Microbe

Akkermansia muciniphila
The Genome of Akkermansia muciniphila.
A protein improves metabolism in obese and diabetic mice.
Genome sequencing of 39 Akkermansia muciniphila isolates in mammalian gut microbiotas.

Alistipes indistinctus
Alistipes indistinctus-derived hippuric acid promotes intestinal urate excretion to alleviate hyperuricemia.

Alistipes putredinis
Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome. from Turnbaugh Lab

Bacillus licheniformis
Preferential attachment and colonization of the keratinolytic bacterium Bacillus licheniformis on black- and white-striped feathers.

Bacteroides fragilis
O-glycosylation system.

Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
Intragenic DNA inversions expand bacterial coding capacity. from Bhatt Lab
Thiamine (VB1) biosynthesis protein ThiC in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron contains an inverton that introduces a premature stop codon when inverted. This species has the capacity to biosynthesize thiamine at a large energetic cost. This work showed that at human intestinal thiamine concentrations (0.02–2 μM), strains with inverted inverton were more fit than prototrophic strains. However, thiamine availability does not promote rapid thiC inversion flipping, suggesting stochastic dynamics. It fits a bet-hedging model.

Bordetella
Bacteria deliver a microtubule-binding protein into mammalian cells to promote colonization.

Clostridium symbiosum
Gut pathogen Clostridium symbiosum rewires macrophage succinylation to drive enteric neuron loss in inflammatory bowel disease.

Cordycipitaceae
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs. from Fakatsu Lab

Eubacterium rectale
Phylogeographic population structure and subspecies functional adaptations. from Segata Lab

Fusobacterium nucleatum
A distinct Fusobacterium nucleatum clade dominates the colorectal cancer niche.

Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus
☕️ Coffee consumption correlation.

Odoribacter splanchnicus
Rescues aging-related intestinal P-glycoprotein damage via GDP-L-fucose secretion.

Parabacteroides distasonis
Glycoproteins in Bacteroides. from Comstock Lab

Salmonella enterica
Pan-genome Analysis

Veillonella atypica
Meta-omics analysis of elite athletes identifies a performance-enhancing microbe that functions via lactate metabolism. from Kostic Lab
Scheiman et al. 2019 provides an example of a host-microbiome metabolic feedback loop linking exercise-induced lactate to microbial propionate production and endurance performance. It illustrates how exercise shapes the gut microbiome.

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Into the Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Four fish by Paul Greenberg