Category Archives: Pregnancy and birth

May 28, 2019

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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 22, 2019

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Today’s Digest is full of new perspectives on appropriate models and techniques, including the future of gnotobiotics and using unbiased metagenomics to find RNA viruses. There are also several plant, root, and soil papers, particularly examining the interplay between bacterial and fungal communities. Finally, enjoy a preprint about the cartography of antibiotic resistance genes in a hospital, a study examining the microbiota in larval mosquito vectors of malaria, and a paper about the microeukaryotes associated with coral reefs.

General Microbiome
Review: Antibiotics versus biofilm: an emerging battleground in microbial communities – Divakar Sharma – Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control

Review: Gnotobiotics: Past, present and future – Marijana Basic – Laboratory Animals

Review: The use of non-rodent model species in microbiota studies – Aaron C. Ericsson – Laboratory Animals

Pregnancy and Early Life
Influence of a Serratia marcescens outbreak on the gut microbiota establishment process in low-weight preterm neonates – Esperanza Escribano – PLoS One

Human Vaginal Microbiome
Vaginal microbiota and mucosal pharmacokinetics of tenofovir in healthy women using tenofovir and tenofovir/levonorgestrel vaginal rings – Andrea Ries Thurman – PLoS One

Human Oral Microbiome
Aerodigestive sampling reveals altered microbial exchange between lung, oropharyngeal, and gastric microbiomes in children with impaired swallow function – Claire Duvallet – PLoS One

Animal Microbiome
Color morphology of Diaphorina citri influences interactions with its bacterial endosymbionts and ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ – Saeed Hosseinzadeh – PLoS One

Conspecific coprophagy stimulates normal development in a germ-free model invertebrate – Benjamin C. Jahnes – PeerJ

Malaria vector species in Amazonian Peru co-occur in larval habitats but have distinct larval microbial communities – Catharine Prussing – PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Animal Experiments
Gut and immune effects of bioactive milk factors in preterm pigs exposed to prenatal inflammation – Shuqiang Ren – American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Effects of oregano essential oil on the ruminal pH and microbial population of sheep – Rui Zhou – PLoS One

Plant, Root, and Soil Microbiome
Characterizing the intra-vineyard variation of soil bacterial and fungal communities – Hebin Liang – Frontiers in Microbiology

The role of fungi in heterogeneous sediment microbial networks – Jenny Marie Booth – Scientific Reports

Altering N2O emissions by manipulating wheat root bacterial community – Alla Usyskin-Tonne – Scientific Reports

Sphingomonas sp. Cra20 Increases Plant Growth Rate and Alters Rhizosphere Microbial Community Structure of Arabidopsis Thaliana Under Drought Stress – Yang Luo – Frontiers in Microbiology

Enrichment of soil rare bacteria in root by an invasive plant Ageratina adenophora – Lin Chen – Science of the Total Environment

Effect of rhizospheric and endophytic bacteria with multiple plant growth promoting traits on wheat growth – Somayeh Emami – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Water and Extremophile Microbiome
A comparison of microeukaryote communities inhabiting sponges and seawater in a Taiwanese coral reef system – Daniel Francis Richard Cleary – Annals of Microbiology

An integrated insight into the response of bacterial communities to anthropogenic contaminants in a river: A case study of the Wonderfonteinspruit catchment area, South Africa – K. Jordaan – PLoS One

Built Environment
Preprint: Cartography of opportunistic pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in a tertiary hospital environment – Kern Rei Chng – bioRxiv

Fungal community composition analysis of 24 different urban parks in Shanghai, China – Jing Zhang – Urban Ecosystems

Techniques
Expanding the RNA Virosphere by Unbiased Metagenomics – Yong-Zhen Zhang – Annual Review of Virology

Preprint: Next-generation sequencing of double stranded RNA is greatly improved by treatment with the inexpensive denaturing reagent DMSO – Alexander H. Wilcox – bioRxiv

Development of an autonomous biosampler to capture in situ aquatic microbiomes – Hugo Ribeiro – PLoS One

May 10, 2019

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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

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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 3, 2019

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A concise Digest today featuring a novel approach to targeting antibiotic resistance, and some cool art by a Healthcare company to promote infectious disease awareness. Enjoy reading! (Apologies for the tight formatting, technological difficulty…)
General microbiology
Review: Fungal evolution: major ecological adaptations and evolutionary transitions – Miguel A. Naranjo-Ortiz and Toni Gabaldón – Biological Reviews
Antibiotic resistance
Pregnancy and early life
Household composition and the infant fecal microbiome: The INSPIRE study – Avery A. Lane et al. – American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Human skin microbiome
Human reproductive microbiome
Cancer microbiome
Review: Culture-independent studies on bacterial dysbiosis in oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: A systematic review – Divya Gopinatha & Rohit Kunnath Menonb et al. – Critical reviews Oncology Hematology
Animal experiments
Plant, root and soil microbiome
Microbes in the news
‘Microbiome’ May Be Key to Autism Symptoms – Serena Gordon – Health Day

 

May 2, 2019

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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

April 28, 2019

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Human Gut and General Microbiome

Review: Stereotypes About Enterotype: the Old and New Ideas – Mingyue Cheng – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Review: Gut Microbiota Regulation of T Cells During Inflammation and Autoimmunity – Eric M. Brown –  Annual Review of Immunology

Review: The Microbiome and Food Allergy – Onyinye I. Iweala – Annual Review of Immunology

Review: An Updated Review of Clostridium difficile Treatment in Pediatrics – Christopher T. Campbel –  The Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Review: Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease: continuous lessons for adult inflammatory bowel disease – Shahzad Ahmed – Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Review: Intestinal Microbiota in Cardiovascular Health and Disease: JACC State-of-the-Art Review – W.H. Wilson Tang – Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Review: The role of the gut microbiome in sex differences in arterial pressure – Anna L. Beale – Biology of Sex Differences

Review: Precision Nutrition and the Microbiome, Part I: Current State of the Science – Susan Mills – Nutrients

Review: Impact of bariatric surgery on type 2 diabetes: contribution of inflammation and gut microbiome? – Jean Debédat – Seminars in Immunopathology

Review: The Gut Microbiota-Host Partnership as a Potential Driver of Kawasaki Syndrome – Susanna Esposito – Frontiers in Pediatrics

Review: A Review of Mixed Strain Clostridium difficile Colonization and Infection – Pete Dayananda – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth in Patients With Cirrhosis – Gaurav Ghosh – Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology

Perspective: Effect of Metformin on Antipsychotic-Induced Metabolic Dysfunction: The Potential Role of Gut-Brain Axis – Chao Luo –  Frontiers in Pharmacology

Antibiotic Treatment Drives the Diversification of the Human Gut Resistome – Jun Li – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Contribution of Non-immune Cells to Activation and Modulation of the Intestinal Inflammation – Renata Curciarello – Frontiers in Immunology

Environmental DNA metabarcoding to detect pathogenic Leptospira and associated organisms in leptospirosis-endemic areas of Japan – Yukuto Sato – Scientific Reports

The short-chain fatty acid propionate increases glucagon and FABP4 production, impairing insulin action in mice and humans – Amir Tirosh – Science Translational Medicine

 

Cancer and Microbiome

The diversity of gut microbiome is associated with favorable responses to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in Chinese non-small cell lung cancer patients – Yueping Jin – Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Gut Microbiota as a Positive Potential Therapeutic Factor in Carcinogenesis: an Overview of Microbiota-Targeted Therapy – Farahnaz Joukar – Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer

Detection of Fusobacterium nucleatum in stool and colonic tissues from Norwegian colorectal cancer patients – Hege Smith Tunsjø – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

 

Oral Microbiome

Gender-Specific Associations Between Saliva Microbiota and Body Size  – Sajan C. Raju – Frontiers in Microbiology

Chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis is associated with detrimental bacterial dysbiosis – Bo-Young Hong – Microbiome

 

Respiratory Tract Microbiome

The airway microbiota in children newly diagnosed with bronchiectasis largely retains its diversity – Naveen Pillarisetti – European Respiratory Journal

Performance of the Biomark HD real-time qPCR System (Fluidigm) for the detection of nasopharyngeal bacterial pathogens and Streptococcus pneumoniae typing – Courtney P. Olwagen – Scientific Reports

 

Mother and Child Microbiome

Systematic Review: Repertoire of human breast and milk microbiota: a systematic review – Amadou Togo – Future Medicine

Variation of cultured skin microbiota in mothers and their infants during the first year postpartum – Georgios Gaitanis – Pediatric Dermatology

 

Correlation of Gut Microbiome Between ASD Children and Mothers and Potential Biomarkers for Risk Assessment – Ning Li – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

 

Reproductive tract Microbiome

Impact of reproductive aging on the vaginal microbiome and soluble immune mediators in women living with and at-risk for HIV infection – Kerry Murphy – PLoS ONE

The Vaginal and Urinary Microbiomes in Premenopausal Women With Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome as Compared to Unaffected Controls: A Pilot Cross-Sectional Study – Kate V. Meriwether – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Microorganisms in the healthy upper reproductive tract: from denial to beneficial assignments for reproductive biology – Rebekka Einenkel – Reproductive Biology

 

Animal Microbiome

Structural shifts in the intestinal microbiota of rats treated with cyclosporine A after orthotropic liver transplantation – Junjun Jia – Frontiers of Medicine

Composition, diversity and function of gastrointestinal microbiota in wild red-billed choughs (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) – Wen Wang – International Microbiology

Antibiotics-induced perturbations in gut microbial diversity influence metabolic phenotypes in a murine model of high-fat diet-induced obesity – Dongmin Liu – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Rumen fermentation, intramuscular fat fatty acid profiles and related rumen bacterial populations of Holstein bulls fed diets with different energy levels – Haibo Wang – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

The Gut Microbiome on a Periodized Low-Protein Diet Is Associated With Improved Metabolic Health – Zhencheng Li – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human activity can influence the gut microbiota of Darwin’s finches in the Galapagos Islands – Sarah A. Knutie – Molecular Ecology

Diversity and composition of the gut microbiota of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) farmed in Irish waters – Colin Fogarty – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Metagenomic analysis revealed beneficial effects of probiotics in improving the composition and function of the gut microbiota in dogs with diarrhoea – Haiyan Xu – Food & Nutrition

Microbiome analysis of Ixodes scapularis ticks from New York and Connecticut – Rafal Tokarz – Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Human gut microbiota transferred to germ-free NOD mice modulate the progression towards type 1 diabetes regardless of the pace of beta cell function loss in the donor – Vit Neuman – Diabetologia

Gut microbiome composition of wild western lowland gorillas is associated with individual age and sex factors – Barbora Pafčo – American Journal of Physical Anthropology

The bumble bee microbiome increases survival of bees exposed to selenate toxicity – Jason A. Rothman – Environmental Microbiology

Effect of probiotic supplementation on seizure activity and cognitive performance in PTZ-induced chemical kindling – Samaneh Bagheri – Epilepsy and Behavior

Inulin Can Alleviate Metabolism Disorders in ob/ob Mice by Partially Restoring Leptin-Related Pathways Mediated by Gut Microbiota – Xiaofeng Song – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Supplementation with compound polysaccharides contributes to the development and metabolic activity of young rat intestinal microbiota – Mengxia Wang – Food & Nutrition

A Risky Business? Habitat and Social Behavior Impact Skin and Gut Microbiomes in Caribbean Cleaning Gobies – Raquel Xavier – Frontiers in Microbiology

Ovarian progesterone suppresses depression and anxiety-like behaviors by increasing the Lactobacillus population of gut microbiota in ovariectomized mice – Watcharin N.Sovijit – Neuroscience Research

 

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Meta-analysis: Probiotics improve glucose and lipid metabolism in pregnant women: a meta-analysis – Man-Man Han – Annals of Translational Medicine

Probiotic Bifidobacterium lactis V9 Regulates the Secretion of Sex Hormones in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Patients through the Gut-Brain Axis – Jiachao Zhang – mSystem

Major Traditional Probiotics: Comparative Genomic Analyses and Roles in Gut Microbiome of Eight Cohorts – Guangwen Luo – Frontiers in Microbiology

The beneficial effects of purple yam (Dioscorea alata L.) resistant starch on hyperlipidemia in high-fat-fed hamsters – Tao Li – Food & Nutrition

Restoration of Bacterial Microbiome Composition and Diversity Among Treatment Responders in a Phase 2 Trial of RBX2660: An Investigational Microbiome Restoration Therapeutic – Ken F Blount – Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 – A comparative study on the effect of probiotics and lysates on human skin – I. Khmaladze – Experimental Dermatology

 

Plant and Soil Microbiome

Nodulation induces systemic resistance of Medicago truncatula and Pisum sativum against Erysiphe pisi and primes for powdery mildew-triggered salicylic acid accumulation – Lara Smigielski – IS-MPMI

Land Use and Seasonal Effects on the Soil Microbiome of a Brazilian Dry Forest – Gileno V. Lacerda-Júnior – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Diversity in the Edible Gall on White Bamboo Formed by the Interaction between Ustilago esculenta and Zizania latifolia – Zhihao Tu – Current Microbiology

Species-specific response of the soil collembolan gut microbiome and resistome to soil oxytetracycline pollution – Qi Zhang – Science of The Total Environment

 

Food Microbiome

Gamma Irradiation Influences the Survival and Regrowth of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and Antibiotic-Resistance Genes on Romaine Lettuce – Vaishali Dharmarha – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Bioinformatics

How Microbes Shape Their Communities? A Microbial Community Model Based on Functional Genes – Xiaoqing Jiang – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Phy-PMRFI: Phylogeny-aware Prediction of Metagenomic Functions using Random Forest Feature Importance – Jyotsna Talreja Wassan – IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience

 

Other

Flood Season Microbiota from the Amazon Basin Lakes: Analysis with Metagenome Sequencing – Célio Dias Santos Júnior – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Genome-resolved metagenomics of an autotrophic thiocyanate-remediating microbial bioreactor consortium – Mathew P. Watts – Water Research

April 17, 2019

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Today’s Digest contains quite a few news articles. Features for today include a review on the importance of proper controls in microbiome studies, a patent for one method of analyzing microbiome dynamics (really?), and the NASA Twins Study, how can one year in space change your gut microbiota and much more? Enjoy reading!

General microbiology

Guideline: Microbiology Investigation Criteria for Reporting Objectively (MICRO): a framework for the reporting and interpretation of clinical microbiology data – Paul Turner & Andrew Fox-Lewis et al. – BMC Medicine

** Patent: Method of analyzing microbiome – E Segal & E Elinav

Combined deterministic and stochastic processes control microbial succession in replicate granular biofilm reactors – R Liébana et al. – Environmental Science & Technology

** Uncorrected proof: Issues and current standards of controls in microbiome research – Bastian V.H. Hornung et al. – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Pregnancy and early life

Review: Intestinal Microbiota in Early Life and Its Implications on Childhood Health – Lu Zhuang et al. – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Cancer microbiome

PDF: Gastric Microbiota in Helicobacter pylori-Negative and -Positive Gastritis Among High Incidence of Gastric Cancer Area – Boldbaatar Gantuya et al. – Cancers

Human respiratory microbiome

Review: Microbes, metabolites, and the gut–lung axis – Anh Thu Dang & Benjamin J. Marsland – Mucosal Immunology

Microbial contributions to bronchial asthma occurrence in children: A metagenomic study – Man Tian et al. – Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Human gut microbiome

Review: A Review on Bile Acids: Effects of the Gut Microbiome, Interactions with Dietary Fiber, and Alterations in the Bioaccessibility of Bioactive Compounds – Jashbir Singh et al. – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Increased mucosal neutrophil survival is associated with altered microbiota in HIV infection – Tiffany Hensley-McBain et al. – PLoS Pathogens

Review: Thinking bigger: How early life environmental exposures shape the gut microbiome and influence the development of asthma and allergic disease – Hind Sbihi et al. – Allergy

** The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight – Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman et al. – Science

Metabolomics

Review: Changes in the Human Metabolome Associated With Alcohol Use: A Review – Taija Voutilainen & Olli Kärkkäinen – Alcohol and Alcoholism

Animal microbiome

Dynamic changes in rumen fermentation and bacterial community following rumen fluid transplantation in a sheep model of rumen acidosis: implications for rumen health in ruminants – Junhua Liu et al. – The FASEB Journal

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) gut microbiota is modulated by insect meal from Hermetia illucens prepupae in the diet – Genciana Terova et al. – Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Effects of mycorrhizae and water conditions on perennial ryegrass growth in rare earth tailings – Qiao Yang et al. – RSC Advance

Niche separation of species of entomopathogenic fungi within the genera Metarhizium and Beauveria in different cropping systems in Mexico – J.A. Cabrera-Mora et al. – Fungal Ecology

Soil abiotic properties and plant functional traits mediate associations between soil microbial and plant communities during a secondary forest succession on the Loess Plateau – Yongfu Chai et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Diversity and Antimicrobial Resistance Profile in Microbiota from Soils of Conventional and Organic Farming Systems – Julija Armalytė et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Effects of elevated temperature and elevated CO2 on soil nitrification and ammonia-oxidizing microbial communities in field-grown crop – Linh T.T. Nguyen et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Tropical forest conversion to rubber plantation affects soil micro- & mesofaunal community & diversity – Dharmesh Singh et al. – Scientific Reports

Water and extremophile microbiome

Sulfate reduction by a haloalkaliphilic bench-scale sulfate-reducing bioreactor and its bacterial communities at different depths – Tingzhen Mu et al. – Biochemical Engineering Journal

Extremely acidic environment: Biogeochemical effects on algal biofilms – Ana Teresa Luís et al. – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Proliferation of hydrocarbon-degrading microbes at the bottom of the Mariana Trench – Jiwen Liu & Yanfen Zheng et al. – Microbiome

Metagenomic insights to understand transient influence of Yamuna River on taxonomic and functional aspects of bacterial and archaeal communities of River Ganges – Rachel Samson et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Distribution of microbial communities in metal-contaminated nearshore sediment from Eastern Guangdong, China – Mei Zhuang et al. – Environmental Pollution

Phages and viruses

Diversities and potential biogeochemical impacts of mangrove soil viruses – Min Jin et al. – Microbiome

Technology

Explore mediated co-varying dynamics in microbial community using integrated local similarity and liquid association analysis – Dongmei Ai et al. – BMC Genomics

Microbes in the news

Can changing the microbiome reverse lactose intolerance? – PATRICIA L. FOSTER – PhillyVoice

A Look at the Trillions of Microorganisms That Live in and on You – Shayla Love – Vice

Mode of delivery alters infants’ gut microbiota and this may impact respiratory health in first year of life – EurekAlert!

Fecal Transplant Reduces Nearly 50 Percent Of Autism Symptoms In Children – Allan Adamson – Tech Times

Edinburgh Science Festival: from gut bacteria and depression to how rice is risking the planet – Helen McArdle – The Herald

Gut microbiome changes emerge as a potential modulator of age-associated cardiovascular disease risk – Andreu Prados – Gut Microbiota for Health

The Gut Microbiome & Cancer Immunotherapy – Osman, Afaf E. G. & Luke, Jason J. – Oncology Times

April 13, 2019

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In today’s digest read about diverse population of bacteria and fungi on the International Space Station, how antidepressants affect gut microbiota, and check out a new framework for comparing and assessing taxonomic profilers (OPAL). Happy weekend!

Vaginal microbiome

Defining characteristics of genital health in South African adolescent girls and young women at high risk for HIV infection – Smritee Dabee – PlosOne

Detection of ureaplasmas and bacterial vaginosis associated bacteria and their association with non-gonococcal urethritis in men – Maria Frølund – PlosOne

Group B streptococcal screening, intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis, and neonatal early-onset infection rates in an Australian local health district: 2006-2016 – Kathryn Braye – PlosOne

Gut microbiome

Long-term benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms and gut microbiota – Dae-Wook Kang – Scientific Reports

The Prevotella copri complex comprises four distinct clades that are underrepresented in Westernised populations – Adrian Tett – bioRxiv

Fecal short-chain fatty acids are not predictive of colonic tumor status and cannot be predicted based on bacterial community structure – Marc A. Sze – bioRxiv

Evidence for a multi-level trophic organization of the human gut microbiome – Tong Wang – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Comparative analysis of amplicon and metagenomic sequencing methods reveals key features in the evolution of animal metaorganisms – Philipp Rausch – bioRxiv

Metagenomic Analysis of the Whole Gut Microbiota in Brazilian Termitidae Termites Cornitermes cumulans, Cyrilliotermes strictinasus, Syntermes dirus, Nasutitermes jaraguae, Nasutitermes aquilinus, Grigiotermes bequaerti, and Orthognathotermes mirim – Maria B. Grieco – Current Microbiolgy

The sponge microbiome within the greater coral reef microbial metacommunity – Daniel F. R. Cleary – Nature Communications

Insights into the intestinal microbiota of several aquatic organisms and association with the surrounding environment – Fulin Sun – Aquaculture

Animal experiments

*Antidepressants affect gut microbiota and Ruminococcus flavefaciens is able to abolish their effects on depressive-like behavior – Iva Lukić – Translational Psychiatry

Chronic paradoxical sleep deprivation-induced depression­like behavior, energy metabolism and microbial changes in rats – Weini Ma – Life Sciences

Ability of bifidobacteria to metabolize chitin-glucan and its impact on the gut microbiota – Giulia Alessandri – Scientific Reports

Probiotics

Fasting breath H2 and gut microbiota metabolic potential are associated with the response to a fermented milk product in irritable bowel syndrome – Boris Le Nevé – PlosOne

Lactobacillus fermentum and Lactobacillus plantarum increased gut microbiota diversity and functionality, and mitigated Enterobacteriaceae, in a mouse model – C. Linninge – Beneficial Microbes

Complex responses to inflammatory oxidants by the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus reuteri – Poulami Basu Thaku – bioRxiv

Plant/root/soil microbiome

Urban traffic changes the biodiversity, abundance, and activity of phyllospheric nitrogen-fixing bacteria – Yang Li – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Comparative analysis of the rhizomicrobiome of the wild versus cultivated crop: insights from rice and soybean – Shaohua Shi – Archives of Microbiology

Copper and zinc in rhizospheric soil of wild plants growing in long-term acid vineyard soils – C.Campillo-Cora – Science of The Total Environment

Review: Soil microbiome: a key player for conservation of soil health under changing climate – Anamika Dubey – Biodiversity and Conservation

Rhizosphere microbiota compositional changes reflect potato blackleg disease – Lutian Mao – Applied Soil Ecology

Pseudomonas urumqiensis sp. nov., isolated from rhizosphere soil of Alhagi sparsifolia – Yuanyuan Zou – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Insights gained from metagenomic shotgun sequencing of apple fruit epiphytic microbiota – Dario Angeli – Postharvest Biology and Technology

Extremophile microbiome

*Characterization of the total and viable bacterial and fungal communities associated with the International Space Station surfaces – Aleksandra Checinska Sielaff – Microbiome

Techniques

Review: Untargeted LC/MS-based metabolic phenotyping (metabonomics/metabolomics): The state of the art – Helen Gika – Journal of Chromatography B

Bioinformatics

*Assessing taxonomic metagenome profilers with OPAL – Fernando Meyer – Genome Biology

Analysis of error profiles in deep next-generation sequencing data – Xiaotu Ma – Genome Biology

clonealign: statistical integration of independent single-cell RNA and DNA sequencing data from human cancers – Kieran R. Campbell – Genome Biology

RnBeads 2.0: comprehensive analysis of DNA methylation data – Fabian Müller – Genome Biology

Review: Big data analytics for personalized medicine – Davide Cirillo and Alfonso Valencia – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Meta-network: optimized species-species network analysis for microbial communities – Pengshuo Yang – BMC Genomics

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General Microbiome

Coevolutionary dynamics shape the structure of bacteria-phage infection networks. Fortuna MA.Evolution.

High proportions of bacteria are culturable across major biomes. Martiny AC. ISME Journal

The complexity of an optimal vaginal biome. Eschenbach DA. BJOG

The lung microbiome, vitamin D, and the tuberculous granuloma: A balance triangle. Balcells ME. Microbial Pathogenesis

Gut Microbiome

The parasitic worm product ES-62 normalises the gut microbiota bone marrow axis in inflammatory arthritis. Doonan J. Nature Communications

Culture-enriched human gut microbiomes reveal core and accessory resistance genes. Raymond F.Microbiome.

Plant, Soil, Water, and Air Microbiome

Temperature and soil moisture control microbial community composition in an arctic-alpine ecosystem along elevational and micro-topographic gradients.Frindte K. ISME Journal

Root traits and belowground herbivores relate to plant-soil feedback variation among congeners.Wilschut RA. Nature Communications

A Polyphasic Approach for Assessing Eco-System Connectivity Demonstrates that Perturbation Remodels Network Architecture in Soil Microcosms.Stamou GP. Microbial Ecology

Effect of stock density on the microbial community in biofloc water and Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) gut microbiota.Deng Y. Applied Microbiology Biotechnology

Rapid and stable microbial community assembly in the headwaters of third-order stream. Teachey ME. Applied Environmental Microbiology

Comparative Metagenomics Reveals Enhanced Nutrient Cycling Potential After Two Years of Biochar Amendment in a Tropical Oxisol. Yu J. Applied Environmental Microbiology

Animal Experiments and Microbiome

Effect of a low protein diet on chicken ceca microbiome and productive performances. De Cesare A. Poultry Science

Impact of a probiotic-based cleaning product on the microbiological profile of broiler litters and chicken caeca microbiota.De Cesare P. Poultry Science

Metagenomic Analysis of the Whole Gut Microbiota in Brazilian Termitidae Termites Cornitermes cumulans, Cyrilliotermes strictinasus, Syntermes dirus, Nasutitermes jaraguae, Nasutitermes aquilinus, Grigiotermes bequaerti, and Orthognathotermes mirim. Grieco MB. Current Microbiology.

The hemolymph microbiome of insects. Blow F. Journal Of Insect Physiology

Musa basjoo regulates the gut microbiota in mice by rebalancing the abundance of probiotic and pathogen. Wei T. Microbial Pathogenesis

Investigating the influence of organic acid marinades, storage temperature and time on the survival/inactivation interface of Salmonella on chicken breast fillets.

Lytou AE. International Journal of Food Microbiology.