Patricia Spoto Corrêa, Murilo Antonio Fernandes, Carolina Rodriguez Jimenez, Lucas William Mendes, Paulo de Mello Tavares Lima, Adibe Luiz Abdalla, Helder Louvandini
{"title":"Interaction between methanotrophy and gastrointestinal nematodes infection on the rumen microbiome of lambs.","authors":"Patricia Spoto Corrêa, Murilo Antonio Fernandes, Carolina Rodriguez Jimenez, Lucas William Mendes, Paulo de Mello Tavares Lima, Adibe Luiz Abdalla, Helder Louvandini","doi":"10.1093/femsec/fiae083","DOIUrl":"10.1093/femsec/fiae083","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Complex cross-talk occurs between gastrointestinal nematodes and gut symbiotic microbiota, with consequences for animal metabolism. To investigate the connection between methane production and endoparasites, this study evaluated the effect of mixed infection with Haemonchus contortus and Trichostrongylus colubriformis on methanogenic and methanotrophic community in rumen microbiota of lambs using shotgun metagenomic and real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR). The rumen content was collected from six Santa Inês lambs, (7 months old) before and after 42 days infection by esophageal tube. The metagenomic analysis showed that the infection affected the microbial community structure leading to decreased abundance of methanotrophs bacteria, i.e. α-proteobacteria and β-proteobacteria, anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME), protozoa, sulfate-reducing bacteria, syntrophic bacteria with methanogens, geobacter, and genes related to pyruvate, fatty acid, nitrogen, and sulfur metabolisms, ribulose monophosphate cycle, and Entner-Doudoroff Pathway. Additionally, the abundance of methanogenic archaea and the mcrA gene did not change. The co-occurrence networks enabled us to identify the interactions between each taxon in microbial communities and to determine the reshaping of rumen microbiome associations by gastrointestinal nematode infection. Besides, the correlation between ANMEs was lower in the animal's postinfection. Our findings suggest that gastrointestinal parasites potentially lead to decreased methanotrophic metabolism-related microorganisms and genes.</p>","PeriodicalId":12312,"journal":{"name":"FEMS microbiology ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11165275/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141183999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Verena S Brauer, Lisa Voskuhl, Sadjad Mohammadian, Mark Pannekens, Shirin Haque, Rainer U Meckenstock
{"title":"Imprints of ecological processes in the taxonomic core community: an analysis of naturally replicated microbial communities enclosed in oil.","authors":"Verena S Brauer, Lisa Voskuhl, Sadjad Mohammadian, Mark Pannekens, Shirin Haque, Rainer U Meckenstock","doi":"10.1093/femsec/fiae074","DOIUrl":"10.1093/femsec/fiae074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is widely assumed that a taxonomic core community emerges among microbial communities from similar habitats because similar environments select for the same taxa bearing the same traits. Yet, a core community itself is no indicator of selection because it may also arise from dispersal and neutral drift, i.e. by chance. Here, we hypothesize that a core community produced by either selection or chance processes should be distinguishable. While dispersal and drift should produce core communities with similar relative taxon abundances, especially when the proportional core community, i.e. the sum of the relative abundances of the core taxa, is large, selection may produce variable relative abundances. We analyzed the core community of 16S rRNA gene sequences of 193 microbial communities occurring in tiny water droplets enclosed in heavy oil from the Pitch Lake, Trinidad and Tobago. These communities revealed highly variable relative abundances along with a large proportional core community (68.0 ± 19.9%). A dispersal-drift null model predicted a negative relationship of proportional core community and compositional variability along a range of dispersal probabilities and was largely inconsistent with the observed data, suggesting a major role of selection for shaping the water droplet communities in the Pitch Lake.</p>","PeriodicalId":12312,"journal":{"name":"FEMS microbiology ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11110866/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140908080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lorrayne Cardoso Guimarães, Gizele Duarte Garcia, Fernanda Sampaio Cavalcante, Graciela Maria Dias, Felipe Miceli de Farias, Simone Saintive, Eliane de Dios Abad, Dennis de Carvalho Ferreira, Kátia Regina Netto Dos Santos
{"title":"Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative Staphylococcus produce antimicrobial substances against members of the skin microbiota in children with atopic dermatitis.","authors":"Lorrayne Cardoso Guimarães, Gizele Duarte Garcia, Fernanda Sampaio Cavalcante, Graciela Maria Dias, Felipe Miceli de Farias, Simone Saintive, Eliane de Dios Abad, Dennis de Carvalho Ferreira, Kátia Regina Netto Dos Santos","doi":"10.1093/femsec/fiae070","DOIUrl":"10.1093/femsec/fiae070","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) species inhibiting Staphylococcus aureus has been described in the skin of atopic dermatitis (AD) patients. This study evaluated whether Staphylococcus spp. from the skin and nares of AD and non-AD children produced antimicrobial substances (AMS). AMS production was screened by an overlay method and tested against NaOH, proteases and 30 indicator strains. Clonality was assessed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Proteinaceous AMS-producers were investigated for autoimmunity by the overlay method and presence of bacteriocin genes by polymerase chain reaction. Two AMS-producers had their genome screened for AMS genes. A methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) produced proteinaceous AMS that inhibited 51.7% of the staphylococcal indicator strains, and it was active against 60% of the colonies selected from the AD child where it was isolated. On the other hand, 57 (8.8%) CoNS from the nares and skin of AD and non-AD children, most of them S. epidermidis (45.6%), reduced the growth of S. aureus and other CoNS species. Bacteriocin-related genes were detected in the genomes of AMS-producers. AMS production by CoNS inhibited S. aureus and other skin microbiota species from children with AD. Furthermore, an MRSA colonizing a child with AD produced AMS, reinforcing its contribution to dysbiosis and disease severity.</p>","PeriodicalId":12312,"journal":{"name":"FEMS microbiology ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11141783/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141160489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Oprei, José Schreckinger, Insa Franzmann, Hayoung Lee, Michael Mutz, Ute Risse-Buhl
{"title":"Light over mechanics: Microbial community structure and activity in simulated migrating bedforms are controlled by oscillating light rather than by mechanical forces","authors":"Anna Oprei, José Schreckinger, Insa Franzmann, Hayoung Lee, Michael Mutz, Ute Risse-Buhl","doi":"10.1093/femsec/fiae073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiae073","url":null,"abstract":"Sandy sediments of lowland streams are transported as migrating ripples. Benthic microorganisms colonizing sandy grains are exposed to frequent moving-resting cycles and are believed to be shaped by two dominant environmental factors: mechanical stress during the moving phase causing biofilm abrasion, and alternating light-dark cycles during the resting phase. Our study consisted of two laboratory experiments and aimed to decipher which environmental factor causes the previously observed hampered sediment associated microbial activity and altered community structure during ripple migration. The first experiment tested the effect of three different migration velocities under comparable light conditions. The second experiment compared migrating and stationary sediments under either constant light exposure or light oscillation. We hypothesized that microbial activity and community structure would be more strongly affected by 1) higher compared to lower migration velocities, and by 2) light oscillation compared to mechanical stress. Combining the results from both experiments, we observed lower microbial activity and an altered community structure in sediments exposed to light oscillation, whereas migration velocity had less impact on community activity and structure. Our findings indicate that light oscillation is the predominating environmental factor acting during ripple migration, resulting in an increased vulnerability of light-dependent photoautotrophs and a possible shift towards heterotrophy.","PeriodicalId":12312,"journal":{"name":"FEMS microbiology ecology","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140840332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paula A Rojas-Pinzon, Judith Prommer, Christopher J Sedlacek, Taru Sandén, Heide Spiegel, Petra Pjevac, Lucia Fuchslueger, Andrew T Giguere
{"title":"Inhibition profile of three biological nitrification inhibitors and their response to soil pH modification in two contrasting soils","authors":"Paula A Rojas-Pinzon, Judith Prommer, Christopher J Sedlacek, Taru Sandén, Heide Spiegel, Petra Pjevac, Lucia Fuchslueger, Andrew T Giguere","doi":"10.1093/femsec/fiae072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiae072","url":null,"abstract":"Up to 70% of the nitrogen (N) fertilizer applied to agricultural soils is lost through microbially mediated processes, such as nitrification. This can be counteracted by synthetic and biological compounds that inhibit nitrification. However, for many biological nitrification inhibitors (BNIs), the interaction with soil properties, nitrifier specificity, and effective concentrations are unclear. Here, we investigated three synthetic nitrification inhibitors (SNIs) (DCD, DMPP, and nitrapyrin) and three BNIs (methyl 3(4-hydroxyphenyl) propionate (MHPP), methyl 3(4-hydroxyphenyl) acrylate (MHPA), and limonene) in two agricultural soils differing in pH and nitrifier communities. The efficacies of SNIs and BNIs were resilient to short-term pH changes in the neutral pH soil, whereas the efficacy of some BNIs increased by neutralizing the alkaline soil. Among the BNIs, MHPA showed the highest inhibition and was, together with MHPP, identified as a putative AOB/comammox-selective inhibitor. Additionally, MHPA and limonene effectively inhibited nitrification at concentrations comparable to those used for DCD. Moreover, we identified the effective concentrations at which 50 and 80% of inhibition is observed (EC50 and EC80) for the BNIs, and similar EC80 values were observed in both soils. Overall, our results show that these BNIs could potentially serve as effective alternatives to SNIs currently used.","PeriodicalId":12312,"journal":{"name":"FEMS microbiology ecology","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140840316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Girish R Nair, Bhaveni B Kooverjee, Storme de Scally, Don A Cowan, Thulani P Makhalanyane
{"title":"Changes in nutrient availability substantially alter bacteria and extracellular enzymatic activities in Antarctic soils","authors":"Girish R Nair, Bhaveni B Kooverjee, Storme de Scally, Don A Cowan, Thulani P Makhalanyane","doi":"10.1093/femsec/fiae071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiae071","url":null,"abstract":"In polar regions, global warming has accelerated the melting of glacial and buried ice, resulting meltwater run-off and mobilisation of surface nutrients. Yet, the short-term effects of altered nutrient regimes, on the diversity and function of soil microbiota in poly-extreme environments such as Antarctica, remains poorly understood. We studied these effects by simulating such environments via constructing soil microcosms through augmented carbon, nitrogen, and moisture supplements. Addition of nitrogen significantly decreased the diversity of Antarctic soil microbial assemblages, compared with other treatment groups. Other treatments led to shift in relative abundances of these microbial assemblages with random distributional patterns. Only nitrogen treatment appeared to show clear community structural patterns, with increase in abundance of Proteobacteria (Gammaproteobateria) and decrease in Verrucomicrobiota (Chlamydiae, Verrucomicrobiae). Effects of extracellular enzyme activities and soil parameters on changes in microbial taxa also showed significance impacts of nitrogen treatment. Microbial response to nutrient addition was predicted using structural equation modelling which revealed that nutrient source and extracellular enzyme activities were positive predictors of microbial diversity. Our study highlights the effect of nitrogen addition on Antarctic soil microorganisms which showed resilience to nutrient increases. Rather than being resistant to change, these microorganisms rapidly responded to augmented nutrient regimes.","PeriodicalId":12312,"journal":{"name":"FEMS microbiology ecology","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140840323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Min Shen, Limeng Wu, Yanzhou Zhang, Ruiqiang You, Jiaxin Xiao, Yijun Kang
{"title":"Leaf litter from Cynanchum auriculatum Royle ex Wight leads to root rot outbreaks by Fusarium solani, hindering continuous cropping","authors":"Min Shen, Limeng Wu, Yanzhou Zhang, Ruiqiang You, Jiaxin Xiao, Yijun Kang","doi":"10.1093/femsec/fiae068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiae068","url":null,"abstract":"Cynanchum auriculatum Royle ex Wight (CA) is experiencing challenges with continuous cropping obstacle (CCO) due to soil-borne fungal pathogens. The leaf litter from CA is regularly incorporated into the soil after root harvesting, but the impact of this practice on pathogen outbreaks remains uncertain. In this study, a fungal strain D1, identified as Fusarium solani, was isolated and confirmed as a potential factor in CCO. Both leave extract (LE) and root extract (RE) were found to inhibit seed germination and the activities of plant defense-related enzymes. The combinations of extracts and D1 exacerbated these negative effects. Beyond promoting the proliferation of D1 in soil, the extracts also enhanced the hypha weight, spore number, and spore germination rate of D1. Compared to RE, LE exhibited a greater degree of promotion in the activities of pathogenesis-related enzymes in D1. Additionally, caffeic acid and ferulic acid were identified as potential active compounds. LE, particularly in combination with D1, induced a shift in the composition of fungal communities rather than bacterial communities. These findings indicate that the water extract of leaf litter stimulated the growth and proliferation of fungal strain D1, thereby augmenting its pathogenicity towards CA and ultimately contributing to the CCO process.","PeriodicalId":12312,"journal":{"name":"FEMS microbiology ecology","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140840145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yossi Cohen, Julia Johnke, Alfred Abed-Rabbo, Zohar Pasternak, Antonis Chatzinotas, Edouard Jurkevitch
{"title":"Unbalanced predatory communities and a lack of microbial degraders characterize the microbiota of a highly sewage-polluted Eastern-Mediterranean stream","authors":"Yossi Cohen, Julia Johnke, Alfred Abed-Rabbo, Zohar Pasternak, Antonis Chatzinotas, Edouard Jurkevitch","doi":"10.1093/femsec/fiae069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiae069","url":null,"abstract":"Wastewater pollution of water resources takes a heavy toll on humans and on the environment. In highly polluted water bodies, self-purification is impaired, as the capacity of the riverine microbes to regenerate the ecosystem is overwhelmed. To date, information on the composition, dynamics, and functions of the microbial communities in highly sewage-impacted rivers is limited in particular in arid and semi-arid environments. In this year-long study of the highly sewage-impacted Al-Nar/Kidron stream in the Barr al-Khalil/Judean Desert east of Jerusalem we show, using 16S and 18S rRNA gene-based community analysis and targeted QPCR, that both the bacterial and micro-eukaryotic communities, while abundant, exhibited low stability and diversity. Organic compounds hydrolyzers, and nitrogen and phosphorus recyclers were lacking, pointing at a reduced potential for regeneration. Furthermore, facultative bacterial predators were almost absent, and the obligate predators Bdellovibrio-and-like-organisms were found at very low abundance. Finally, the micro-eukaryotic predatory community differed from those of other freshwater environments. The lack of essential biochemical functions may explain the stream's inability to self-purify while the very low levels of bacterial predators and the disturbed assemblages of micro-eukaryote predators present in Al-Nar/Kidron may contribute to community instability and disfunction.","PeriodicalId":12312,"journal":{"name":"FEMS microbiology ecology","volume":"119 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140840325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Masaru Bamba, Turgut Yigit Akyol, Yusuke Azuma, Johan Quilbe, Stig Uggerhøj Andersen, Shusei Sato
{"title":"Synergistic effects of plant genotype and soil microbiome on growth in Lotus japonicus","authors":"Masaru Bamba, Turgut Yigit Akyol, Yusuke Azuma, Johan Quilbe, Stig Uggerhøj Andersen, Shusei Sato","doi":"10.1093/femsec/fiae056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiae056","url":null,"abstract":"The biological interactions between plants and their root microbiomes are essential for plant growth, and even though plant genotype [G], soil microbiome [M], and growth conditions (environment) [E] are the core factors shaping root microbiome, their relationships remain unclear. In this study we investigated the effects of G, M, and E and their interactions on the Lotus root microbiome and plant growth using an in vitro cross-inoculation approach which reconstructed the interactions between nine Lotus accessions and four soil microbiomes under two different environmental conditions. Results suggested that a large proportion of the root microbiome composition is determined by M and E, while G-related (G, G × M, and G × E) effects were significant but small. In contrast, the interaction between G and M had a more pronounced effect on plant shoot growth than M alone. Our findings also indicated that most microbiome variations controlled by M have little effect on plant phenotypes, whereas G × M interactions have more significant effects. Plant genotype-dependent interactions with soil microbes warrant more attention to optimize crop yield and resilience.","PeriodicalId":12312,"journal":{"name":"FEMS microbiology ecology","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140812421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of rhizosphere phages in soil health","authors":"Xiaofang Wang, Yike Tang, Xiufeng Yue, Shuo Wang, Keming Yang, Yangchun Xu, Qirong Shen, Ville-Petri Friman, Zhong Wei","doi":"10.1093/femsec/fiae052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiae052","url":null,"abstract":"While the One Health framework has emphasized the importance of soil microbiomes for plant and human health, one of the most diverse and abundant groups—bacterial viruses, i.e. phages—has been mostly neglected. This perspective reviews the significance of phages for plant health in rhizosphere and explores their ecological and evolutionary impacts on soil ecosystems. We first summarize our current understanding of the diversity and ecological roles of phages in soil microbiomes in terms of nutrient cycling, top-down density regulation and pathogen suppression. We then consider how phages drive bacterial evolution in soils by promoting horizontal gene transfer, encoding auxiliary metabolic genes that increase host bacterial fitness and selecting for phage-resistant mutants with altered ecology due to trade-offs with pathogen competitiveness and virulence. Finally, we consider challenges and avenues for phage research in soil ecosystems and how to elucidate the significance of phages for microbial ecology and evolution and soil ecosystem functioning in the future. We conclude that similar to bacteria, phages likely play important roles in connecting different One Health compartments, affecting microbiome diversity and functions in soils. From the applied perspective, phages could offer novel approaches to modulate and optimize microbial and microbe-plant interactions to enhance soil health.","PeriodicalId":12312,"journal":{"name":"FEMS microbiology ecology","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140812940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}