The oral microbiome: diversity, biogeography and human health

JL Baker, JL Mark Welch, KM Kauffman… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The human oral microbiota is highly diverse and has a complex ecology, comprising
bacteria, microeukaryotes, archaea and viruses. These communities have elaborate and …

Adaptive genetic traits in pelagic freshwater microbes

MC Chiriac, M Haber… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pelagic microbes have adopted distinct strategies to inhabit the pelagial of lakes and
oceans and can be broadly categorized in two groups: free‐living, specialized oligotrophs …

Episymbiotic Saccharibacteria suppresses gingival inflammation and bone loss in mice through host bacterial modulation

O Chipashvili, DR Utter, JK Bedree, Y Ma, F Schulte… - Cell host & …, 2021 - cell.com
Saccharibacteria (TM7) are obligate epibionts living on the surface of their host bacteria and
are strongly correlated with dysbiotic microbiomes during periodontitis and other …

Acquisition of the arginine deiminase system benefits epiparasitic Saccharibacteria and their host bacteria in a mammalian niche environment

J Tian, DR Utter, L Cen, PT Dong… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Saccharibacteria are a group of widespread and genetically diverse ultrasmall bacteria with
highly reduced genomes that belong to the Candidate Phyla Radiation. Comparative …

Ecogenomics sheds light on diverse lifestyle strategies in freshwater CPR

MC Chiriac, PA Bulzu, AS Andrei, Y Okazaki, S Nakano… - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Background The increased use of metagenomics and single-cell genomics led to the
discovery of organisms from phyla with no cultivated representatives and proposed new …

Genome-centric metagenomics reveals the host-driven dynamics and ecological role of CPR bacteria in an activated sludge system

Y Wang, Y Zhang, Y Hu, L Liu, SJ Liu, T Zhang - Microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background Candidate phyla radiation (CPR) constitutes highly diverse bacteria with small
cell sizes and are likely obligate intracellular symbionts. Given their distribution and complex …

Insights into methionine S-methylation in diverse organisms

M Peng, CY Li, XL Chen, BT Williams, K Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is an important marine anti-stress compound, with key
roles in global nutrient cycling, chemotaxis and, potentially, climate regulation. Recently …

Variable impact of geochemical gradients on the functional potential of bacteria, archaea, and phages from the permanently stratified Lac Pavin

AL Jaffe, C Bardot, AH Le Jeune, J Liu, J Colombet… - Microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background Permanently stratified lakes contain diverse microbial communities that vary
with depth and so serve as useful models for studying the relationships between microbial …

Saccharibacteria harness light energy using type-1 rhodopsins that may rely on retinal sourced from microbial hosts

AL Jaffe, M Konno, Y Kawasaki, C Kataoka… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Microbial rhodopsins are a family of photoreceptive membrane proteins with a wide
distribution across the Tree of Life. Within the candidate phyla radiation (CPR), a diverse …

Into the darkness of the microbial dark matter in situ activities through expression profiles of Patescibacteria populations

A Vigneron, P Cruaud, R Guyoneaud… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Patescibacteria form a highly diverse and widespread superphylum of uncultured
microorganisms representing a third of the global microbial diversity. Most of our knowledge …