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Significance of Human Microbiomes

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 5402

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Filipa Godoy Vitorino

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Department of Microbiology & Medical Zoology, School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR 00936, USA
Interests: microbiome; biodiversity; infectious diseases
Dr. Ana Luisa Maldonado-Contreras

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Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Interests: microbiome; nutrition; inflammation; inflammatory bowel diseases
Dr. Daniela Vargas-Robles

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Deptartment of Servicio Autónomo Centro Amazónico de Investigación y Control de Enfermedades Tropicales Simón Bolívar, Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud, Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela
Interests: microbial ecology; urban microbiota; infectious diseases; lifestyle

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The latest advances in DNA sequencing have shed a light on the role of the human microbiome in the maintenance of health and causation of disease.

The components of the human microbiome (bacteria and fungi) have become a constant in studies across all systems, and host–microbiome interactions are now targets for new diagnostics and therapeutics.

This Special Issue aims to collect studies on any human body systems (gut, cervix, skin, oral), focusing on changes associated with the organ’s dysbiosis and disease phenotypes.

All manuscripts will be reviewed by experts in the field, and must be submitted no later than October 2020.

Dr. Filipa Godoy Vitorino
Dr. Ana Luisa Maldonado-Contreras
Dr. Daniela Vargas-Robles
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  • microbiomes
  • next-generation sequencing
  • human ecology

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Soy and Frequent Dairy Consumption with Subsequent Equol Production Reveals Decreased Gut Health in a Cohort of Healthy Puerto Rican Women
by Mercedes Y. Lacourt-Ventura, Brayan Vilanova-Cuevas, Delmarie Rivera-Rodríguez, Raysa Rosario-Acevedo, Christine Miranda, Gerónimo Maldonado-Martínez, Johanna Maysonet, Darlene Vargas, Yelitza Ruiz, Robert Hunter-Mellado, Luis A. Cubano, Suranganie Dharmawardhane, Johanna W. Lampe, Abel Baerga-Ortiz, Filipa Godoy-Vitorino and Michelle M. Martínez-Montemayor
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(16), 8254; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168254 - 4 Aug 2021
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The U.S. Hispanic female population has one of the highest breast cancer (BC) incidence and mortality rates, while BC is the leading cause of cancer death in Puerto Rican women. Certain foods may predispose to carcinogenesis. Our previous studies indicate that consuming combined [...] Read more.
The U.S. Hispanic female population has one of the highest breast cancer (BC) incidence and mortality rates, while BC is the leading cause of cancer death in Puerto Rican women. Certain foods may predispose to carcinogenesis. Our previous studies indicate that consuming combined soy isoflavones (genistein, daidzein, and glycitein) promotes tumor metastasis possibly through increased protein synthesis activated by equol, a secondary dietary metabolite. Equol is a bacterial metabolite produced in about 20–60% of the population that harbor and exhibit specific gut microbiota capable of producing it from daidzein. The aim of the current study was to investigate the prevalence of equol production in Puerto Rican women and identify the equol producing microbiota in this understudied population. Herein, we conducted a cross-sectional characterization of equol production in a clinically based sample of eighty healthy 25–50 year old Puerto Rican women. Urine samples were collected and evaluated by GCMS for the presence of soy isoflavones and metabolites to determine the ratio of equol producers to equol non-producers. Furthermore, fecal samples were collected for gut microbiota characterization on a subset of women using next generation sequencing (NGS). We report that 25% of the participants were classified as equol producers. Importantly, the gut microbiota from equol non-producers demonstrated a higher diversity. Our results suggest that healthy women with soy and high dairy consumption with subsequent equol production may result in gut dysbiosis by having reduced quantities (diversity) of healthy bacterial biomarkers, which might be associated to increased diseased outcomes (e.g., cancer, and other diseases). Full article
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