Nazarii Kobyliak, Maria Khomenko, Tetyana Falalyeyeva, Alexandra Fedchenko, Oleksii Savchuk, Yuliya Tseyslyer, Liudmyla Ostapchenko
{"title":"Probiotics for pancreatic β-cell function: from possible mechanism of action to assessment of effectiveness.","authors":"Nazarii Kobyliak, Maria Khomenko, Tetyana Falalyeyeva, Alexandra Fedchenko, Oleksii Savchuk, Yuliya Tseyslyer, Liudmyla Ostapchenko","doi":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2257776","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2257776","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a metabolic disease characterized by chronic hyperglycemia because of insulin resistance (IR) andor pancreatic β-cell dysfunction. Last century research showed that gut microbiota has a direct effect on metabolism and metabolic diseases. New studies into the human microbiome and its connection with the host is making it possible to develop new therapies for a wide variety of diseases. Inflammation is a well-known precursor to metabolic syndrome, which increases the risk of hypertension, visceral obesity, and dyslipidemia, which can lead to T2D through the damage of pancreatic β-cell and reduce insulin secretion. Current understanding for beneficial effects of probiotics in T2D strictly rely on both animal and clinical data, which mostly focused on their impact on IR, anthropometric parameters, glycemic control and markers of chronic systemic inflammation. From the other hand, there is a lack of evidence-based probiotic efficacy on pancreatic β-cell function in terms of T2D and related metabolic disorders. Therefore, current review will focus on the efficacy of probiotics for the protection of β-cells damage and it`s mechanism in patients with T2D.</p>","PeriodicalId":10736,"journal":{"name":"Critical Reviews in Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":"663-683"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10233866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuqi He, Lanxin Li, Yingning Yao, Jinhan Su, Suzhen Lei, Yi Zhang, Hongliang Zeng
{"title":"Bile acid and its bidirectional interactions with gut microbiota: a review.","authors":"Shuqi He, Lanxin Li, Yingning Yao, Jinhan Su, Suzhen Lei, Yi Zhang, Hongliang Zeng","doi":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2262020","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2262020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bile acids (BAs) are an important metabolite produced by cholesterol catabolism. It serves important roles in glucose and lipid metabolism and host-microbe interaction. Recent research has shown that different gut-microbiota can secrete different metabolic-enzymes to mediate the deconjugation, dehydroxylation and epimerization of BAs. In addition, microbes mediate BAs transformation and exert physiological functions in metabolic diseases may have a potentially close relationship with diet. Therefore, elaborating the pathways by which gut microbes mediate the transformation of BAs through enzymatic reactions involved are principal to understand the mechanism of effects between dietary patterns, gut microbes and BAs, and to provide theoretical knowledge for the development of functional foods to regulate metabolic diseases. In the present review, we summarized works on the physiological function of BAs, as well as the classification and composition of BAs in different animal models and its organs. In addition, we mainly focus on the bidirectional interactions of gut microbes with BAs transformation, and discuss the effects of diet on microbial transformation of BAs. Finally, we raised the question of further in-depth investigation of the food-gut microbial-BAs relationship, which might contribute to the improvement of metabolic diseases through dietary interventions in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":10736,"journal":{"name":"Critical Reviews in Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":"684-701"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41135174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Geum-Jae Jeong, Fazlurrahman Khan, Nazia Tabassum, Young-Mog Kim
{"title":"Natural and synthetic molecules with potential to enhance biofilm formation and virulence properties in <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i>.","authors":"Geum-Jae Jeong, Fazlurrahman Khan, Nazia Tabassum, Young-Mog Kim","doi":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2282459","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2282459","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> can efficiently adapt to changing environmental conditions due to its ubiquitous nature, intrinsic/acquired/adaptive resistance mechanisms, high metabolic versatility, and the production of numerous virulence factors. As a result, <i>P. aeruginosa</i> becomes an opportunistic pathogen, causing chronic infection in the lungs and several organs of patients suffering from cystic fibrosis. Biofilm established by <i>P. aeruginosa</i> in host tissues and medical device surfaces has been identified as a major obstruction to antimicrobial therapy. <i>P. aeruginosa</i> is very likely to be closely associated with the various microorganisms in the host tissues or organs in a pathogenic or nonpathogenic behavior. Aside from host-derived molecules, other beneficial and pathogenic microorganisms produce a diverse range of secondary metabolites that either directly or indirectly favor the persistence of <i>P. aeruginosa</i>. Thus, it is critical to understand how <i>P. aeruginosa</i> interacts with different molecules and ions in the host and abiotic environment to produce extracellular polymeric substances and virulence factors. Thus, the current review discusses how various natural and synthetic molecules in the environment induce biofilm formation and the production of multiple virulence factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":10736,"journal":{"name":"Critical Reviews in Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":"830-858"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134648593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are anaerobic fungi crucial hidden players of microbiomes in anoxic environment?","authors":"Enamul Hoque, Johannes Fritscher","doi":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2224425","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2224425","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Anaerobic fungi are known to migrate and establish a 3D network of biofilms (microbiomes) and live invisible in the rumen and terrestrial subsurface, deep-sea - marine, and anoxic environment. They deserve our attention to understand anoxic fungal ecology and functions and develop new products and solutions. Such fungi activate unique genes to produce various polysaccharidases deemed essential for degrading plants' lignocellulosic materials. Nutrient release, recycling, and physical support by anaerobic fungi are crucial for microbiome formation. Multiple reports point to the ability of strictly anaerobic and facultative fungi to adapt and live in anoxic subsurface. Deep-sea sediments and natural anoxic methane-emitting salty waters of sulfidic springs offer suitable habitats for developing prokaryotic-fungal microbiomes. Researchers found a billion-year-old fossil of the fungus-prokaryotic sulfate-reducing consortium buried in deep-sea biospheres. Fungal spores' ability to migrate, even after germination, through sandy layers demonstrates their potential to move up and down porous geological layers or rock fissures. Selective fungal affinity to specific wood in wood chip arrays might help differentiate viable anaerobic fungi from an anoxic environment for their rapid collection and investigation. New collection methods, cultivation, gene expression, and drug and enzyme activity analyses can boost anaerobic fungal research.</p>","PeriodicalId":10736,"journal":{"name":"Critical Reviews in Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":"540-563"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9779607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yaning Xu, Haiyan Du, Yuchun Chen, Chong Ma, Qian Zhang, Hao Li, Zhiyong Xie, Yanjun Hong
{"title":"Targeting the gut microbiota to alleviate chemotherapy-induced toxicity in cancer.","authors":"Yaning Xu, Haiyan Du, Yuchun Chen, Chong Ma, Qian Zhang, Hao Li, Zhiyong Xie, Yanjun Hong","doi":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2233605","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2233605","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite ongoing breakthroughs in novel anticancer therapies, chemotherapy remains a mainstream therapeutic modality in different types of cancer. Unfortunately, chemotherapy-related toxicity (CRT) often leads to dose limitation, and even results in treatment termination. Over the past few years, accumulating evidence has indicated that the gut microbiota is extensively engaged in various toxicities initiated by chemotherapeutic drugs, either directly or indirectly. The gut microbiota can now be targeted to reduce the toxicity of chemotherapy. In the current review, we summarized the clinical relationship between the gut microbiota and CRT, as well as the critical role of the gut microbiota in the occurrence and development of CRT. We then summarized the key mechanisms by which the gut microbiota modulates CRT. Furthermore, currently available strategies to mitigate CRT by targeting the gut microbiota were summarized and discussed. This review offers a novel perspective for the mitigation of diverse chemotherapy-associated toxic reactions in cancer patients and the future development of innovative drugs or functional supplements to alleviate CRT <i>via</i> targeting the gut microbiota.</p>","PeriodicalId":10736,"journal":{"name":"Critical Reviews in Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":"564-580"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9779043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chongshan Yuan, Kunyu Xie, Lianjun Feng, Shouyang Gao, Lifu Cai
{"title":"The role and challenges of regulating endometrial microbiome in uterine health and diseases.","authors":"Chongshan Yuan, Kunyu Xie, Lianjun Feng, Shouyang Gao, Lifu Cai","doi":"10.1080/1040841X.2024.2320247","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1040841X.2024.2320247","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The uterine environment provides necessary conditions for the existence of endometrial microbiota, which in turn plays an important role in maintaining the homeostasis of the uterine environment. The endometrial microbiome is highly susceptible to external factors such as age, hormones, menstrual, pregnancy, etc. When the microbiota is imbalanced, it will further promote the occurrence of uterine diseases such as endometritis and endometrial cancer. Regulating the microbiome of the endometrium is of positive significance for promoting uterine health. Among them, antibiotics, probiotics, prebiotics, and microbial transplantation may be important pathways for regulating endometrial microbiota in the future. However, there is currently no unified plan for evaluating the endometrial microbiota. In addition, due to the small sample size, it is easy to be contaminated by exogenous bacterial DNA, which poses great challenges for studying the mechanism of microbial community regulating uterine health. Therefore, there are still many areas worth exploring for the future of endometrial microbiome.</p>","PeriodicalId":10736,"journal":{"name":"Critical Reviews in Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":"937-954"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140130902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lejaniya Abdul Kalam Saleena, Sui Kiat Chang, Khanom Simarani, Kantha Deivi Arunachalam, Rarinthorn Thammakulkrajang, Yu Hsuan How, Liew Phing Pui
{"title":"A comprehensive review of <i>Bifidobacterium spp</i>: as a probiotic, application in the food and therapeutic, and forthcoming trends.","authors":"Lejaniya Abdul Kalam Saleena, Sui Kiat Chang, Khanom Simarani, Kantha Deivi Arunachalam, Rarinthorn Thammakulkrajang, Yu Hsuan How, Liew Phing Pui","doi":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2243617","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2243617","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recently, more consumers are interested in purchasing probiotic food and beverage products that may improve their immune health. The market for functional foods and beverages that include Bifidobacterium is expanding because of their potential uses in both food and therapeutic applications. However, maintaining <i>Bifidobacterium's</i> viability during food processing and storage remains a challenge. Microencapsulation technique has been explored to improve the viability of <i>Bifidobacterium</i>. Despite the technical, microbiological, and economic challenges, the market potential for immune-supporting functional foods and beverages is significant. Additionally, there is a shift toward postbiotics as a solution for product innovation, a promising postbiotic product that can be incorporated into various food and beverage formats is also introduced in this review. As consumers become more health-conscious, future developments in the functional food and beverage market discussed in this review could serve as a reference for researchers and industrialist.</p>","PeriodicalId":10736,"journal":{"name":"Critical Reviews in Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":"581-597"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10231696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kai Xia, Renyuan Gao, Lin Li, Xiaocai Wu, Tianqi Wu, Yu Ruan, Lu Yin, Chunqiu Chen
{"title":"Transformation of colitis and colorectal cancer: a tale of gut microbiota.","authors":"Kai Xia, Renyuan Gao, Lin Li, Xiaocai Wu, Tianqi Wu, Yu Ruan, Lu Yin, Chunqiu Chen","doi":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2254388","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2254388","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intestinal inflammation modifies host physiology to promote the occurrence of colorectal cancer (CRC), as seen in colitis-associated CRC. Gut microbiota is crucial in cancer progression, primarily by inducing intestinal chronic inflammatory microenvironment, leading to DNA damage, chromosomal mutation, and alterations in specific metabolite production. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in microbiota-based prevention and treatment strategies, such as probiotics, prebiotics, microbiota-derived metabolites, and fecal microbiota transplantation. This review aims to provide valuable insights into the potential correlations between gut microbiota and colitis-associated CRC, as well as the promising microbiota-based strategies for colitis-associated CRC.</p>","PeriodicalId":10736,"journal":{"name":"Critical Reviews in Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":"653-662"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10164941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Herrera-Rodríguez, Sara Jareño-Moreno, Clara Buch-Cardona, François Mougeot, Juan José Luque-Larena, Dolors Vidal
{"title":"Water and mosquitoes as key components of the infective cycle of <i>Francisella tularensis</i> in Europe: a review.","authors":"Daniel Herrera-Rodríguez, Sara Jareño-Moreno, Clara Buch-Cardona, François Mougeot, Juan José Luque-Larena, Dolors Vidal","doi":"10.1080/1040841X.2024.2319040","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1040841X.2024.2319040","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Francisella tularensis</i> is the pathogen of tularemia, a zoonotic disease that have a broad range of hosts. Its epidemiology is related to aquatic environments, particularly in the subspecies <i>holarctica</i>. In this review, we explore the role of water and mosquitoes in the epidemiology of <i>Francisella</i> in Europe. <i>F. tularensis</i> epidemiology has been linked to natural waters, where its persistence has been associated with biofilm and amebas. In Sweden and Finland, the European countries where most human cases have been reported, mosquito bites are a main route of transmission. <i>F. tularensis</i> is present in other European countries, but to date positive mosquitoes have not been found. Biofilm and amebas are potential sources of <i>Francisella</i> for mosquito larvae, however, mosquito vector capacity has not been demonstrated experimentally, with the need to be studied using local species to uncover a potential transmission adaptation. Transstadial, for persistence through life stages, and mechanical transmission, suggesting contaminated media as a source for infection, have been studied experimentally for mosquitoes, but their natural occurrence needs to be evaluated. It is important to clear up the role of different local mosquito species in the epidemiology of <i>F. tularensis</i> and their importance in all areas where tularemia is present.</p>","PeriodicalId":10736,"journal":{"name":"Critical Reviews in Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":"922-936"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139930393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monika Adamczyk-Popławska, Piotr Golec, Andrzej Piekarowicz, Agnieszka Kwiatek
{"title":"The potential for bacteriophages and prophage elements in fighting and preventing the gonorrhea.","authors":"Monika Adamczyk-Popławska, Piotr Golec, Andrzej Piekarowicz, Agnieszka Kwiatek","doi":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2274849","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1040841X.2023.2274849","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bacteriophages are the most numerous entities on earth and are found everywhere their bacterial hosts live. As natural bacteria killers, phages are extensively investigated as a potential cure for bacterial infections. <i>Neisseria gonorrhoeae</i> (the gonococcus) is the etiologic agent of a sexually transmitted disease: gonorrhea. The rapid increase of resistance of <i>N. gonorrhoeae</i> to antibiotics urges scientists to look for alternative treatments to combat gonococcal infections. Phage therapy has not been tested as an anti-gonococcal therapy so far. To date, no lytic phage has been discovered against <i>N. gonorrhoeae</i>. Nevertheless, gonococcal genomes contain both dsDNA and ssDNA prophages, and viral particle induction has been documented. In this review, we consider literature data about the attempts of hunting for a bacteriophage specific for gonococci - the gonophage. We also discuss the potential application of prophage elements in the fight against <i>N. gonorrhoeae</i>. Temperate phages may be useful in preventing and treating gonorrhea as a scaffold for anti-gonococcal vaccine development and as a source of lytic enzymes with anti-gonococcal activity.</p>","PeriodicalId":10736,"journal":{"name":"Critical Reviews in Microbiology","volume":" ","pages":"769-784"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66783627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}