Tag Archives: probiotics

August 8, 2024

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Human respiratory, skin, and gut microbiome

Nurturing futures through the maternal microbiome – Roberta Pala & Katherine Kenny – Sociology of Health & Illness

The skin microbiota of preterm infants and impact of diaper change frequency – Noelle E. Younge et al – PLOS One

Vitamin A carotenoids, but not retinoids, mediate the impact of a healthy diet on gut microbial diversity – Ana M. Valdes et al – BMC Medicine

Gut microbial composition is altered in sarcopenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical studies – Xiaohong Mai et al – PLOS One

Associations of upper respiratory mucosa microbiota with Rheumatoid arthritis, autoantibodies, and disease activity – Young Bin Joo et al – PLOS One

Effect of β-lactam antibiotics on the gut microbiota of term neonates – Hongdan Gu et al – BMC Annals of Clinical Microbiology & Antimicrobials

Clinical efficacy of a multilamellar cream on skin physiology and microbiome in an epidermal stress model: A controlled double-blinded study – Joachim W Fluhr et al – Int. Journal of Cosmetic Science

Animal experiments

Mouse adaptation of human inflammatory bowel diseases microbiota enhances colonization efficiency and alters microbiome aggressiveness depending on the recipient colonic inflammatory environment – Simon M. Gray et al – BMC Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Gut microbiota composition of the isopod Ligia in South Korea exposed to expanded polystyrene pollution – Young-Mi Lee et al – PLOS One

Effects of a supplemented diet containing 7 probiotic strains (Honeybeeotic) on honeybee physiology and immune response: analysis of hemolymph cytology, phenoloxidase activity, and gut microbiome – Patrizia Robino et al – BMC Biological Research

Survey of antimicrobial and probiotic use practices in wildlife rehabilitation in the United States – Elizabeth A. Miller et al – PLOS One

The impact of management on the fecal microbiome of endangered greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in a zoo-based conservation program – Emma Vaasjo et al – Conservation Physiology

Water & extremophile microbiome

Microdiversity in marine pelagic ammonia-oxidizing archaeal populations in a Mediterranean long-read metagenome – Pablo Suárez-Moo et al – Environmental Microbiology

Production of structurally diverse sphingolipids by anaerobic marine bacteria in the euxinic Black Sea water column – Su Ding et al – ISME Journal

Plant, root & soil microbiome

Characterization of fungal microbiome structure in leaf litter compost through metagenomic profiling for harnessing the bio-organic fertilizer potential – Sophayo Mahongnao et al – 3Biotech

Plant species influences the composition of root system microbiome and its antibiotic resistance profile in a constructed wetland receiving primary treated wastewater – Valentina Riva et al – Frontiers in Microbiology

DNA stable isotope probing reveals the impact of trophic interactions on bioaugmentation of soils with different pollution histories – Esteban E. Nieto et al – BMC Microbiome

Seed endophytes and rhizosphere microbiome of Imperata cylindrica, a pioneer plant of abandoned mine lands – Wenqin Mao et al – Frontiers in Microbiology

Temperature-dependent trophic associations modulate soil bacterial communities along latitudinal gradients – Xing Huang et al – ISME Journal.

Microbial ecology

[PREPRINT] Models of microbiome evolution incorporating host resource provisioning – Yao Xiao et al – bioRxiv

Beneficial microbes & compounds

Combining Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis and human milk oligosaccharides synergistically increases short chain fatty acid production ex vivo – Florac De Bruyn et al – Nature Communications Biology

July 24, 2024

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Human microbiome

Gut virome-wide association analysis identifies cross-population viral signatures for inflammatory bowel disease – Xiangge Tian et al – BMC Microbiome

The Role of Gut Microbiota in the Neuroprotective Effects of Selenium in Alzheimer’s Disease – Anatoly V. Skalny et al – Molecular Neurobiology

[REVIEW] The oral–gut microbiome axis in health and disease – Benoit J. Kunath – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Enhancing gut microbiota and microbial function with inulin supplementation in children with obesity – Chonnikant Visuthranukul et al – International Journal of Obesity

Core antibiotic resistance genes mediate gut microbiota to intervene in the treatment of major depressive disorder – Zaiquan Dong et al – Journal of Affective Disorders

Temporal dynamics and species-level complexity of Prevotella spp. in the human gut microbiota: implications for enterotypes and health – Na Han et al – Frontiers in Microbiology

Skin locations inference and body fluid identification from skin microbial patterns for forensic applications – Litao Huang et al – Forensic Science International

Animal experiments

Improving insulin resistance by sulforaphane via activating the Bacteroides and Lactobacillus SCFAs–GPR–GLP1 signal axis – Sicong Tian et al – Food & Function

Gastroprotective and microbiome-modulating effects of ubiquinol in rats with radiation-induced enteropathy – Walaa A. Eraqi et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Methanogenic patterns in the gut microbiome are associated with survival in a population of feral horses – Mason R. Stothart et al – Nature Communications

Viral Communities Suppress the Earthworm Gut Antibiotic Resistome by Lysing Bacteria on a National Scale – Shuai Du et al – Environmental Science & Technology

Modulation of gut microbiota composition and predicted metabolic capacity after nutritional programming with a plant-rich diet in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): insights across developmental stages – Marwa Mamdouh Tawfik et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Altitude-dependent agro-ecologies impact the microbiome diversity of scavenging indigenous chicken in Ethiopia – Laura Glendinning et al – BMC Microbiome

Water & extremophile microbiome

Genomic representativeness and chimerism in large collections of SAGs and MAGs of marine prokaryoplankton – Tianyi Chang et al – BMC Microbiome

Time-series metagenomics reveals changing protistan ecology of a temperate dimictic lake – Arianna I. Krinos et al – BMC Microbiome

Built environment microbiome

[PREPRINT] Utilizing the biosimulator to analyze the environmental microbiome within the intensive care units of a hospital – Sunil Thomas et al – ResearchSquare

Distributions, interactions, and dynamics of prokaryotes and phages in a hybrid biological wastewater treatment system – Dou Wang et al – BMC Microbiome

Plant, root, & soil microbiome

Unraveling the habitat preferences, ecological drivers, potential hosts, and auxiliary metabolism of soil giant viruses across China – Jie-Liang Liang et al – BMC Microbiome

Bioinformatics tools

MIDASim: a fast and simple simulator for realistic microbiome data – Mengyu He et al – BMC Microbiome

June 19, 2024

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Oral and respiratory microbiota

Safety, Feasibility, and Advantages of Oral Microbiota Transplantation: The First Clinical Case – Oleg V. Goloschapov – Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Oral microbial dysbiosis in patients with oral cavity cancers – Ozge Unlu – Clinical Oral Investigations

Nasal cathelicidin is expressed in early life and is increased during mild, but not severe respiratory syncytial virus infection – Sofia Sintoris – Nature Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Tissue-resident bacteria in metabolic diseases: emerging evidence and challenges – Lucas Masier – Nature Metabolism

Faecal microbiota of schoolchildren is associated with nutritional status and markers of inflammation: a double-blinded cluster-randomized controlled trial using multi-micronutrient fortified rice – Yohannes Seyoum – Nature Communications

Beneficial microbes and compounds

Short-chain fatty acid valerate reduces voluntary alcohol intake in male mice – Suresh C. Bokoliya – BMC Microbiome

Sleep promoting and omics exploration on probiotics fermented Gastrodia elata Blume – Chao-Qi Zhang – NPJ Science of Food

Animal microbiome

Metagenomic approach revealed the mobility and co-occurrence of antibiotic resistomes between non-intensive aquaculture environment and human – Li Tian – BMC Microbiome

Water and extremophile microbiome

Bacterial community and cyanotoxin gene distribution of the Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria, Kenya – Katelyn M. Brown – Environmental Microbiology

Genome-wide screen of genetic determinants that govern Escherichia coli growth and persistence in lake water – Nataliya Teteneva – ISME Journal

Plant, root, and soil microbiomes

Root-associated Streptomyces produce galbonolides to modulate plant immunity and promote rhizosphere colonization – Clément Nicolle – ISME Journal

Organic fertilization co-selects genetically linked antibiotic and metal(loid) resistance genes in global soil microbiome – Zi-Teng Liu – Nature Communications

Conceptualizing soil fauna effects on labile and stabilized soil organic matter – Gerrit Angst – Nature Communications

Fungi

The first ITS1 profiling of honey samples from the Southeast Asian region Lombok, Bali and Banggi Island – Saeed Ullah – Nature Scientific Reports

Archaea

Asgard archaeal selenoproteome reveals a roadmap for the archaea-to-eukaryote transition of selenocysteine incorporation machinery – Biyan Huang – ISME Journal

Microbial Ecology

Strain tracking in complex microbiomes using synteny analysis reveals per-species modes of evolution – Hagay Enav – Nature Biotechnology

Methods

High-throughput single-cell transcriptomics of bacteria using combinatorial barcoding – Karl D. Gaisser – Nature Protocols

Commentary and opinions

SeqCode in the golden age of prokaryotic systematics – Diego Javier Jiménez – ISME Journal

Digestive Disease Week 2024 – Katrina Ray – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Barriers and enablers to the effective implementation of omics research in low- and middle-income countries – Jacus S. Nacis – Nature Biotechnology

June 12, 2024

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Human gut microbiome

Persistence and Sexual Dimorphism of Gut Dysbiosis and Pathobiome after Sepsis and Trauma – Jennifer A. Munley – Annals of Surgery

[REVIEW] COVID-19 influenced gut dysbiosis, post-acute sequelae, immune regulation, and therapeutic regimens – Sterlin T. Raj – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Novel probiotic preparation with in vivo gluten-degrading activity and potential modulatory effects on the gut microbiota – Olga Nikoloudaki – Microbiology Spectrum

Adaptation to tolerate high doses of arabinoxylan is associated with fecal levels of Bifidobacterium longum – Edward C. Deehan – Gut Microbes

Vaginal microbiome

Co-evolution of vaginal microbiome and cervical cancer – Menglu Hu – BMC Journal of Translational Medicine

Animal experiments

Establishment of a novel obesity mouse model: the induction of intestinal microbiota dysbiosis – Qiuju Li – Scientific Reports

Bacteroides uniformis CECT 7771 requires adaptive immunity to improve glucose tolerance but not to prevent body weight gain in diet-induced obese mice – Marina Romaní-Pérez – BMC MIcrobiome

Animal microbiome

Oral microbiome sequencing revealed the enrichment of Fusobacterium sp., Porphyromonas sp., Campylobacter sp., and Neisseria sp. on the oral malignant fibroma surface of giant panda – Xiaowan Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Effect of microplastics pollution on the gut microbiome of anecic and endogeic earthworms – Christina Papazlatani – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Evolutionary history of tyrosine-supplementing endosymbionts in pollen-feeding beetles – Jürgen C Wierz – ISME Journal

Compendium of 5810 genomes of sheep and goat gut microbiomes provides new insights into the glycan and mucin utilization – Ke Zhang – BMC MIcrobiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Fungal biomass and ectomycorrhizal community assessment of phosphorus responsive Pinus taeda plantations – Jacob Hackman – Frontiers in Fungal Biology

Soil conditioner improves soil properties, regulates microbial communities, and increases yield and quality of Uncaria rhynchophylla – Qian Liu – Scientific Reports

Genetic control of rhizosphere microbiome of the cotton plants under field conditions – Feng Wei – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Genomic insights into redox-driven microbial processes for carbon decomposition in thawing Arctic soils and permafrost – Yaoming Li – mSphere

Sewage Sludge Promotes the Accumulation of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Tomato Xylem – Wen-Jing Li – Environmental Science and Technology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Plastic and terrestrial organic matter degradation by the humic lake microbiome continues throughout the seasons – Jussi S. Vesamäki – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Coral microbiomes are structured by environmental gradients in deep waters – Samuel A. Vohsen – BMC Environmental Microbiome

June 5, 2024

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Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiome and inflammation among athletes in wheelchair in a crossover randomized pilot trial of probiotic and prebiotic interventions – Ezra Valido – Nature Scientific Reports

A microbiota-directed complementary food intervention in 12-18-month-old Bangladeshi children improves linear growth – Ishita Mostafa – eBioMedicine

Gut microbiome shifts in people with type 1 diabetes are associated with glycaemic control: an INNODIA study – Tommi Vatanen – Diabetologia

Association of methyl donor nutrients dietary intake and sleep disorders in the elderly revealed by the intestinal microbiome – Qianqian Chen – Food & Function

[REVIEW] The human gut microbiome and aging – Evan Bradley & John Haran – Gut Microbes

[REVIEW] Nurturing gut health: role of m6A RNA methylation in upholding the intestinal barrier – Shuaijie Wang – Cell Death Discovery

Persistent dysbiosis of duodenal microbiota in patients with controlled pediatric Crohn’s disease after resolution of inflammation – Rebecca Pierce – Nature Scientific Reports

Dysfunctional circadian clock accelerates cancer metastasis by intestinal microbiota triggering accumulation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells – Jing-Lin Liu – Cell Metabolism

Human respiratory microbiome

Longitudinal multicompartment characterization of host-microbiota interactions in patients with acute respiratory failure – Georgios D. Kitsios – Nature Communications

Lack of correlation between in vitro and within patient measures of P. aeruginosa biofilms in cystic fibrosis – Amanda J Morris – Cell Heliyon

Human oral microbiome

The oral microbiome and oral and upper gastrointestinal diseases – Sifan Liu – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Comprehensive analysis of the oral microbiota and metabolome change in patients of burning mouth syndrome with psychiatric symptoms – Shihong Luo – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Candida albicans natural diversity: a resource to dissect fungal commensalism and pathogenesis – Elena Lindemann-Perez – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Animal experiments

Prevotella copri transplantation promotes neurorehabilitation in a mouse model of traumatic brain injury – Nina Gu – Journal of Neuroinflammation

Spatial recovery of the murine gut microbiota after antibiotics perturbation – M. Taguer – mBio

Water and extremophile microbiome

Global biogeography of microbes driving ocean ecological status under climate change – Zhenyan Zhang – Nature Communications

Macroalgal eukaryotic microbiome composition indicates novel phylogenetic diversity and broad host spectrum of oomycete pathogens – Natalia Timanikova – Environmental Microbiology

Viruses & phages

Personalized bacteriophage therapy outcomes for 100 consecutive cases: a multicentre, multinational, retrospective observational study – Jean-Paul Pirnay – Nature Microbiology

Built environment microbiome

Environmental and structural factors associated with bacterial diversity in household dust across the Arizona-Sonora border – Lauren D. Benton – Nature Scientific Reports

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Tibetan Plateau grasslands might increase sequestration of microbial necromass carbon under future warming – Qinwei Zhang – Nature Communications Biology

Assembly of Endophytic Communities of Setaria viridis Plants when Grown in Different Soils and Derived from Different Seeds – Carolina Escobar Rodríguez – Phytobiomes

[PREPRINT] Hybrid xyloglucan utilisation loci are prevalent among plant-associated Bacteroidota – Hannah Martin – bioRxiv

Microbial ecology

Cooperative growth in microbial communities is a driver of multistability – William Lopes – Nature Communications

Bioenergetic mapping of ‘healthy microbiomes’ via compound processing potential imprinted in gut and soil metagenomes – Craig Liddicoat – Science of the Total Environment

Temporal dynamics of fecal microbiota community succession in broiler chickens, calves, and piglets under aerobic exposure – Paul Oladele – Microbiology Spectrum

June 2, 2024

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Human Microbiome

Commensal bacterial outer membrane protein A induces interleukin-22 production – Yanling Wang – Cell Reports

Mucus production, host-microbiome interactions, hormone sensitivity, and innate immune responses modeled in human cervix chips – Zohreh Izadifar – Nature Communications

Gut microbiome and symptoms in females with irritable bowel syndrome: a cross-sectional analysis – K J Kamp – Beneficial Microbes

Gut microbiome in the Graves’ disease: Comparison before and after anti-thyroid drug treatment – Chaiho Jeong – PloS ONE

Guild-level signature of gut microbiome for diabetic kidney disease – Shasha Tang – mBio

Gut microbiome correlates of recurrent urinary tract infection: a longitudinal, multi-center study – JooHee Choi – EClinicalMedicine

Gut microbiota-derived butyrate induces epigenetic and metabolic reprogramming in myeloid-derived suppressor cells to alleviate primary biliary cholangitis – Rui Wang – Gastroenterology

Review: Gut microbiota research nexus: One Health relationship between human, animal, and environmental resistomes – Yuhao Fu – mLife

Review: Exploring the Impact of Airway Microbiome on Asthma Morbidity: A Focus on the Constructing a ‘Eubiosis Reinstatement Therapy’ for Asthma-CURE Project – Paraskevi Xepapadaki – Pulmonary Therapy

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

A Gram-negative-selective antibiotic that spares the gut microbiome – Kristen A Muñoz – Nature

Bifidobacterium adolescentis-derived hypaphorine alleviates acetaminophen hepatotoxicity by promoting hepatic Cry1 expression – Ping Qin – Journal of Translational Medicine

Chrysanthemum morifolium attenuates metabolic and alcohol-associated liver disease via gut microbiota and PPARα/γ activation – Dan Liu – Phytomedicine

Animal Model Microbiome

Transgenerational effects of early life stress on the fecal microbiota in mice – Nize Otaru – Communications Biology

Metagenomics and metaproteomics alterations are associated with kidney disease in opisthorchiasis hamsters fed a high-fat and high-fructose diet – Keerapach Tunbenjasiri – PloS ONE

Animal Microbiome

Spatial profiles of the bacterial microbiota throughout the gastrointestinal tract of dairy goats – Qingyong Hu – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Interaction between methanotrophy and gastrointestinal nematodes infection on the rumen microbiome of lambs – Patricia Spoto Corrêa – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Antibiotic-altered gut microbiota explain host memory plasticity and disrupt pace-of-life covariation for an aquatic snail – Gabrielle L Davidson – The ISME Journal

Food Microbiome

Metagenome-assembled genomes from microbiomes fermenting dairy coproducts – Kevin A Walters – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Environmental Microbiome

Global biogeography of microbes driving ocean ecological status under climate change – Zhenyan Zhang – Nature Communications

Engineering natural microbiomes toward enhanced bioremediation by microbiome modeling – Zhepu Ruan – Nature Communications

Interpretable machine learning decodes soil microbiome’s response to drought stress – Michelle Hagen – Environmental Microbiome

Macroalgal eukaryotic microbiome composition indicates novel phylogenetic diversity and broad host spectrum of oomycete pathogens – Natalia Timanikova – Environmental Microbiology

Microbiome Analysis

Combining compositional data sets introduces error in covariance network reconstruction – James D Brunner – ISME Communications

How to Obtain and Compare Metagenome-Assembled Genomes – Fabio Beltrame Sanchez – Methods in Molecular Biology

A strategy for differential abundance analysis of sparse microbiome data with group-wise structured zeros – Fentaw Abegaz – Scientific Reports

Review: A review of machine learning methods for cancer characterization from microbiome data – Marco Teixeira – NPJ Precision Oncology

May 15, 2024

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Human gut microbiome

A shared group of bacterial taxa in the duodenal microbiota of undernourished Pakistani children with environmental enteric dysfunction – Najeeha T Iqbal – mSphere

Gut microbiota, blood metabolites, and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in US Hispanics/Latinos – Kai Luo – BMC Microbiome

Co-localization of antibiotic resistance genes is widespread in the infant gut microbiome and associates with an immature gut microbial composition – Xuanji Li – BMC Microbiome

Impact of the gut microbiome composition on social decision-making – Marie Falkenstein – PNAS Nexus

Veillonella and Bacteroides are associated with gestational diabetes mellitus exposure and gut microbiota immaturity – Fernanda Valdez-Palomares – PLOS One

[REVIEW] The neonatal gut microbiome and global health – Pinaki Panigrahi – Gut Microbes

Functional characterization of helminth-associated Clostridiales reveals covariates of Treg differentiation – Shusan Sargisan – BMC Microbiome

Vaginal microbiome

16S rRNA female reproductive microbiome investigation reveals Dalfopristin, Clorgyline, and Hydrazine as potential therapeutics for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis – Sudeepti Kulshrestha – Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Fecal transplant from vaginally seeded infants decreases intraabdominal adiposity in mice – Sivaranjani Namasivayam – Gut Microbes

Animal microbiome

Viruses contribute to microbial diversification in the rumen ecosystem and are associated with certain animal production traits – Ming Yan & Zhongtang Yu – BMC Microbiome

Quantitative microbiome profiling of honey bee (Apis mellifera) guts is predictive of winter colony loss in northern Virginia (USA) – David B. Carlini – Nature Scientific Reports

How do phytophagous insects affect phyllosphere fungi? Tracking fungi from milkweed to monarch caterpillar frass reveals communities dominated by fungal yeast – Ryoko Oono – Environmental Microbiology

Beneficial microbes & compounds

The gut lactic acid bacteria metabolite, 10-oxo- cis-6, trans-11-octadecadienoic acid, suppresses inflammatory bowel disease in mice by modulating the NRF2 pathway and GPCR-signaling – Miki Ando – Frotiers in Immunology

Effect of weight loss program using prebiotics and probiotics on body composition, physique, and metabolic products: longitudinal intervention study – Nayera E Hassan – Nature Scientific Reports

Origin of the neonatal gut microbiota and probiotic intervention: a randomized controlled trial – Zhe Li – Frontiers in Nutrition

Effectiveness of probiotic- and fish oil-loaded water-in-oil-in-water (W1/O/W2) emulsions at alleviating ulcerative colitis – Qingzhao Gu – Food & Function

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Competition mode and soil nutrient status shape the role of soil microbes in the diversity–invasibility relationship – Haokun Li – Ecology and Evolution

Dynamics and drivers of fungal communities in a multipartite ant-plant association – Veronica Barrajon-Santos – BMC Biology

Quorum sensing related activities of beneficial and pathogenic bacteria have important implications for plant and human health – Anton Hartmann – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Impacts of vegetable processing and cheese making effluent on soil microbial functional diversity, community structure, and denitrification potential of land treatment systems – Geoffrey S. Siemering – Water Environment Research

Role of Bacillus subtilis exopolymeric genes in modulating rhizosphere microbiome assembly – Caroline Sayuri Nishisaka – BMC Environmental Microbiome

The predominant lactic acid bacteria and yeasts involved in the spontaneous fermentation of millet during the production of the traditional porridge Hausa koko in Ghana – Amy Atter – BMC Microbiology

Bioinformatics & Tools

Multi-class boosting for the analysis of multiple incomplete views on microbiome data – Andrea Simeon – BMC Bioinformatics

PrimerEvalPy: a tool for in-silico evaluation of primers for targeting the microbiome – Lara Vázquez-González – BMC Bioinformatics

Readsynth: short-read simulation for consideration of composition-biases in reduced metagenome sequencing approaches – Ryan Kuster – BMC Bioinformatics

May 12, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

Preservation of conjugated primary bile acids by oxygenation of the small intestinal microbiota in vitro – Jenni Firrman – mBio

HIV rebound in HIV controllers is associated with a specific fecal microbiome profile – Yanhui Cai – European Journal of Immunology

Comparative analysis of the tumor microbiome, molecular profiles, and immune cell abundances by HPV status in mucosal head and neck cancers and their impact on survival – Rituraj Upadhyay – Cancer Biology & Therapy

Metatranscriptome and resistome of the endodontic microbiome – Ericka T Pinheiro – Journal of Endodontics

Microbiome of periodontitis and peri-implantitis before and after therapy: Long-read 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing – Pei-Shiuan Yu – Journal of Periodontal Research

Review: Akkermansia muciniphila: a deworming partner independent of type 2 immunity – Jiaqi Wang – Gut Microbes

Review: The gut microbiome in alcohol use disorder and alcohol-associated liver disease: A systematic review of clinical studies – Erica N Grodin – Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental Research

Review: Bile acid-microbiota crosstalk in hepatitis B virus infection – Jiaxin Wang – Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Review: Ecological insights into hematopoiesis regulation: unraveling the influence of gut microbiota – Kaiwen Zheng – Gut Microbes

Review: Interactions between host and gut microbiota in gestational diabetes mellitus and their impacts on offspring – Shuxian Wang – BMC Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Review: Mechanisms of microbiota modulation: Implications for health, disease, and therapeutic interventions – Okechukwu Paul-Chima Ugwu – Medicine

Lactobacillus paracasei Jlus66 relieves DSS-induced ulcerative colitis in a murine model by maintaining intestinal barrier integrity, inhibiting inflammation, and improving intestinal microbiota structure – Fazheng Yu – European Journal of Nutrition

Conjugated linoleic acid metabolite impact in colorectal cancer: a potential microbiome-based precision nutrition approach – Adriana González – Nutrition Reviews

Microbiome in Animal Models

Aging amplifies a gut microbiota immunogenic signature linked to heightened inflammation – Maria Elisa Caetano-Silva – Aging Cell

Bacteroidota inhibit microglia clearance of amyloid-beta and promote plaque deposition in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models – Caroline Wasén – Nature Communications

Prevotella copri promotes vascular calcification via lipopolysaccharide through activation of NF-κB signaling pathway – Qing-Yun Hao – Gut Microbes

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Temporal dynamics of fecal microbiota community succession in broiler chickens, calves, and piglets under aerobic exposure – Paul Oladele – Microbiology Spectrum

Characterizing the blood microbiota in healthy and febrile domestic cats via 16s rRNA sequencing – Liam Kitson – Scientific Reports

Plant/Rhizosphere Microbiome

Metagenomic sequencing and reconstruction of 82 microbial genomes from barley seed communities – Kalonji A Tshisekedi – Scientific Data

Modulation of rhizosphere microbial community and metabolites by bio-functionalized nanoscale silicon oxide alleviates cadmium-induced phytotoxicity in bayberry plants – Temoor Ahmed – The Science of the Total Environment

Phyllosphere fungal diversity generates pervasive nonadditive effects on plant performance – Brianna K Almeida – The New Phytologist

Environmental Microbiome

Deciphering the functional and structural complexity of the Solar Lake flat mat microbial benthic communities – Rehab Z Abdallah – mSystems

Microbiome processing of organic nitrogen input supports growth and cyanotoxin production of Microcystis aeruginosa cultures – Wei Li – The ISME Journal

Genomic fingerprints of the world’s soil ecosystems – Emily B Graham – mSystems

Review: Insights into cyanobacterial blooms through the lens of omics – Ve Van Le – The Science of the Total Environment

Microbiome Analysis

fastCCLasso: a fast and efficient algorithm for estimating correlation matrix from compositional data – Shen Zhang – Bioinformatics

Review: A Standard Pipeline for Analyzing the Endometrial Microbiome – Mychelle de Medeiros Garcia Torres – Reproductive Sciences 

April 30, 2024

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Human microbiome

Safety and efficacy of faecal microbiota transplantation in patients with mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease (GUT-PARFECT): a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised, phase 2 trial – Anout Bruggeman – eClinicalMedicine

Implications of intestinal microecology and immune function alterations for immunotherapy outcomes in advanced unresectable lung adenocarcinoma – Shuang He – Clinical Respiratory Journal

Recipient microbiome-related features predicting metabolic improvement following fecal microbiota transplantation in adults with severe obesity and metabolic syndrome: a secondary analysis of a phase 2 clinical trial – Zhengxiao Zhang – Gut Microbes

Gut microbiome composition and metabolic activity in women with diverticulitis – Wenjie Ma – Nature Communications

Microbiome confounders and quantitative profiling challenge predicted microbial targets in colorectal cancer development – Raúl Y. Tito – Nature Medicine

Prediction and causal inference of hyperuricemia using gut microbiota – Yuna Miyajima – Scientific Reports

Early-life gut microbiota associates with allergic rhinitis during 13-year follow-up in a Finnish probiotic intervention cohort – Sampo Kallio – Microbiology Spectrum

Food microbiome

The detailed analysis of the microbiome and resistome of artisanal blue-veined cheeses provides evidence on sources and patterns of succession linked with quality and safety traits – Elena A. Alexa – BMC Microbiome

Animal experiments

Sodium Propionate Oral Supplementation ameliorates Depressive-Like Behavior through Gut Microbiome and Histone 3 Epigenetic Regulation – Luiza Marques Prates Behrens – Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Colon impairments and inflammation driven by an altered gut microbiota leads to social behavior deficits rescued by hyaluronic acid and celecoxib – Oryan Agronyoni – BMC Medicine

Dissecting the respective roles of microbiota and host genetics in the susceptibility of Card9−/− mice to colitis – C. Danne – BMC Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Synergistic resistance of honeybee (Apis mellifera) and their gut microorganisms to fluvalinate stress – Jianhui Liu – Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology

Determinants of microbiome composition: Insights from free-ranging hybrid zebras (Equus quagga × grevyi) – Joel O. Abraham – Molecular Ecology

Water & extremophile microbiomes

Phytoplankton-derived polysaccharides and microbial peptidoglycans are key nutrients for deep-sea microbes in the Mariana Trench – Yan-Ru Dang – BMC Microbiome

Rhizospheric bacteria from the Atacama Desert hyper-arid core: cultured community dynamics and plant growth promotion – Juan Castro-Severyn – Microbiology Spectrum

Tools & techniques

Variability and bias in microbiome metagenomic sequencing: an interlaboratory study comparing experimental protocols – Samuel P. Forry – Scientific Reports

Nanopore and Illumina sequencing reveal different viral populations from human gut samples – Ryan Cook – Microbial Genomics

April 28, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

Genome Analysis of Epsilon CrAss-like Phages – Igor V Babkin – Viruses

Cervical microbiota dysbiosis associated with high-risk Human Papillomavirus infection – Natalia Zeber-Lubecka – PloS ONE

Association of the trimethylamine N-oxide with cardiovascular risk and vascular alterations in middle-aged patients with risk factors for cardiovascular diseases – Natalia Spasova – Bioscience Reports

Insights into microorganisms, associated factors, and the oral microbiome in infective endocarditis patients – Ayden Ismail – Frontiers in Oral Health

Alterations in the fecal microbiota of methamphetamine users with bad sleep quality during abstinence – Zijing Deng – BMC Psychiatry

Gut microbiome predicts cognitive function and depressive symptoms in late life – A Kolobaric – Molecular Psychiatry

Microbial signatures in human periodontal disease: a metatranscriptome meta-analysis – Armen Ovsepian – Frontiers in Microbiology

Gut microbiome composition reveals the distinctiveness between the Bengali people and the Indigenous ethnicities in Bangladesh – Ishtiaque Ahammad – Communications Biology

Comparative analysis of endometrial, vaginal, and gut microbiota in patients with and without adenomyosis – Marta Valdés-Bango – Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Causal effect of gut microbiota and diabetic nephropathy: a Mendelian randomization study – Ganyuan He – Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome

The characteristics of microbiome in the upper respiratory tract of COVID-19 patients – Xilong Zhang – BMC Microbiology

Review: Interplay of human gastrointestinal microbiota metabolites: Short-chain fatty acids and their correlation with Parkinson’s disease – Jiaji Liu – Medicine

Review: Natural products from the human microbiome: an emergent frontier in organic synthesis and drug discovery – Saumitra Sengupta – Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Review: Oligella spp.: A systematic review on an uncommon urinary pathogen – Eric Farfour – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Review: The potential importance of the built-environment microbiome and its impact on human health – Thomas C G Bosch – PNAS

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Vitamin D regulates microbiome-dependent cancer immunity – Evangelos Giampazolias – Science 

HMOs Impact the Gut Microbiome of Children and Adults Starting from Low Predicted Daily Doses – Danica Bajic – Metabolites

Effects of microbiome-based interventions on neurodegenerative diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Zara Siu Wa Chui – Scientific Reports

A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial on Lactobacillus-containing cultured milk drink as adjuvant therapy for depression in irritable bowel syndrome – Marlynna Sarkawi – Scientific Reports

Animal Microbiome

Review: Understanding the Diversity and Roles of the Ruminal Microbiome – Gi Beom Keum – Journal of Microbiology

Plant Microbiome

Impacts of continuous cropping on the rhizospheric and endospheric microbial communities and root exudates of Astragalus mongholicus – Qin Zhou – BMC Plant Biology

Comparative analysis of root associated microbes in tropical cultivated and weedy rice (Oryza spp.) and temperate cultivated rice – Vani Juliyanti – Scientific Reports

Identifying causes and consequences of rhizosphere microbiome heritability – Maggie R Wagner – PLoS Biology

Environmental Microbiome

Acidithiobacillia class members originating at sites within the Pacific Ring of Fire and other tectonically active locations and description of the novel genus ‘Igneacidithiobacillus’ – Dilanaz Arisan – Frontiers in Microbiology

Exploring changes in microplastic-associated bacterial communities with time, location, and polymer type in Liusha Bay, China – Ting Wang – Marine Environmental Research

Genomic and environmental controls on Castellaniella biogeography in an anthropogenically disturbed subsurface – Jennifer L Goff – Environmental Microbiome

Phytoplankton-derived polysaccharides and microbial peptidoglycans are key nutrients for deep-sea microbes in the Mariana Trench – Yan-Ru Dang – Microbiome

Microbiome Analysis

Microbiome compositional data analysis for survival studies – Meritxell Pujolassos – NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics

Other

Periportal macrophages protect against commensal-driven liver inflammation – Yu Miyamoto – Nature

A case study to engage students in the research design and ethics of high-throughput metagenomics – Courtney Carroll Alexander – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education