Cell host & microbePub Date : 2024-03-13Epub Date: 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.014
Qian Wang, Yicheng Guo, Anthony Bowen, Ian A Mellis, Riccardo Valdez, Carmen Gherasim, Aubree Gordon, Lihong Liu, David D Ho
{"title":"XBB.1.5 monovalent mRNA vaccine booster elicits robust neutralizing antibodies against XBB subvariants and JN.1.","authors":"Qian Wang, Yicheng Guo, Anthony Bowen, Ian A Mellis, Riccardo Valdez, Carmen Gherasim, Aubree Gordon, Lihong Liu, David D Ho","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>COVID-19 vaccines have recently been updated to specifically encode or contain the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.5 subvariant, but their immunogenicity in humans has yet to be fully evaluated and reported, particularly against emergent viruses that are rapidly expanding. We now report that administration of an updated monovalent mRNA vaccine booster (XBB.1.5 MV) to previously uninfected individuals boosted serum virus-neutralizing antibodies significantly against not only XBB.1.5 (27.0-fold increase) and EG.5.1 (27.6-fold increase) but also key emerging viruses such as HV.1, HK.3, JD.1.1, and JN.1 (13.3- to 27.4-fold increase). Individuals previously infected by an Omicron subvariant had the highest overall serum neutralizing titers (ID<sub>50</sub> 1,504-22,978) against all viral variants tested. While immunological imprinting was still evident with the updated vaccines, it was not nearly as severe as observed with the previously authorized bivalent BA.5 vaccine. Our findings strongly support the official recommendation to widely apply the updated COVID-19 vaccines.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":" ","pages":"315-321.e3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10948033/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139914254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell host & microbePub Date : 2024-03-13Epub Date: 2024-02-16DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.013
Qiyi Chen, Chunyan Wu, Jinfeng Xu, Chen Ye, Xiang Chen, Hongliang Tian, Naixin Zong, Shaoyi Zhang, Long Li, Yuan Gao, Di Zhao, Xiaoqiong Lv, Qilin Yang, Le Wang, Jiaqu Cui, Zhiliang Lin, Jubao Lu, Rong Yang, Fang Yin, Nan Qin, Ning Li, Qian Xu, Huanlong Qin
{"title":"Donor-recipient intermicrobial interactions impact transfer of subspecies and fecal microbiota transplantation outcome.","authors":"Qiyi Chen, Chunyan Wu, Jinfeng Xu, Chen Ye, Xiang Chen, Hongliang Tian, Naixin Zong, Shaoyi Zhang, Long Li, Yuan Gao, Di Zhao, Xiaoqiong Lv, Qilin Yang, Le Wang, Jiaqu Cui, Zhiliang Lin, Jubao Lu, Rong Yang, Fang Yin, Nan Qin, Ning Li, Qian Xu, Huanlong Qin","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Studies on fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) have reported inconsistent connections between clinical outcomes and donor strain engraftment. Analyses of subspecies-level crosstalk and its influences on lineage transfer in metagenomic FMT datasets have proved challenging, as single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are generally not linked and are often absent. Here, we utilized species genome bin (SGB), which employs co-abundance binning, to investigate subspecies-level microbiome dynamics in patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who had gastrointestinal comorbidities and underwent encapsulated FMT (Chinese Clinical Trial: 2100043906). We found that interactions between donor and recipient microbes, which were overwhelmingly phylogenetically divergent, were important for subspecies transfer and positive clinical outcomes. Additionally, a donor-recipient SGB match was indicative of a high likelihood of strain transfer. Importantly, these ecodynamics were shared across FMT datasets encompassing multiple diseases. Collectively, these findings provide detailed insight into specific microbial interactions and dynamics that determine FMT success.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":" ","pages":"349-365.e4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139898375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Invade to evade: E. coli's gutsy survival strategies.","authors":"Yuval Mulla, Tobias Bollenbach","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.02.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Antibiotic resistance is often studied in vitro, limiting the understanding of in vivo mechanisms that affect antibiotic treatment. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Rodrigues et al. show that specific mutations allow bacteria to invade intestinal cells in a mouse model, thereby evading antibiotic treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":"32 3","pages":"300-301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140133533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new piece of the microbiota pie: Mining 'omics for DNA inversion states.","authors":"Danielle E Campbell, Megan T Baldridge","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.02.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.02.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Carasso et al. survey invertible DNA sites in Bacteroidales from patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and healthy control individuals. They identify complex functional interactions between Bacteroides fragilis, an invertible promoter, a capsular polysaccharide, a bacteriophage, and the human host. The establishment of 'omics approaches to characterizing genomic targets and functional roles is still required.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":"32 3","pages":"293-295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140133529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A tough act to swallow: Streptococcusanginosus and gastric cancer.","authors":"Sunny Wong, Patrick Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.02.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gastric cancer is a deadly global malignancy caused by Helicobacter pylori infection. In a recent issue of Cell, Fu et al. identify Streptococcus anginosus, a bacterium normally residing in the oral cavity, as an additional contributor to gastric carcinogenesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":"32 3","pages":"291-293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140133530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell host & microbePub Date : 2024-03-13Epub Date: 2024-02-28DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.02.003
Shaqed Carasso, Rawan Zaatry, Haitham Hajjo, Dana Kadosh-Kariti, Nadav Ben-Assa, Rawi Naddaf, Noa Mandelbaum, Sigal Pressman, Yehuda Chowers, Tal Gefen, Kate L Jeffrey, Juan Jofre, Michael J Coyne, Laurie E Comstock, Itai Sharon, Naama Geva-Zatorsky
{"title":"Inflammation and bacteriophages affect DNA inversion states and functionality of the gut microbiota.","authors":"Shaqed Carasso, Rawan Zaatry, Haitham Hajjo, Dana Kadosh-Kariti, Nadav Ben-Assa, Rawi Naddaf, Noa Mandelbaum, Sigal Pressman, Yehuda Chowers, Tal Gefen, Kate L Jeffrey, Juan Jofre, Michael J Coyne, Laurie E Comstock, Itai Sharon, Naama Geva-Zatorsky","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.02.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reversible genomic DNA inversions control the expression of numerous gut bacterial molecules, but how this impacts disease remains uncertain. By analyzing metagenomic samples from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) cohorts, we identified multiple invertible regions where a particular orientation correlated with disease. These include the promoter of polysaccharide A (PSA) of Bacteroides fragilis, which induces regulatory T cells (Tregs) and ameliorates experimental colitis. The PSA promoter was mostly oriented \"OFF\" in IBD patients, which correlated with increased B. fragilis-associated bacteriophages. Similarly, in mice colonized with a healthy human microbiota and B. fragilis, induction of colitis caused a decline of PSA in the \"ON\" orientation that reversed as inflammation resolved. Monocolonization of mice with B. fragilis revealed that bacteriophage infection increased the frequency of PSA in the \"OFF\" orientation, causing reduced PSA expression and decreased Treg cells. Altogether, we reveal dynamic bacterial phase variations driven by bacteriophages and host inflammation, signifying bacterial functional plasticity during disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":" ","pages":"322-334.e9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10939037/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139998555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gut microbe guides alveolar macrophages to fight flu.","authors":"Tao Wang, Yanling Wang, Yushi Yao","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.02.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.02.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The intestinal microbiota is associated with defense against respiratory viral infections. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Ngo and colleagues<sup>1</sup> show that intestinal commensal segmented filamentous bacteria reprogram alveolar macrophages with improved influenza-viral-neutralizing and phagocytic functions while maintaining inflammatory anergy to better protect the lung.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":"32 3","pages":"296-298"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140133532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell host & microbePub Date : 2024-03-13Epub Date: 2024-02-14DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.012
Marinelle Rodrigues, Parastoo Sabaeifard, Muhammed Sadik Yildiz, Adam Lyon, Laura Coughlin, Sara Ahmed, Nicole Poulides, Ahmet C Toprak, Cassie Behrendt, Xiaoyu Wang, Marguerite Monogue, Jiwoong Kim, Shuheng Gan, Xiaowei Zhan, Laura Filkins, Noelle S Williams, Lora V Hooper, Andrew Y Koh, Erdal Toprak
{"title":"Susceptible bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract without evolving resistance.","authors":"Marinelle Rodrigues, Parastoo Sabaeifard, Muhammed Sadik Yildiz, Adam Lyon, Laura Coughlin, Sara Ahmed, Nicole Poulides, Ahmet C Toprak, Cassie Behrendt, Xiaoyu Wang, Marguerite Monogue, Jiwoong Kim, Shuheng Gan, Xiaowei Zhan, Laura Filkins, Noelle S Williams, Lora V Hooper, Andrew Y Koh, Erdal Toprak","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Antibiotic resistance and evasion are incompletely understood and complicated by the fact that murine interval dosing models do not fully recapitulate antibiotic pharmacokinetics in humans. To better understand how gastrointestinal bacteria respond to antibiotics, we colonized germ-free mice with a pan-susceptible genetically barcoded Escherichia coli clinical isolate and administered the antibiotic cefepime via programmable subcutaneous pumps, allowing closer emulation of human parenteral antibiotic dynamics. E. coli was only recovered from intestinal tissue, where cefepime concentrations were still inhibitory. Strikingly, \"some\" E. coli isolates were not cefepime resistant but acquired mutations in genes involved in polysaccharide capsular synthesis increasing their invasion and survival within human intestinal cells. Deleting wbaP involved in capsular polysaccharide synthesis mimicked this phenotype, allowing increased invasion of colonocytes where cefepime concentrations were reduced. Additionally, \"some\" mutant strains exhibited a persister phenotype upon further cefepime exposure. This work uncovers a mechanism allowing \"select\" gastrointestinal bacteria to evade antibiotic treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":" ","pages":"396-410.e6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10942764/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139742948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell host & microbePub Date : 2024-02-14Epub Date: 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2023.12.006
Jimin Cha, Tae-Gyun Kim, Euihyun Bhae, Ho-Jin Gwak, Yeajin Ju, Young Ho Choe, In-Hwan Jang, Youngae Jung, Sungmin Moon, Taehyun Kim, Wuseong Lee, Jung Sun Park, Youn Wook Chung, Siyoung Yang, Yong-Kook Kang, Young-Min Hyun, Geum-Sook Hwang, Won-Jae Lee, Mina Rho, Ji-Hwan Ryu
{"title":"Skin microbe-dependent TSLP-ILC2 priming axis in early life is co-opted in allergic inflammation.","authors":"Jimin Cha, Tae-Gyun Kim, Euihyun Bhae, Ho-Jin Gwak, Yeajin Ju, Young Ho Choe, In-Hwan Jang, Youngae Jung, Sungmin Moon, Taehyun Kim, Wuseong Lee, Jung Sun Park, Youn Wook Chung, Siyoung Yang, Yong-Kook Kang, Young-Min Hyun, Geum-Sook Hwang, Won-Jae Lee, Mina Rho, Ji-Hwan Ryu","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2023.12.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2023.12.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although early life colonization of commensal microbes contributes to long-lasting immune imprinting in host tissues, little is known regarding the pathophysiological consequences of postnatal microbial tuning of cutaneous immunity. Here, we show that postnatal exposure to specific skin commensal Staphylococcus lentus (S. lentus) promotes the extent of atopic dermatitis (AD)-like inflammation in adults through priming of group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s). Early postnatal skin is dynamically populated by discrete subset of primed ILC2s driven by microbiota-dependent induction of thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) in keratinocytes. Specifically, the indole-3-aldehyde-producing tryptophan metabolic pathway, shared across Staphylococcus species, is involved in TSLP-mediated ILC2 priming. Furthermore, we demonstrate a critical contribution of the early postnatal S. lentus-TSLP-ILC2 priming axis in facilitating AD-like inflammation that is not replicated by later microbial exposure. Thus, our findings highlight the fundamental role of time-dependent neonatal microbial-skin crosstalk in shaping the threshold of innate type 2 immunity co-opted in adulthood.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":" ","pages":"244-260.e11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139418807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A pathway linking atopic dermatitis to skin microbes.","authors":"Jinfang Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chom.2024.01.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interactions between microbiota and host skin have an important impact on cutaneous immunity and inflammation. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Cha et al. report that skin commensal bacteria-mediated priming of group 2 innate lymphoid cells in early life predisposes the mice to atopic dermatitis-like inflammation in adulthood.</p>","PeriodicalId":93926,"journal":{"name":"Cell host & microbe","volume":"32 2","pages":"154-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139742950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}