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Evidence for plasmid-mediated salt tolerance in the human gut microbiome and potential mechanisms

Overview of attention for article published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology, February 2016
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Title
Evidence for plasmid-mediated salt tolerance in the human gut microbiome and potential mechanisms
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FEMS Microbiology Ecology, February 2016
DOI 10.1093/femsec/fiw019
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Eileen Broaders, Ciarán O'Brien, Cormac G M Gahan, Julian R Marchesi

Abstract

The human gut microbiome is critical to health and wellbeing. It hosts a complex ecosystem comprising a multitude of bacterial species, which contributes functionality that would otherwise be absent from the host. Transient and commensal bacteria in the gut must withstand many stresses. The influence of mobile genetic elements such as plasmids in stress adaptation within the ecosystem is poorly understood. Using a mobilomic approach we found evidence for plasmid mediated osmotolerance as a phenotype amongst the Proteobacteria in healthy faecal slurries. A transconjugant carrying multiple plasmids acquired from healthy faecal slurry demonstrated increased osmotolerance in the presence of metal salts, particularly potassium chloride, which was not evident in the recipient. Pyrosequencing and analysis of the total plasmid DNA demonstrated the presence of plasmid-borne osmotolerance systems (including KdpD and H-NS) which may be linked to the observed phenotype. This is the first report of a transferable osmotolerance phenotype in gut commensals and may have implications for the transfer of osmotolerance in other niches.

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Unknown 34 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 24%
Student > Master 4 12%
Student > Bachelor 3 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Professor 1 3%
Other 5 15%
Unknown 11 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 29%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 18%
Chemistry 2 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 3%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 11 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 04 March 2016.
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#3,696,926
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from FEMS Microbiology Ecology
#442
of 2,687 outputs
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#62,579
of 405,737 outputs
Outputs of similar age from FEMS Microbiology Ecology
#11
of 62 outputs
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