Tag Archives: environmental microbiome

July 16, 2023

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Human and General Microbiome

A two-sample mendelian randomization analysis investigates associations between gut microbiota and infertility – Taozhi Li – Scientific Reports

Targeting gut microbiota-derived kynurenine to predict and protect the remodeling of the pressure-overloaded young heart – Bozhong Shi – Science Advances

Intratumoral Microbiota Composition Regulates Chemoimmunotherapy Response in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma – Hong Wu – Cancer Research

Metabolic and inflammatory profiles, gut microbiota and lifestyle factors in overweight and normal weight young thai adults – Surasawadee Somnuk – PloS One

Metagenomic assessment of gut microbial communities and risk of severe COVID-19 – Long H Nguyen – Genome Medicine

Longitudinal flux balance analyses of a patient with episodic colonic inflammation reveals microbiome metabolic dynamics – Arianna Basile – Gut Microbes

Exploring Co-occurrence patterns and microbial diversity in the lung microbiome of patients with non-small cell lung cancer – Sadaf Najafi – BMC Microbiology

Aerobic exercise training and gut microbiome-associated metabolic shifts in women with overweight: a multi-omic study – Jukka E Hintikka – Scientific Reports

Glycogen availability and pH variation in a medium simulating vaginal fluid influence the growth of vaginal Lactobacillus species and Gardnerella vaginalis – Stephany Navarro – BMC Microbiology

Antibiotic-induced gut microbiota dysbiosis has a functional impact on purine metabolism – Xin Liu – BMC Microbiology

Coarse graining the human gut microbiome – Christian Diener – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: Intestinal mucus and their glycans: A habitat for thriving microbiota – Ana S Luis – Cell host & Microbe

Review: https://www.cell.com/trends/immunology/fulltext/S1471-4906(23)00111-4 – Isabel Tarrant – Trends in Immunology

Review: A comprehensive perspective on the interaction between gut microbiota and COVID-19 vaccines – Ming Hong – Gut Microbes

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Bacillus coagulans MZY531 alleviates intestinal mucosal injury in immunosuppressive mice via modulating intestinal barrier, inflammatory response, and gut microbiota – Zhongwei Zhao – Scientific Reports

Microbiome Engineering Using Probiotic Yeast: Saccharomyces boulardii and the Secreted Human Lysozyme Lead to Changes in the Gut Microbiome and Metabolome of Mice – Jungyeon Kim – Microbiology Spectrum

Animal Microbiome

Neotropical bee microbiomes point to a fragmented social core and strong species-level effects – Jordan G Kueneman – Microbiome

Multi-Omics Reveals the Impact of Exogenous Short-Chain Fatty Acid Infusion on Rumen Homeostasis: Insights into Crosstalk between the Microbiome and the Epithelium in a Goat Model – Yongkang Zhen – Microbiology Spectrum

Identification of Gut Microbiome and Metabolites Associated with Acute Diarrhea in Cats – Huasong Bai – Microbiology Spectrum

First metagenomic analysis of the Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) gut microbiome reveals microbial diversity and wide resistome – J Eduardo Martinez-Hernandez – PeerJ

Plant Microbiome

The predictive power of phylogeny on growth rates in soil bacterial communities – Jeth Walkup – ISME Communications

Potential relevance between soybean nitrogen uptake and rhizosphere prokaryotic communities under waterlogging stress – Tengxiang Lian – ISME Communications

Effects of nitrogen reduction combined with bio-organic fertilizer on soil bacterial community diversity of red raspberry orchard – Xu Yuan – PloS One

Leaf side determines the relative importance of dispersal versus host filtering in the phyllosphere microbiome – Wenke Smets – mBio

Environmental Microbiome

Pathogen resistance in soils associated with bacteriome network reconstruction through reductive soil disinfestation – Weijing Zhu – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Microbiome Research: Resources, Tools and Techniques

Detection of Microorganisms in Body Fluid Samples – Xin Ji – Methods in Molecular Biology 

Guidelines for Microbiome Studies in Renal Physiology – Rikeish R Muralitharan – American Journal of Physiology. Renal Physiology

Quantitative differences in synthetic gut microbial inoculums do not affect the final stabilized in vitro community compositions – Thiyagarajan Gnanasekaran – mSystems

Review: Activity-based protein profiling in microbes and the gut microbiome – Lin Han – Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

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

June 12, 2023

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Highlights!

A microbiota-modulated checkpoint directs immunosuppressive intestinal T cells into cancers – Marine Fidelle – Science 

Using gut microbiota as a diagnostic tool for colorectal cancer: machine learning techniques reveal promising results – Fang Lu – Journal of Medical Microbiology

Outer membrane utilisomes mediate glycan uptake in gut Bacteroidetes – Joshua B R White – Nature

Human and General Microbiome

Skin maturation from birth to 10 years of age: Structure, function, composition and microbiome – Georgios N Stamatas – Experimental Dermatology

Ecological principles of fecal microbiota transplantation – Francisco Dini-Andreote – Trends in Microbiology

Human Genetics Influences Microbiome Composition Involved in Asthma Exacerbations despite Inhaled Corticosteroid Treatment – Javier Perez-Garcia – The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Gut bacterial metabolism contributes to host global purine homeostasis – Kazuyuki Kasahara – Cell Host & Microbe

The relative abundance of fecal bacterial species belonging to the Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes phyla is related to plasma levels of bile acids in young adults – Francisco J Osuna-Prieto – Metabolomics

The effect of vitamin D supplementation on the gut microbiome in older Australians – Results from analyses of the D-Health Trial – Hai Pham – Gut Microbes

Impaired flux of bile acids from the liver to the gut reveals microbiome-immune interactions associated with liver damage – Howell Leung – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Gut microbiota dysbiosis promotes the development of epithelial ovarian cancer via regulating Hedgehog signaling pathway – Xinyue Hu – Gut Microbes

Preprint: Microbes with higher metabolic independence are enriched in human gut microbiomes under stress – Iva Veseli – bioRxiv

Review: Evolutionary implications of host genetic control for engineering beneficial microbiomes – Lucas P Henry – Current Opinion in Systems Biology

Review: It’s all relative: analyzing microbiome compositions, its significance, pathogenesis and microbiota derived biofilms: Challenges and opportunities for disease intervention – Sahar Zaidi – Archives of Microbiology

Animal Microbiome

Gut microbiome helps honeybee (Apis mellifera) resist the stress of toxic nectar plant (Bidens pilosa) exposure: Evidence for survival and immunity – Qihe Tang – Environmental Microbiology

Regulation of host gene expression by gastrointestinal tract microbiota in Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) – Javad Sadeghi – Molecular Ecology

The impacts of ocean acidification, warming and their interactive effects on coral prokaryotic symbionts – Jinlong Li – Environmental Microbiome

Association analysis of gut microbiota-metabolites-neuroendocrine changes in male rats acute exposure to simulated altitude of 5500 m – Jianan Wang – Scientific Reports

Microbiomes of Blood-Feeding Triatomines in the Context of Their Predatory Relatives and the Environment – Hassan Tarabai – Microbiology Spectrum

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Probiotic interventions promote metabolic health in high fat-fed hamsters in association with gut microbiota and endocannabinoidome alterations – S Lacroix – Beneficial Microbes

Strains of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii and its extracts reduce blood glucose levels, percent HbA1c, and improve glucose tolerance without causing hypoglycemic side effects in diabetic and prediabetic mice – John Kallassy – BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care

Effects of a low FODMAP diet on gut microbiota in individuals with treated celiac disease having persistent gastrointestinal symptoms – a randomized controlled trial – Anne Mari Herfindal – The British Journal of Nutrition

Designed α-sheet peptides disrupt uropathogenic E. coli biofilms rendering bacteria susceptible to antibiotics and immune cells – Alissa Bleem – Scientific Reports

Review: ‘Multi-omics’ data integration: applications in probiotics studies – Iliya Dauda Kwoji – NPJ Science of Food

Review: Micro-/bio-/nano-/syn-encapsulations and co-treatments of bioactive microbial feed supplementation in augmenting finfish health and aquaculture nutrition: a review – P Puri – Beneficial Microbes

Plant Microbiome

Taxonomic analysis reveals host preference of rare fungi in endophytes of Vitis vinifera from the Czech Republic – Miroslav Kolařík – Folia Microbiologica

Environmental Microbiome

Metaproteomics reveals functional partitioning and vegetational variation among permafrost-affected Arctic soil bacterial communities – Samuel E Miller – mSystems

Built Environment

A new approach of microbiome monitoring in the built environment: feasibility analysis of condensation capture – Jarrad T Hampton-Marcell – Microbiome

Microbiome Research Tools and Techniques

Preprint: A bioinformatics tool for identifying intratumoral microbes from the ORIEN dataset – Cankun Wang – bioRxiv

Preprint: DeepBiomarker2: Prediction of alcohol and substance use disorder risk in post-traumatic stress disorder patients using electronic medical records and multiple social determinants of health – Oshin Miranda – Research Square

Latent Dirichlet Allocation modeling of environmental microbiomes – Anastasiia Kim – PLoS Computational Biology

When does a Lotka-Volterra model represent microbial interactions? Insights from in vitro nasal bacterial communities – Sandra Dedrick – mSystems

April 17, 2023

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Human and General Microbiome

Large-scale phage cultivation for commensal human gut bacteria – Juntao Shen – Cell Host & Microbe

On-person adaptive evolution of Staphylococcus aureus during treatment for atopic dermatitis – Felix M Key – Cell Host & Microbe

Staphylococcal diversity in atopic dermatitis from an individual to a global scale – Sara Saheb Kashaf – Cell Host & Microbe

A lncRNA from an inflammatory bowel disease risk locus maintains intestinal host-commensal homeostasis – Hongdi Ma – Cell Research

Coliphages of the human urinary microbiota – Elias Crum – PloS ONE

Children with autism show differences in the gut DNA virome compared to non-autistic children: a case control study – Aina Qu – BMC Pediatrics

Aerobic exercise training-induced alteration of gut microbiota composition affects endurance capacity – Masataka Uchida – The Journal of Physiology

Fusobacterium nucleatum aggravates rheumatoid arthritis through FadA-containing outer membrane vesicles – Mukeng Hong – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: Dental caries and their microbiomes in children: what do we do now? – Apoena Aguiar Ribeiro – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Review: Role of the Microbiome in Gut-Heart-Kidney Cross Talk – Griet Glorieux – Circulation Research

Review: Influence of Microbiota on Vaccine Effectiveness: Is the Microbiota the Key to Vaccine-induced Responses? – So-Hee Hong – Journal of Microbiology 

Review: Deciphering the quorum-sensing lexicon of the gut microbiota – Rita A Oliveira – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: The intratumoral microbiota: friend or foe? – Valentina Ferrari – Trends in Cancer

Review: Assembling symbiotic bacterial species into live therapeutic consortia that reconstitute microbiome functions – Rita A Oliveira – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: One population, multiple lifestyles: Commensalism and pathogenesis in the human mycobiome – Diana M Proctor – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: Cross-feeding in the gut microbiome: Ecology and mechanisms – Elizabeth J Culp – Cell Host & Microbe

Minireview: Networking between helminths, microbes, and mammals – P’ng Loke – Cell Host & Microbe

Commentary: The intratumoral microbiota: From microniches to single cells – Susan Bullman – Cell

Perspective: Designer bugs as cancer drugs? – Sairaj M Sajjath – Science

Animal Microbiome

Flagellar Genes Are Associated with the Colonization Persistence Phenotype of the Drosophila melanogaster Microbiota – Sarah J Morgan – Microbiology Spectrum

Integration host factor regulates colonization factors in the bee gut symbiont Frischella perrara – Konstantin Schmidt – eLife

Research Highlight: Urban bees reveal a city’s microbiome – Ashley York – Nature Reviews. Microbiology

Environmental Microbiome

Phyllosphere antibiotic resistome in a natural primary vegetation across a successional sequence after glacier retreat – Jian Li – Environment International

Genome-resolved metagenomics revealed metal-resistance, geochemical cycles in a Himalayan hot spring – Shekhar Nagar – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology