Overmann, Jörg


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Broad diversity of human gut bacteria accessible via a traceable strain deposition system

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Hitch et al. (2024).
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Abstract
Numerous bacteria in the human gut microbiome remains unknown and/or have yet to be cultured. While collections of human gut bacteria have been published, none are publicly accessible. This is partly due to issues with the deposition of strains to public culture collections. We address these key issues (microbial unknowns, lack of public access to isolates) by proposing a framework that facilitates large-scale submission of isolates, exemplified by a rich collection of human gut isolates that is

Novel bacterial taxa in a minimal lignocellulolytic consortium and their potential for lignin and plastics transformation

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Díaz Rodríguez et al. (2022). ISME Communications 2 (1)
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Pristimantibacillus Pristimantibacillus lignocellulolyticus Ts Ochrobactrum gambitense
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AbstractThe understanding and manipulation of microbial communities toward the conversion of lignocellulose and plastics are topics of interest in microbial ecology and biotechnology. In this study, the polymer-degrading capability of a minimal lignocellulolytic microbial consortium (MELMC) was explored by genome-resolved metagenomics. The MELMC was mostly composed (>90%) of three bacterial members (Pseudomonas protegens; Pristimantibacillus lignocellulolyticus gen. nov., sp. nov; and Ochroba

Enhanced cultured diversity of the mouse gut microbiota enables custom-made synthetic communities

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Afrizal et al. (2022).
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Microbiome research is hampered by the fact that many bacteria are still unknown and by the lack of publicly available isolates. Fundamental and clinical research is in need of comprehensive and well-curated repositories of cultured bacteria from the intestine of mammalian hosts. In this work, we expanded the mouse intestinal bacterial collection (www.dsmz.de/miBC) to 212 strains, all publicly available and taxonomically described. This includes the study of strain-level diversity, small-sized b