Nature Microbiology@NatureMicrobiol

Nature Microbiology publishes the latest research and commentary in all areas of microbiology. Now also at bsky.app/profile/naturemicro…

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Joined February 2015
Our focus issue on communicating microbiology is out now! Read about: 📢importance of communicating microbiology research 👶Bile acids for paediatric sepsis 🦠Drug resistance in Cryptosporidium 💉HIV neutralising antibodies 🌊Ocean metabolomics and more! nature.com/nmicrobiol/volume…
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In a 2016 article, @LAHug_ and colleagues uprooted our conceptualization of the Tree of Life. Anchoring our August focus issue is an update from Hug on what's changed since, and the importance of documenting microbial diversity nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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📢CALLING ALL MICROBIOLOGISTS📢 Do you use CFU assays? Here is a new high-throughput, low-waste viability assay for microbes All you need is agar media, pipette tips and a standard camera 🧫📸 nature.com/articles/s41564-0… @meyerct6 @danastamo
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📣Have you checked out our special issue on microbial ecology? nature.com/nmicrobiol/volume…
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Out now in @Nature: De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity By G. Ozan Bozdag, Seyed Alireza Zamani-Daha, Peter Yunker, William Ratcliff & colleagues. @wc_ratcliff nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity

Nature - After 600 rounds of selection, anaerobic snowflake yeast evolved to be macroscopic, becoming around 20,000 times larger (approximately mm scale) and about 10,000-fold more biophysically...

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A special December issue coincides with #COP28 and spotlights: 🌎Climate extremes and microbial ecology 🌍Global warming and pathogen emergence 🌏Microbes and greener plastics 🚨A call to include microbiologists at climate change talks More here 👉nature.com/collections/hdgga…
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Emergency bulletin! 14 journals have co-published an urgent call for the deployment of microbial solutions against climate catastrophe, by @peixotors et al. nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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OUT NOW: Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation @knutdrescher @sneakystaph @biozentrum nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

Bacteria use exogenous peptidoglycan as a danger signal to trigger biofilm formation

Nature Microbiology - Peptidoglycan released by neighbouring kin or non-kin cell lysis induces physiological changes that protect from a range of stresses, including phage predation.

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.@SorekLab takes the stage. An outlier at #NGI2020 studying the immune systems of bacteria. Or is he? It would appear that mammalian innate immunity has evolutionary roots in microorganisms - you’ll have to agree with @NatureMicrobiol that microorganisms rule ;) !
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Out now in @Nature: Profiling the human intestinal environment under physiological conditions By Dari Shalon, Rebecca Neal Culver, Jessica Grembi, Jacob Folz, David Relman, Kerwyn Casey Huang & colleagues. @DavidRelman nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Hot off the press 🔥 @Nature A bacterial contractile injection system can be used to deliver a range of proteins to human cells and mice 💉🦠 by @zhangf & co nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Programmable protein delivery with a bacterial contractile injection system

Nature - The tail fibre of an extracellular contractile injection system (eCIS) from Photorhabdus asymbiotica recognizes targets expressed on eukaryotic host cells, and can be reprogrammed to...

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Review by @virome_girl et al. on how #phage underpin the ecology of marine ecosystems: rdcu.be/SO8I
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NEW RESEARCH! 👃🦠 A nasal commensal produces a broad-spectrum, short-lived antimicrobial peptide polyene that inhibits S. aureus in vitro and in vivo @AndreasPeschel1 & colleagues nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Our June issue has gone live. In this month's editorial, we advocate for phage therapy as a strategy to combat the global rise of AMR. nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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OUT NOW: A multi-omics view of Earth's microbiomes reveals microbial and metabolite diversity by @ShroomScience @earthmicrobiome @KnightLabNews & co nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

Standardized multi-omics of Earth’s microbiomes reveals microbial and metabolite diversity

Nature Microbiology - This Resource combines amplicon sequencing, shotgun metagenomic sequencing and untargeted metabolomics to provide a global view of microbial–metabolite associations...

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An antibiotic that kills Gram-negative AND Gram-positive bacteria with undetectable resistance is reported in @CellCellPress by James Martin and colleagues in the Zemer Gitai lab bit.ly/2MDXA9f

A Dual-Mechanism Antibiotic Kills Gram-Negative Bacteria and Avoids Drug Resistance

A compound that kills both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria through two independent mechanisms may provide a platform for the development of future antibiotics.

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You are what you excrete? 💩🧬 Is human DNA in faecal microbiome a problem? The answer seems to be yes. Read this News & Views to learn more, by @KnightLabNews and colleagues👇 nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Out Now! FungAMR: a comprehensive database for investigating fungal mutations associated with antimicrobial resistance bit.ly/3UnwlCE #FungalResearch #AntimicrobialResistance #Mycology
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Out now! Gut bacteria encode an unprecedented number of enzymes for anaerobic respiration of biomedically relevant substrates by @lightsam1 @AMSidebottom @MWMullowney @merenbey @mschecht_bio @sciscorz @deeptisharan311 @EWaligurski @moden87 nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

Dietary- and host-derived metabolites are used by diverse gut bacteria for anaerobic respiration

Nature Microbiology - Three distinct families of gut bacteria encode an unprecedented number of respiratory-like reductases per genome to perform anaerobic respiration of biomedically relevant...

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Our November issue has gone live! Tackling AMR together💊 Bacterial histones that bind DNA🧬 Iron-limitation light switch in diatoms💡 A regulator of malaria pathogenesis🪱 nature.com/nmicrobiol/volume…
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Viruses don't infect cells in isolation! NEW review by @SperanzaEmily highlights methods to study virus-host interactions in the infection microenvironment nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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MicrobeMASST - a new tool to link metabolites to microbial producers using untargeted metabolomics data by @Pdorrestein1 and colleagues nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

microbeMASST: a taxonomically informed mass spectrometry search tool for microbial metabolomics data

Nature Microbiology - microbeMASST is a tool to associate known and unknown metabolites to microbial producers leveraging untargeted metabolomics data.

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📣OUT NOW Bacterial cell division afficionados take note! Incredible depth of detail using cryo-EM 🔬to delineate the structure of the bacterial divisome core complex, and antibiotic target, FtsWIQBL. At 3.7 Å resolution. nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

Cryo-EM structure of the bacterial divisome core complex and antibiotic target FtsWIQBL

Nature Microbiology - The cryogenic electron microscopy structure of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa cell division complex and antibiotic drug target, FtsWIQBL, suggests a possible activation mechanism.

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Wang, Tu et al.: Cyro-electron tomography characterizes the structural changes involved in trans-envelope channel formation during #phage P22 infection of Salmonella: rdcu.be/brESs
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Out Now! Deep learning reveals antibiotics in the archaeal proteome bit.ly/4lpohMM #DeepLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #Antibiotics
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Smith et al. @nature: A new #antibiotic candidate -- optimized arylomycin, G0775, targets bacterial signal peptidase (LepB) and is active against a diverse range of Gram-negative multidrug resistant pathogens: rdcu.be/6wKj
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OUT NOW 👉 This marine bacterium captures peptigoflycan fragments from other cells and uses them to build its own cell wall nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

A Marine Group A isolate relies on other growing bacteria for cell wall formation

Nature Microbiology - Marine Group A isolate IA91 captures peptidoglycan fragments produced by other growing bacteria and uses them to build its own cell wall, an effective and potentially common...

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Consensus Statement: Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria nature.com/articles/s41564-0… The authors propose two recommendations for naming prokaryotes that currently lack type material or cultured representatives, and do not have a formal nomenclature system.
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Should I stay or should I go 🦠 lovely new study on bimodal regulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm heterogeneity by @Jenal_Lab @biozentrum @UniBasel_en Readcube: rdcu.be/dd8Dg nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Second wave of Human #Microbiome Project data @nature; microbial analyses across individuals, body sites & time: nature.com/nature/journal/va…
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NEW RESOURCE 💊🦠 High-throughput transcriptomics of 409 bacteria-drug pairs reveals drivers of gut microbiota perturbation @harriswangnyc @deirdrestela @YimingHuang8 nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Machine learning for microbiologists - a useful toolbox for researchers 👇 nature.com/articles/s41579-0…
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Microbiome transplants help trees tolerate climate changes? Another nifty paper in @ScienceMagazine by @CassandraAllsup and colleagues science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Shifting microbial communities can enhance tree tolerance to changing climates

Microbial communities sourced from more extreme climates can help tree seedlings tolerate cold and drought.

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Staphylococcus aureus activates sensory neurons to induce itch and scratch responses - read more here cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…

S. aureus drives itch and scratch-induced skin damage through a V8 protease-PAR1 axis

Itch evokes a desire to scratch, but the link between microbes and itch was unclear. Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterial pathogen, secretes a protease V8 that activates PAR1 expressed on neurons to...

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OUT NOW: Fetal meconium does not have a detectable microbiota before birth. From the lab of Deborah Sloboda & colleagues @KateKennedy @Sloboda_Lab @surette_m #microbiota Read it here: rdcu.be/ckjSG nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Working on the human microbiome? @_Faecal_Matters and @BugsInYourGuts highlight human microbiome myths and misconceptions in a new Perspective nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

Human microbiome myths and misconceptions

Nature Microbiology - Walker and Hoyles highlight selected myths and misconceptions in the human microbiota literature.

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OUT NOW: phage resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii results in resensitization to antimicrobials and reduced bacterial fitness in vivo. Could pave the way to next-generation phage therapy @JeremyJBarr Read the article here: rdcu.be/cdn1V nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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OUT NOW 🏳️‍🌈 @LandonGetz @bfrancescol and @Edel_PLopez said we needed a Pride in Microbiology Network to support 2SLGBTQIA+ microbiologists...so they made one! #PrideMonth nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Comment by Parkhill & co: techniques to identify reagent contaminants in #metagenomics and #microbiome studies: rdcu.be/3vU6
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A five-phage combination oral therapy targets IBD-associated Klebsiella pneumoniae resulting in reduced colonic inflammation - with a phase 1 randomized, single-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial @Elinav_Lab @SorekLab & co in @CellCellPress cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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OUT NOW @Nature 👀Coordination of bacterial cell wall and outer membrane biosynthesis nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Coordination of bacterial cell wall and outer membrane biosynthesis

Nature - A study demonstrates that specific interactions between the two committed enzymes for the synthesis of lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan enable coordinated assembly of the outer...

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New PERSPECTIVE: A framework for understanding collective microbiome metabolism. By Matthias Huelsmann, Olga Schubert & Martin Ackermann @MicSysEcoLab @ETH_en @EawagResearch nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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OUT NOW 👉 Personalized bacteriophage therapy outcomes for 100 consecutive cases: a multicentre, multinational, retrospective observational study @PaulPirnay @DjebaraSarah @StevenDeSoir @GlontiTea @JeroenWagemans @PJ_Ceyssens @RobLavigne1 @mmerabish #phage nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

Personalized bacteriophage therapy outcomes for 100 consecutive cases: a multicentre, multination...

Nature Microbiology - Analysis of 100 consecutive personalized bacteriophage therapy cases supports the use of personalized and sometimes pre-adapted, bacteriophage preparations, often in...

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Out Now! Integrating microbial GWAS and single-cell transcriptomics reveals associations between host cell populations and the gut microbiome bit.ly/4cppYqr #Microbiology #GWAS #SingleCellRNAseq
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Gut bacteria identified which can degrade IgA. Read more here science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… and in this Perspective science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

A host-adapted auxotrophic gut symbiont induces mucosal immunodeficiency

Harnessing the microbiome to benefit human health requires an initial step in determining the identity and function of causative microorganisms that affect specific host physiological functions. We...

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Out now: Metagenomics-enabled microbial surveillance A Perspective arguing that high throughput methods can improve detection of known and yet-to-emerge pathogens. nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Circadian rhythm characterized in Bacillus subtilis, the first circadian rhythm in a non-photosynthetic bacterium. Intriguing that ONLY cells able to form biofilms have robust circadian rhythms: @ScienceAdvances advances.sciencemag.org/cont…
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Out Now! ‘Phollowing’ phage outbreaks in microbiomes with live fluorescence microscopy bit.ly/3Z7vokv #Microbiology #Bacteriophages #PhageOutbreaks
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WE ARE HIRING! If you are a microbiologist with an interest in editorial and publishing, get in touch and apply now: bit.ly/3CSNIjp Closing date: 16th December #microbiolology

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SnapShot: Bacterial Immunity @Nitzan_T masterfully organized current knowledge on bacterial immune systems into a single page graphics Out today @CellCellPress : cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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Nobel prize for Chemistry goes to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for genome editing with CRISPR nobelprize.org/prizes/chemis…

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing"

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Human gut archaeal genomes and their viruses reported today @NatureMicrobiol @chmoei @SchmitzStreits @alexmsalmeida @SGribaldo @AlexMahnert nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Out now: SARS-CoV-2 Omicron is an immune escape variant with an altered cell entry pathway. By Brian Willett, Emma Thomson & colleagues. @emcat1 @CVRbioinfo #omicron Read it here: rdcu.be/cReRB nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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OUT NOW 📢 A predicted CRISPR-mediated symbiosis between uncultivated archaea by @ProbstLab @AlexJProbst @SarahWater10 @unidue @uniallianz nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Variation and transmission of the human gut microbiota across multiple familial generations @jeroenraes out today! nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Consensus statement from the Coronaviridae Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses Naming the 2019 novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2: rdcu.be/b2rJm #SARSCoV2 #COVID19
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Main results release from the second phase of the Human Microbiome Project (aka HMP2 or iHMP), including the 3 flagship papers in @nature and @NatureMedicine, a perspective & various commentary. All relevant content at this collection site (1/3) nature.com/collections/fiabf…
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Dalia & co: Type IV competence #pilus retraction brings DNA to the #bacteria cell surface for transformation: rdcu.be/VMFq With a 'Behind the Paper' by Courtney Ellison: buff.ly/2MjblbS
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OUT NOW in @Nature: Blood culture-free ultra-rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Blood culture-free ultra-rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing

Nature - An ultra-rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing method is introduced that bypasses the need for traditional blood culture, demonstrating the potential to significantly reduce the...

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Out now in @NatureMicrobiol: Bdellovibrio predation cycle characterized at nanometre-scale resolution with cryo-electron tomography @MMMKaplan_ @theJensenLab @yiweichang nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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We are happy to see a very microbiology-heavy issue of @nature 3 papers, 2 N&V, a research highlight & editorial. To quote @baym “This is an unbelievable time to be a microbiologist. It feels like every few months the textbooks need rewriting” nature.com/nature/volumes/56…
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OUT NOW - Streptomyces secretes a siderophore that sensitizes competitor bacteria to phage infection nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Working on the #microbiome? 🦠🧫💩 We're hiring for a permanent editor to handle all things microbiome and champion this area for the journal! Role available in New York or Berlin Deadline - 11th December More info here: careers.springernature.com/j…
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Out now! In vitro models that mimic within patient conditions should be used to revitalize antibiotic discovery and development nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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OUT NOW 🦠 Prediction of strain level phage-host interactions across the Escherichia genus using only genomic information, by @AudeBer @hugovaysset @MDMlab_Paris @iame_center @PhagePasteur nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

Prediction of strain level phage–host interactions across the Escherichia genus using only genomic...

Nature Microbiology - Phage–host interactions are computationally predicted using only genomic information, highlighting future research directions and enabling generation of custom phage...

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Eugene Koonin walks us through his thoughts on the origin and evolution of viruses “the most abundant replicating biological entity are viruses” Related reading: great review @NatureRevMicro by @mkrupovic Dolja and Koonin rdcu.be/bGbBs #KSrnavirus
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Check out this new study in @Nature: Fungal infections pose a huge health threat and there are very few specific antifungal drugs. Here, the rational improvement of amphotericin B led to a drug that kills fungi but has low toxicity towards kidney cells🎯 nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Tuning sterol extraction kinetics yields a renal-sparing polyene antifungal

Nature - A study reports the development of a structural derivative of amphotericin B with broad antifungal activity in mice but without the renal toxicity associated with amphotericin B.

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Anand et al: Pseudogenes can function as an 'adaptive reservoir' and be repaired during laboratory evolution of E. coli: rdcu.be/biQPe
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Read all about alternatives to antibiotics reviewed in @NatureRevMicro nature.com/articles/s41579-0…

Alternative therapeutic strategies to treat antibiotic-resistant pathogens

Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Tan and colleagues highlight recent efforts to discover non-traditional antimicrobials and explore the therapeutic potential of antimicrobial peptides...

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Out Now! In situ structure of a bacterial flagellar motor at subnanometre resolution reveals adaptations for increased torque bit.ly/40t7rVl #Microbiology #CryoEM #BacterialResearch
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Out Now! Peptidoglycan–outer membrane attachment generates periplasmic pressure to prevent lysis in Gram-negative bacteria bit.ly/4kZA3gF #Peptidoglycan #BacteriaResearch #Microbiology
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OUT NOW Challenges and opportunities in sharing microbiome data and analyses nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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OUT NOW 👉 @BalskusLab provides metabolic insights into the vaginal microbiome @MicrobialChem @WoolstonLabNEU nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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OUT NOW👉Widespread stop-codon recoding in bacteriophages may regulate translation of lytic genes A study by Jill Banfield & colleagues @BanfieldJill @AdairLBorges @BanfieldLab @igisci read it here: rdcu.be/cOoiq nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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How covid-19 is accelerating the threat of antimicrobial resistance bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m198…
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Out now: Genome content predicts the carbon catabolic preferences of heterotrophic bacteria @MattiGralka @oxcordero @ALIFE_VU @MIT_CEE nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

Genome content predicts the carbon catabolic preferences of heterotrophic bacteria

Nature Microbiology - Carbon catabolism of heterotrophic bacteria can be described using a simple general principle, which is their preference for either glycolytic (sugars) or gluconeogenic (amino...

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📢Out now in @NatureMicrobiol: A genetic system for Akkermansia muciniphila reveals a role for mucin foraging in gut colonization and host sterol biosynthesis gene expression By Lauren Davey, Raphael Valdivia & colleagues. @valdi001, @lauren282012 nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

A genetic system for Akkermansia muciniphila reveals a role for mucin foraging in gut colonization...

Nature Microbiology - Transposon mutagenesis identifies Akkermansia muciniphila genes required for growth on mucin and colonization of the intestinal tract.

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OUT NOW: A model based on microbial community metabolomics reveals insights into community assembly and resource competition in vitro by Kc Huang, Taylor Nguyen & co @Stanford nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Hugenholtz, Tyson & co: #metagenomics reconstruction of 7903 #bacteria & #archaea genomes, increases diversity 30%, rdcu.be/vKnM
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Excellent video abstract of “Modelling Cryptosporidium infection in human small intestinal and lung organoids” by Heo, Clevers RT al rdcu.be/bVfrf Made by Luis at Nymus3D, via @HansClevers Good visuals are so important in #scicomm!
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Bacterial nanotubes are a hallmark of cell death, rather than living conduits for cargo, according to a paper from Libor Krasny's group just out in @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Bacterial nanotubes as a manifestation of cell death

Nature Communications - Bacterial nanotubes and other similar membranous structures have been reported to function as conduits between cells to exchange DNA, proteins, and nutrients. Here the...

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Our first issue of 2024 is hot off the press... ⚒️ Microbiome mining for abx 🔎 Bdellovibrio prey recognition 🌍 Gender gap in Africa's HIV epidemic 🏥 Candida clinical adaptations 🧬 Precision run-on seq for microbiomes ...all this, and more👇 nature.com/nmicrobiol/volume…
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OUT NOW 🗺️ This degradome atlas for 96 bacterial species will enable better understanding of mechanisms of RNA degradation in bacteria, by @Pelechanolab @scilifelab @karolinskainst et al. nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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WE ARE HIRING: Passionate about microbiology? We’re looking for an enthusiastic locum editor to join our team for six months. Please RT. Applications close April 7th. nature.com/naturecareers/job…
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Nice new paper in @Nature on interactions between genetic variation in host and microbiota nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Doubling of the known set of RNA viruses by metagenomic analysis of an aquatic virome by Eugene Koonin, Valerian Dolja, @mkrupovic & co nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Meet mandimycin, a new polyene antifungal with broad-spectrum activity and a unique mode of action targeting fungal cell membranes. 🦠🔬 #Antifungal Out in @Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

A polyene macrolide targeting phospholipids in the fungal cell membrane

Nature - Mandimycin, a polyene macrolide, exhibits strong antifungal activity and possesses a mode of action that is distinct from other compounds of this class.

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Start teaching mycology! by Freimoser joins Stop neglecting fungi! in our community site naturemicrobiologycommunity.… & rdcu.be/vTkN
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Out now in @NatureMicrobiol: Systematic mining of the human microbiome identifies antimicrobial peptides with diverse activity spectra @Geneticdesigner & colleagues nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Out Now! Applying ecological principles to microbiome engineering bit.ly/45mHR6f #Microbiome #Ecology #Sustainability
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Out Now! Aggresomes protect mRNA under stress in Escherichia coli bit.ly/45HP3do #mRNA #EscherichiaColi #Aggresomes
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OUT NOW 📢: Large language models improve annotation of prokaryotic viral proteins By Zachary Flamholz, Steven Biller & Libusha Kelly @zflam94 @microbegrrl nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

Large language models improve annotation of prokaryotic viral proteins

Nature Microbiology - Ocean viral proteome annotations are expanded by a machine learning approach that is not reliant on sequence homology and can annotate sequences not homologous to those seen...

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Out now: Candida albicans extracellular vesicles trigger type I IFN signalling via cGAS and STING @HannahEBrown3 @jmvyasmdphd @VyasLab nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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New Perspective in @CellCellPress: Microbial foods for improving human and planetary health. By Leonie Jahn, Vayu Rekdal and Morten Sommer. @NOFOKitchen @moasommer @Sommergroup @DTUBiosustain @novonordiskfond cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…

Microbial foods for improving human and planetary health

Microorganisms are potential enablers of a more sustainable and healthy food system. This perspective reviews current approaches and discusses future advances in science-driven fermentation, synthe...

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Our July issue is out now! 🦠Lessons from a bacterial predator ⛽️Petroleum oxidation by archaea 🪸Coral-algal endosymbiosis 🧠Modelling viral encephalitis in organoids 🥦A call for papers on the microbiome & nutrition ...and more! Check out it out👇 nature.com/nmicrobiol/volume…
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OUT NOW in @ScienceMagazine: A naturally isolated symbiotic bacterium suppresses flavivirus transmission by Aedes mosquitoes science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

A naturally isolated symbiotic bacterium suppresses flavivirus transmission by Aedes mosquitoes

The commensal microbiota of the mosquito gut plays a complex role in determining the vector competence for arboviruses. In this study, we identified a bacterium from the gut of field Aedes albopictus...

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Host-gut microbiota crosstalk predicts neuroinflammation - A quick read News and Views by @QuintanaLabHMS. nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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OUT NOW: Evolutionary origins of archaeal and eukaryotic RNA-guided RNA modification in bacterial IS110 transposons @SternbergLab @MDMlab_Paris @hugovaysset nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

Evolutionary origins of archaeal and eukaryotic RNA-guided RNA modification in bacterial IS110...

Nature Microbiology - Structural and phylogenetic analyses show that programmable RNA modifications ubiquitous in archaea and eukarya arose from bacterial transposons.

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Really nice read in mBio on machine learning and microbial ecology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…

Nine (not so simple) steps: a practical guide to using machine learning in microbial ecology | mBio

Microbial ecologists are increasingly turning to machine learning (ML) models to better identify and predict meaningful biological patterns and relationships in molecular microbial community data...

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OUT NOW 🦠Individual bacterial cells can use spatial sensing of chemical gradients to direct chemotaxis on surfaces. @ScienceShef nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

Individual bacterial cells can use spatial sensing of chemical gradients to direct chemotaxis on...

Nature Microbiology - Microfluidic experiments reveal that surface-attached Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells directly sense differences in chemical concentration across the length of their cell bodies...

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