Mobile genetic element flexibility as an underlying principle to bacterial evolution

AJ Weisberg, JH Chang - Annual Review of Microbiology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Mobile genetic elements are key to the evolution of bacteria and traits that affect host and
ecosystem health. Here, we use a framework of a hierarchical and modular system that …

Genome-resolved metagenomics: a game changer for microbiome medicine

N Kim, J Ma, W Kim, J Kim, P Belenky… - Experimental & Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent substantial evidence implicating commensal bacteria in human diseases has given
rise to a new domain in biomedical research: microbiome medicine. This emerging field …

Pharokka: a fast scalable bacteriophage annotation tool

G Bouras, R Nepal, G Houtak, AJ Psaltis… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in bacteriophages, which has led to
growing numbers of bacteriophage genomic sequences becoming available. Consequently …

[HTML][HTML] Host and pathogen response to bacteriophage engineered against Mycobacterium abscessus lung infection

JA Nick, RM Dedrick, AL Gray, EK Vladar, BE Smith… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Two mycobacteriophages were administered intravenously to a male with treatment-
refractory Mycobacterium abscessus pulmonary infection and severe cystic fibrosis lung …

Genomic dissection of Klebsiella pneumoniae infections in hospital patients reveals insights into an opportunistic pathogen

CL Gorrie, M Mirčeta, RR Wick, LM Judd… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major cause of opportunistic healthcare-associated infections,
which are increasingly complicated by the presence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases …

A catalogue of 1,167 genomes from the human gut archaeome

CM Chibani, A Mahnert, G Borrel, A Almeida… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The human gut microbiome plays an important role in health, but its archaeal diversity
remains largely unexplored. In the present study, we report the analysis of 1,167 …

Integrating cultivation and metagenomics for a multi-kingdom view of skin microbiome diversity and functions

S Saheb Kashaf, DM Proctor, C Deming, P Saary… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Human skin functions as a physical barrier to foreign pathogen invasion and houses
numerous commensals. Shifts in the human skin microbiome have been associated with …

Stepwise pathogenic evolution of Mycobacterium abscessus

JM Bryant, KP Brown, S Burbaud, I Everall… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Nearly all mycobacterial species are free-living environmental
saprophytes. A few, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, have evolved to cause …

The Mouse Gastrointestinal Bacteria Catalogue enables translation between the mouse and human gut microbiotas via functional map**

BS Beresford-Jones, SC Forster, MD Stares, G Notley… - Cell host & …, 2022 - cell.com
Human health and disease have increasingly been shown to be impacted by the gut
microbiota, and mouse models are essential for investigating these effects. However, the …

Evolution and host-specific adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

A Weimann, AM Dinan, C Ruis, A Bernut, S Pont… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The major human bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes multidrug-resistant
infections in people with underlying immunodeficiencies or structural lung diseases such as …