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  1. Article ; Online: To breathe or not to breathe?

    Lauren C Radlinski / Andreas J Bäumler

    eLife, Vol

    2022  Volume 11

    Abstract: Listeria monocytogenes uses respiration to sustain a risky fermentative lifestyle during infection. ...

    Abstract Listeria monocytogenes uses respiration to sustain a risky fermentative lifestyle during infection.
    Keywords bacterial pathogenesis ; cellular respiration ; microbial metabolism ; Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  2. Article ; Online: The founder hypothesis

    Yael Litvak / Andreas J Bäumler

    PLoS Pathogens, Vol 15, Iss 2, p e

    A basis for microbiota resistance, diversity in taxa carriage, and colonization resistance against pathogens.

    2019  Volume 1007563

    Keywords Immunologic diseases. Allergy ; RC581-607 ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  3. Article ; Online: Assessment of Murine Colon Inflammation Using Intraluminal Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging

    Alba Alfonso-Garcia / Stephanie A. Cevallos / Jee-Yon Lee / Cai Li / Julien Bec / Andreas J. Bäumler / Laura Marcu

    Molecules, Vol 27, Iss 1317, p

    2022  Volume 1317

    Abstract: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is typically diagnosed by exclusion years after its onset. Current diagnostic methods are indirect, destructive, or target overt disease. Screening strategies that can detect low-grade inflammation in the colon would ... ...

    Abstract Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is typically diagnosed by exclusion years after its onset. Current diagnostic methods are indirect, destructive, or target overt disease. Screening strategies that can detect low-grade inflammation in the colon would improve patient prognosis and alleviate associated healthcare costs. Here, we test the feasibility of fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIm) to detect inflammation from thick tissue in a non-destructive and label-free approach based on tissue autofluorescence. A pulse sampling FLIm instrument with 355 nm excitation was coupled to a rotating side-viewing endoscopic probe for high speed (10 mm/s) intraluminal imaging of the entire mucosal surface (50–80 mm) of freshly excised mice colons. Current results demonstrate that tissue autofluorescence lifetime was sensitive to the colon anatomy and the colonocyte layer. Moreover, mice under DSS-induced colitis and 5-ASA treatments showed changes in lifetime values that were qualitatively related to inflammatory markers consistent with alterations in epithelial bioenergetics (switch between <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>β</mi></semantics></math> -oxidation and aerobic glycolysis) and physical structure (colon length). This study demonstrates the ability of intraluminal FLIm to image mucosal lifetime changes in response to inflammatory treatments and supports the development of FLIm as an in vivo imaging technique for monitoring the onset, progression, and treatment of inflammatory diseases.
    Keywords fluorescence lifetime imaging ; autofluorescence ; inflammatory bowel disease ; colon dysbiosis ; Organic chemistry ; QD241-441
    Subject code 610
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
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  4. Article ; Online: The metabolic footprint of Clostridia and Erysipelotrichia reveals their role in depleting sugar alcohols in the cecum

    Connor R. Tiffany / Jee-Yon Lee / Andrew W. L. Rogers / Erin E. Olsan / Pavel Morales / Franziska Faber / Andreas J. Bäumler

    Microbiome, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2021  Volume 13

    Abstract: Abstract Background The catabolic activity of the microbiota contributes to health by aiding in nutrition, immune education, and niche protection against pathogens. However, the nutrients consumed by common taxa within the gut microbiota remain ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Background The catabolic activity of the microbiota contributes to health by aiding in nutrition, immune education, and niche protection against pathogens. However, the nutrients consumed by common taxa within the gut microbiota remain incompletely understood. Methods Here we combined microbiota profiling with an un-targeted metabolomics approach to determine whether depletion of small metabolites in the cecum of mice correlated with the presence of specific bacterial taxa. Causality was investigated by engrafting germ-free or antibiotic-treated mice with complex or defined microbial communities. Results We noted that a depletion of Clostridia and Erysipelotrichia from the gut microbiota triggered by antibiotic treatment was associated with an increase in the cecal concentration of sugar acids and sugar alcohols (polyols). Notably, when we inoculated germ-free mice with a defined microbial community of 14 Clostridia and 3 Erysipelotrichia isolates, we observed the inverse, with a marked decrease in the concentrations of sugar acids and polyols in cecal contents. The carbohydrate footprint produced by the defined microbial community was similar to that observed in gnotobiotic mice receiving a cecal microbiota transplant from conventional mice. Supplementation with sorbitol, a polyol used as artificial sweetener, increased cecal sorbitol concentrations in antibiotic-treated mice, which was abrogated after inoculation with a Clostridia isolate able to grow on sorbitol in vitro. Conclusions We conclude that consumption of sugar alcohols by Clostridia and Erysipelotrichia species depletes these metabolites from the intestinal lumen during homeostasis. Video abstract
    Keywords Microbiota ; Alcoholic sugars ; Polyols ; FODMAPs ; Clostridia ; Erysipelotrichia ; Microbial ecology ; QR100-130
    Subject code 572
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher BMC
    Document type Article ; Online
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  5. Article ; Online: 2420

    Lillian F. Zhang / Fabian Rivera-Chavez / Hirotaka Hiyoshi / Andreas J. Baumler

    Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, Vol 1, Pp 9-

    2017  Volume 9

    Abstract: OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Our long-term goal is to elucidate the molecular mechanisms and virulence factors that control the differential presentation of infection with Salmonella typhimurium and Salmonella typhi. The objectives of this study are to ... ...

    Abstract OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Our long-term goal is to elucidate the molecular mechanisms and virulence factors that control the differential presentation of infection with Salmonella typhimurium and Salmonella typhi. The objectives of this study are to study the mechanisms that enable S. typhi to trigger a decreased inflammatory response in comparison with S. typhimurium and evade detection by the immune system, leading to the development of asymptomatic chronic carriage of S. typhi. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: A loss of function eptB mutant S. typhimurium strain was generated. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was isolated from wild-type and eptB mutant S. typhimurium and wild-type S. typhi. Binding of LPS to recombinant intelectin was tested by dot blot and enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA). C57BL/6 mice were infected with wild-type or eptB mutant S. typhimurium by oral gavage and inflammatory cytokines in the spleen, liver, and Peyer’s patches were measured by qPCR. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: LPS isolated from wild-type S. typhimurium is not bound by intelectin, a protein that has been proposed to function in innate immunity and that is known to be able to bind certain moieties within LPS. Conversely, LPS isolated from eptB mutant S. typhimurium and wild-type S. typhi, which lacks a functional eptB, is bound by intelectin. Mice infected with an eptB mutant S. typhimurium exhibit decreased expression of inflammatory cytokines in the spleen compared to mice infected with the wild type S. typhimurium, suggesting that loss of eptB function allows a nontyphoidal Salmonella serovar to mimic the stealth phenotype of typhoidal serovars. Together, these results suggest that loss of eptB function allows intelectin to bind to and detoxify Salmonella LPS, leading to decreased systemic inflammation during infection. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: These results have broad implications for how pathogens such as S. typhimurium induce systemic shock during infection and may also help to explain a mechanism for how S. typhi is ...
    Keywords Medicine ; R
    Subject code 630 ; 616
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Cambridge University Press
    Document type Article ; Online
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  6. Article: Dysbiotic Proteobacteria expansion: a microbial signature of epithelial dysfunction

    Litvak, Yael / Andreas J Bäumler / Mariana X Byndloss / Renée M Tsolis

    Current opinion in microbiology. 2017 Oct., v. 39

    2017  

    Abstract: A balanced gut microbiota is important for health, but the mechanisms maintaining homeostasis are incompletely understood. Anaerobiosis of the healthy colon drives the composition of the gut microbiota towards a dominance of obligate anaerobes, while ... ...

    Abstract A balanced gut microbiota is important for health, but the mechanisms maintaining homeostasis are incompletely understood. Anaerobiosis of the healthy colon drives the composition of the gut microbiota towards a dominance of obligate anaerobes, while dysbiosis is often associated with a sustained increase in the abundance of facultative anaerobic Proteobacteria, indicative of a disruption in anaerobiosis. The colonic epithelium is hypoxic, but intestinal inflammation or antibiotic treatment increases epithelial oxygenation in the colon, thereby disrupting anaerobiosis to drive a dysbiotic expansion of facultative anaerobic Proteobacteria through aerobic respiration. These observations suggest a dysbiotic expansion of Proteobacteria is a potential diagnostic microbial signature of epithelial dysfunction, a hypothesis that could spawn novel preventative or therapeutic strategies for a broad spectrum of human diseases.
    Keywords aerobiosis ; anaerobes ; anaerobiosis ; antibiotics ; colon ; epithelium ; homeostasis ; human diseases ; inflammation ; intestinal microorganisms ; Proteobacteria ; spawning
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2017-10
    Size p. 1-6.
    Publishing place Elsevier Ltd
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 1418474-6
    ISSN 1879-0364 ; 1369-5274
    ISSN (online) 1879-0364
    ISSN 1369-5274
    DOI 10.1016/j.mib.2017.07.003
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  7. Article: How bacterial pathogens use type III and type IV secretion systems to facilitate their transmission

    Byndloss, Mariana X / Andreas J Bäumler / Fabian Rivera-Chávez / Renée M Tsolis

    Current opinion in microbiology. 2017 Feb., v. 35

    2017  

    Abstract: Work on type III or type IV secretion systems (T3SSs or T4SSs) is often focused on elucidating how these sophisticated bacterial virulence factors manipulate host cell physiology to cause disease. But to fully understand their role in pathogen biology, ... ...

    Abstract Work on type III or type IV secretion systems (T3SSs or T4SSs) is often focused on elucidating how these sophisticated bacterial virulence factors manipulate host cell physiology to cause disease. But to fully understand their role in pathogen biology, it is important to consider whether the morbidity or mortality they trigger is somehow linked to enhancing communicability of the microbe. Recent work on Salmonella enterica and Brucella abortus provide captivating examples of how manipulation of host cells with T3SSs or T4SSs instigates distant downstream consequences that promote spread of the pathogen. It is clear from these examples that T3SSs and T4SSs are ultimately transmission factors placed under selection by an incredibly complex series of events unfolding during host pathogen interaction.
    Keywords Brucella melitensis biovar Abortus ; cell physiology ; host-pathogen relationships ; morbidity ; mortality ; pathogens ; Salmonella enterica ; virulence
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2017-02
    Size p. 1-7.
    Publishing place Elsevier Ltd
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 1418474-6
    ISSN 1879-0364 ; 1369-5274
    ISSN (online) 1879-0364
    ISSN 1369-5274
    DOI 10.1016/j.mib.2016.08.007
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  8. Article ; Online: Mechanisms to Evade the Phagocyte Respiratory Burst Arose by Convergent Evolution in Typhoidal Salmonella Serovars

    Hirotaka Hiyoshi / Tamding Wangdi / Gabriel Lock / Cheng Saechao / Manuela Raffatellu / Brian A. Cobb / Andreas J. Bäumler

    Cell Reports, Vol 22, Iss 7, Pp 1787-

    2018  Volume 1797

    Abstract: Summary: Typhoid fever caused by Salmonella enterica serovar (S.) Typhi differs in its clinical presentation from gastroenteritis caused by S. Typhimurium and other non-typhoidal Salmonella serovars. The different clinical presentations are attributed in ...

    Abstract Summary: Typhoid fever caused by Salmonella enterica serovar (S.) Typhi differs in its clinical presentation from gastroenteritis caused by S. Typhimurium and other non-typhoidal Salmonella serovars. The different clinical presentations are attributed in part to the virulence-associated capsular polysaccharide (Vi antigen) of S. Typhi, which prevents phagocytes from triggering a respiratory burst by preventing antibody-mediated complement activation. Paradoxically, the Vi antigen is absent from S. Paratyphi A, which causes a disease that is indistinguishable from typhoid fever. Here, we show that evasion of the phagocyte respiratory burst by S. Paratyphi A required very long O antigen chains containing the O2 antigen to inhibit antibody binding. We conclude that the ability to avoid the phagocyte respiratory burst is a property distinguishing typhoidal from non-typhoidal Salmonella serovars that was acquired by S. Typhi and S. Paratyphi A independently through convergent evolution.
    Keywords typhoid fever ; capsular polysaccharide ; paratyphoid fever ; lipopolysaccharide ; respiratory burst ; neutrophil ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  9. Article ; Online: Respiration of Microbiota-Derived 1,2-propanediol Drives Salmonella Expansion during Colitis.

    Franziska Faber / Parameth Thiennimitr / Luisella Spiga / Mariana X Byndloss / Yael Litvak / Sara Lawhon / Helene L Andrews-Polymenis / Sebastian E Winter / Andreas J Bäumler

    PLoS Pathogens, Vol 13, Iss 1, p e

    2017  Volume 1006129

    Abstract: Intestinal inflammation caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium increases the availability of electron acceptors that fuel a respiratory growth of the pathogen in the intestinal lumen. Here we show that one of the carbon sources driving this ... ...

    Abstract Intestinal inflammation caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium increases the availability of electron acceptors that fuel a respiratory growth of the pathogen in the intestinal lumen. Here we show that one of the carbon sources driving this respiratory expansion in the mouse model is 1,2-propanediol, a microbial fermentation product. 1,2-propanediol utilization required intestinal inflammation induced by virulence factors of the pathogen. S. Typhimurium used both aerobic and anaerobic respiration to consume 1,2-propanediol and expand in the murine large intestine. 1,2-propanediol-utilization did not confer a benefit in germ-free mice, but the pdu genes conferred a fitness advantage upon S. Typhimurium in mice mono-associated with Bacteroides fragilis or Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron. Collectively, our data suggest that intestinal inflammation enables S. Typhimurium to sidestep nutritional competition by respiring a microbiota-derived fermentation product.
    Keywords Immunologic diseases. Allergy ; RC581-607 ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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  10. Article ; Online: Colonization resistance

    Alanna M Spees / Christopher A Lopez / Dawn D Kingsbury / Sebastian E Winter / Andreas J Bäumler

    PLoS Pathogens, Vol 9, Iss 11, p e

    battle of the bugs or Ménage à Trois with the host?

    2013  Volume 1003730

    Keywords Immunologic diseases. Allergy ; RC581-607 ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Language English
    Publishing date 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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