Challenges in exploring and manipulating the human skin microbiome

M Boxberger, V Cenizo, N Cassir, B La Scola - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
The skin is the exterior interface of the human body with the environment. Despite its harsh
physical landscape, the skin is colonized by diverse commensal microbes. In this review, we …

Sleep, circadian rhythm, and gut microbiota

BA Matenchuk, PJ Mandhane, AL Kozyrskyj - Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
From asthma and heart disease to diabetes and obesity, the human microbiome plays a role
in the pathogenesis of each chronic health condition plaguing today's society. Recent work …

Growing unculturable bacteria

EJ Stewart - Journal of bacteriology, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
The bacteria that can be grown in the laboratory are only a small fraction of the total diversity
that exists in nature. At all levels of bacterial phylogeny, uncultured clades that do not grow …

Bacterial biogeography of the human digestive tract

JC Stearns, MDJ Lynch, DB Senadheera… - Scientific reports, 2011 - nature.com
We present bacterial biogeography as sampled from the human gastrointestinal tract of four
healthy subjects. This study generated> 32 million paired-end sequences of bacterial 16S …

Small genomes and sparse metabolisms of sediment-associated bacteria from four candidate phyla

RS Kantor, KC Wrighton, KM Handley, I Sharon… - MBio, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cultivation-independent surveys of microbial diversity have revealed many bacterial phyla
that lack cultured representatives. These lineages, referred to as candidate phyla, have …

The microbiome and inflammatory bowel disease: is there a therapeutic role for fecal microbiota transplantation?

CJ Damman, SI Miller, CM Surawicz… - Official journal of the …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
One hypothesis for the etiology of inflammatory bowel disease is that an altered or
pathogenic microbiota causes inflammation in a genetically susceptible individual …

Phylogenetic diversity and ecophysiology of Candidate phylum Saccharibacteria in activated sludge

T Kindaichi, S Yamaoka, R Uehara… - FEMS microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Candidate phylum Saccharibacteria (former TM7) are abundant and widespread in nature,
but little is known about their ecophysiology and detailed phylogeny. In this study phylogeny …

Stable isotope informed genome-resolved metagenomics reveals that Saccharibacteria utilize microbially-processed plant-derived carbon

EP Starr, S Shi, SJ Blazewicz, AJ Probst, DJ Herman… - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Background The transformation of plant photosynthate into soil organic carbon and its
recycling to CO 2 by soil microorganisms is one of the central components of the terrestrial …

Saccharibacteria (TM7) in the human oral microbiome

B Bor, JK Bedree, W Shi… - Journal of dental …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Bacteria from the Saccharibacteria phylum (formerly known as TM7) are ubiquitous
members of the human oral microbiome and are part of the Candidate Phyla Radiation …

Candidate phyla radiation, an underappreciated division of the human microbiome, and its impact on health and disease

S Naud, A Ibrahim, C Valles, M Maatouk… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Candidate phyla radiation (CPR) is an emerging division of the bacterial domain within the
human microbiota. Still poorly known, these microorganisms were first described in the …