Tag Archives: microbiome

November 27, 2023

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Human and General Microbiome

Multi-site microbiota alteration is a hallmark of kidney stone formation – Kait F Al – Microbiome

Culturing the unculturables: strategies, challenges, and opportunities for gut microbiome study – Asha Yadav – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Trans-vaccenic acid reprograms CD8(+) T cells and anti-tumour immunity – Hao Fan – Nature

Multi-omics analysis of hospital-acquired diarrhoeal patients reveals biomarkers of enterococcal proliferation and Clostridioides difficile infection – Marijana Bosnjak – Nature Communications

Why are so many enteric pathogen infections asymptomatic? Pathogen and gut microbiome characteristics associated with diarrhea symptoms and carriage of diarrheagenic E. coli in northern Ecuador – Kelsey J Jesser – Gut Microbes

Gut microbiome and frailty: insight from genetic correlation and mendelian randomization – Guanghui Cui – Gut Microbes

Review: Metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities – Christian Kost – Nature Microbiology

Review: Evolution of a Pathogenic Microbiome – Pui Yin Wong – Journal of Clinical Medicine

Review: Evidence for the contribution of the gut microbiome to obesity and its reversal – Douwe F de Wit – Science Translational Medicine

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Parabacteroides distasonis ameliorates insulin resistance via activation of intestinal GPR109a – Yonggan Sun – Nature Communications

Galactooligosaccharide Mediates NF-κB Pathway to Improve Intestinal Barrier Function and Intestinal Microbiota – Menglu Xi – Molecules 

A self-stabilized and water-responsive deliverable coenzyme-based polymer binary elastomer adhesive patch for treating oral ulcer – Chunyan Cui – Nature Communications

A key genetic factor governing arabinan utilization in the gut microbiome alleviates constipation – Chengcheng Zhang – Cell Host & Microbe

Meta-analysis: Fiber intake and fiber intervention in depression and anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies and randomized controlled trials – Hajara Aslam – Nutrition Reviews

Animal Microbiome

Identification of peptides from honeybee gut symbionts as potential antimicrobial agents against Melissococcus plutonius – Haoyu Lang – Nature Communications

A coral-associated actinobacterium mitigates coral bleaching under heat stress – Jie Li – Environmental Microbiome

Symbiodiniaceae photophysiology and stress resilience is enhanced by microbial associations – Jennifer L Matthews – Scientific Reports

Associations of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis with skin bacteria and fungi on Asian amphibian hosts – Dan Sun – ISME Communications

Experimental mining plumes and ocean warming trigger stress in a deep pelagic jellyfish – Vanessa I Stenvers – Nature Communications

Gut microbiomes of cycad-feeding insects tolerant to β-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) are rich in siderophore biosynthesis – Karina Gutiérrez-García – ISME Communications

Environmental Factors and the Symbiont Cardinium Influence the Bacterial Microbiome of Spider Mites Across the Landscape – Huan-Huan Liu – Microbial Ecology

Animal Model Microbiome

Gut microbiota-bile acid crosstalk regulates murine lipid metabolism via the intestinal FXR-FGF19 axis in diet-induced humanized dyslipidemia – Hongtao Xu – Microbiome

Multi-omics data reveals aberrant gut microbiota-host glycerophospholipid metabolism in association with neuroinflammation in APP/PS1 mice – Xiaohang Qian – Gut Microbes

Plant and Environmental Microbiome

Combined application of microbial inoculant and kelp-soaking wastewater promotes wheat seedlings growth and improves structural diversity of rhizosphere microbial community – Xin Song – Scientific Reports

Contribution of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria to nitrogen transformation in a soil fertilized with urea and organic amendments – Yajun Yang – Scientific Reports

Genomic evidence that microbial carbon degradation is dominated by iron redox metabolism in thawing permafrost – Karl J Romanowicz – ISME Communications

Microbiome Analysis: tools, techniques, and resources

PanDelos-frags: A methodology for discovering pangenomic content of incomplete microbial assemblies – Vincenzo Bonnici – Journal of Biomedical Informatics

PLM-ARG: antibiotic resistance gene identification using a pretrained protein language model – Jun Wu – Bioinformatics

Sparsity of higher-order landscape interactions enables learning and prediction for microbiomes – Shreya Arya – PNAS

Vaccinomics-aided next-generation novel multi-epitope-based vaccine engineering against multidrug resistant Shigella sonnei: Immunoinformatics and chemoinformatics approaches – Sara Aiman – PloS One

Detecting host responses to microbial stimulation using primary epithelial organoids – Jette Bornholdt – Gut Microbes

Review: Exploring microbial worlds: a review of whole genome sequencing and its application in characterizing the microbial communities – Suleiman Aminu – Critical Reviews in Microbiology

November 20, 2023

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Human and General Microbiome

Association between microbiome and the development of adverse posttraumatic neuropsychiatric sequelae after traumatic stress exposure – Abigail L Zeamer – Translational Psychiatry

The preterm human milk microbiota fluctuates by postpartum week and is characterized by gestational age and maternal BMI – Evgenia Jen Filatava – mBio

Strain-resolved metagenomic analysis of the gut as a reservoir for bloodstream infection pathogens among premature infants in Singapore – Sarah M Heston – Gut Pathogens

Porphyromonas gingivalis as a promotor in the development of the alcoholic liver disease via ferroptosis – Chao Yao – Microbes and Infection

The core phageome and its interrelationship with preterm human milk lipids – Wen C Yew – Cell Reports

Longitudinal analysis at three oral sites links oral microbiota to clinical outcomes in allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplant – Vitor Heidrich – Microbiology Spectrum

Gut inflammation associated with age and Alzheimer’s disease pathology: a human cohort study – Margo B Heston – Scientific Reports

Robust airway microbiome signatures in acute respiratory failure and hospital-acquired pneumonia – Emmanuel Montassier – Nature Medicine

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Systematic mining of the human microbiome identifies antimicrobial peptides with diverse activity spectra – Andrew M King – Nature Microbiology

Skin benefits of postbiotics derived from Micrococcus luteus derived from human skin: an untapped potential for dermatological health – Young Mok Heo – Genes & Genomics

Akkermansia muciniphila attenuated lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury by modulating the gut microbiota and SCFAs in mice – Jian Shen – Food & Function

Review: The Potential of Meta-Proteomics and Artificial Intelligence to Establish the Next Generation of Probiotics for Personalized Healthcare – Arpita Das – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Review: Gut microbiome in healthy aging versus those associated with frailty – Mi Young Lim – Gut Microbes

Animal Microbiome

Host species and habitat shape fish-associated bacterial communities: phylosymbiosis between fish and their microbiome – Javad Sadeghi – Microbiome

Aedes aegypti microbiome composition covaries with the density of Wolbachia infection – Jane Pascar – Microbiome

Sequential host-bacteria and bacteria-bacteria interactions determine the microbiome establishment of Nematostella vectensis – H Domin – Microbiome

Microbial symbionts are shared between ants and their associated beetles – Catalina Valdivia – Environmental Microbiology

The gut microbiome mediates adaptation to scarce food in Coleoptera – Oana Teodora Moldovan – Environmental Microbiome

Animal Model Microbiome

Interplay of gut microbiota and host epithelial mitochondrial dysfunction is necessary for the development of spontaneous intestinal inflammation in mice – Kibrom M Alula – Microbiome

Environmental Microbiome

Microbial diversity and community structure dynamics in acid mine drainage: Acidic fire with dissolved heavy metals – Wasim Sajjad – The Science of the Total Environment

Polar lake microbiomes have distinct evolutionary histories – Bjorn Tytgat – Science Advances

Plant Microbiome

PSKR1 balances the plant growth-defence trade-off in the rhizosphere microbiome – Siyu Song – Nature Plants

Streptomyces alleviate abiotic stress in plant by producing pteridic acids – Zhijie Yang – Nature Communications

Microbiome Analysis: tools, techniques and resources

The pan-microbiome profiling system Taxa4Meta identifies clinical dysbiotic features and classifies diarrheal disease – Qinglong Wu – The Journal of Clinical Investigation

Review: Machine learning for microbiologists – Francesco Asnicar – Nature Reviews. Microbiology

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November 6, 2023

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Human Gut Microbiome

Altered Gut Microbiota and Short-chain Fatty Acids in Chinese Children with Constipated Autism Spectrum Disorder – Jianquan He – Scientific Reports

Clostridium butyricum and Clostridium tyrobutyricum: angel or devil for necrotizing enterocolitis? – Ruizhi Tao – mSystems

Gut microbiota composition and diversity before, during, and two months after rifamycin-based tuberculosis preventive therapy – Marie Nancy Séraphin – Scientific Reports

Genomic analyses of Bacteroides fragilis: subdivisions I and II represent distinct species – Jamie English – Journal of Medical Microbiology

Bacterial SNPs in the human gut microbiome associate with host BMI – Liron Zahavi – Nature Medicine

Fecal short-chain fatty acids in non-constipated irritable bowel syndrome: a potential clinically relevant stratification factor based on catabotyping analysis – Giorgio Gargari – Gut Microbes

Characterizing alterations in the gut microbiota following postpartum weight change – Bridget N Chalifour – mSystems

Core-genome multilocus sequence typing and core-SNP analysis of Clostridium neonatale strains isolated in different spatio-temporal settings – Victoria Mesa – Microbiology Spectrum

Human Microbiome (outside the gut)

Identification of root canal microbiota profiles of periapical tissue diseases using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer – Mete Ahlat – Anaerobe

Gardnerella pickettii sp. nov. (formerly Gardnerella genomic species 3) and Gardnerella greenwoodii sp. nov. (formerly Gardnerella genomic species 8) isolated from female urinary microbiome – Márcia Sousa – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Smoking and salivary microbiota: a cross-sectional analysis of an Italian alpine population – Giacomo Antonello – Scientific Reports

Prolonged mask wearing changed nasal microbial characterization of young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai, China – Guoxiu Xiang – Frontiers in Immunology

Beneficial Microbes, Compounds and Interventions

Inulin-enriched Megamonas funiformis ameliorates metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease by producing propionic acid – Xinyue Yang – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

A gut microbial metabolite of linoleic acid ameliorates liver fibrosis by inhibiting TGF-β signaling in hepatic stellate cells – Nanaho Kasahara – Scientific Reports

Fecal microbiota transplantation promotes reduction of antimicrobial resistance by strain replacement – Michael H Woodworth – Science Translational Medicine

Animal Microbiome

Revealing the developmental characterization of rumen microbiome and its host in newly received cattle during receiving period contributes to formulating precise nutritional strategies – Yanjiao Li – Microbiome

Shifts in the coral microbiome in response to in situ experimental deoxygenation – Rachel D Howard – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Limitation of amino acid availability by bacterial populations during enhanced colitis in IBD mouse model – Tanner G Richie – mSystems

Estradiol mediates colonic epithelial protection in aged mice after stroke and is associated with shifts in the gut microbiome – Juneyoung Lee – Gut Microbes

Functional potential and evolutionary response to long-term heat selection of bacterial associates of coral photosymbionts – Justin Maire – mSystems

Gut bacteria mediated adaptation of diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella, to secondary metabolites of host plants – Xiaofeng Xia – mSystems

Environmental Microbiome

Microbial hitchhikers harbouring antimicrobial-resistance genes in the riverine plastisphere – Vinko Zadjelovic – Microbiome

Taxonomic distribution of metabolic functions in bacteria associated with Trichodesmium consortia – Coco Koedooder – mSystems

Review: Microbial ecology of drinking water from source to tap – Leili Abkar – The Science of the Total Environment

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

Food4healthKG: Knowledge graphs for food recommendations based on gut microbiota and mental health – Chengcheng Fu – Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Testing latent classes in gut microbiome data using generalized Poisson regression models – Xinhui Qiao – Statistics in Medicine

October 30, 2023

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Human and General Microbiome

Amino acid auxotrophies in human gut bacteria are linked to higher microbiome diversity and long-term stability – Svenja Starke – The ISME Journal

Gut microbiota impacts bone via Bacteroides vulgatus-valeric acid-related pathways – Xu Lin – Nature Communications

The global burden of antimicrobial resistance – urinary tract infections – Sibylle Von Vietinghoff – Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation

Class I HLA Allele Predicted Restricted Antigenic Coverages for Fap2 Protein of Fusobacterium nucleatum Are Associated with Colorectal Cancer Incidence – Mustapha Zeddou – Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Microbial-dependent recruitment of immature myeloid cells promotes intestinal regeneration – Zhengyu Jiang – Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Prior antibiotic administration disrupts anti-PD-1 responses in advanced gastric cancer by altering the gut microbiome and systemic immune response – Chang Gon Kim – Cell Reports Medicine

Gut microbiome dynamics in index patients colonized with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacterales after hospital discharge and their household contacts – Janetta Top – Microbiology Spectrum

White-nose syndrome restructures bat skin microbiomes – Meghan Ange-Stark – Microbiology Spectrum

Linking Clinical Blood Metabogram and Gut Microbiota – Petr G Lokhov – Metabolites

A citizen-science-enabled catalogue of the vaginal microbiome and associated factors – Sarah Lebeer – Nature Microbiology

Low-dose ethanol consumption inhibits neutrophil extracellular traps formation to alleviate rheumatoid arthritis – Lin Jin – Communications Biology

Community composition and the environment modulate the population dynamics of type VI secretion in human gut bacteria – Sophie Robitaille – Nature Ecology & Evolution

Extension of the Segatella copri complex to 13 species with distinct large extrachromosomal elements and associations with host conditions – Aitor Blanco-Míguez – Cell Host & Microbe

Gut microbe-metabolite profiles are associated with microbial pathways of longevity in women: a cross-sectional study conducted in China – Qinren Zhang – Gerontology

Longitudinal analysis of vaginal microbiota during IVF fresh embryo transfer and in early pregnancy – Sofia Väinämö – Microbiology Spectrum

Gut microbiota and autism spectrum disorders: where do we stand? – Sa’ed H Zyoud – Gut Pathogens

Host fecal DNA specific methylation signatures mark gut dysbiosis and inflammation in children affected by autism spectrum disorder – Mariella Cuomo – Scientific Reports

Gut microbiome-derived ammonia modulates stress vulnerability in the host – Pei Wang – Nature Metabolism

Nanobodies against C. difficile TcdA and TcdB reveal unexpected neutralizing epitopes and provide a toolkit for toxin quantitation in vivo – Shannon L Kordus – PLoS Pathogens

Review: Microbiome-based therapies for periodontitis and peri-implantitis – Xindi Wei – Oral Diseases

Animal Microbiome

Distinct gut microbial communities and functional predictions in divergent ophiuroid species: host differentiation, ecological niches, and adaptation to cold-water habitats – Yue Dong – Microbiology Spectrum

Integrated multi-omics analysis reveals the positive leverage of citrus flavonoids on hindgut microbiota and host homeostasis by modulating sphingolipid metabolism in mid-lactation dairy cows consuming a high-starch diet – Yuchao Zhao – Microbiome

More Microbes

Review: Update on novel validly published taxa of bacteria isolated from domestic animals described in 2022 – Sara D Lawhon – Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Plant Microbiome

Location: root architecture structures rhizosphere microbial associations – Tania Galindo-Castañeda – Journal of Experimental Botany

Environmental Microbiome

Virus diversity and activity is driven by snowmelt and host dynamics in a high-altitude watershed soil ecosystem – Clement Coclet – Microbiome

Shotgun metagenomics and computational profiling of the plastisphere microbiome: unveiling the potential of enzymatic production and plastic degradation – Mahnoor Saleem – Archives of Microbiology

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

Machine-learning analysis of cross-study samples according to the gut microbiome in 12 infant cohorts – Petri Vänni – mSystems

Analyzing microbial evolution through gene and genome phylogenies – Sarah Teichman – Biostatistics

AnimalMetaOmics: a multi-omics data resources for exploring animal microbial genomes and microbiomes – Ruirui Hu – Nucleic Acids Research

SPIRE: a Searchable, Planetary-scale mIcrobiome REsource – Thomas S B Schmidt – Nucleic Acids Research

ACR: metagenome-assembled prokaryotic and eukaryotic genome refinement tool – Hoon Je Seong – Briefings in Bioinformatics

dbAPIS: a database of anti-prokaryotic immune system genes – Yuchen Yan – Nucleic Acids Research

Cellsnake: a user-friendly tool for single-cell RNA sequencing analysis – Sinan U Umu – GigaScience

aMeta: an accurate and memory-efficient ancient metagenomic profiling workflow – Zoé Pochon – Genome Biology

October 16, 2023

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Human and General Microbiome

A Sedentary Lifestyle Changes the Composition and Predicted Functions of the Gut Bacterial and Fungal Microbiota of Subjects from the Same Company – Longwei Xu – Current Microbiology

Animal Microbiome

Effect of urbanization and parasitism on the gut microbiota of Darwin’s finch nestlings – Gabrielle Solomon – Molecular Ecology

Metabarcoding using nanopore long-read sequencing for the unbiased characterization of apicomplexan haemoparasites – Lucas G Huggins – Molecular Ecology Resources

Bacterial networks in Atlantic salmon with Piscirickettsiosis – Yoandy Coca – Scientific Reports

Metagenomic analysis reveals a dynamic microbiome with diversified adaptive functions that respond to ovulation regulation in the mouse endometrium – Sisi Pu – BMC Genomics

Beneficial Microbes, Foods and Compounds

Probiotic-fermented tomato alleviates high-fat diet-induced obesity in mice: Insights from microbiome and metabolomics – Benliang Wei – Food Chemistry

Lactobacillus rhamnosus Modulates Lung Inflammation and Mitigates Gut Dysbiosis in a Murine Model of Asthma-COPD Overlap Syndrome – Jéssica Aparecida Vasconcelos – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Fermented Goat’s Milk Contributes to the Recovery of Iron Deficiency Anemia via Modulation of the Gut Microbiome – Ana Soriano-Lerma – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Environmental Microbiome

Coexistence of specialist and generalist species within mixed plastic derivative-utilizing microbial communities – Laura Schaerer – Microbiome

Review: A critical review of the recent trends in source tracing of microplastics in the environment – Kiruthika K M – Environmental Research

Keystone taxa of phoD-harboring bacteria mediate alkaline phosphatase activity during biochar remediation of Cd-contaminated soil – Qiang Wang – The Science of the Total Environment

Plant Microbiome

Maintaining beneficial alga-associated bacterial communities under heat stress: Insights from controlled co-culture experiments using antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains – Elham Karimi – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Review: Deep discovery informs difficult deployment in plant microbiome science – Dor Russ – Cell

Highlights: Plant cell wall component induced bacterial development – Ákos T Kovács – Trends in Microbiology

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

MGS2AMR: a gene-centric mining of metagenomic sequencing data for pathogens and their antimicrobial resistance profile – Pieter-Jan Van Camp – Microbiome

Subgroup Identification Using Virtual Twins for Human Microbiome Studies – Hyunwook Koh – IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

October 9, 2023

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Human and General Microbiome

Mitochondrial dysfunction promotes microbial composition that negatively impacts on ulcerative colitis development and progression – Ainize Peña-Cearra – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

The recovery of the microbial community after plaque removal depends on periodontal health status – Xiaoqing Li – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Uncover a microbiota signature of upper respiratory tract in patients with SARS-CoV-2 +  – Massimo Bellato – Scientific Reports

COVID-19 mRNA vaccine-mediated antibodies in human breast milk and their association with breast milk microbiota composition – Shilin Zhao – NPJ Vaccines

Spatial diversity of the skin bacteriome – Marcos Pérez-Losada – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbiota-gut-brain axis drives overeating disorders – Sijia Fan – Cell Metabolism

Review: Human-gut bacterial protein-protein interactions: understudied but impactful to human health – Diana Balint – Trends in Microbiology

Review: Progress of linking gut microbiota and musculoskeletal health: casualty, mechanisms, and translational values – Yu Wang – Gut Microbes

Review: The microbial landscape of colorectal cancer – Maxwell T White – Nature Reviews. Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Probiogenomics of Leuconostoc Mesenteroides Strains F-21 and F-22 Isolated from Human Breast Milk Reveal Beneficial Properties – Juan Carlos Ariute – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, Bacteroides faecis and Roseburia intestinalis attenuate clinical symptoms of experimental colitis by regulating Treg/Th17 cell balance and intestinal barrier integrity – Nooshin Mohebali – Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 

Simulated gastrointestinal digestion of beer using the simgi® model. Investigation of colonic phenolic metabolism and impact on human gut microbiota – Magaly Rodriquez-Saavedra – Food Research International

Animal Microbiome (Model and Non-model organisms)

High temperatures augment inhibition of parasites by a honey bee gut symbiont – Evan C Palmer-Young – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The maternal microbiome promotes placental development in mice – Geoffrey N Pronovost – Science Advances

Omics-Based Mathematical Modeling Unveils Pathogenesis of Periodontitis in an Experimental Murine Model – C Fujihara – Journal of Dental Research

Environmental Microbiome

Compost, plants and endophytes versus metal contamination: choice of a restoration strategy steers the microbiome in polymetallic mine waste – Martina Kracmarova-Farren – Environmental Microbiome

Litter decomposition and nutrient release are faster under secondary forests than under Chinese fir plantations with forest development – Shuaijun Li – Scientific Reports

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

PandaGUT provides new insights into bacterial diversity, function, and resistome landscapes with implications for conservation – Guangping Huang – Microbiome

The newest Oxford Nanopore R10.4.1 full-length 16S rRNA sequencing enables the accurate resolution of species-level microbial community profiling – Tianyuan Zhang – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

October 2, 2023

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Highlights!

Review: A relational framework for microbiome research with Indigenous communities – Alyssa C Bader – Nature Microbiology

Review: Microbiome ownership for Indigenous peoples – Matilda Handsley-Davis – Nature Microbiology

Human and General Microbiome

Expanded microbiome niches of RAG-deficient patients – Ryan A Blaustein – Cell Reports Medicine

Low dietary fiber intake impairs small intestinal Th17 and intraepithelial T cell development over generations – Charlotte J Royer – Cell Reports

Iron acquisition by a commensal bacterium modifies host nutritional immunity during Salmonella infection – Luisella Spiga – Cell Host & Microbe

Microbiome profile and calprotectin levels as markers of risk of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection – Silvia Vázquez-Cuesta – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Safety and tolerability of frozen, capsulized autologous faecal microbiota transplantation. A randomized double blinded phase I clinical trial – Måns Stefansson – PloS One

Metabolism of azo food dyes by bacterial members of the human gut microbiome – Riley Elder – Anaerobe

Genetic risk score in multiple sclerosis is associated with unique gut microbiome – Noha S Elsayed – Scientific Reports

Antisense inhibition of RNA polymerase α subunit of Clostridioides difficile – Rusha Pal – Microbiology Spectrum

Review: Metabolic signature for a dysbiotic microbiome in the female genital tract: A systematic review and meta-analysis – Biban Gill – American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Review: Influence of Plant-Based Diet on the Cardiovascular System: A Narrative Review – Gurusha Jangid – Cardiology in Review

Review: Bile acid and its bidirectional interactions with gut microbiota: a review – Shuqi He – Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Animal Microbiome

Population mixing mediates the intestinal flora composition and facilitates invasiveness in a globally invasive fruit fly – Yidan Wang – Microbiome

Diet-related factors strongly shaped the gut microbiota of Japanese macaques – Wanyi Lee – American Journal of Primatology

Skin and gut microbiomes of tadpoles vary differently with host and water environment: a short-term experiment using 16S metabarcoding – Bárbara Santos – Scientific Reports

Multi-omics revealed the long-term effect of ruminal keystone bacteria and the microbial metabolome on lactation performance in adult dairy goats – Dangdang Wang – Microbiome

The multi-kingdom microbiome of the goat gastrointestinal tract – Yanhong Cao – Microbiome

Multi-breed host rumen epithelium transcriptome and microbiome associations and their relationship with beef cattle feed efficiency – P A S Fonseca – Scientific Reports

Animal Model Microbiome

Select symbionts drive high IgA levels in the mouse intestine – Shanshan Zhang – Cell Host & Microbe

Blocked conversion of Lactobacillus johnsonii derived acetate to butyrate mediates copper-induced epithelial barrier damage in a pig model – Yang Wen – Microbiome

Laboratory mice with a wild microbiota generate strong allergic immune responses – Junjie Ma – Science Immunology

Plant Microbiome

Host genetic variation drives the differentiation in the ecological role of the native Miscanthus root-associated microbiome – Niuniu Ji – Microbiome

Changes in structure and assembly of a species-rich soil natural community with contrasting nutrient availability upon establishment of a plant-beneficial Pseudomonas in the wheat rhizosphere – Daniel Garrido-Sanz – Microbiome

Microbially produced fertilizer provides rhizobacteria to hydroponic tomato roots by forming beneficial biofilms – Yuya Sato – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Terpenes modulate bacterial and fungal growth and sorghum rhizobiome communities – Ming-Yi Chou – Microbiology Spectrum 

Rhizosphere and detritusphere habitats modulate expression of soil N-cycling genes during plant development – Ella T Sieradzki – mSystems

Environmental Microbiome

The presence of benzene ring activating CoA ligases for aromatics degradation in the ANaerobic MEthanotrophic (ANME) archaea – Wei-Wei Liu – Microbiology Spectrum

Microbial biogeography of pit mud from an artificial brewing ecosystem on a large time scale: all roads lead to Rome – Jun-Lan Mei – mSystems

Stable microbial community in compacted bentonite after 5 years of exposure to natural granitic groundwater – Katja Engel – mSphere

Microbiome Analysis Tools, Techniques and Resources

Impact of Experimental Bias on Compositional Analysis of Microbiome Data – Yingtian Hu – Genes

happi: a hierarchical approach to pangenomics inference – Pauline Trinh – Genome Biology

Integrating a tailored recurrent neural network with Bayesian experimental design to optimize microbial community functions – Jaron C Thompson – PLoS Computational Biology

Review: Uncultured prokaryotic genomes in the spotlight: An examination of publicly available data from metagenomics and single-cell genomics – Koji Arikawa – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

September 25, 2023

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Highlights!

Evidence of a causal and modifiable relationship between kidney function and circulating trimethylamine N-oxide – Petros Andrikopoulos – Nature Communications

A blood-based metabolomic signature predictive of risk for pancreatic cancer – Ehsan Irajizad – Cell Reports. Medicine

Enterobacteriaceae growth promotion by intestinal acylcarnitines, a biomarker of dysbiosis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Johanna M S Lemons – Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Inducible CRISPR-targeted knockdown of human gut Bacteroides in gnotobiotic mice discloses glycan utilization strategies – Zachary W Beller – PNAS

Review: The gut microbiota and its biogeography – Giselle McCallum – Nature Reviews. Microbiology

Human and General Microbiome

The role of the gut-microbiota-brain axis via the subdiaphragmatic vagus nerve in chronic inflammatory pain and comorbid spatial working memory impairment in complete Freund’s adjuvant mice – Caibao Yue – Journal of Psychiatric Research

Disentangling the interactions between nasopharyngeal and gut microbiome and their involvement in the modulation of COVID-19 infection – Leonardo Mancabelli – Microbiology Spectrum

Changes in salivary microbiota due to gastric cancer resection and its relation to gastric fluid microbiota – Eri Komori – Scientific Reports

Metagenomic sequencing reveals altered gut microbial compositions and gene functions in patients with non-segmental vitiligo – Mei Luan – BMC Microbiology

Review: The role of the glycome in symbiotic host-microbe interactions – Rustam Aminov – Glycobiology

Review: Microbiome-targeted interventions for the control of oral-gut dysbiosis and chronic systemic inflammation – Juan Pacheco-Yanes – Trends in Molecular Medicine

Review: The link between the gut microbiome, inflammation, and Parkinson’s disease – Shiqing Nie – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Food Microbiome

The edible plant microbiome: evidence for the occurrence of fruit and vegetable bacteria in the human gut – Wisnu Adi Wicaksono – Gut Microbes

Animal Microbiome

Reducing gut microbiome-driven adipose tissue inflammation alleviates metabolic syndrome – N K Newman – Microbiome

Combined effect of a neonicotinoid insecticide and a fungicide on honeybee gut epithelium and microbiota, adult survival, colony strength and foraging preferences – Riccardo Favaro – The Science of the Total Environment

Glyphosate decreases survival, increases fecundity, and alters the microbiome of the natural predator Harmonia axyridis (ladybird beetle) – Xueke Gao – Environmental Research

Unfolding the secrets of microbiome (Symbiodiniaceae and bacteria) in cold-water coral – Sanqiang Gong – Microbiology Spectrum

Combined oral intake of short and long fructans alters the gut microbiota in food allergy model mice and contributes to food allergy prevention – Hideaki Takahashi – BMC Microbiology

Review: The pivotal roles of gut microbiota in insect plant interactions for sustainable pest management – Yuxin Zhang – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Plant Microbiome

Review: Endophytes Modulate Plant Genes: Present Status and Future Perspectives – Vivek Kumar – Current Microbiology

Environmental Microbiome

Planktonic and epilithic prokaryota community compositions in a large temperate river reflect climate change related seasonal shifts – Attila I Engloner – PloS One

Thiothrix and Sulfurovum genera dominate bacterial mats in Slovak cold sulfur springs – Lea Nosalova – Environmental Microbiome

Built Environment Microbiome

Innovative strategy for the conservation of a millennial mausoleum from biodeterioration through artificial light management – Yuanyuan Bao – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

More Microbes

In vitro and in silico evaluation of the serrapeptase effect on biofilm and amyloids of Pseudomonas aeruginosa – Georgios Katsipis – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

Comprehensive evaluation of methods for differential expression analysis of metatranscriptomics data – Hunyong Cho – Briefings in Bioinformatics

Review: Field and laboratory guidelines for reliable bioinformatic and statistical analysis of bacterial shotgun metagenomic data – Ostaizka Aizpurua – Critical Reviews in Biotechnology

September 11, 2023

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Human and General Microbiome

Obesity is the main driver of altered gut microbiome functions in the metabolically unhealthy – Jacobo de la Cuesta-Zuluaga – Gut Microbes

Elucidating the Role of the Microbiome in Ocular Diseases – Wendy Luo – The American Journal of Pathology

A binary module for microbiota-mediated regulation of γδ17 cells, hallmarked by microbiota-driven expression of programmed cell death protein 1 – Hsin-I Huang – Cell Reports

Resistant starch decreases intrahepatic triglycerides in patients with NAFLD via gut microbiome alterations – Yueqiong Ni – Cell Metabolism

Microbial signature of plaque and gut in acute coronary syndrome – Eugenia Pisano – Scientific Reports

Impact of the lipase inhibitor orlistat on the human gut microbiota – Yudai Uehira – Obesity Research & Clinical Practice

Metabolic network construction reveals probiotic-specific alterations in the metabolic activity of a synthetic small intestinal community – Jack Jansma – mSystems

Colonic phosphocholine is correlated with Candida tropicalis and promotes diarrhea and pathogen clearance – Xihong Zhou – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Differential dependence on microbiota of IL-23/IL-22-dependent gene expression between the small- and large-intestinal epithelia – Ayaka Nakatani – Genes to Cells

Identification of microbial markers associated with lung cancer based on multi-cohort 16 s rRNA analyses: A systematic review and meta-analysis – Wenjie Han – Cancer Medicine

Review: Targeting microbial quorum sensing: the next frontier to hinder bacterial driven gastrointestinal infections – Ying Su – Gut Microbes

Review: Illuminating the oral microbiome and its host interactions: recent Advancements in omics and bioinformatics technologies in the context of oral microbiome research – Jonathon L Baker – FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Review: Association between primary Sjögren’s syndrome and gut microbiota disruption: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Yue Shen – Clinical Rheumatology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Washed microbiota transplantation for Clostridioides difficile infection: a national multi-center real-world study – Xia Wu – Journal of Digestive Diseases

Lactobacillus johnsonii N6.2 phospholipids induce immature-like dendritic cells with a migratory-regulatory-like transcriptional signature – Alexandra E Cuaycal – Gut Microbes

Akkermansia muciniphila supplementation prevents cognitive impairment in sleep-deprived mice by modulating microglial engulfment of synapses – Na Li – Gut Microbes

Food Microbiome

Metagenomics and metabolomics of Toddy, an Indian fermented date palm beverage – Souvik Das – Food Research International

Animal Microbiome

Gut microbiota from patients with COVID-19 cause alterations in mice that resemble post-COVID symptoms – Viviani Mendes de Almeida – Gut Microbes

Ingestion and biodegradation of disposable surgical masks by yellow mealworms Tenebrio molitor larvae: Differences in mask layers and effects on the larval gut microbiome – Jiaming Wang – The Science of the Total Environment

Assessment of beneficial effects and identification of host adaptation-associated genes of Ligilactobacillus salivarius isolated from badgers – Yu Wang – BMC Genomics

Microbiota-mediated competition between Drosophila species – Antoine Rombaut – Microbiome

Microbial signature profiles of Penaeus vannamei larvae in low-survival hatchery tanks affected by vibriosis – Guillermo Reyes – PeerJ

Fiber deprivation and microbiome-borne curli shift gut bacterial populations and accelerate disease in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease – Kristopher J Schmit – Cell Reports

Plant Microbiome

Microbial communities associated with resin canal discoloration in mango fruit – Muhammad Umar – Letters in Applied Microbiology

Studying the microbiome of suppressive soils against vascular wilt, caused by Fusarium oxysporum in cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana) – Daniel Bautista – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Environmental Microbiome

Antarctic snow algae: unraveling the processes underlying microbial community assembly during blooms formation – Daniela F Soto – Microbiome

Understanding how various forms of phosphorus stress affect microbiome functions and boost plant disease resistance: Insights from metagenomic analysis – Jie Kang – The Science of the Total Environment

Reductive soil disinfestation and Fe amendment improve soil microbial composition and Fritillaria production – Yue Yin – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

How Benthic Sediment Microbial Communities Respond to Glyphosate and Its Metabolite: a Microcosm Experiment – Christine M Cornish – Microbial Ecology

Functional conservation of microbial communities determines composition predictability in anaerobic digestion – Qiang Lin – The ISME Journal

Microbiome Research Tools

Development of an antibody fused with an antimicrobial peptide targeting Pseudomonas aeruginosa: A new approach to prevent and treat bacterial infections – Kenneth Johnson – PLoS Pathogens

Clustering microbiome data using mixtures of logistic normal multinomial models – Yuan Fang – Scientific Reports

A new spike-in-based method for quantitative metabarcoding of soil fungi and bacteria – Miguel Camacho-Sanchez – International Microbiology

Research Highlight: Microbiome screening platform finds drugs for bugs – Katie Kingwell – Nature Reviews. Drug Discovery

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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