Seminars in immunology special issue: Nutrition, microbiota and immunity The unexplored microbes in health and disease.
Semin Immunol
; 66: 101735, 2023 03.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-36857892
ABSTRACT
Functional characterization of the microbiome's influence on host physiology has been dominated by a few characteristic example strains that have been studied in detail. However, the extensive development of methods for high-throughput bacterial isolation and culture over the past decade is enabling functional characterization of the broader microbiota that may impact human health. Characterizing the understudied majority of human microbes and expanding our functional understanding of the diversity of the gut microbiota could enable new insights into diseases with unknown etiology, provide disease-predictive microbiome signatures, and advance microbial therapeutics. We summarize high-throughput culture-dependent platforms for characterizing bacterial strain function and host-interactions. We elaborate on the importance of these technologies in facilitating mechanistic studies of previously unexplored microbes, highlight new opportunities for large-scale in vitro screens of host-relevant microbial functions, and discuss the potential translational applications for microbiome science.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Health
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Nutritional Status
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Disease
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Microbiota
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Immunity
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Animals
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Semin Immunol
Journal subject:
ALERGIA E IMUNOLOGIA
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Estados Unidos