{"title":"The origins of pathogenesis","authors":"Salvador Almagro-Moreno","doi":"10.1038/s41579-024-01034-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41579-024-01034-0","url":null,"abstract":"In this Journal Club, Salvador Almagro-Moreno discusses a study by Kirn et al., which explores the emergence of virulence traits in Vibrio cholerae and demonstrates how the ability of this pathogen to colonize the host shares a common mechanism to its capacity to thrive in natural environments.","PeriodicalId":18838,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Microbiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":88.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140039811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian R. Voolstra, Jean-Baptiste Raina, Melanie Dörr, Anny Cárdenas, Claudia Pogoreutz, Cynthia B. Silveira, Amin R. Mohamed, David G. Bourne, Haiwei Luo, Shady A. Amin, Raquel S. Peixoto
{"title":"The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world","authors":"Christian R. Voolstra, Jean-Baptiste Raina, Melanie Dörr, Anny Cárdenas, Claudia Pogoreutz, Cynthia B. Silveira, Amin R. Mohamed, David G. Bourne, Haiwei Luo, Shady A. Amin, Raquel S. Peixoto","doi":"10.1038/s41579-024-01015-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41579-024-01015-3","url":null,"abstract":"Stony corals, the engines and engineers of reef ecosystems, face unprecedented threats from anthropogenic environmental change. Corals are holobionts that comprise the cnidarian animal host and a diverse community of bacteria, archaea, viruses and eukaryotic microorganisms. Recent research shows that the bacterial microbiome has a pivotal role in coral biology. A healthy bacterial assemblage contributes to nutrient cycling and stress resilience, but pollution, overfishing and climate change can break down these symbiotic relationships, which results in disease, bleaching and, ultimately, coral death. Although progress has been made in characterizing the spatial-temporal diversity of bacteria, we are only beginning to appreciate their functional contribution. In this Review, we summarize the ecological and metabolic interactions between bacteria and other holobiont members, highlight the biotic and abiotic factors influencing the structure of bacterial communities and discuss the impact of climate change on these communities and their coral hosts. We emphasize how microbiome-based interventions can help to decipher key mechanisms underpinning coral health and promote reef resilience. Finally, we explore how recent technological developments may be harnessed to address some of the most pressing challenges in coral microbiology, providing a road map for future research in this field. In this Review, Voolstra, Raina, Peixoto and colleagues discuss our current knowledge of the function and role of the bacterial microbiome in coral health and disease, and elucidate the response of the host-associated bacteria to global change, which bears implications for coral reef conservation.","PeriodicalId":18838,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Microbiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":69.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140028517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conservation and similarity of bacterial and eukaryotic innate immunity","authors":"Hannah E. Ledvina, Aaron T. Whiteley","doi":"10.1038/s41579-024-01017-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41579-024-01017-1","url":null,"abstract":"Pathogens are ubiquitous and a constant threat to their hosts, which has led to the evolution of sophisticated immune systems in bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. Bacterial immune systems encode an astoundingly large array of antiviral (antiphage) systems, and recent investigations have identified unexpected similarities between the immune systems of bacteria and animals. In this Review, we discuss advances in our understanding of the bacterial innate immune system and highlight the components, strategies and pathogen restriction mechanisms conserved between bacteria and eukaryotes. We summarize evidence for the hypothesis that components of the human immune system originated in bacteria, where they first evolved to defend against phages. Further, we discuss shared mechanisms that pathogens use to overcome host immune pathways and unexpected similarities between bacterial immune systems and interbacterial antagonism. Understanding the shared evolutionary path of immune components across domains of life and the successful strategies that organisms have arrived at to restrict their pathogens will enable future development of therapeutics that activate the human immune system for the precise treatment of disease. In this Review, Ledvina and Whiteley highlight the key similarities between eukaryotic and bacterial innate immune systems, exploring conserved immune components and signalling strategies, as well as conserved mechanisms for pathogen restriction.","PeriodicalId":18838,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Microbiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":88.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139987538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monitoring pathogens in wastewater","authors":"Arin Wongprommoon, Chalita Chomkatekaew, Claire Chewapreecha","doi":"10.1038/s41579-024-01033-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41579-024-01033-1","url":null,"abstract":"Wastewater genomic surveillance can transform global viral disease monitoring. This Genome Watch article explores the techniques, analytical pipelines and implications for public health.","PeriodicalId":18838,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Microbiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":88.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139976656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philip J. Rosenthal, Victor Asua, Melissa D. Conrad
{"title":"Author Correction: Emergence, transmission dynamics and mechanisms of artemisinin partial resistance in malaria parasites in Africa","authors":"Philip J. Rosenthal, Victor Asua, Melissa D. Conrad","doi":"10.1038/s41579-024-01032-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41579-024-01032-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18838,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Microbiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":88.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-024-01032-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139983362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A potential new player in gastric cancer","authors":"Agustina Taglialegna","doi":"10.1038/s41579-024-01027-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41579-024-01027-z","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, Fu et al. show that Streptococcus anginosus promotes gastric tumorigenesis in mice.","PeriodicalId":18838,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Microbiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":88.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139915888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breaking the mould: rethinking ‘wild type’ in fungal pathogens","authors":"Amelia E. Barber","doi":"10.1038/s41579-024-01024-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41579-024-01024-2","url":null,"abstract":"In this Journal Club, Amelia Barber discusses a study revealing intraspecies heterogeneity in a fungal pathogen, prompting us to re-evaluate the notion of ‘reference’ strains.","PeriodicalId":18838,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Microbiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":88.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139747036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inactive vents, active producers","authors":"Agustina Taglialegna","doi":"10.1038/s41579-024-01022-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41579-024-01022-4","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, Achberger et al. report that microbial communities of inactive hydrothermal deposits contribute to primary productivity in the deep sea.","PeriodicalId":18838,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Microbiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":88.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139735654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping the microbiome milieu","authors":"Matthew J. Blow","doi":"10.1038/s41579-024-01019-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41579-024-01019-z","url":null,"abstract":"This month’s Genome Watch discusses the application of spatial transcriptomics to investigate the arrangements of microbial communities and their effects on the host.","PeriodicalId":18838,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Microbiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":88.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139733614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bacterial architects build the biofilm structures","authors":"Andrea Du Toit","doi":"10.1038/s41579-024-01020-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41579-024-01020-6","url":null,"abstract":"This study shows that the distinct cellular organization across the depth of a biofilm is tightly regulated and has consequences for cell physiology and antibiotic tolerance.","PeriodicalId":18838,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Microbiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":88.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139723336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}