World Journal of Pediatrics

Human skin microbiome

Review: Impact of Skin Microbiome on Attractiveness to Arthropod Vectors and Pathogen Transmission – Niels O. Verhulst – Skin and Arthropod Vectors

Human gut microbiome

Intestinal Microbial Community Differs between Acute Pancreatitis Patients and Healthy Volunteers – Xi Mei Zhang – Biomedical and Environmental Sciences

The microbiome in chronic kidney disease patients undergoing hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis – Liliana Simões-Silva – Pharmacological Research

Review: Intestinal Microbiome Shifts, Dysbiosis, Inflammation, and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease – Emma T. Saltzman – Frontiers in Microbiology

Does Low-Protein Diet Influence the Uremic Toxin Serum Levels From the Gut Microbiota in Nondialysis Chronic Kidney Disease Patients? – Ana Paula Black – Journal of Renal Nutrition

The Effect of Oligofructose-Enriched Inulin on Faecal Bacterial Counts and Microbiota-Associated Characteristics in Celiac Disease Children Following a Gluten-Free Diet: Results of a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial – Natalia Drabińska – Nutrients

Preprint: Spatial variation of the native colon microbiota in healthy adults – Kaitlin J Flynn – bioRxiv

Preprint: The intestinal microbiota predisposes to traveller’s diarrhoea and to the carriage of multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae after travelling to tropical regions – Stefano Leo – bioRxiv

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Animal experiments

Influence of Eimeria falciformis Infection on Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Pathways in Mice – Guangping Huang – Infection and Immunity

The Antimicrobial Peptide CRAMP Is Essential for Colon Homeostasis by Maintaining Microbiota Balance – Teizo Yoshimura – The Journal of Immunology

Animal microbiome

*Good Daphnia parents do not control the offspring microbiome – Angela E. Douglas – Journal of Animal Ecology

Effect of antibiotic withdrawal in feed on chicken gut microbial dynamics, immunity, growth performance and prevalence of foodborne pathogens – Sanjay Kumar – PLOSone

Review: The Microbial Zoo in the C. elegans Intestine: Bacteria, Fungi and Viruses – Hongbing Jiang – Viruses

Effects of parental care on resource allocation into immune defense and buccal microbiota in mouthbrooding cichlid fishes – Isabel S. Keller – Evolution

Inter-domain microbial diversity within the coral holobiont Siderastrea siderea from two depth habitats – Guido Bonthond – PeerJ

Effect of ginkgo extract supplementation on in vitro rumen fermentation and bacterial profiles under different dietary conditions – Seongjin Oh – Animal Science Journal

Review: Animal host–microbe interactions – Bethany J. Hoye – Journal of Animal Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Oilseed rape cultivation increases the microbial richness and diversity in soils contaminated with cadmium – Xin Wang – Journal of Soils and Sediments

Comparison of Rumen and Manure Microbiomes and Implications for the Inoculation of Anaerobic Digesters – Emine Gozde Ozbayram – Microorganisms

Bacterial Microbiota of Rice Roots: 16S-Based Taxonomic Profiling of Endophytic and Rhizospheric Diversity, Endophytes Isolation and Simplified Endophytic Community – Felix Moronta-Barrios – Microorganisms

Water and extremophile microbiome

Small eukaryotic phytoplankton communities in tropical waters off Brazil are dominated by symbioses between Haptophyta and nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria – Catherine Gérikas Ribeiro – The ISME Journal

Distribution Patterns of Microbial Community Structure Along a 7000-Mile Latitudinal Transect from the Mediterranean Sea Across the Atlantic Ocean to the Brazilian Coastal Sea – Jin Zhou – Microbial Ecology

The vertical distribution of prokaryotes in the surface sediment of Jiaolong cold seep at the northern South China Sea – Yuzhi Wu – Extremophiles

A comparative hierarchical analysis of bacterioplankton and biofilm metacommunity structure in an interconnected pond system – Caroline Souffreau – Environmental Microbiology

Chemical and Microbial Quality of Groundwater in Siloam Village, Implications to Human Health and Sources of Contamination – John Ogony Odiyo – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Microbial Ecology

Host genetic variation strongly influences the microbiome structure and function in fungal fruiting-bodies – Mari Pent – Environmental Microbiology

Fungus-associated bacteriome in charge of their host behavior – Kristin Schulz-Bohm – Fungal Genetics and Biology

Resistome

Antibiotic-mediated changes in the fecal microbiome of broiler chickens define the incidence of antibiotic resistance genes – Wenguang Xiong – BMC Microbiome

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Probiotics / prebiotics

Effect of VSL#3 Probiotic in a Patient with Glycogen Storage Disease Type Ia and Irritable Bowel Disease-like Disease – Miguel Carnero-Gregorio – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

New Insight into Biofilm Formation Ability, the Presence of Virulence Genes and Probiotic Potential of Enterococcus sp. Dairy Isolates – Nikola Popović – Frontiers in Microbiology

Effectiveness and Safety of a Probiotic-Mixture for the Treatment of Infantile Colic: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial with Fecal Real-Time PCR and NMR-Based Metabolomics Analysis – Maria Elisabetta Baldassarre – Nutrients

Fecal Microbiome Transplants

Long-term follow-up of the effects of fecal microbiota transplantation in combination with soluble dietary fiber as a therapeutic regimen in slow transit constipation – Xueying Zhang – Science China Life Sciences

Bioinformatics

Identification of fungi in shotgun metagenomics datasets – Paul D. Donovan – PLOSone

MetaLonDA: a flexible R package for identifying time intervals of differentially abundant features in metagenomic longitudinal studies – Ahmed A. Metwally – BMC Microbiome

Biotechnology

*Engineered commensal microbes for diet-mediated colorectal-cancer chemoprevention – Chun Loong Ho – Nature Biomedical Engineering

*Unexpected evolutionary benefit to phages imparted by bacterial CRISPR-Cas9 – Pan Tao – Science Advances

Waste and Pollution

*Life on N2O: deciphering the ecophysiology of N2O respiring bacterial communities in a continuous culture – Monica Conthe – The ISME Journal

Metagenomic analysis of microbial community and function involved in cd-contaminated soil – Gang Feng – BMC Microbiology

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Microbes in the news

Humpback microbiome linked to seasonal, environmental changes – Phys.org

 

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The role of saliva in structuring human oral bacterial communities, effects of permafrost thaw on methanogenic communities, and articles on the microbiomes of termites, burying beetles, honey bees, and mosquitoes.

Human oral microbiome

A spatial gradient of bacterial diversity in the human oral cavity shaped by salivary flow – Diana M Proctor – Nature Communications

Human vaginal microbiome

To ‘douche’ or not to ‘douche’: hygiene habits may have detrimental effects on vaginal microbiota – Erdogan Aslan – Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Human gut microbiome

Elevated circulating levels of succinate in human obesity are linked to specific gut microbiota – Carolina Serena – The ISME Journal

Infection and Microbiome: Impact of Tuberculosis on Human Gut Microbiome of Indian Cohort – Utkarsh Sood – Indian Journal of Microbiology

Comparative metaproteomics analysis shows altered fecal microbiota signatures in patients with major depressive disorder – Zhi Chen – NeuroReport

Animal experiments

Protective effect of Group B Streptococcus type-III polysaccharide conjugates against maternal colonization, ascending infection and neonatal transmission in rodent models – Emiliano Chiarot – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome

Pre-print: Axenic Aedes aegypti develop without live bacteria, but exhibit delayed development and reduced oviposition – Maria A Correa – bioRxiv

Two novel strains of Torulaspora delbrueckii isolated from the honey bee gut microbiome and their use in honey fermentation – Joseph P Barry – bioRxiv

Gut microbiota in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, provide colonization resistance against larval bacterial pathogens – Yin Wang – Ecology and Evolution

Rampant Host Switching Shaped the Termite Gut Microbiome – Thomas Bourguignon – Current Biology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Melanization of mycorrhizal fungal necromass structures microbial decomposer communities – Christopher W Fernandez – Journal of Ecology

Fungal community shifts underpin declining mycelial production and turnover across a Pinus sylvestris chronosequence – Andreas Hagenbo – Journal of Ecology

Mycorrhizal symbioses influence the trophic structure of the Serengeti – Bo Maxwell Stevens – Journal of Ecology

The Populus holobiont: dissecting the effects of plant niches and genotype on the microbiome – M A Cregger – Microbiome

Water and extremophile microbiome

Pre-print: Transgenerational inheritance of shuffled symbiont communities in the coral Montipora digitata – Kate Quigley – bioRxiv

Shifts of methanogenic communities in response to permafrost thaw results in rising methane emissions and soil property changes – Shiping Wei – Extremophiles

Food microbiology

Dynamic correlations between microbiota succession and flavor development involved in the ripening of Kazak artisanal cheese – Xiaoji Zheng – Food Research International

Application of high-throughput pyrosequencing in the analysis of microbiota of food commodities procured from small and large retail outlets in a U.S. metropolitan area – A pilot study – Daleniece Higgins – Food Research International

Phages and viruses

The analysis of the oral DNA virome reveals which viruses are widespread and rare among healthy young adults in Valencia (Spain) – Vicente Pérez-Brocal – PLOS ONE

More microbes

Lactobacillus plantarum lipoteichoic acid inhibits biofilm formation of Streptococcus mutans – Ki Bum Ahn – PLOS ONE

Microbes in the news

In soil-dwelling bacteria, scientists find a new weapon to fight drug-resistant superbugs – Melissa Healy – Los Angeles Times

Interdisciplinary approach yields new insights into human evolution – Liz Entman – Vanderbilt University News

Viruses and Bacteria Travel Along a High-Altitude Superhighway – Dave Roos – Seeker

Science, career, and publishing

Pre-print: The impact on authors and editors of introducing Data Availability Statements at Nature journals – Rebecca Grant – bioRxiv

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The gut microbiome of honey bee workers, a review of “Foodomics” approaches to studying digestion and bioactivity, and a new genome sequence for a bacterium isolated from a cell phone screen.

Human gut microbiome

Review: Causal effects of the microbiota on immune-mediated diseases – June L Round – Science Immunology

Possible correlation between gut microbiota and immunity among healthy middle-aged and elderly people in southwest China – Xi Shen – Gut Pathogens

Animal experiments

Pre-print: Clostridium difficile alters the structure and metabolism of distinct cecal microbiomes during initial infection to promote sustained colonization – Matthew L Jenior – bioRxiv

Pre-print: Microbiota metabolic product deoxycholic acid controls chicken necrotic enteritis – Hong Wang – bioRxiv

Effects of Bentonite Bgp35b-p on the Gut Microbiota of Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet – Eun-Sook Lee – Science of Food and Agriculture

Animal microbiome

The role of the gut microbiome in health and disease of adult honey bee workers – Kasie Raymann – Current Opinion in Insect Science

Bacterial density rather than diversity correlates with hatching success across different avian species – Juan Manuel Peralta-Sánchez – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Influence of metal contamination in soil on metabolic profiles of Miscanthus x giganteus belowground parts and associated bacterial communities – Hoang Nam Pham – Applied Soil Ecology

Pre-print: In situ relationships between microbiota and potential pathobiota in Arabidopsis thaliana – Claudia Bartoli – bioRxiv

Effects of Using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi to Alleviate Drought Stress on the Physiological Traits and Essential Oil Yield of Fennel – Sedigheh Gheisari Zardak – Rhizosphere

Water and extremophile microbiome

Pre-print: Environmental determinants of pyoverdine production, exploitation and competition in natural Pseudomonas communities – Elena Butaitė – bioRxiv

Bacteria from Coral Ecosystem of Kiltan Island, Lakshadweep: Resource for Hydrolytic Enzymes – L Ramlath – International Journal of Cell Science and Biotechnology

Built environment

Microbacterium telephonicum sp. nov., isolated from the screen of a cellular phone – Praveen Rahi – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Food microbiology

Review: The role of Foodomics to understand the digestion/bioactivity relationship of food – Grégory Pimentel – Current Opinion in Food Science

Phages and viruses

Virus-mediated transfer of nitrogen from heterotrophic bacteria to phytoplankton – Emma J Shelford – Biogeosciences

Small RNA-omics for virome reconstruction and antiviral defense characterization in mixed infections of cultivated Solanum plants – Silvia Turco – Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Metabolomics

UPLC-QTOF-MS metabolomics analysis revealed the contributions of metabolites to the pathogenesis of Rhizoctonia solani strain AG-1-IA – Wenjin Hu – PLOS ONE

Microbes in the news

New imaging technique reveals how dragonfly wings tear bacteria apart – Alayna Hansen – New Atlas

Exploring the microbiome of an ocean bacteria – Kyle Frischkorn – Phys.Org

Microbes on the market

Rebiotix Develops Microbiome Health Index™ to Identify Indicators for Microbiome Restoration – PR Newswire

Bristol-Myers taps Sirenas for ‘global microbiome’ drug discovery – Amirah Al Idrus – FierceBiotech

Givaudan, Unilever target the microbiome – Marc S Reisch – Chemical & Engineering News

February 9, 2018

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Transcriptomics in wildlife, skin microbiota, phages and a lot more for today’s digest!

Events and jobs

MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST – Florida Hospital – Orlando, USA

Assistant Professor in Metagenomics and Bioinformatics, tenure-track position – Kansas State University – Manhattan, USA

General microbiome

Review: Linking the Gut Microbiota to Bone Health in Anorexia Nervosa – NC Aurigemma – Current Osteoporosis Reports

Research Agenda for Microbiome Based Research for Multidrug-resistant Organism Prevention in the Veterans Health Administration System – AE Kates – Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

Tumour-associated and non-tumour-associated microbiota: Addendum – B Flemer – Gut Microbes

Preprint: An Escherichia coli nitrogen starvation response is important for mutualistic coexistence with Rhodopseudomonas palustris – AL McCully – bioRxiv

 

Human skin microbiome

Nature-oriented daycare diversifies skin microbiota in children – no robust association with allergies. – J Lehtimäki – Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

Epidermal lipid composition, barrier integrity and eczematous inflammation are associated with skin microbiome configuration – H Baurecht – The Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology

 

Human gut microbiome

Review: Pathophysiology of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: A Holistic Overview – G Holtmann – Karger

Preprint:  Stronger connectivity of the resident gut microbiome lends resistance to invading bacteria – CM Herren – bioRxiv

Animal experiments 

Enteric Immunity : Happy Gut, Healthy Animal – CCL Chase – Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice

Influence of changes in the intestinal microflora on the immune function in mice – S Kishida – Journal of Veterinary Medical Science

In Vivo Assessment of Resistant Starch Degradation by the Caecal Microbiota of Mice Using RNA-Based Stable Isotope Probing—A Proof-of-Principle Study – E Herrmann – Nutrients

Animal microbiome 

A novel approach to wildlife transcriptomics provides evidence of disease-mediated differential expression and changes to the microbiome of amphibian populations – LJ Campbell – Molecular Ecology

The bacterial community associated with the sheep gastrointestinal nematode parasite Haemonchus contortus – G Sinnathamby – PLoS One

Mucus glycosylation and immunity, and bacterial microbiota associated to the skin of experimentally ulcered gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata). – ST Tapia-Paniagua – Fish & Shellfish Immunology

Modulation of gut microbiota by dietary supplementation with tuna oil and algae oil alleviates the effects of D-galactose-induced ageing – H Zhang – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Probiotic treatment during neonatal age provides optimal protection against experimental asthma through the modulation of microbiota and T cells: Neonatal exposure to probiotics prevents asthma – CFCG Nunes – International Immunology

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Activating biochar by manipulating the bacterial and fungal microbiome through pre-conditioning. – AK Jaiswal – New Phytologist

 

Food microbiology

Growth potential of Listeria monocytogenes in twelve different types of RTE salads: impact of food matrix, storage temperature and shelf life – M Ziegler – bioRxiv

Phages and viruses

Lysogeny is prevalent and widely distributed in the murine gut microbiota – M-S Kim – The ISME Journal

Preprint: A T7 phage factor required for managing RpoS in Escherichia coli  – A Tabib-Salazar – bioRxiv

Preprint: Genotypic and phenotypic diversity within the neonatal HSV-2 population – LN Akhtar – bioRxiv

Techniques

Distribution of triclosan-resistant genes in major pathogenic microorganisms revealed by metagenome and genome-wide analysis – R Khan – PLoS One

Microbes in the news

Reality check: Are hand dryers in public bathrooms full of bacteria and fungi? – Global News

Consider skipping orange juice in the morning  – Channel NewsAsia

‘Dozens of bacteria:’ After 2 days, snow is no longer safe to eat, study reveals  – Fox6 Now

Termites’ unique gut ‘factory’ key to global domination – Phys.org

Bacteria persist as stowaways – Innovations Report

Genomic Analysis Finds Hospital Plumbing Harbors Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria – Genome Web

Skin microbiome announces agenda – Cosmeticsdesign.com

TIPS ON BECOMING A CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY DIRECTOR – ASM

 

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Today we have many “gut microbiota” and “water microbiome” articles, as well as quite a few reviews in “Food microbiology” sector. One article (among many interesting today) I would like to highlight is the one from Guillaume Bernard and how unraveling the microbial dark matter should be identified as a central priority for biologists.

Jobs

Microbiology Technician -R&D, Lille, France

Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Birmingham, UK

Events

1st International Conference on Microbial Food and Feed Ingredients (MiFFI2018): 2-4 May 2018, Denmark

12th Vaccine Congress, Budapest, Hungary

General microbiome

Synergistic gold–copper detoxification at the core of gold biomineralisation in Cupriavidus metallidurans  – L. Bütof – Metallomics

The role of the type VI secretion system vgrG gene in the virulence and antimicrobial resistance of Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 19606 – Jianfeng Wang – PLOS One

Genome-Based Characterization of Biological Processes That Differentiate Closely Related Bacteria – Marike Palmer – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial dark matter investigations: how microbial studies transform biological knowledge and empirically sketch a logic of scientific discovery – Guillaume Bernard – Genome Biology and Evolution

Draft genome sequence of Paenibacillus strain LK1, a phytohormone producing bacterium – Kun Liu – 3 Biotech

Pregnancy and early life

Review: Urinary tract infection during pregnancy: current concepts on a common multifaceted problem – Kallirhoe Kalinderi – Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Human respiratory microbiome

In children, the microbiota of the nasopharynx and brochoalveolar lavage fluid are both similar and different – Kirsten M. Kloepfer – Pediatric Pulmonology

At the Root: Defining and Halting Progression of Early Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – Fernando J. Martinez – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Oral microbiome

Transcriptome of healthy gingival tissue from edentulous sites in patients with a history of generalized aggressive periodontitis – Tiago Taiete – Journal of Periodontology

Evaluation of oxidative status in patients with chronic periodontitis and polycystic ovary syndrome: A cross-sectional study – Ebru Saglam – Journal of Periodontology

Selection of appropriate metagenome taxonomic classifiers for ancient microbiome research – Irina Marie Velsko – bioRxiv

Presence of the esp gene in Enterococcus faecium derived from oropharyngeal microbiota of haematology patients – Milica Jovanović – Archives of Oral Biology

Short-term microbiological effects of photodynamic therapy in non-surgical periodontal treatment of residual pockets: A split-mouth RCT – Mônica Grazieli Corrêa – Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Human skin microbiome

Platelet activation and aggregation by the opportunistic pathogen Cutibacterium (Propionibacterium) acnes – Frida Petersson – PLOS One

Human vaginal microbiome

Dysbiosis of the Vaginal Microbiota and Higher Vaginal Kynurenine/Tryptophan Ratio Reveals an Association with Chlamydia trachomatis Genital Infections – Noa Ziklo – Frontiers in Celular & Infection Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Report: Patients with familial adenomatous polyposis harbor colonic biofilms containing tumorigenic bacteria – Christine M. Deje – Science

Bacteroides fragilis Toxin Coordinates a Pro-carcinogenic Inflammatory Cascade via Targeting of Colonic Epithelial Cells – Liam Chung – Cell Host & Microbe

Longitudinal microbiome analysis of single donor fecal microbiota transplantation in patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection and/or ulcerative colitis – Michael Mintz – PLOS One

Infectious bursal disease virus infection leads to changes in the gut associated-lymphoid tissue and the microbiota composition – Li Li – PLOS One

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 subclade 8b strains in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, produced larger amounts of Shiga toxin 2 than strains in subclade 8a and other clades – Shinichiro Hirai – PLOS One

Gut microbiome and depression: what we know and what we need to know – Gal Winter – Reviews in the Neurosciences

Connection between BMI related plasma metabolite profile and gut microbiota – Filip Ottosson – The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

Overview and systematic review of studies of microbiome in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – Tanya T. Nguyen – Journal of Psychiatric Research

Maturation of the gut microbiome and risk of asthma in childhood – Jakob Stokholm – Nature Communications

Anaerobic 4-hydroxyproline utilization: discovery of a new glycyl radical enzyme in the human gut microbiome uncovers a widespread microbial metabolic activity – Yolanda Y. Huang – Gut Microbes

Micro Integral Membrane Protein (MIMP), a Newly Discovered Anti-Inflammatory Protein of Lactobacillus Plantarum, Enhances the Gut Barrier and Modulates Microbiota and Inflammatory Cytokines – Yin M. – Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry

Detection of stable community structures within gut microbiota co-occurrence networks from different human populations – Matthew A. Jackson – PeerJ

Animal experiments 

Comparative genomics reveals differences in mobile virulence genes of Escherichia coli O103 pathotypes of bovine fecal origin – Lance W. Noll – PLOS One

Shift of uterine microbiota associated with antibiotic treatment and cure of metritis in dairy cows – Soo Jin Jeon – Veterinary Microbiology

Microbiota-derived Metabolic Factors Reduce Campylobacteriosis in Mice  – Xiaolun Sun – Gastroenterology

Comprehensive Profiling of Fecal Metabolome of Mice by Integrated Chemical Isotope Labeling-Mass Spectrometry Analysis – Bi-Feng Yuan – Analitical Chemistry

Influence of a diet enriched with virgin olive oil or butter on mouse gut microbiota and its correlation to physiological and biochemical parameters related to metabolic syndrome – Isabel Prieto – PLOS One

Injectable antimicrobials in commercial feedlot cattle and their effect on the nasopharyngeal microbiota and antimicrobial resistance – Devin B.Holman – Veterinary Microbiology

IL-6-mediated signaling pathways limit Chlamydia muridarum infection and exacerbate its pathogenicity in the mouse genital tract  – Xin Sun – Microbes and Infection

Gut microbial composition can differentially regulate bile acid synthesis in humanized mice – Dae Joong Kang – Hepatology Communications

Gut Microbiota Offers Universal Biomarkers across Ethnicity in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Diagnosis and Infliximab Response Prediction – Youlian Zhou – mSystems

Intratumoral bacteria may elicit chemoresistance by metabolizing anticancer agents – Leore T. Geller – Molecular & Cellular Oncology

Interaction of genotype and diet on small intestine microbiota of Japanese quail fed a cholesterol enriched diet – Shasha Liu – Scientific Reports

Dietary supplementation with a nucleotide-rich yeast extract modulates gut immune response and microflora in weaned pigs in response to a sanitary challenge – S. M. Waititu – Animal

Animal microbiome 

Cellulose-dependent expression and antibacterial characteristics of surfactin from Bacillus subtilis HH2 isolated from the giant panda – Ziyao Zhou – PLOS One

Assessment of the gorilla gut virome in association with natural simian immunodeficiency virus infection – Mirela D’arc – BMC Retrovirology

Temperature variation, bacterial diversity and fungal infection dynamics in the amphibian skin – Ana V. Longo – Molecular Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Effects of an EPSPS-transgenic soybean line ZUTS31 on root-associated bacterial communities during field growth – Gui-Hua Lu – PLOS One

Linking Nitrogen Load to the Structure and Function of Wetland Soil and Rhizosphere Microbial Communities – Eric R. Hester – mSystems

Abiotic Stresses Shift Belowground Populus-Associated Bacteria Toward a Core Stress Microbiome – Collin M. Timm – mSystems

Metagenomic and Metatranscriptomic Analyses of Diverse Watermelon Cultivars Reveal the Role of Fruit Associated Microbiome in Carbohydrate Metabolism and Ripening of Mature Fruits – Thangasamy Saminathan – Frontiers in Plant Science

Links between nanoscale and macroscale surface properties of natural root mucilage studied by atomic force microscopy and contact angle – Robin Kaltenbach – Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Induced Salt Tolerance of Perennial Ryegrass by a Novel Bacterium Strain from the Rhizosphere of a Desert Shrub Haloxylon ammodendron – Ao-Lei He – International Journal of Molecular Science

Water and extremophile microbiome 

High growth potential and nitrogen removal performance of marine anammox bacteria in shrimp-aquaculture sediment – LuongVan Duc – Chemosphere

Establishment and convergence of photosynthetic microbial biomats in shallow unit process open-water wetlands – Zackary L.Jones – Water Research

Review: Bioactive compounds from marine macroalgae and their hypoglycemic benefits – ChaoZhao – Trends in Food Science & Technology

A Short Comparison of Two Marine Planktonic Diazotrophic Symbioses Highlights an Un-quantified Disparity – Andrea Caputo – Frontiers in Marine Science

Evidence for Coupling of the Carbon and Phosphorus Biogeochemical Cycles in Freshwater Microbial Communities – O. Roger Anderson – Frontiers in Marine Science

Spatiotemporal dynamics of river viruses, bacteria and microeukaryotes – Thea Van Rossum  – bioRxiv

Trace Metal Requirements and Interactions in Symbiodinium kawagutii – Irene B. Rodriguez – Frontiers in Microbiology

Depth-Resolved Variations of Cultivable Bacteria and Their Extracellular Enzymes in the Water Column of the New Britain Trench – Qianfeng Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Cyanophage-encoded lipid desaturases: oceanic distribution, diversity and function – Sheila Roitman – The ISME Journal

Picoplankton distribution influenced by thermohaline circulation in the southern Adriatic – Tina Šilović – Continental Shelf Research

Evaluation of the relationship of picoplankton and viruses to environmental variables in a lagoon system (Çakalburnu Lagoon, Turkey) – Yucel-Gier – Chemistry and Ecology

Trophic-functional patterns of biofilm-dwelling ciliates at different water depths in coastal waters of the Yellow Sea, northern China – Mamun Abdullah Al – European Journal of Protistology

Distribution of bacterial communities along the spatial and environmental gradients from Bohai Sea to northern Yellow Sea – Shu-Xian Yu – PeerJ

Environmental Factors Support the Formation of Specific Bacterial Assemblages on Microplastics – Sonja Oberbeckmann – Frontiers in Microbiology

Abrupt changes in the composition and function of fungal communities along an environmental gradient in the high Arctic – Oriol Grau – Molecular Ecology

Built environment 

Effects of copper on the composition and diversity of microbial communities in laboratory-scale swine manure composting – Yanan Yin – Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Characteristics of microbial community functional structure of a biological coking wastewater treatment system – Dev Raj Josh – Journal of Environmental Sciences

Stripping Away the Soil: Plant Growth Promoting Microbiology Opportunities in Aquaponics – Ryan P. Bartelme – Frontiers in Microbiology

Food microbiology

Review: Recent advances in understanding the anti-obesity activity of anthocyanins and their biosynthesis in microorganisms – Lianghua Xie – Trends in Food Science & Technology

Review: Combining reformulation, active packaging and non-thermal post-packaging decontamination technologies to increase the microbiological quality and safety of cooked ready-to-eat meat products – Claudia N.Horita – Trends in Food Science & Technology

Review: Impact of curcumin nanoformulation on its antimicrobial activity – Anderson Clayton da Silva – Trends in Food Science & Technology

Review: Antimicrobial potential of legume extracts against foodborne pathogens: A review – M.C.Pina-Pérez – Trends in Food Science & Technology

Long-term kinetics of Salmonella Typhimurium ATCC 14028 survival on peanuts and peanut confectionery products – Maristela S. Nascimento – PLOS One

Impact of Lactobacillus curvatus 54M16 on microbiota composition and growth of Listeria monocytogenes in fermented sausages – Marina Giello – Food Microbiology

Effects of microbial diversity on nitrite concentration in pao cai, a naturally fermented cabbage product from China – Zhaoxia Wang – Food Microbiology

Bacterial and fungal microbiota of spontaneously fermented Chinese products, Rubing milk cake and Yan-cai vegetable pickles – Xin Liu – Food Microbiology

Omics-Based Insights into Flavor Development and Microbial Succession within Surface-Ripened Cheese – A. S. Bertuzzi – mSytems

Variation in Raw Milk Microbiota Throughout 12 Months and the Impact of Weather Conditions – Nan Li – Scientific Reports

Phages and viruses

The Human Virome – Selene Zárate – Archives of Medical Research

Microreview: Contractile injection systems of bacteriophages and related systems – Nicholas M.I. Taylor – Molecular Microbiology

In vitro models for deciphering the mechanisms underlying the sexual transmission of viruses at the mucosal level – Julie Frouard – Virology

Bioinformatics

xenoGI: reconstructing the history of genomic island insertions in clades of closely related bacteria – Eliot C. Bush – BMC Bioinformatics

Microbes in the news

Scientists say Earth’s atmosphere is raining viruses and bacteria down on the entire planet

Medicines from engineered bacteria offer promise — and pitfalls

Microbes on the market 

uBiome, the Leader in Microbial Genomics, Launches New Research Study Allowing SmartGut™ Patients to Assess the Impact of Diet and Lifestyle on Gut Conditions

February 1, 2018

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The publication of a Springer manual entitled Mechanisms underlying host-microbiome interactions in pathopysiology of human diseases contains multiple interesting articles today, including reviews on the gut microbiome and preterm infant gut development, colerectal cancer, and metabolic disease, as well as a useful review of statistical models for mouse and human microbiome data. In addition, a revisitation of gut enterotypes via metabolomics, decreased Akkermansia muciniphila in psoriasis,  the bacterial communities of fiddler crabs, the impact of different wavelengths of light on hot spring bacteria, and two articles on the uses of metabarcoding in both 16S and eukaryotic microbiota analysis.

Events and jobs

Microbiology Manager – Covance – Indianapolis, Indiana

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Pregnancy and early life

*Review: Impact of Microbes on the Intestinal Development of the Preterm Infant – Elizabeth Humphrey – In: Mechanisms Underlying Host-Microbiome Interactions in Pathophysiology of Human Diseases. Physiology in Health and Disease. Springer

Multi-site human microbiome

Review: Good and Bad Farming: The Right Microbiome Protects from Allergy – Markus Johannes Ege – Allergy Prevention and Exacerbation

Human gut microbiome

*Functional metagenomics identifies novel genes ABCTPP, TMSRP1 and TLSRP1 among human gut enterotypes – Manoj Kumar Verma – Scientific Reports

Gastric bacterial Flora in patients Harbouring Helicobacter pylori with or without chronic dyspepsia: analysis with matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectroscopy – Verima Pereira – BMC Gasteroentrology

*The Akkermansia muciniphila is a gut microbiota signature in psoriasis – LiRong Tan – Experimental Dermatology

Review: The regulation of host cellular and gut microbial metabolism in the development and prevention of colorectal cancer – Cheng-Bei Zhou – Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Editorial: Unveiling the gut virome in human health and diseases – Tao Zuo – International Journal of Clinical Virology

*Review: The Influence of the Microbiota on the Etiology of Colorectal Cancer – Melissa C. Kordahi – In: Mechanisms Underlying Host-Microbiome Interactions in Pathophysiology of Human Diseases. Physiology in Health and Disease. Springer

*Review: Altered Microbiota and Their Metabolism in Host Metabolic Diseases – Beng San Yeoh –  In: Mechanisms Underlying Host-Microbiome Interactions in Pathophysiology of Human Diseases. Physiology in Health and Disease. Springer

Review: The Gut Microbiome and Its Marriage to the Immune System: Can We Change It All? – Eva Untersmayr – Allergy Prevention and Exacerbation

*Review: Fecal Microbiota Transplants: Current Knowledge and Future Directions – Roxana Chis – In: Mechanisms Underlying Host-Microbiome Interactions in Pathophysiology of Human Diseases. Physiology in Health and Disease. Springer

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Animal experiments

Tissue Level Diet and Sex-by-Diet Interactions Reveal Unique Metabolite and Clustering Profiles Using Untargeted Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry on Adipose, Skeletal Muscle, and Liver Tissue in C57BL6/J Mice – Ann Wells – Journal of Proteome Research

The Changes of Colonic Bacterial Composition and Bacterial Metabolism Induced by an Early Food Introduction in a Neonatal Porcine Model – Chao Shi – Current Microbiology

Animal microbiome

*Multiple colonist pools shape fiddler crab-associated bacterial communities – Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler – The ISME Journal

Transcriptional changes detected in fecal RNA of neonatal dairy calves undergoing a mild diarrhea are associated with inflammatory biomarkers – Fernanda Rosa – PLOSone

Tiny but mighty: The role of the rumen microbes in livestock production
K M Cammack – Journal of Animal Science

Effects of Spray-Dried Porcine Plasma on Fecal Microbiota in Nursery Pigs – Huyen Tran – Journal of Animal Science

Organic acid production from potato starch waste fermentation by rumen microbial communities from Dutch and Thai dairy cows – Susakul Palakawong Na Ayudthaya – Biotechnology for Biofuels

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

The impact of failure: unsuccessful bacterial invasions steer the soil microbial community away from the invader’s niche – C. A. Mallon – The ISME Journal

Stress-Tolerant Beneficial Microbes for Sustainable Agricultural Production – Reeta Goel – In: Microorganisms for Green Revolution. Microorganisms for Sustainability, vol 7. Springer

Taxonomically-linked growth phenotypes during arsenic stress among arsenic resistant bacteria isolated from soils overlying the Centralia coal seam fire – Taylor K. Dunivin – PLOSone

Review: The Chemistry of Plant-Microbe Interactions in the Rhizosphere and the Potential for Metabolomics to Reveal Signaling Related to Defense Priming and Induced Systemic Resistance – Msizi Mhlongo – Frontiers in Plant Science

Characterization of bacteria isolated from the Saffron (Crocus Sativus L.) rhizosphere – Majid Jami Al-Ahmadi – Journal of Horticultural Research

Review: Rhizoremediation – Plant Microbe Interactions in the Removal of Pollutants – Mehak Oberai – International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences (IJCMAS)

Role of microbes in organic carbon decomposition and maintenance of soil ecosystem – Hina Khatoon – International Journal of Chemical Studies

Water and extremophile microbiome

Vibrio cholerae embraces two major evolutionary traits as revealed by targeted gene sequencing – Kazuhisa Okada – Scientific Reports

*Effect of light wavelength on hot spring microbial mat biodiversity – Akifumi Nishida – PLOSone

Microbial Ecology

Estimating taxon-specific population dynamics in diverse microbial communities – Benjamin J. Koch – Ecosphere

Metabolomic analysis of low and high biofilm-forming Helicobacter pylori strains – Eric Hong Jian Wong – Scientific Reports

Resistome

High dietary zinc feeding promotes persistence of multi-resistant E. coli in the swine gut – Lisa Ciesinski – PLOSone

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Probiotics / prebiotics

An Integrative Review on the Effect of Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Synbiotics on Infection After Colorectal Cancer Surgery – Sarah Williams Anderson – Aorn Journal

Phages and Viruses

Metagenomic Analysis of the Jinding Duck Fecal Virome – Lili Zhao – Current Microbiology

Bioinformatics

*Statistical Models and Analysis of Microbiome Data from Mice and Humans – Yinglin Xia – In: Mechanisms Underlying Host-Microbiome Interactions in Pathophysiology of Human Diseases. Physiology in Health and Disease. Springer

Comparative Analysis of Sequence Clustering Methods for Deduplication of Biological Databases – Qingyu Chen – Journal of Data and Information Quality

Techniques

GC-MS Analysis of Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Feces, Cecum Content, and Blood Samples – Lisa R. Hoving – Clinical Metabolomics

*16S rRNA gene metabarcoding and TEM reveals different ecological strategies within the genus Neogloboquadrina (planktonic foraminifer) – Clare Bird – PLOSone

*Metabarcoding analysis of eukaryotic microbiota in the gut of HIV-infected patients – Ibrahim Hamad – PLOSone

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Microbes in the news

The Germ and the Gene: Gut Bacteria Research Takes a Step Forward – Ruairi MacKenzie – Technology Networks

These bacteria produce gold by digesting toxic metals – EurekaAlert