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| Title |
Pathogens and host immunity in the ancient human oral cavity
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| Published in |
Nature Genetics, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1038/ng.2906 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Christina Warinner, João F Matias Rodrigues, Rounak Vyas, Christian Trachsel, Natallia Shved, Jonas Grossmann, Anita Radini, Y Hancock, Raul Y Tito, Sarah Fiddyment, Camilla Speller, Jessica Hendy, Sophy Charlton, Hans Ulrich Luder, Domingo C Salazar-García, Elisabeth Eppler, Roger Seiler, Lars H Hansen, José Alfredo Samaniego Castruita, Simon Barkow-Oesterreicher, Kai Yik Teoh, Christian D Kelstrup, Jesper V Olsen, Paolo Nanni, Toshihisa Kawai, Eske Willerslev, Christian von Mering, Cecil M Lewis, Matthew J Collins, M Thomas P Gilbert, Frank Rühli, Enrico Cappellini |
| Abstract |
Calcified dental plaque (dental calculus) preserves for millennia and entraps biomolecules from all domains of life and viruses. We report the first, to our knowledge, high-resolution taxonomic and protein functional characterization of the ancient oral microbiome and demonstrate that the oral cavity has long served as a reservoir for bacteria implicated in both local and systemic disease. We characterize (i) the ancient oral microbiome in a diseased state, (ii) 40 opportunistic pathogens, (iii) ancient human-associated putative antibiotic resistance genes, (iv) a genome reconstruction of the periodontal pathogen Tannerella forsythia, (v) 239 bacterial and 43 human proteins, allowing confirmation of a long-term association between host immune factors, 'red complex' pathogens and periodontal disease, and (vi) DNA sequences matching dietary sources. Directly datable and nearly ubiquitous, dental calculus permits the simultaneous investigation of pathogen activity, host immunity and diet, thereby extending direct investigation of common diseases into the human evolutionary past. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 94 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 26 | 28% |
| United Kingdom | 18 | 19% |
| Germany | 3 | 3% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| Denmark | 2 | 2% |
| Spain | 2 | 2% |
| Japan | 2 | 2% |
| Italy | 2 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 9 | 10% |
| Unknown | 26 | 28% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 47 | 50% |
| Scientists | 36 | 38% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 7 | 7% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 638 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 12 | 2% |
| Germany | 4 | <1% |
| Spain | 3 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 2 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 7 | 1% |
| Unknown | 605 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 138 | 22% |
| Researcher | 106 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 75 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 62 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 33 | 5% |
| Other | 119 | 19% |
| Unknown | 105 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 196 | 31% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 102 | 16% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 51 | 8% |
| Arts and Humanities | 41 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 32 | 5% |
| Other | 84 | 13% |
| Unknown | 132 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 216. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 December 2021.
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