Tag Archives: Animal microbiome

September 4, 2023

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Human and General Microbiome

Gut microbial carbohydrate metabolism contributes to insulin resistance – Tadashi Takeuchi – Nature

Gut Microbiome in Patients With Early-Stage and Late-Stage Melanoma – Russell G Witt – JAMA Dermatology

The upper respiratory tract microbiota of healthy adults is affected by Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage, smoking habits, and contact with children – A Cristina Paulo – Microbiome

Salivary microbiome of healthy women of reproductive age – Eline Cauwenberghs – mBio

Microbiome characteristics description of COVID-19 patients based on bulk RNA-seq and scRNA-Seq data – Sainan Zhang – Computers in Biology and Medicine

Parkinson’s disease alters the composition of subgingival microbiome – Ekin Yay – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Cervicovaginal Gardnerella sialidase-encoding gene in persistent human papillomavirus infection – Juliano Novak – Scientific Reports

Human milk oligosaccharides modulate the intestinal microbiome of healthy adults – Jonathan P Jacobs – Scientific Reports

Intestinal microbiome and metabolome signatures in patients with chronic granulomatous disease – Prabha Chandrasekaran – The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Review: The curious case of Prevotella copri – Nehal Adel Abdelsalam – Gut Microbes

Review: Gut microbiota and microbiota-derived metabolites in colorectal cancer: enemy or friend – Xinyi Wang – World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

N-Acetylglucosamine and its dimer ameliorate inflammation in murine colitis by strengthening the gut barrier function – Sung-In Choi – Food & Function

Omega-3 nanoemulgel in prevention of radiation-induced oral mucositis and its associated effect on microbiome: a randomized clinical trial – Basma M Morsy – BMC Oral Health

Lactiplantibacillus plantarum ELF051 Alleviates Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea by Regulating Intestinal Inflammation and Gut Microbiota – Wei Liang – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Animal Microbiome

Microbiomes and metabolomes of dominant coral reef primary producers illustrate a potential role for immunolipids in marine symbioses – Helena Mannochio-Russo – Communications Biology

Alteration of diet microbiota limits the experimentally evolved immune priming response in flour beetles, but not pathogen resistance – Arun Prakash – Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Mammals show distinct functional gut microbiome dynamics to identical series of environmental stressors – Adam Koziol – mBio

Microbiome and Evolution

The hologenome of Daphnia magna reveals possible DNA methylation and microbiome-mediated evolution of the host genome – Anurag Chaturvedi – Nucleic Acids Research

Review: Impact of intraspecific variation in insect microbiomes on host phenotype and evolution – Claudia Lange – The ISME Journal

Review: Why do hosts malfunction without microbes? Missing benefits versus evolutionary addiction – Tobin J Hammer – Trends in Microbiology

Environmental Microbiome

Different microbial assemblage colonized on microplastics and clay particles in aerobic sludge treatment – Zixuan Zhang – The Science of the Total Environment

More Microbes

Metagenomic insights into the microbiota involved in lactate and butyrate production and manipulating their synthesis in alfalfa silage – Rongrong Li – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Microbiome Research Tools

RSim: A reference-based normalization method via rank similarity – Bo Yuan – PLoS Computational Biology

Review: Computation-aided studies related to the induction of specialized metabolite biosynthesis in microbial co-cultures: An introductory overview – Tomasz Boruta – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

Preprint: Analyzing microbial evolution through gene and genome phylogenies – Sarah Teichman – bioRxiv

August 28, 2023

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Human and General Microbiome

The respiratory tract microbiome, the pathogen load, and clinical interventions define severity of bacterial pneumonia – Ana Elena Pérez-Cobas – Cell Reports. Medicine

A phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) to identify the health impacts of 4-cresol sulfate in the Nagahama Study – Huiting Ou – Scientific Reports

A meta-analysis of tissue microbial biomarkers for recurrence and metastasis in multiple cancer types – Xuebo Li – Journal of Medical Microbiology 

Microbe Profile: Ruminococcus gnavus: the yin and yang of human gut symbionts – Nathalie Juge – Microbiology

Oral Porphyromonas gingivalis infection affects intestinal microbiota and promotes atherosclerosis – Sowon Park – Journal of Clinical Periodontology

Gut microbiota and fecal short chain fatty acids differ with adiposity and country of origin: the METS-microbiome study – Gertrude Ecklu-Mensah – Nature Communications

Very early life microbiome and metabolome correlates with primary vaccination variability in children – Michael Shaffer – mSystems

Carbohydrate quality, fecal microbiota and cardiometabolic health in older adults: a cohort study – Alessandro Atzeni – Gut Microbes

Multi-omics analysis revealing the interplay between gut microbiome and the host following opioid use – Udhghatri Kolli – Gut Microbes

The gut microbiota reprograms intestinal lipid metabolism through long noncoding RNA Snhg9 – Yuhao Wang – Science

Staphylococcus epidermidis activates keratinocyte cytokine expression and promotes skin inflammation through the production of phenol-soluble modulins – Michael R Williams – Cell Reports

Review: Targeting nonalcoholic fatty liver disease via gut microbiome-centered therapies – Mijra Koning – Gut Microbes

Review: Intracellular Fusobacterium nucleatum infection increases METTL3-mediated m6A methylation to promote the metastasis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma – Songhe Guo – Journal of Advanced Research

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Characteristics of gut microbiota determine effects of specific probiotics strains in patients with functional constipation – Haohao Zhang – Chinese Medical Journal

Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus TF318 prevents depressive behavior in rats by inhibiting HPA-axis hyperactivity and upregulating BDNF expression – Yujuan Zhao – Neuroscience Letters

Animal Model Microbiome

Role of mucin glycosylation in the gut microbiota-brain axis of core 3 O-glycan deficient mice – Erika Coletto – Scientific Reports

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Outer membrane vesicles from a mosquito commensal mediate targeted killing of Plasmodium parasites via the phosphatidylcholine scavenging pathway – Han Gao – Nature Communications

Whole genome analyses of toxicants tolerance genes of Apis mellifera gut-derived Enterococcus faecium strains – Heba A H Zaghloul – BMC Genomics

Fungal Microbiome

The endohyphal microbiome: current progress and challenges for scaling down integrative multi-omic microbiome research – Julia M Kelliher – Microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Microbiome dataset of bacterial and fungal communities in anthosphere of twelve different wild plants in South Korea – Jihoon Kim – Data in Brief 

Environmental and Soil Microbiome

Anthropogenic activities mediate stratification and stability of microbial communities in freshwater sediments – Xiaotian Zhou – Microbiome

Long-term agro-management strategies shape soil bacterial community structure in dryland wheat systems – Shikha Singh – Scientific Reports

Microbial community structure and functional prediction in five full-scale industrial park wastewater treatment plants – Tujun Tong – The Science of the Total Environment

Deterministic Development of Soil Microbial Communities in Disturbed Soils Depends on Microbial Biomass of the Bioinoculum – Yuri Pinheiro Alves de Souza – Microbial Ecology

Microbial communities related to the sulfur cycle in the Sansha Yongle Blue Hole – Kai Sun – Microbiology Spectrum

A study of microbial diversity in a biofertilizer consortium – Cristóbal Hernández-Álvarez – PloS One

Microbiome Research: Resources, Tools and Techniques

Metagenomic profiling pipelines improve taxonomic classification for 16S amplicon sequencing data – Aubrey R Odom – Scientific Reports

Amplicon-Based Microbiome Profiling: From Second- to Third-Generation Sequencing for Higher Taxonomic Resolution – Elisabetta Notario – Genes

A flexible quasi-likelihood model for microbiome abundance count data – Yiming Shi – Statistics in Medicine

Identification of multivariable Boolean patterns in microbiome and microbial gene composition data – George Golovko – Bio Systems

Machine learning classification by fitting amplicon sequences to existing OTUs – Courtney R Armour – mSphere

Review: Statistical normalization methods in microbiome data with application to microbiome cancer research – Yinglin Xia – Gut Microbes

Book Chapter: Elucidating the role of microbes in celiac disease through gnotobiotic modeling – Alberto Caminero – Methods in Cell Biology

August 20, 2023

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Highlights!

Human microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity emerges as early as 3 months of age – Elizabeth K Mallott – PLoS Biology

Mapping the T cell repertoire to a complex gut bacterial community – Kazuki Nagashima – Nature

Comparison of the relative impacts of acute consumption of an inulin-enriched diet, milk kefir or a commercial probiotic product on the human gut microbiome and metabolome – Liam H. Walsh – npj Science of Food 

High-resolution strain-level microbiome composition analysis from short reads – Herui Liao – Microbiome

Preprint: Profiling novel lateral gene transfer events in the human microbiome –  Tiffany Y. Hsu – bioRxiv

Human and General Microbiome

Preprint: Major data analysis errors invalidate cancer microbiome findings –  Abraham Gihawi – bioRxiv

Microdiversity of the vaginal microbiome is associated with preterm birth – Jingqiu Liao – Nature Communications

Dysbiosis of gut microbiota during fecal stream diversion in patients with colorectal cancer – Soo Young Lee – Gut Pathogens

The gut microbiome contributes to somatic morphine withdrawal behavior and implicates a TLR2 mediated mechanism – Bridget Truitt – Gut Microbes

Association of the human gut microbiota with vascular stiffness – Rafael R C Cuadrat – Scientific Reports

Gut microbiota and intervertebral disc degeneration: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study – Ziming Geng – Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research

News & Views: Microbiome alterations in autism spectrum disorder – Elena J Coley-O’Rourke – Nature Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Rosmarinic acid alleviates intestinal inflammatory damage and inhibits endoplasmic reticulum stress and smooth muscle contraction abnormalities in intestinal tissues by regulating gut microbiota – Kan Li – Microbiology Spectrum

Prevotella copri alleviates sarcopenia via attenuating muscle mass loss and function decline – Xiaolei Liu – Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle

The Influence of Protein Secretomes of Enterococcus durans on ex vivo Human Gut Microbiome – Carolina Baldisserotto Comerlato – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Kombucha tea as an anti-hyperglycemic agent in humans with diabetes – a randomized controlled pilot investigation – Chagai Mendelson – Frontiers in Nutrition 

Animal Microbiome

The unique gut microbiome of giant pandas involved in protein metabolism contributes to the host’s dietary adaption to bamboo – Feilong Deng – Microbiome

Systematic review of cnidarian microbiomes reveals insights into the structure, specificity, and fidelity of marine associations – M McCauley – Nature Communications

Review: Toward an Integrated Understanding of the Lepidoptera Microbiome – Yongqi Shao – Annual Review of Entomology

Plant Microbiome

Characterization of bacterial community in tobacco leaves at flue-curing and redrying processing stages – Yue Yang – Scientific Reports

Environmental Microbiome

Inter-comparison of marine microbiome sampling protocols – Francisco Pascoal – ISME Communications

Discovery of a novel bacterial class with the capacity to drive sulfur cycling and microbiome structure in a paleo-ocean analog – Adrien Vigneron – ISME Communications

Microbiome Research: Resources, Tools and Techniques

MT-MAG: Accurate and interpretable machine learning for complete or partial taxonomic assignments of metagenome assembled genomes – Wanxin Li – PloS one

BinaRena: a dedicated interactive platform for human-guided exploration and binning of metagenomes – Michael J Pavia – Microbiome

Detection of viable commensal bacteria in murine melanoma tumors by culturomics – Catherine M Phelps – STAR Protocols

August 13, 2023

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Highlights!

Enterotypes of the human gut mycobiome – Senying Lai – Microbiome

Effect of butyrate-producing enterobacteria on advanced hepatocellular carcinoma treatment with atezolizumab and bevacizumab – Kazuhiro Nouso – Cancer Medicine

Parvimonas micra can translocate from the subgingival sulcus of the human oral cavity to colorectal adenocarcinoma – Kelly Conde-Pérez – Molecular Oncology

An Oral Microbial Biomarker for Early Detection of Recurrence of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma – Wei-Ni Lyu – ACS Infectious Diseases

Human and General Microbiome

Multilocus-sequence typing reveals clonality of Staphylococcus aureus in atopic dermatitis – Leszek Blicharz – Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Metabarcoding approach to identify bacterial community profiling related to nosocomial infection and bacterial trafficking-routes in hospital environments – Bárbara Gimenes de Castro – Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. Part A

Identification of host gene-microbiome associations in colorectal cancer patients using mendelian randomization – Yaoxian Xiang – Journal of Translational Medicine

Bacterial amylases enable glycogen degradation by the vaginal microbiome – Dominick J Jenkins – Nature Microbiology

Babies, bugs and brains: How the early microbiome associates with infant brain and behavior development – Sebastian Hunter – PloS One

A retrospective analysis of vitamin B6 deficiency and associated changes of gut microbes in Crohn’s disease – Zhongsheng Feng – European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The intestinal microbiota predicts COVID-19 severity and fatality regardless of hospital feeding method – Vanni Bucci – mSystems

Commentary and Views: The importance of the gut microbiome in the pathogenesis and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 – Carlo Brogna – Gut Microbes

Meta-analysis: Perturbations in gut microbiota composition in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Pan Li – BMC Medicine

Letter: Caution regarding the specificities of pan-cancer microbial structure – Abraham Gihawi – Microbial Genomics

Review: Gut microbial beta-glucuronidase: a vital regulator in female estrogen metabolism – Shiwan Hu – Gut Microbes

Review: Three specific gut bacteria in the occurrence and development of colorectal cancer: a concerted effort – Dengmei Gong – PeerJ

Animal Microbiome (models and non-model organisms)

Machine learning and metagenomics reveal shared antimicrobial resistance profiles across multiple chicken farms and abattoirs in China – Michelle Baker – Nature Food

The enhancement in toxic potency of oxidized functionalized polyethylene-microplastics in mice gut and Caco-2 cells – Ji Wang – The Science of the Total Environment

Review: Geroprotective potential of microbiome modulators in the Caenorhabditis elegans model – Brandi C Miller – GeroScience

Microbiome Ecology and Evolution

Macroevolutionary constraints on global microbial diversity – Ford J Fishman – Ecology and Evolution

Evolutionary dynamics on sequential temporal networks – Anzhi Sheng – PLoS Computational Biology

Nutritional and host environments determine community ecology and keystone species in a synthetic gut bacterial community – Anna S Weiss – Nature Communications

Extremophiles

Earth to Mars: A Protocol for Characterizing Permafrost in the Context of Climate Change as an Analog for Extraplanetary Exploration – Kimberley R Miner – Astrobiology

Bioleaching of polymetallic sulphidic mining residues: influence of increasing solid concentration on microbial community dynamics and metal dissolution – Catherine Joulian – Research in Microbiology

Environmental Microbiome

Multidimensional specialization and generalization are pervasive in soil prokaryotes – Damian J Hernandez – Nature Ecology & Evolution

Metagenome Analysis of Speleothem Microbiome from Subterranean Cave Reveals Insight into Community Structure, Metabolic Potential, and BGCs Diversity – Brajogopal Samanta – Current Microbiology

Effects of marine sediment as agricultural substrate on soil microbial diversity: an amplicon sequencing study – Dámaris Núñez-Gómez – Environmental Microbiome

Opinion: New microbial tools to boost restoration and soil organic matters – Tadeo Sáez-Sandino – Microbial Biotechnology

Microbiome Research: Resources, Tools and Techniques

Optimization of fecal sample homogenization for untargeted metabolomics – Kieran Tarazona Carrillo – Metabolomics : Official Journal of the Metabolomic Society

metaSpectraST: an unsupervised and database-independent analysis workflow for metaproteomic MS/MS data using spectrum clustering – Chunlin Hao – Microbiome

sccomp: Robust differential composition and variability analysis for single-cell data – Stefano Mangiola – PNAS

Metagenome sequencing and 103 microbial genomes from ballast water and sediments – Zhaozhao Xue – Scientific Data

August 6, 2023

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Human and General Microbiome

Methionine restriction-induced sulfur deficiency impairs antitumour immunity partially through gut microbiota – Ming Ji – Nature Metabolism

Total RNA sequencing reveals gene expression and microbial alterations shared by oral pre-malignant lesions and cancer – Mohammed Muzamil Khan – Human Genomics

Metagenomics revealed a correlation of gut phageome with autism spectrum disorder – Khashayar Shahin – Gut Pathogens

The cervical microbiota of Hispanics living in Puerto Rico is nonoptimal regardless of HPV status – Daniela Vargas-Robles – mSystems

Illuminating the Oral Microbiome: Cellular Microbiology – Richard J Lamont – FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Meeting report of the sixth annual tri-service microbiome consortium symposium – Ida G Pantoja-Feliciano De Goodfellow – Environmental Microbiome

Evaluation of Intestinal Microbiota in Children With Sickle Cell Disease – Feryal Karahan – Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Genetic and gut microbiome determinants of SCFA circulating and fecal levels, postprandial responses and links to chronic and acute inflammation – Ana Nogal – Gut Microbes

Review: Microbiota associated with peri-implantitis-A systematic review with meta-analyses – Érika B S Carvalho – Clinical Oral Implants Research

Review: Exploration of Gut Microbiome Research in Africa: A Scoping Review – Abdulkadir Yusif Maigoro – Journal of Medicinal Food

Animal Microbiome

Exploration of the candidate beneficial bacteria for P. vannamei culture by core microbiome analysis using amplicon sequencing – Natarajan Lalitha – Letters in Applied Microbiology

Plant Microbiome

A symbiotic footprint in the plant root microbiome – Kyle Hartman – Environmental Microbiome

Review: Towards integrative plant pathology – Tatiana Ruiz-Bedoya – Current Opinion in Plant Biology

More about the Microbes

Sodium levels and grazing pressure shape natural communities of the intracellular pathogen Legionella – Oded Bergman – Microbiome

Review: Intracellular glycogen accumulation by human gut commensals as a niche adaptation trait – Maria Esteban-Torres – Gut Microbes

Microbiome Research: Resources, Tools and Techniques

ggpicrust2: an R package for PICRUSt2 predicted functional profile analysis and visualization – Chen Yang – Bioinformatics

July 30, 2023

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Human and General Microbiome

Resistome expansion in disease-associated human gut microbiomes – Simen Fredriksen – Microbiome

A microbial causal mediation analytic tool for health disparity and applications in body mass index – Chan Wang – Microbiome

Alterations of gut microbiota in biopsy-proven diabetic nephropathy and a long history of diabetes without kidney damage – Xiao Lu – Scientific Reports

Assessment of infant outgrowth of cow’s milk allergy in relation to the faecal microbiome and metaproteome – Diana M Hendrickx – Scientific Reports

Analysis of bacterial vaginosis, the vaginal microbiome, and sexually transmitted infections following the provision of menstrual cups in Kenyan schools: Results of a nested study within a cluster randomized controlled trial – Supriya D Mehta – PLoS Medicine

Evolutionary modeling suggests that addictions may be driven by competition-induced microbiome dysbiosis – Ohad Lewin-Epstein – Communications Biology

Alterations in the gut microbiome implicate key taxa and metabolic pathways across inflammatory arthritis phenotypes – Kelsey N Thompson – Science Translational Medicine

Increased genital mucosal cytokines in Canadian women associate with higher antigen-presenting cells, inflammatory metabolites, epithelial barrier disruption, and the depletion of L. crispatus – Christina Farr Zuend – Microbiome

Insulin alleviates murine colitis through microbiome alterations and bile acid metabolism – Shuying He – Journal of Translational Medicine

The Vaginal Microbiota of Pregnant Women Varies with Gestational Age, Maternal Age, and Parity – Roberto Romero – Microbiology Spectrum

Unique microbial landscape in the human oropharynx during different types of acute respiratory tract infections – Hui Li – Microbiome

Systematic Review: Probiotics to prevent necrotising enterocolitis in very preterm or very low birth weight infants – Sahar Sharif – The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Comment: A gut feeling for drugs that have metabolic benefits – Eryun Zhang – Nature Communications

Review: Antibiotic perturbations to the gut microbiome – Skye R S Fishbein – Nature Reviews. Microbiology

Review: The global human gut microbiome: genes, lifestyles, and diet – Mona Parizadeh – Trends in Molecular Medicine

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

5-Aminosalicylic acid alters the gut microbiota and altered microbiota transmitted vertically to offspring have protective effects against colitis – Haruka Wada – Scientific Reports

Food Microbiome

Presence of an ultra-small microbiome in fermented cabbages – Hae-Won Lee – PeerJ

Animal Microbiome

The long-term gut bacterial signature of a wild primate is associated with a timing effect of pre- and postnatal maternal glucocorticoid levels – Simone Anzà – Microbiome

Early-life prophylactic antibiotic treatment disturbs the stability of the gut microbiota and increases susceptibility to H9N2 AIV in chicks – Xianghui Liang – Microbiome

Human-influenced diets affect the gut microbiome of wild baboons – Madelyn Moy – Scientific Reports

Expanding the range of the respiratory infectome in Australian feedlot cattle with and without respiratory disease using metatranscriptomics – Barbara P Brito – Microbiome

Social network position is a major predictor of ant behavior, microbiota composition, and brain gene expression – Tomas Kay – PLoS Biology

Plant Microbiome

The root microbiome: techniques for exploration and agricultural applications – Ashling Cannon – BioTechniques

Environmental Microbiome

Recently-formed Antarctic lakes host less diverse benthic bacterial and diatom communities than their older counterparts – Jan Kollár – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Microbiome Research: Resources, Tools and Techniques

Greengenes2 unifies microbial data in a single reference tree – Daniel McDonald – Nature Biotechnology

CheckM2: a rapid, scalable and accurate tool for assessing microbial genome quality using machine learning – Alex Chklovski – Nature Methods

Lectin-Seq: A method to profile lectin-microbe interactions in native communities – Robert L McPherson – Science Advances

A mixed-model approach for estimating drivers of microbiota community composition and differential taxonomic abundance – Amy R Sweeny – mSystems

July 10, 2023

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Last week’s highlights

Fecal microbiota transplantation plus anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in advanced melanoma: a phase I trial – Bertrand Routy – Nature Medicine

Top-down identification of keystone taxa in the microbiome – Guy Amit – Nature Communications

Sources of gut microbiota variation in a large longitudinal Finnish infant cohort – Roosa Jokela – EBioMedicine

Events

11th Microbiome R&D and Business Collaboration Forum and 5th Probiotics & Prebiotics Congress: USA – San Diego, CA – October, 19 – 20, 2023

Human and General Microbiome

Essay: A microbiome exercise – Christoph A Thaiss – Science

Mendelian randomisation analysis reveals the possible causal relationship between infections, microbiota and clinical disease – Shifang Li – Gut

Microbiome variance of the small bowel in Crohn’s disease – Lucas Wauters – Gut

Metagenomics analysis of the neonatal intestinal resistome – Stefano Leo – Frontiers in Pediatrics

Development of the intestinal microbiome in cystic fibrosis in early life – Courtney E Price – mSphere

Overexpression of human alpha-Synuclein leads to dysregulated microbiome/metabolites with ageing in a rat model of Parkinson disease – Yogesh Singh – Molecular Neurodegeneration

Male-Biased Gut Microbiome and Metabolites Aggravate Colorectal Cancer Development – Ling Wang – Advanced Science

Review: Systematic review: Autism spectrum disorder and the gut microbiota – Jenni Korteniemi – Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Review: Early-life respiratory infections and developmental immunity determine lifelong lung health – Clare M Lloyd – Nature Immunology

Microbiome and Evolution

Ecoevolutionary processes structure milk microbiomes across the mammalian tree of life – Mia M Keady – PNAS

Shared evolutionary path in social microbiomes – Nelson Frazão – Molecular Biology and Evolution

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Review: Use of probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis – Lim Rong – Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Akkermansia muciniphila and Bifidobacterium bifidum Prevent NAFLD by Regulating FXR Expression and Gut Microbiota – Fulin Nian – Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology

Limosilactobacillus reuteri inhibits the acid tolerance response in oral bacteria – Gabriella Boisen – Biofilm

Animal Microbiome

Using the collaborative cross to identify the role of host genetics in defining the murine gut microbiome – Aravindh Nagarajan – Microbiome

Selection for environmental variance shifted the gut microbiome composition driving animal resilience – Cristina Casto-Rebollo – Microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Metabolic interaction models recapitulate leaf microbiota ecology – Martin Schäfer – Science

Environmental Microbiome

Microeukaryotic predators shape the wastewater microbiome – Nils Heck – Water Research

Functional and sequence-based metagenomics to uncover carbohydrate-degrading enzymes from composting samples – Cátia Santos-Pereira – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Analysis of the microbiome of the Bolivian high-altitude Lake Pastos Grandes – Jeanett Daga-Quisbert – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Built Environment

Metagenomic Analysis of a Concrete Bridge Reveals a Microbial Community Dominated by Halophilic Bacteria and Archaea – E Anders Kiledal – Microbiology Spectrum

Microbiome Research: Resources, Tools and Techniques

A catalog of bacterial reference genomes from cultivated human oral bacteria – Wenxi Li – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Gene-based microbiome representation enhances host phenotype classification – Thomas Deschênes – mSystems

Integrative meta-omics in Galaxy and beyond – Valerie C Schiml – Environmental Microbiome

Preprint: Compositional analysis of microbiome data using the linear decomposition model (LDM) – Yi-Juan Hu – bioRxiv

Preprint: Processing and Storage Methods Affect Oral and Gut Microbiome Composition – Dorothy K Superdock – bioRxiv

Preprint: A genome catalog of the early-life human skin microbiome – Zeyang Shen – bioRxiv

Review: In vitro models as a tool to study the role of gut microbiota in obesity – Abigail González – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

March 13, 2023

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Human and General Microbiome

Dysbiosis of a microbiota-immune metasystem in critical illness is associated with nosocomial infections – Jared Schlechte – Nature Medicine

Altered infective competence of the human gut microbiome in COVID-19 – Laura de Nies – Microbiome

Impact of high altitude on composition and functional profiling of oral microbiome in Indian male population – Manisha Kumari – Scientific Reports

Incidence of Breast Cancer and Enterococcus Infection: A Retrospective Analysis – Matthew Cardeiro – World Journal of Oncology

Multi-omics studies in interpreting the evolving standard model for immune functions – Dipyaman Ganguly – Briefings in Functional Genomics

Understanding the bacterial compositional network associations between oral and gut microbiome within healthy Koreans – Jinuk Jeong – Journal of oral Microbiology

A transcriptomic insight into the human sperm microbiome through next-generation sequencing – Celia Corral-Vazquez – Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Metformin alleviates liver fibrosis in mice by enriching Lactobacillus sp. MF-1 in the gut microbiota – Tao Yang – Biochimica et Biophysica Acta

Animal Microbiome

Microbiota alters the metabolome in an age- and sex- dependent manner in mice – Kirsty Brown – Nature Communications

IL-22 alters gut microbiota composition and function to increase aryl hydrocarbon receptor activity in mice and humans – Jordan S Mar – Microbiome

Decreased Paneth cell α-defensins promote fibrosis in a choline-deficient L-amino acid-defined high-fat diet-induced mouse model of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis via disrupting intestinal microbiota – Shunta Nakamura – Scientific Reports

Plant Microbiome

Microbiota and functional analyses of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in root-knot nematode parasitism of plants – Ye Li – Microbiome

Non-volatile metabolites mediating plant interactions with insect herbivores – Mei Luo – The Plant Journal

Comparative metagenomic analysis reveals rhizosphere microbial community composition and functions help protect grapevines against salt stress – Bo Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Emerging Pathways for Engineering the Rhizosphere Microbiome for Optimal Plant Health – Shengdie Yang – Journal of Agricultural and food Chemistry

Microbiome Analysis: Tools and Techniques

A bayesian zero-inflated dirichlet-multinomial regression model for multivariate compositional count data – Matthew D Koslovsky – Biometrics

Determining the most accurate 16S rRNA hypervariable region for taxonomic identification from respiratory samples – Ruben López-Aladid – Scientific Reports

December 2, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Different Characteristics in Gut Microbiome between Advanced Adenoma Patients and Colorectal Cancer Patients by Metagenomic Analysis – Shuwen Han – Microbiology Spectrum

The Spatial Features and Temporal Changes in the Gut Microbiota of a Healthy Chinese Population – Wen Zhang – Microbiology Spectrum

The Gut Microbiota is Important for the Maintenance of Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier Integrity – Emily G Knox – The European Journal of Neuroscience

Evaluation of co-circulating pathogens and microbiome from COVID-19 infections – James B Thissen – PloS One

A Clinical Study Provides the First Direct Evidence That Interindividual Variations in Fecal β-Lactamase Activity Affect the Gut Mycobiota Dynamics in Response to β-Lactam Antibiotics – Margot Delavy – mBio

Clostridia isolated from helminth-colonized humans promote the life cycle of Trichuris species – Shushan Sargsian – Cell Reports

Genome Watch: Zooming into the structure of the microbiome – Gemma G R Murray – Nature Reviews. Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Saussurea involucrata oral liquid regulates gut microbiota and serum metabolism during alleviation of collagen-induced arthritis in rats – Shan Cong – Phytotherapy Research

Prebiotic oligofructose protects against high-fat diet-induced obesity by changing the gut microbiota, intestinal mucus production, glycosylation and secretion – Paola Paone – Gut Microbes

Review: Predicting Personalized Responses to Dietary Fiber Interventions: Opportunities for Modulation of the Gut Microbiome to Improve Health – Car Reen Kok – Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

Animal Microbiome

Gut dysbiosis induces the development of mastitis through a reduction in host anti-inflammatory enzyme activity by endotoxemia – Caijun Zhao – Microbiome

Chronic clinical signs of upper respiratory tract disease associate with gut and respiratory microbiomes in a cohort of domestic felines – Holly Kristin Arnold – PloS One

Plant and Soil Microbiome

Bio-Organic Fertilizer Promotes Pear Yield by Shaping the Rhizosphere Microbiome Composition and Functions – Zhonghua Wang – Microbiology Spectrum

Impacts of maize hybrids with different nitrogen use efficiency on root-associated microbiota based on distinct rhizosphere soil metabolites – Keke Li – Environmental Microbiology

Environmental Microbiome

Coupled C, H, N, S and Fe biogeochemical cycles operating in the continental deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt – Ricardo Amils – Environmental Microbiology

Long-Read Sequencing Improves Recovery of Picoeukaryotic Genomes and Zooplankton Marker Genes from Marine Metagenomes – N V Patin – mSystems

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis

The Application of Spearman Partial Correlation for Screening Predictors of Weight Loss in a Multiomics Dataset – Joel Correa da Rosa – Omics

Sampling of Human Microbiomes to Screen for Antibiotic-Producing Commensals – Benjamin Torres Salazar – Methods in Molecular Biology

September 3, 2022

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Highlights!!!

A compendium of 32,277 metagenome-assembled genomes and over 80 million genes from the early-life human gut microbiome – Shuqin Zeng – Nature Communications → Authors presented and described the main features of the  Early-Life Gut Genomes (ELGG) catalog: a dataset of 32,277 genomes representing 2172 species from 6122 fecal metagenomes collected from children under 3-years old from different regions.

A previously uncharacterized O-glycopeptidase from Akkermansia muciniphila requires the Tn-antigen for cleavage of the peptide bond – Brendon J Medley – The Journal of Biological Chemistry → AMUC_1438, a previously uncharacterized gene from A. muciniphila, encodes an O-glycopeptidase with mucin degrading capacity. This article shows relevant aspects of its enzymatic function. 

Lactic acid from vaginal microbiota enhances cervicovaginal epithelial barrier integrity by promoting tight junction protein expression – David Jose Delgado-Diaz – Microbiome → metaproteomic analysis on vaginal swab samples and transcriptomics analysis of cervicovaginal epithelial cell cultures showed that lactic acid, a commonly produced metabolite by the vaginal lactobacilli, is capable of enhancing genital epithelial barrier integrity; this microbial feature may help prevent invasion by sexually transmitted pathogens.

Human and General Microbiome

Review: A Perspective of the Urinary Microbiome in Lower Urinary Tract Infections – A Review – Rigoberto Pallares-Mendez – Current Urology Reports

Review: Methanogenic archaea in the human gastrointestinal tract – Christoph Hoegenauer – Nature Reviews. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Meta-analysis of caries microbiome studies can improve upon disease prediction outcomes – Mark C Butcher – APMIS

Metagenomes of rectal swabs in larger, advanced stage cervical cancers have enhanced mucus degrading functionalities and distinct taxonomic structure – Tatiana V Karpinets – BMC Cancer

Horizontal gene transfer enables programmable gene stability in synthetic microbiota – Teng Wang – Nature Chemical Biology

A Multiscale Spatiotemporal Model Including a Switch from Aerobic to Anaerobic Metabolism Reproduces Succession in the Early Infant Gut Microbiota – David M Versluis – mSystems

Gut microbiome dysbiosis is associated with increased mortality after solid organ transplantation – J Casper Swarte – Science Translational Medicine

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Intestinal Microbiomics and Metabolomics Insights into the Hepatoprotective Effects of Lactobacillus paracasei CCFM1222 Against the Acute Liver Injury in Mice – Weiling Guo – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

An Alternative Oat-Containing Ready-To-Use Therapeutic Food Does Not Alter Intestinal Permeability or the 16S rRNA Fecal Microbiome Configuration Among Children With Severe Malnutrition in Sierra Leone: A Randomized Controlled Trial – D Taylor Hendrixson – The Journal of Nutrition

Study on the Effect of Molecular Weight on the Gut Microbiota Fermentation Properties of Blackberry Polysaccharides In Vitro – Qiao-Yun Li – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Animal Model Microbiome

Tissue-wide metabolomics reveals wide impact of gut microbiota on mice metabolite composition – Iman Zarei – Scientific Reports

Gut microbiota mediates the inhibition of lymphopoiesis in dietary-restricted mice by suppressing glycolysis – Si Tao – Gut Microbes

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Limited microbiome differences in captive and semi-wild primate populations consuming similar diets – Sahana Kuthyar – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome – Kathrin Busch – Nature Communications

Strain-level profiling with picodroplet microfluidic cultivation reveals host-specific adaption of honeybee gut symbionts – Yujie Meng – Microbiome

Mucin O-glycan-microbiota axis orchestrates gut homeostasis in a diarrheal pig model – Bing Xia – Microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Stressful, isolated, yet diverse: Green roofs have rich microbiomes that are not dominated by oligotrophic taxa – Antoine Hénault – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Nodulation and nitrogen fixation in Medicago truncatula strongly alters the abundance of its root microbiota and subtly affects its structure – Andrzej Tkacz – Environmental Microbiology

Bioinformatic Tools and Microbiome Analysis Techniques

Gut bacterial nutrient preferences quantified in vivo – Xianfeng Zeng – Cell

Metric learning for comparing genomic data with triplet network – Zhi Ma – Briefings in Bioinformatics

STENSL: Microbial Source Tracking with ENvironment SeLection – Ulzee An – mSystems

Review: Emerging microfluidic technologies for microbiome research – Yue Yu – Frontiers in Microbiology