Impacts of pollution on the soil microbiome
Rodríguez-Eugenio, N., McLaughlin, M. & Pennock, D. Soil Pollution: A Hidden Reality (FAO, 2018). Montanerella, L. et al.…
Mapping in-cell protein contact sites reveals hijacking of paraspeckles during influenza A virus infection
Immortalized cell lines Human A549 (86012804; ECACC) and HEK293T (CRL-3216; ATCC) cells were cultured in DMEM (11960044; Gibco)…
Voices of microbiome researchers in an artificial intelligence era
Competing interests The Global Grants for Gut Health (GGGH) Colloquium comprises researchers who have been selected as GGGH…
A phage puts a new spin on bacterial flagella
Transposon-encoded TnpB proteins are RNA-guided nucleases that use a transposon-encoded guide RNA to cleave DNA target sequences, promoting…
Next-generation probiotics: an outlook into current applications and future developments
Hill, C. et al. The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and…
Nuclease–NTPase antiphage defence systems use conserved molecular features to control bacterial immunity
Roberts, R. J. et al. A nomenclature for restriction enzymes, DNA methyltransferases, homing endonucleases and their genes. Nucleic…
The role and possible mechanism of intestinal fungi in the progression of chronic liver diseases
Asrani, S. K., Devarbhavi, H., Eaton, J. & Kamath, P. S. Burden of liver diseases in the world.…
Phenogenomics reveals the ecology and evolution of Trichoderma fungi for sustainable agriculture
Trichoderma diversification coincides with angiosperm rainforest dynamics We analysed 37 strains spanning taxonomic, ecological and applied diversity of…
Dietary fiber deficiency exacerbates intestinal inflammation via miR-6240-enriched gut extracellular vesicles
Magro, D. O., Sassaki, L. Y. & Chebli, J. M. F. Interaction between diet and genetics in patients…
Structural insights into the assembly and evolution of a complex bacterial flagellar motor
Chen, S. et al. Structural diversity of bacterial flagellar motors. EMBO J. 30, 2972–2981 (2011). Article PubMed PubMed…
Fungal commensal promotes intestinal repair via its secreted peptide in mice
Barker, N. Adult intestinal stem cells: critical drivers of epithelial homeostasis and regeneration. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol.…
Large-scale testing of antimicrobial lethality at single-cell resolution predicts mycobacterial infection outcomes
Sample collection We used the Mycobacterium abscessus laboratory strain ATCC-19977, the avirulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Ra and the…