Bacteria in cancer initiation, promotion and progression

G El Tekle, WS Garrett - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer cells originate from a series of acquired genetic mutations that can drive their
uncontrolled cell proliferation and immune evasion. Environmental factors, including the …

Prevotella diversity, niches and interactions with the human host

A Tett, E Pasolli, G Masetti, D Ercolini… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The genus Prevotella includes more than 50 characterized species that occur in varied
natural habitats, although most Prevotella spp. are associated with humans. In the human …

[HTML][HTML] The person-to-person transmission landscape of the gut and oral microbiomes

M Valles-Colomer, A Blanco-Míguez, P Manghi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The human microbiome is an integral component of the human body and a co-determinant
of several health conditions,. However, the extent to which interpersonal relations shape the …

[HTML][HTML] Variability of strain engraftment and predictability of microbiome composition after fecal microbiota transplantation across different diseases

G Ianiro, M Punčochář, N Karcher, S Porcari… - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is highly effective against recurrent Clostridioides
difficile infection and is considered a promising treatment for other microbiome-related …

Staphylococcus epidermidis and its dual lifestyle in skin health and infection

MM Severn, AR Horswill - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
The coagulase-negative bacterium Staphylococcus epidermidis is a member of the human
skin microbiota. S. epidermidis is not merely a passive resident on skin but actively primes …

Key determinants of success in fecal microbiota transplantation: From microbiome to clinic

S Porcari, N Benech, M Valles-Colomer, N Segata… - Cell host & …, 2023 - cell.com
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has achieved satisfactory results in preventing the
recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection, but these positive outcomes have only been …

The healthy microbiome—what is the definition of a healthy gut microbiome?

F Shanahan, TS Ghosh, PW O'Toole - Gastroenterology, 2021 - Elsevier
Use of microbiome-based biomarkers in diagnosis, prognosis, risk profiling, and precision
therapy requires definition of a healthy microbiome in different populations. To determine …

[HTML][HTML] Trophic interactions and the drivers of microbial community assembly

M Gralka, R Szabo, R Stocker, OX Cordero - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Despite numerous surveys of gene and species content in heterotrophic microbial
communities, such as those found in animal guts, oceans, or soils, it is still unclear whether …

High-throughput, single-microbe genomics with strain resolution, applied to a human gut microbiome

W Zheng, S Zhao, Y Yin, H Zhang, DM Needham… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Characterizing complex microbial communities with single-cell resolution has been a long-
standing goal of microbiology. We present Microbe-seq, a high-throughput method that …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals role of iron metabolism in drought-induced rhizosphere microbiome dynamics

L Xu, Z Dong, D Chiniquy, G Pierroz, S Deng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent studies have demonstrated that drought leads to dramatic, highly conserved shifts in
the root microbiome. At present, the molecular mechanisms underlying these responses …