Negative Interplay between Biofilm Formation and Competence in the Environmental Strains of Bacillus subtilis.

abstract：:Microbial heterotopic metabolism in the ocean is fueled by a supply of essential nutrients acquired via exoenzymes catalyzing depolymerization of high-molecular-weight compounds. Although the rates of activity for a variety of exoenzymes across various marine environments are well established, the factors regulating t...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Kamalanathan M,Doyle SM,Xu C,Achberger AM,Wade TL,Schwehr K,Santschi PH,Sylvan JB,Quigg A

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:For mammals, oxalate enters the body through the diet or is endogenously produced by the liver; it is removed by microbial oxalate metabolism in the gut and/or excretion in feces or urine. Deficiencies in any one of the these pathways can lead to complications, such as calcium oxalate urinary stones. While considerabl...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Miller AW,Dale C,Dearing MD

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of mammalian microbiomes have identified strong phylogenetic effects on bacterial community composition. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) are among the most speciose mammals on the planet and the only mammal capable of true flight. We examined 1,236 16S rRNA amplicon libraries of the gut, oral, and skin micr...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Lutz HL,Jackson EW,Webala PW,Babyesiza WS,Kerbis Peterhans JC,Demos TC,Patterson BD,Gilbert JA

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal bacterial dysbiosis has been increasingly linked to ankylosing spondylitis (AS), which is a prototypic and best studied subtype of spondyloarthritis (SpA). Fungi and bacteria coexist in the human gut and interact with each other. Although they have been shown to contribute actively to health or disease, no ...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Li M,Dai B,Tang Y,Lei L,Li N,Liu C,Ge T,Zhang L,Xu Y,Hu Y,Li P,Zhang Y,Yuan J,Li X

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of ancestral traits is essential to understanding the evolution of any group. In the case of parasitic groups, this helps us understand the adaptation to this lifestyle and a particular host. Most diplomonads are parasites, but there are free-living members of the group nested among the host-associa...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Jiménez-González A,Andersson JO

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimorphic plant and human mycopathogens require a switch from the usual yeast growth to filamentous growth for host tissue penetration, and the switch is controlled by multiple signaling systems other than the central developmental pathway. Unlike these fungi, dimorphic insect mycopathogens usually grow by hyphal exte...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Zhang AX,Mouhoumed AZ,Tong SM,Ying SH,Feng MG

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a proposedly useful strategy for the treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) disorders through remediation of the patient gut microbiota. However, its therapeutic success has been variable, necessitating research to uncover mechanisms that improve patient response. Antibiotic pretr...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Oliphant K,Cochrane K,Schroeter K,Daigneault MC,Yen S,Verdu EF,Allen-Vercoe E

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Social behavior can alter the microbiome composition via transmission among social partners, but there have been few controlled experimental studies of gut microbiome transmission among social partners in primates. We collected longitudinal fecal samples from eight unrelated male-female pairs of marmoset monkeys prior...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Zhu L,Clayton JB,Suhr Van Haute MJ,Yang Q,Hassenstab HR,Mustoe AC,Knights D,Benson AK,French JA

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal microbiota and the expanded endocannabinoid (eCB) system, or endocannabinoidome (eCBome), have both been implicated in diet-induced obesity and dysmetabolism. These systems were recently suggested to interact during the development of obesity. We aimed at identifying the potential interactions between g...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Lacroix S,Pechereau F,Leblanc N,Boubertakh B,Houde A,Martin C,Flamand N,Silvestri C,Raymond F,Di Marzo V,Veilleux A

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary intake is difficult to measure reliably in humans because approaches typically rely on self-reporting, which can be incomplete and biased. In field studies of animals, DNA sequencing-based approaches such as metabarcoding have been developed to characterize diets, but such approaches have not previously been w...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Reese AT,Kartzinel TR,Petrone BL,Turnbaugh PJ,Pringle RM,David LA

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:High-nucleic-acid (HNA) and low-nucleic-acid (LNA) bacteria are two operational groups identified by flow cytometry (FCM) in aquatic systems. A number of reports have shown that HNA cell density correlates strongly with heterotrophic production, while LNA cell density does not. However, which taxa are specifically ass...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Rubbens P,Schmidt ML,Props R,Biddanda BA,Boon N,Waegeman W,Denef VJ

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil metagenomics has been touted as the "grand challenge" for metagenomics, as the high microbial diversity and spatial heterogeneity of soils make them unamenable to current assembly platforms. Here, we aimed to improve soil metagenomic sequence assembly by applying the Moleculo synthetic long-read sequencing techno...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： White RA 3rd,Bottos EM,Roy Chowdhury T,Zucker JD,Brislawn CJ,Nicora CD,Fansler SJ,Glaesemann KR,Glass K,Jansson JK

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative understanding and prediction of microbial community dynamics are an outstanding challenge. We test the hypothesis that metabolic mechanisms provide a foundation for accurate prediction of dynamics in microbial systems. In our research, metabolic models have been able to accurately predict species interact...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Chacón JM,Harcombe WR

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in sequencing technologies have enabled novel insights into microbial niche differentiation, from analyzing environmental samples to understanding human diseases and informing dietary studies. However, identifying the microbial taxa that differentiate these samples can be challenging. These issues stem from t...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Morton JT,Sanders J,Quinn RA,McDonald D,Gonzalez A,Vázquez-Baeza Y,Navas-Molina JA,Song SJ,Metcalf JL,Hyde ER,Lladser M,Dorrestein PC,Knight R

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Globally, dental caries is the most prevalent chronic oral disease and affects roughly half of all children. The aim of this report was to use metagenomic analyses to investigate the relationship between the oral microbiome and caries in preschool children. A total of 25 preschoolers, aged 3 to 5 years old with severe...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Wang Y,Wang S,Wu C,Chen X,Duan Z,Xu Q,Jiang W,Xu L,Wang T,Su L,Wang Y,Chen Y,Zhang J,Huang Y,Tong S,Zhou C,Deng S,Qin N

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between plant pathogens and root-associated microbes play an important role in determining disease outcomes. While several studies have suggested that steering these interactions may improve plant health, such approaches have remained challenging in practice. Because of low iron availability in most soils...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Gu S,Yang T,Shao Z,Wang T,Cao K,Jousset A,Friman VP,Mallon C,Mei X,Wei Z,Xu Y,Shen Q,Pommier T

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Health-associated oral Streptococcus species are promising probiotic candidates to protect against dental caries. Ammonia production through the arginine deiminase system (ADS), which can increase the pH of oral biofilms, and direct antagonism of caries-associated bacterial species are desirable properties for oral pr...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Velsko IM,Chakraborty B,Nascimento MM,Burne RA,Richards VP

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Simplified microbial communities, or "benchtop microbiomes," enable us to manage the profound complexity of microbial ecosystems. Widespread activities aiming to design and control communities result in novel resources for testing ecological theories and also for realizing new biotechnologies. There is much to be gain...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Bernstein HC

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbiome studies typically focus on characterizing the taxonomic and functional profiles of the microbes within a community. Functional profiling is generally thought to be superior to taxonomic profiling for investigating human-microbe interactions, but there are several limitations and challenges to existing appro...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Langille MGI

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:GapMind is a Web-based tool for annotating amino acid biosynthesis in bacteria and archaea (http://papers.genomics.lbl.gov/gaps). GapMind incorporates many variant pathways and 130 different reactions, and it analyzes a genome in just 15 s. To avoid error-prone transitive annotations, GapMind relies primarily on a dat...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Price MN,Deutschbauer AM,Arkin AP

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite insights gained through experimental models, the set of bacterial genes important for human infection is unclear for many of our most threatening pathogens. Klebsiella pneumoniae is a leading cause of health care-associated infections (HAIs) and commonly colonizes hospitalized patients, but the factors that de...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Martin RM,Cao J,Wu W,Zhao L,Manthei DM,Pirani A,Snitkin E,Malani PN,Rao K,Bachman MA

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite increasing acknowledgment that microorganisms underpin the healthy functioning of basically all multicellular life, few cross-disciplinary teams address the diversity and function of microbiota across organisms and ecosystems. Our newly formed consortium of junior faculty spanning fields such as ecology and ge...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Hynson NA,Frank KL,Alegado RA,Amend AS,Arif M,Bennett GM,Jani AJ,Medeiros MCI,Mileyko Y,Nelson CE,Nguyen NH,Nigro OD,Prisic S,Shin S,Takagi D,Wilson ST,Yew JY

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Classified as a biosafety level 4 (BSL4) select agent, Nipah virus (NiV) is a deadly henipavirus in the Paramyxoviridae family, with a nearly 75% mortality rate in humans, underscoring its global and animal health importance. Elucidating the process of viral particle production in host cells is imperative both for tar...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Johnston GP,Bradel-Tretheway B,Piehowski PD,Brewer HM,Lee BNR,Usher NT,Zamora JLR,Ortega V,Contreras EM,Teuton JR,Wendler JP,Matz KM,Adkins JN,Aguilar HC

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which microbes interact in communities remain poorly understood. Here, we interrogated specific interactions between photoautotrophic and heterotrophic members of a model consortium to infer mechanisms that mediate metabolic coupling and acclimation to partnership. This binary consortium was composed...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Bernstein HC,McClure RS,Thiel V,Sadler NC,Kim YM,Chrisler WB,Hill EA,Bryant DA,Romine MF,Jansson JK,Fredrickson JK,Beliaev AS

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:It is important to expedite our understanding of antibiotic resistance to address the increasing numbers of fatalities and environmental pollution due to the emergence of antibiotic resistance and multidrug-resistant strains. Here, we combined the CRISPR-enabled trackable genome engineering (CREATE) technology and tra...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Chen C,Choudhury A,Zhang S,Garst AD,Song X,Liu X,Chen T,Gill RT,Wang Z

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing rates of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection are one of the most pressing contemporary global health concerns. The ESKAPE pathogens (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species) have been identified as the...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Brooks LE,Ul-Hasan S,Chan BK,Sistrom MJ

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial therapies against cystic fibrosis (CF) lung infections are largely aimed at the traditional, well-studied CF pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cepacia complex, despite the fact that the CF lung harbors a complex and dynamic polymicrobial community. A clinical focus on the dominant...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Khanolkar RA,Clark ST,Wang PW,Hwang DM,Yau YCW,Waters VJ,Guttman DS

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbiology, like many areas of life science research, is increasingly data-intensive. As such, bioinformatics and data science skills have become essential to leverage microbiome sequencing data for discovery. Short intensive courses have sprung up as formal computational training opportunities at individual institu...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Taroni JN

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:As the most ancient metazoan, sponges have established close relationships with particular microbial symbionts. However, the characteristics and physiology of thioautotrophic symbionts in deep-sea sponges are largely unknown. Using a tailored "differential coverage binning" method on 22-Gb metagenomic sequences, we re...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Tian RM,Zhang W,Cai L,Wong YH,Ding W,Qian PY

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary production by Prochlorococcus, the smallest known free-living photosynthetic organism in terms of both physical and genomic size, is thought to have a significant role in global carbon cycles. Despite its small size and low growth rate, Prochlorococcus numerically dominates the phytoplankton community in the n...

journal_title：mSystems

authors： Szul MJ,Dearth SP,Campagna SR,Zinser ER

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00