Tag Archives: microbiome

May 3, 2022

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General microbiome

Longitudinal multi-omics analyses link gut microbiome dysbiosis with recurrent urinary tract infections in women – Worby et al. Nature Microbiology. 2022

Human gut microbiome

Unfavourable intrauterine environment contributes to abnormal gut microbiome and metabolome in twins – Yang et al. Gut

Dosing a synbiotic of human milk oligosaccharides and B. infantis leads to reversible engraftment in healthy adult microbiomes without antibiotics – Button et al. Cell Host & Microbe

Gut microbial similarity in twins is driven by shared environment and aging – Vilchez-Vargas et al. eBioMedicine

Gut Microbiome Alterations Associated with Diabetes in Mexican Americans in South Texas. Kwan et al. mSystems

Human respiratory & oral microbiome

Metagenomic sequencing reveals time, host, and body compartment-specific viral dynamics after lung transplantation – Widder et al. Microbiome

Polymicrobial Interactions of Oral Microbiota: a Historical Review and Current Perspective – Zhang et al. mBio

Animal experiments

Effects of ‘Healthy’ Fecal Microbiota Transplantation against the Deterioration of Depression in Fawn-Hooded Rats – Hu et al. mSystems

Water/Extremophile microbiome

Metagenome-assembled genomes of phytoplankton microbiomes from the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans – Duncan et al. Microbiome

Bioinformatics

Compositionally Aware Phylogenetic Beta-Diversity Measures Better Resolve Microbiomes Associated with Phenotype – Martino et al. mSystems

BiomeHorizon: Visualizing Microbiome Time Series Data in R – Fink et al. mSystems

Comparative Analysis and Data Provenance for 1,113 Bacterial Genome Assemblies. Yarmosh et al. mSphere

Non microbiome picks

Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes – Morrill et al. Science. 

Dietary fibre in hypertension and cardiovascular disease management: systematic review and meta-analyses – Reynolds et al. BMC Medicine

March 25, 2022

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Human gut microbiome

In Vitro and In Silico Based Approaches to Identify Potential Novel Bacteriocins from the Athlete Gut Microbiome of an Elite Athlete Cohort – Wosinska et al. Microorganisms

Cancer pharmacomicrobiomics: targeting microbiota to optimise cancer therapy outcomes – Ting et al. Gut

Human respiratory microbiome

Inhibition of lung microbiota-derived proapoptotic peptides ameliorates acute exacerbation of pulmonary fibrosis – D’Alessandro-Gabazza et al. Nature Communications

Probiotics

Gut microbiota and fermentation-derived branched chain hydroxy acids mediate health benefits of yogurt consumption in obese mice – Daniel et al. Nature Communications

Animal experiments

Gut microbiota determines the social behavior of mice and induces metabolic and inflammatory changes in their adipose tissue – Agranyoni et al. npj biofilms and microbiomes

The microbiota restrains neurodegenerative microglia in a model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – Cox et al. Microbiome

Water & Extremophile microbiome

Spatial organization of the kelp microbiome at micron scales – Ramirez-Puebla et al. Microbiome

Metagenomics reveals global-scale contrasts in nitrogen cycling and cyanobacterial light-harvesting mechanisms in glacier cryoconite – Murakami et al. Microbiome.

Virome

Phages and their satellites encode hotspots of antiviral systems – Rousset et al. Cell Host & Microbe

Fungi

Fungal sensing enhances neutrophil metabolic fitness by regulating antifungal Glut1 activity – Li et al. Cell Host & Microbe

The primate gut mycobiome-bacteriome interface is impacted by environmental and subsistence factors – Sharma et al. npj Biofilms and microbiomes

Bioinformatics

Swapping Metagenomics Preprocessing Pipeline Components Offers Speed and Sensitivity Increases – Armstrong et al. mSystems

March 1, 2022

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General microbiome

Phylogenomics, Epigenomics, Virulome, and Mobilome of Gram-negative Bacteria Co-resistant to Carbapenems and Polymyxins: A One-Health Systematic Review and Meta-analyses – Ramaloko et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Global diversity and distribution of mushroom-inhabiting bacteria – Gohar et al. – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Genomic Epidemiology Insights on NDM-Producing Pathogens Revealed the Pivotal Role of Plasmids on blaNDM Transmission – Dong et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Multi-site human microbiome

Contributions of Human-Associated Archaeal Metabolites to Tumor Microenvironment and Carcinogenesis – Cai et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Human respiratory microbiome

Early life inter-kingdom interactions shape the immunological environment of the airways – C Pattaroni et al. – Microbiome

Human gut microbiome

Altered gut metabolites and microbiota interactions are implicated in colorectal carcinogenesis and can be non-invasive diagnostic biomarkers – Coker et al. – Microbiome

Animal experiments

Development of a rational framework for the therapeutic efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation for calf diarrhea treatment – Islam et al. – Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Comparative microbiome analysis of Diaphorina citri and its associated parasitoids Tamarixia radiata and Diaphorencyrtus aligarhensis reveals Wolbachia as a dominant endosymbiont – Ashraf et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Core arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are predicted by their high abundance-occupancy relationship while host-specific taxa are rare and geographically structured – Kajihara et al. – New Phytologist

Embracing mountain microbiome and ecosystem functions under global change –  Wang et al. – New Phytologist

Nitrogen fertilization disrupts the temporal dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae but not spore density and community composition in a wheat field – Babalola et al. – New Phytologist

Multiomics Reveals the Effect of Root Rot on Polygonati Rhizome and Identifies Pathogens and Biocontrol Strain – Pang et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Seed microbiota revealed by a large-scale meta-analysis including 50 plant species – Simonin et al. – New Phytologist

Viewpoint: Plant–microbe eco-evolutionary dynamics in a changing world – Angulo et al. – New Phytologist

Stem traits, compartments, and tree species affect fungal communities on decaying wood – Yang et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Microplastics reduce soil microbial network complexity and ecological deterministic selection – Shi et al. – Environmental Microbiology

The core root microbiome of Spartina alterniflora is predominated by sulfur-oxidizing and sulfate-reducing bacteria in Georgia salt marshes, USA – Rolando et al. – Microbiome

Water and extremophile

“Boom-and-busted-dynamics” of phytoplankton-virus interactions explain the paradox of the plankton – Flynn et al. – New Phytologist

Communality in microbial stress response and differential metabolic interactions revealed by time-series analysis of sponge symbionts – Taylor et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Global 16S rRNA diversity of provannid snail endosymbionts from Indo-Pacific deep-sea hydrothermal vents – Breusing et al. – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Sources of protein diet differentially stimulate the gut and water microbiota under freshwater crayfish, marron (Cherax cainii, Austin 2002) culture – Foysal et al. – Environmental Microbiology Reports

February 28, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Fusobacterium nucleatum promotes colorectal cancer cells adhesion to endothelial cells and facilitates extravasation and metastasis by inducing ALPK1/NF-κB/ICAM1 axis – Ying Zhang – Gut Microbes

Oral and Intestinal Bacterial Substances Associated with Disease Activities in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Cross-Sectional Clinical Study – Kaori Kitamura – Journal of Immunology Research

Cervicovaginal Microbiota Predicts Neisseria gonorrhoeae Clinical Presentation – Angela Lovett – Frontiers in Microbiology

Gut microbiota from Mexican patients with metabolic syndrome and HIV infection: an inflammatory profile – Fernando Amador-Lara – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Dysbiosis of skin microbiome and gut microbiome in melanoma progression – Chahrazed Mekadim – BMC Microbiology

Whole Genome Analysis of 335 New Bacterial Species from Human Microbiota Reveals a Huge Reservoir of Transferable Antibiotic Resistance Determinants – Sami Khabthani – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Dynamics of the Gut Bacteria and Fungi Accompanying Low-Carbohydrate Diet-Induced Weight Loss in Overweight and Obese Adults – Dan Yu – Frontiers in Nutrition

The Gut Microbiome as a Biomarker of Cancer Progression Among Female Never-smokers With Lung Adenocarcinoma – Takehiro Otoshi – Anticancer Research

Impact Of The Ileal Microbiota On Surgical Site Infections In Crohn’s Disease: A Nationwide Prospective Cohort – Clément Julien – Journal of Crohn’s & Colitis

A multiple-dimension model for microbiota of patients with colorectal cancer from normal participants and other intestinal disorders – Jian Shen – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Gut Microbiota Regulate Pancreatic Growth, Exocrine Function and Gut Hormones – Khyati Girdhar – Diabetes

Respiratory dysfunction three months after severe COVID-19 is associated with gut microbiota alterations – Beate Vestad – Journal of Internal Medicine

Gut microbiota and BMI throughout childhood: the role of firmicutes, bacteroidetes, and short-chain fatty acid producers – Timothy A Houtman – Scientific Reports

Review: Cross-reactivity between microbial and tumor antigens – Laurence Zitvogel – Current Opinion in Immunology

Review: The role of nutrition in inflammaging – Paolo Di Giosia – Ageing Research Reviews

Review: Impact of antibiotics on the human microbiome and consequences for host health – Dhrati V Patangia – MicrobiologyOpen

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study to Assess the Effect of Two Probiotics on the Preterms’ Gut Microbiota – Bárbara Moreno-Sanz – Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Streptococcus strain C17(T) as a potential probiotic candidate to modulate oral health – Wen Xiao Zhang – Letters in Applied Microbiology

Animal Microbiome

Antimicrobial resistance profile of gram-positive isolates belonging to the microbiota of non-human primates – Melissa M Zaniolo – Journal of Medical Primatology

Gut microbiota differences between paired intestinal wall and digesta samples in three small species of fish – Lasse Nyholm – PeerJ

An experimental test of disease resistance function in the skin-associated bacterial communities of three tropical amphibian species – Myra C Hughey – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Gut Microbiome Characteristics in feral and domesticated horses from different geographic locations – Li Ang – Communications Biology

Plant Microbiome

Long-term effect of epigenetic modification in plant-microbe interactions: modification of DNA methylation induced by plant growth-promoting bacteria mediates promotion process – Chen Chen – Microbiome

Changes in root microbiome during wheat evolution – Somayeh Gholizadeh – BMC Microbiology

Plant organ and sampling time point determine the taxonomic structure of microbial communities associated to apple plants in the orchard environment – Claudia Maria Oliveira Longa – Microbiological Research

Commensal Pseudomonas strains facilitate protective response against pathogens in the host plant – Or Shalev – Nature Ecology & Evolution

Review: Major Biological Control Strategies for Plant Pathogens – Manisha Arora Pandit – Pathogens

Bioinformatics

ADDAGMA: A database for domestic animal gut microbiome atlas – Yueren Xu – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

To rarefy or not to rarefy: robustness and efficiency trade-offs of rarefying microbiome data – Johnny Hong – Bioinformatics

Techniques

Human Stool Preservation Impacts Taxonomic Profiles in 16S Metagenomics Studies – Anne Plauzolles – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

February 21, 2022

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Today’s digest features two excellent metagenome – metabolome association studies in Nature Medicine and a great article in Genome Biology showing that the sustained software development is what you should look for in a bioinformatic software, not what journal it was published in.

Human gut microbiome

Metabolomic and microbiome profiling reveals personalized risk factors for coronary artery disease – Talmor-Barkan et al. Nature Medicine. 

Microbiome and metabolome features of the cardiometabolic disease spectrum – Fromentin et al. Nature Medicine

Gut metagenome associations with extensive digital health data in a volunteer-based Estonian microbiome cohort – Aasmets et al. Nature Communications

Animal Microbiome

Drivers of gut microbiome variation within and between groups of a wild Malagasy primate – Rudolph et al. Microbiome

Integrated meta-omics reveals new ruminal microbial features associated with feed efficiency in dairy cattle – Xue et al. Microbiome

The gut microbiome and antibiotic resistome of chronic diarrhea rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and its similarity to the human gut microbiome – Yang et al Microbiome

Virome

Independent host- and bacterium-based determinants protect a model symbiosis from phage predation – Lynch et al. Cell Reports

Virome characterization of game animals in China reveals a spectrum of emerging pathogens – He et al. Cell

Water and extremophile microbiome

Microeukaryotic gut parasites in wastewater treatment plants: diversity, activity, and removal – Freudenthal et al. Microbiome

Bioinformatics

METABOLIC: high-throughput profiling of microbial genomes for functional traits, metabolism, biogeochemistry, and community-scale functional networks – Zhou et al. Microbiome

Sustained software development, not number of citations or journal choice, is indicative of accurate bioinformatic software – Gardner et al. Genome Biology

Non-Microbiome picks

If you’ve listened to The Dropout podcast you might like this editorial.  

The post-Theranos world – Nature Biotechnology. 

February 2, 2022

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General microbiome

Genomic structure predicts metabolite dynamics in microbial communities – Gowda et al. – Cell 

Inhalable antibiotic resistomes emitted from hospitals: metagenomic insights into bacterial hosts, clinical relevance, and environmental risks – Wu et al. – Microbiome

Long-read metagenomic sequencing reveals shifts in associations of antibiotic resistance genes with mobile genetic elements from sewage to activated sludge – Dai et al. – Microbiome

Understanding microbiome alterations in autism – Nature Medicine

Human gut microbiome

3β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase expressed by gut microbes degrades testosterone and is linked to depression in males – Li et al. – Cell Host & Microbe

Pregnancy and early life

Early-life viral infections are associated with disadvantageous immune and microbiota profiles and recurrent respiratory infections – Piters et al. – Nature Microbiology

Meconium Microbiome of Very Preterm Infants across Germany – Klopp et al. – mSphere

Water and extremophile microbiome

Comparative metabolomic analysis reveals shared and unique chemical interactions in sponge holobionts – Zhang et al. – Microbiome

A multi-omics approach unravels metagenomic and metabolic alterations of a probiotic and synbiotic additive in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) – Rasmussen et al. – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

MUON: multimodal omics analysis framework – Bredikhin et al. – Genome Biology

Non Microbiome Picks

A Toast to All the Rejects – The Atlantic. An insightful article on celebrating your rejections in academia. 

January 21, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Metabolite-based dietary supplementation in human type 1 diabetes is associated with microbiota and immune modulation – Kirstine J Bell – Microbiome

GWAS-associated bacteria and their metabolites appear to be causally related to the development of inflammatory bowel disease – Zhenhuang Zhuang – European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The vaginal Torquetenovirus titer varies with vaginal microbiota composition in pregnant women – Tania Regina Tozetto-Mendoza – PloS ONE

Can the Acid-formation Potential of Saliva Detect a Caries-related Shift in the Oral Microbiome? – Cornelia Frese – Oral Health & Preventive Dentistry

Gut microbiome alterations and gut barrier dysfunction are associated with host immune homeostasis in COVID-19 patients – Zhonghan Sun – BMC Medicine

Predicting Treatment Nonresponse in Hispanic/Latino Children Receiving Silver Diamine Fluoride for Caries Arrest: A Pilot Study Using Machine Learning – Ryan Richard Ruff – Frontiers in Oral Health

The Gut Microbiome of Adults With Type 1 Diabetes and Its Association With the Host Glycemic Control – Smadar Shilo – Diabetes Care

Evaluation of Bacterial Diversity and Evolutionary Dynamics of Gut Bifidobacterium longum Isolates Obtained from Older Individuals in Hubei Province, China – Zhendong Zhang – Microbiology Spectrum

Review: Frontiers in Oral Mucosal Immunity and the Microbiome – Georgios N Belibasakis – Frontiers in Oral Health

Review: The microbiota-gut-brain axis: pathways to better brain health. Perspectives on what we know, what we need to investigate and how to put knowledge into practice – Anirikh Chakrabarti – Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Meta-Analysis: Predictors of Fecal Microbiota Transplant Failure in Clostridioides difficile Infection: An Updated Meta-analysis – Azizullah Beran – Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Systematic Review: The Role of Gut Microbiota-Brain Axis in Pathophysiology of ADHD: A Systematic Review – Salman Shirvani-Rad – Journal of Attention Disorders

Systematic Review: Meta-Analysis Using NGS Data: The Veillonella Species in Dental Caries – Naile Dame-Teixeira – Frontiers in Oral Health

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Peppermint oil effects on the gut microbiome in children with functional abdominal pain – Santosh Thapa – Clinical and Translational Science

SER-109, an Oral Microbiome Therapy for Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection – Paul Feuerstadt – The New England Journal of Medicine

Lactiplantibacillus plantarum CCFM1019 attenuate polycystic ovary syndrome through butyrate dependent gut-brain mechanism – Yufeng He – Food & Function

Causal relationship between gut microbiota and serum vitamin D: evidence from genetic correlation and Mendelian randomization study – Xiaolin Yang – European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Review: Modulation of Gut Microbiota and Immune System by Probiotics, Pre-biotics, and Post-biotics – Yue Liu – Frontiers in Nutrition

Review: Outlook on next-generation probiotics from the human gut – Francesca De Filippis – Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Animal Microbiome

Seasonal shift of the gut microbiome synchronizes host peripheral circadian rhythm for physiological adaptation to a low-fat diet in the giant panda – Guangping Huang – Cell Reports

Seasonal variations in the composition and functional profiles of gut microbiota reflect dietary changes in plateau pikas – Chao Fan – Integrative Zoology

N-acyl-homoserine lactone produced by Rahnella inusitata isolated from the gut of Galleria mellonella influences Salmonella phenotypes – Leonardo Luiz de Freitas – Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

Comparative 16S Metabarcoding of Nile Tilapia Gut Microbiota from the Northern Lakes of Egypt – Ahmed M Serag – Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Diversity and Distribution of Microbial Communities Associated with Reef Corals of the Malay Peninsula – Dhivya P Kanisan – Microbial Ecology

The Harris’ hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) as a source of pathogenic human yeasts: a potential risk to human health – Gustavo Dornelles – Future Microbiology

Increased microbial diversity and decreased prevalence of common pathogens in the gut microbiomes of wild turkeys compared to domestic turkeys – Julia Craft – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Comparative Evaluation of the Effect of Metformin and Insulin on Gut Microbiota and Metabolome Profiles of Type 2 Diabetic Rats Induced by the Combination of Streptozotocin and High-Fat Diet – Nan Hu – Frontiers in Pharmacology

Plant Microbiome

Modulating the rhizosphere microbiome by altering the cocktail of root secretions – Wei Zhang – Plant Physiology

Book Chapter: Characterization of Tobacco Microbiome by Metagenomics Approach – R Suresh Kumar – Methods in Molecular Biology 

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Incorporating genome-based phylogeny and functional similarity into diversity assessments helps to resolve a global collection of human gut metagenomes – Nicholas D Youngblut – Environmental Microbiology

Single-cell Microbiomics Unveils Distribution and Patterns of Microbial Symbioses in the Natural Environment – Vittorio Boscaro – Microbial Ecology

Adaptive and powerful microbiome multivariate association analysis via feature selection – Kalins Banerjee – NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics

Metabolic modeling of host-microbe interactions for therapeutics in colorectal cancer – Prerna Bhalla – NPJ Systems Biology and Applications

January 14, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Intestinal commensal microbiota and cytokines regulate Fut2(+) Paneth cells for gut defense – Mariko Kamioka – PNAS

Gut microbiota promotes cholesterol gallstone formation by modulating bile acid composition and biliary cholesterol secretion – Hai Hu – Nature Communications

Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae–Moraxella catarrhalis vaccine for the prevention of exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled, observer-blinded, proof-of-concept, phase 2b trial – Stefan Andreas – The Lancet. Respiratory Medicine

PET microplastics affect human gut microbiota communities during simulated gastrointestinal digestion, first evidence of plausible polymer biodegradation during human digestion – Alba Tamargo – Scientific Reports

Ear microbiota and middle ear disease: a longitudinal pilot study of Aboriginal children in a remote south Australian setting – Steven L Taylor – BMC Microbiology

Comparative analysis of DNA extraction and PCR product purification methods for cervicovaginal microbiome analysis using cpn60 microbial profiling – Elinor Shvartsman – PloS ONE

Microbial hydrogen economy alleviates colitis by reprogramming colonocyte metabolism and reinforcing intestinal barrier – Li Ge – Gut Microbes

Single-gene long-read sequencing illuminates Escherichia coli strain dynamics in the human intestinal microbiome – Dalong Hu – Cell Reports

Draft Genome Sequence of Bifidobacterium adolescentis 4-2, Isolated from Healthy Human Feces – Hend Altaib – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Preview: Diet, microbe, and autism: Cause or consequence? – Guanjian Li – Cell Host & Microbe

Human and General Microbiome – Reviews

Systematic review: Gut microbiota in patients with Alzheimer’s disease spectrum: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Chun-Che Hung – Aging

Systematic review: Characteristics of the gut microbiome in women with gestational diabetes mellitus: A systematic review – Louise Søndergaard Rold – PloS ONE

Systematic review: Respiratory tract infections and gut microbiome modifications: A systematic review – Claire A Woodall – PloS ONE

Systematic review: Repercussions of intermittent fasting on the intestinal microbiota community and body composition: a systematic review – Flaydson C S Pinto – Nutrition Reviews

Review: Skin Deep: The Role of the Microbiota in Cutaneous Autoimmunity – Márcia S Pereira – The Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Review: Current advances in the anti-inflammatory effects and mechanisms of natural polysaccharides – Dan Yuan – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Animal Microbiome

The gut microbiota of environmentally enriched mice regulates visual cortical plasticity – Leonardo Lupori – Cell Reports

Characterization of the juvenile koala gut microbiome across wild populations – Michaela D J Blyton – Environmental Microbiology

Specific gut bacterial responses to natural diets of tropical birds – Kasun H Bodawatta – Scientific Reports

Effect of dietary supplementation of lauric acid on growth performance, antioxidative capacity, intestinal development and gut microbiota on black sea bream (Acanthopagrus schlegelii) – Sami Ullah – PloS ONE

Establishment and resilience of transplanted gut microbiota in aged mice – Ying Wang – iScience

Identification of Gut Bacteria such as Lactobacillus johnsonii that Disseminate to Systemic Tissues of Wild Type and MyD88-/- Mice – Sreeram Udayan – Gut Microbes

Responsive changes of rumen microbiome and metabolome in dairy cows with different susceptibility to subacute ruminal acidosis – Tao Zhang – Animal Nutrition

Torula yeast in the diet of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar and the impact on growth performance and gut microbiome – Alexandra Leeper – Scientific Reports

Distinct gut microbiomes in two polar bear subpopulations inhabiting different sea ice ecoregions – Megan Franz – Scientific Reports

Microbiome Resilience despite a Profound Loss of Minority Microbiota following Clindamycin Challenge in Humanized Gnotobiotic Mice – Lin Liu – Microbiology Spectrum

Review: Bovine respiratory microbiota of feedlot cattle and its association with disease – Jianmin Chai – Veterinary Research

Plant Microbiome

Plant neighborhood shapes diversity and reduces interspecific variation of the phyllosphere microbiome – Kyle M Meyer – The ISME Journal

Environmental Microbiome

Sulfate-dependant microbially induced corrosion of mild steel in the deep sea: a 10-year microbiome study – Pauliina Rajala – Microbiome

Microbial community composition and glyphosate degraders of two soils under the influence of temperature, total organic carbon and pH – Angelica M Muskus – Environmental Pollution

Increased Tea Saponin Content Influences the Diversity and Function of Plantation Soil Microbiomes – Shouke Zhang – Microbiology Spectrum

Bioinformatics

Identifying temporal and spatial patterns of variation from multimodal data using MEFISTO – Britta Velten – Nature Methods

Review: Inferring microbiota functions from taxonomic genes: a review – Christophe Djemiel – GigaScience

January 6, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Mendelian randomization analyses support causal relationships between blood metabolites and the gut microbiome – Xiaomin Liu – Nature Genetics

Determine independent gut microbiota-diseases association by eliminating the effects of human lifestyle factors – Congmin Zhu – BMC Microbiology

Comparing Published Gut Microbiome Taxonomic Data Across Multinational Studies – Brianna K Meeks – Nursing Research

A Comprehensive Review on the Role of the Gut Microbiome in Human Neurological Disorders – Shokufeh Ghasemian Sorboni – Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Lactobacillus casei Zhang exerts anti-obesity effect to obese glut1 and gut-specific-glut1 knockout mice via gut microbiota modulation mediated different metagenomic pathways – Qiuwen He – European Journal of Nutrition

Administration of Human Derived Upper gut Commensal Prevotella histicola delays the onset of type 1 diabetes in NOD mice – Eric Marietta – BMC Microbiology

Probiotic supplementation in neonates with congenital gastrointestinal surgical conditions: a pilot randomised controlled trial – Shripada Rao – Pediatric Research

Dietary supplementation with low-dose xylooligosaccharide promotes the anti-Salmonella activity of probiotic Lactiplantibacillus plantarum ZS2058 in a murine model – Junsheng Liu – Food Research International 

Review: Recent understanding of human milk oligosaccharides in establishing infant gut microbiome and roles in immune system – Ravindra Pal Singh – Food Research International

Microbiome and Metabolism

Gut Microbiota Diversity and Overweight/Obesity in Infancy: Results from a Nested Case-control Study – Hong Mei – Current Medical Science

Microbiome and Cancer

Microbiome composition indicate dysbiosis and lower richness in tumor breast tissues compared to healthy adjacent paired tissue, within the same women – Maria Valeria Esposito – BMC Cancer

Changes in the gut bacterial communities in colon cancer surgery patients: an observational study – Mohamed Abbas – Gut Pathogens

Urinary and Reproductive Tract Microbiome

Endometrial microbiota composition is associated with reproductive outcome in infertile patients – Inmaculada Moreno – Microbiome

Dysbiosis of vaginal microbiota associated with persistent high-risk human papilloma virus infection – Ling Mei – Journal of Translational Medicine

Urogenital Microbiota:Potentially Important Determinant of PD-L1 Expression in Male Patients with Non-muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer – Chunxiao Chen – BMC Microbiology

Animal Microbiome

Destabilization of the Bacterial Interactome Identifies Nutrient Restriction-Induced Dysbiosis in Insect Guts – Ramona Marasco – Microbiology Spectrum

Specific Strains of Honeybee Gut Lactobacillus Stimulate Host Immune System to Protect against Pathogenic Hafnia alvei – Haoyu Lang – Microbiology Spectrum

Characterization of captive and wild 13-lined ground squirrel cecal microbiotas using Illumina-based sequencing – Edna Chiang – Animal Microbiome

Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analyses reveal minor-yet-crucial roles of gut microbiome in deep-sea hydrothermal vent snail – Yi Yang – Animal Microbiome

Host, microbiome, and complex space: applying population and landscape genetic approaches to gut microbiome research in wild populations – Claire E Couch – The Journal of Heredity

Antibiotic resistance and potential bacterial pathogens identified in red deer’s faecal DNA – Diana Dias – Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Review: Gut microbiome-immune system interaction in reptiles – Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Plant and Soil Microbiome

Contrasting Effects of Local Environmental and Biogeographic Factors on the Composition and Structure of Bacterial Communities in Arid Monospecific Mangrove Soils – T Thomson – Microbiology Spectrum

Review: Endophytic Microbiota of Rice and Their Collective Impact on Host Fitness – Santosh Kumar Jana – Current Microbiology

Other Microbes

Spaceflight Virology: What Do We Know about Viral Threats in the Spaceflight Environment? – Bruno Pavletić – Astrobiology

Microbiome Analysis Methods

Cell-Free Paper-Based Analysis of Gut Microbiota and Host Biomarkers – Melissa K Takahashi – Methods in Molecular Biology 

Bioinformatics

CACONET: a novel classification framework for microbial correlation networks – Yuanwei Xu – Bioinformatics

January 4, 2022

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Happy new year! Today’s digest is jam packed with articles published over the Christmas period. This includes the Skin Microbial Genome Collection (SMGC), a fascinating study linking the gut virome to rotavirus vaccine response, multiple cancer-microbiome papers and a catalogue of the human gut archaeome

General microbiome

The Metaproteomics Initiative: a coordinated approach for propelling the functional characterization of microbiomes – Bossche et al. Microbiome

Directional Gaussian Mixture Models of the Gut Microbiome Elucidate Microbial Spatial Structure – Pasarkar et al. mSystems

Human gut microbiome

Human gut-microbiome-derived propionate coordinates proteasomal degradation via HECTD2 upregulation to target EHMT2 in colorectal cancer – Ryu et al. ISME

Gut microbiomes from Gambian infants reveal the development of a non-industrialized Prevotella-based trophic network – Goffau et al. Nature Microbiology.

Reuterin in the healthy gut microbiome suppresses colorectal cancer growth through altering redox balance – Bell et al. Cancer Cell. 

Population study of the gut microbiome: associations with diet, lifestyle, and cardiometabolic disease – Walker et al. Genome Medicine

Enteric virome negatively affects seroconversion following oral rotavirus vaccination in a longitudinally sampled cohort of Ghanaian infants – Kim et al. Cell Host & Microbe

Maternal gut bacteria drive intestinal inflammation in offspring with neurodevelopmental disorders by altering the chromatin landscape of CD4+ T cells – Kim et al. Immunity

Lactobacillus gallinarum modulates the gut microbiota and produces anti-cancer metabolites to protect against colorectal tumourigenesis – Sugimura et al. Gut

A catalogue of 1,167 genomes from the human gut archaeome – Chibani et al. Nature Microbiology

Variation and transmission of the human gut microbiota across multiple familial generations – Valles-Colomer et al. Nature Microbiology. 

The Mouse Gastrointestinal Bacteria Catalogue enables translation between the mouse and human gut microbiotas via functional mapping – Beresford-Jones et al. Cell Host & Microbe

Human skin & oral microbiome

Integrating cultivation and metagenomics for a multi-kingdom view of skin microbiome diversity and functions – Kashaf et al. Nature Microbiology.

Alterations of human skin microbiome and expansion of antimicrobial resistance after systemic antibiotics – Jo et al. Science Translational Medicine

Microbiome-mediated incapacitation of interferon lambda production in the oral mucosa – Rodriguez-Hernandez et al. PNAS

Plant microbiome

Glutamic acid reshapes the plant microbiota to protect plants against pathogens – Kim et al. Microbiome. 

Water microbiome

Metagenomics of Antarctic Marine Sediment Reveals Potential for Diverse Chemolithoautotrophy – Garber et al. mSphere

Dissecting the dominant hot spring microbial populations based on community-wide sampling at single-cell genomic resolution – Bowers et all. ISME

Bioinformatics

Fast and accurate metagenotyping of the human gut microbiome with GT-Pro – Shi et al. Nature Biotechnology

Rapid screening and identification of viral pathogens in metagenomic data – Song et al. BMC Medical Genomics.