Microbiome and human health: current understanding, engineering, and enabling technologies

N Aggarwal, S Kitano, GRY Puah, S Kittelmann… - Chemical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
The human microbiome is composed of a collection of dynamic microbial communities that
inhabit various anatomical locations in the body. Accordingly, the coevolution of the …

[HTML][HTML] High-content CRISPR screening

C Bock, P Datlinger, F Chardon, MA Coelho… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
CRISPR screens are a powerful source of biological discovery, enabling the unbiased
interrogation of gene function in a wide range of applications and species. In pooled …

Deep learning-guided discovery of an antibiotic targeting Acinetobacter baumannii

G Liu, DB Catacutan, K Rathod, K Swanson… - Nature Chemical …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Acinetobacter baumannii is a nosocomial Gram-negative pathogen that often displays
multidrug resistance. Discovering new antibiotics against A. baumannii has proven …

Engineering extracellular electron transfer pathways of electroactive microorganisms by synthetic biology for energy and chemicals production

J Zhang, F Li, D Liu, Q Liu, H Song - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The excessive consumption of fossil fuels causes massive emission of CO2, leading to
climate deterioration and environmental pollution. The development of substitutes and …

A decade of advances in transposon-insertion sequencing

AK Cain, L Barquist, AL Goodman, IT Paulsen… - Nature Reviews …, 2020‏ - nature.com
It has been 10 years since the introduction of modern transposon-insertion sequencing (TIS)
methods, which combine genome-wide transposon mutagenesis with high-throughput …

Phages overcome bacterial immunity via diverse anti-defence proteins

E Yirmiya, A Leavitt, A Lu, AE Ragucci, C Avraham… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
It was recently shown that bacteria use, apart from CRISPR–Cas and restriction systems, a
considerable diversity of phage resistance systems,,–, but it is largely unknown how phages …

A dual-mechanism antibiotic kills gram-negative bacteria and avoids drug resistance

JK Martin, JP Sheehan, BP Bratton, GM Moore… - Cell, 2020‏ - cell.com
The rise of antibiotic resistance and declining discovery of new antibiotics has created a
global health crisis. Of particular concern, no new antibiotic classes have been approved for …

[HTML][HTML] A gut commensal-produced metabolite mediates colonization resistance to Salmonella infection

A Jacobson, L Lam, M Rajendram, F Tamburini… - Cell host & …, 2018‏ - cell.com
The intestinal microbiota provides colonization resistance against pathogens, limiting
pathogen expansion and transmission. These microbiota-mediated mechanisms were …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in biological approaches towards anode biofilm engineering for improvement of extracellular electron transfer in microbial fuel cells

T Naaz, A Kumar, A Vempaty, N Singhal… - Environmental …, 2023‏ - eeer.org
Over the last two decades, scientific communities have been more interested in turning
organic waste materials into bioenergy. Microbial fuel cells (MFC) can degrade organic …

Panning for gold:'model-X'knockoffs for high dimensional controlled variable selection

E Candes, Y Fan, L Janson, J Lv - Journal of the Royal Statistical …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Many contemporary large-scale applications involve building interpretable models linking a
large set of potential covariates to a response in a non-linear fashion, such as when the …