The interplay between diet and the gut microbiome: implications for health and disease

FC Ross, D Patangia, G Grimaud, A Lavelle… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Diet has a pivotal role in sha** the composition, function and diversity of the gut
microbiome, with various diets having a profound impact on the stability, functionality and …

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 …

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 …

Multi-level analysis of the gut–brain axis shows autism spectrum disorder-associated molecular and microbial profiles

JT Morton, DM **, RH Mills, Y Shao, G Rahman… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by
heterogeneous cognitive, behavioral and communication impairments. Disruption of the gut …

Extending and improving metagenomic taxonomic profiling with uncharacterized species using MetaPhlAn 4

A Blanco-Míguez, F Beghini, F Cumbo, LJ McIver… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metagenomic assembly enables new organism discovery from microbial communities, but it
can only capture few abundant organisms from most metagenomes. Here we present …

Gut bacteria and neurotransmitters

LMT Dicks - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Gut bacteria play an important role in the digestion of food, immune activation, and
regulation of entero-endocrine signaling pathways, but also communicate with the central …

Ancient DNA analysis

L Orlando, R Allaby, P Skoglund… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Although the first ancient DNA molecules were extracted more than three decades ago, the
first ancient nuclear genomes could only be characterized after high-throughput sequencing …

The gut microbiome modulates the protective association between a Mediterranean diet and cardiometabolic disease risk

DD Wang, LH Nguyen, Y Li, Y Yan, W Ma, E Rinott… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
To address how the microbiome might modify the interaction between diet and
cardiometabolic health, we analyzed longitudinal microbiome data from 307 male …

Microbiome connections with host metabolism and habitual diet from 1,098 deeply phenotyped individuals

F Asnicar, SE Berry, AM Valdes, LH Nguyen… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
The gut microbiome is shaped by diet and influences host metabolism; however, these links
are complex and can be unique to each individual. We performed deep metagenomic …

Strain-specific gut microbial signatures in type 2 diabetes identified in a cross-cohort analysis of 8,117 metagenomes

Z Mei, F Wang, A Bhosle, D Dong, R Mehta, A Ghazi… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
The association of gut microbial features with type 2 diabetes (T2D) has been inconsistent
due in part to the complexity of this disease and variation in study design. Even in cases in …