The Ruminococci: key symbionts of the gut ecosystem

AJ La Reau, G Suen - Journal of microbiology, 2018 - Springer
Mammalian gut microbial communities form intricate mutualisms with their hosts, which have
profound implications on overall health. One group of important gut microbial mutualists are …

Microbiome therapeutics—advances and challenges

M Mimee, RJ Citorik, TK Lu - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The microbial community that lives on and in the human body exerts a major impact on
human health, from metabolism to immunity. In order to leverage the close associations …

Novel bile acid biosynthetic pathways are enriched in the microbiome of centenarians

Y Sato, K Atarashi, DR Plichta, Y Arai, S Sasajima… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Centenarians have a decreased susceptibility to ageing-associated illnesses, chronic
inflammation and infectious diseases 1, 2, 3. Here we show that centenarians have a distinct …

Global chemical effects of the microbiome include new bile-acid conjugations

RA Quinn, AV Melnik, A Vrbanac, T Fu, KA Patras… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A mosaic of cross-phylum chemical interactions occurs between all metazoans and their
microbiomes. A number of molecular families that are known to be produced by the …

Reverse metabolomics for the discovery of chemical structures from humans

EC Gentry, SL Collins, M Panitchpakdi, P Belda-Ferre… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Determining the structure and phenotypic context of molecules detected in untargeted
metabolomics experiments remains challenging. Here we present reverse metabolomics as …

Assessment of variation in microbial community amplicon sequencing by the Microbiome Quality Control (MBQC) project consortium

R Sinha, G Abu-Ali, E Vogtmann, AA Fodor… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
In order for human microbiome studies to translate into actionable outcomes for health, meta-
analysis of reproducible data from population-scale cohorts is needed. Achieving sufficient …

Stability and biological activity of wild blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) polyphenols during simulated in vitro gastrointestinal digestion

J Correa-Betanzo, E Allen-Vercoe, J McDonald… - Food chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
Wild blueberries are rich in polyphenols and have several potential health benefits.
Understanding the factors that affect the bioaccessibility and bioavailability of polyphenols is …

Experimental models to study intestinal microbes–mucus interactions in health and disease

L Etienne-Mesmin, B Chassaing… - FEMS microbiology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A close symbiotic relationship exists between the intestinal microbiota and its
host. A critical component of gut homeostasis is the presence of a mucus layer covering the …

Capturing the diversity of the human gut microbiota through culture-enriched molecular profiling

JT Lau, FJ Whelan, I Herath, CH Lee, SM Collins… - Genome medicine, 2016 - Springer
Background The human gut microbiota has been implicated in most aspects of health and
disease; however, most of the bacteria in this community are considered unculturable, so …

Inhibiting growth of Clostridioides difficile by restoring valerate, produced by the intestinal microbiota

JAK McDonald, BH Mullish, A Pechlivanis, Z Liu… - Gastroenterology, 2018 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is effective for treating recurrent
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), but there are concerns about its long-term safety …