Respiratory microbiota resistance and resilience to pulmonary exacerbation and subsequent antimicrobial intervention

This study was supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NE/H019456/1) to CJvdG, by the Wellcome Trust (WT 098051) to AWW and JP for sequencing costs, and by The Anna Trust (KB2008) to KDB. AWW and The Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, receive core funding support from the Scottish Government Rural and Environmental Science and Analysis Service (RESAS). We thank Paul Scott, Richard Rance and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute’s sequencing team for generating 16S rRNA gene sequence data.

Special issue : The Human Intestinal Microbiota

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Effects of hydrocarbon contamination on soil microbial community and enzyme activity

Acknowledgment I would like to gratefully acknowledge the government of Saudi Arabia for the scholarship and financial support.

Trimming Surface Sugars Protects Histoplasma from Immune Attack

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS G.D.B. thanks the Wellcome Trust and MRC (United Kingdom) for funding.

Hsf1 and Hsp90 orchestrate temperature-dependent global transcriptional remodelling and chromatin architecture in Candida albicans

We thank Karim Gharbi and Urmi Trivedi for their assistance with RNA sequencing, carried out in the GenePool genomics facility (University of Edinburgh). We also thank Susan Fairley and Eduardo De Paiva Alves (Centre for Genome Enabled Biology and Medicine, University of Aberdeen) for help with the initial bioinformatics analysis. We thank Aaron Mitchell for kindly providing the ALS3 mutant, Julian Naglik for the gift of TR146 cells, and Jon Richardson for technical assistance. We thank the Genomics and Bioinformatics core of the Faculty of Health Sciences for Next Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatics support, the Information and Communication Technology Office at the University of Macau for providing access to a High Performance Computer and Jacky Chan and William Pang for their expert support on the High Performance Computer. Finally, we thank Amanda Veri for generating CaLC2928. M.D.L. is supported by a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship (Wellcome Trust 096072), R.A.F. by a Wellcome Trust-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Postdoctoral Fellowship, L.E.C. by a Canada Research Chair in Microbial Genomics and Infectious Disease and by Canadian Institutes of Health Research Grants MOP-119520 and MOP-86452, A.J. P.B. was supported by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/F00513X/1) and by the European Research Council (ERC-2009-AdG-249793-STRIFE), KHW is supported by the Science and Technology Development Fund of Macau S.A.R (FDCT) (085/2014/A2) and the Research and Development Administrative Office of the University of Macau (SRG2014-00003-FHS) and R.T.W. by the Burroughs Wellcome fund and NIH R15AO094406. Data availability RNA-sequencing data sets are available at ArrayExpress (www.ebi.ac.uk) under accession code E-MTAB-4075. ChIP-seq data sets are available at the NCBI SRA database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) under accession code SRP071687. The authors declare that all other data supporting the findings of this study are available within the article and its supplementary information files, or from the corresponding author upon request.

Individual-specific changes in the human gut microbiota after challenge with enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and subsequent ciprofloxacin treatment

IA, JNP, and MP were partly supported by the NIH, grants R01-AI-100947 to MP, and R21-GM-107683 to Matthias Chung, subcontract to MP. JNP was partly supported by an NSF graduate fellowship number DGE750616. IA, JNP, BRL, OCS and MP were supported in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, award number 42917 to OCS. JP and AWW received core funding support from The Wellcome Trust (grant number 098051). AWW, and the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, receive core funding support from the Scottish Government Rural and Environmental Science and Analysis Service (RESAS).

Microbes as engines of ecosystem function : When does community structure enhance predictions of ecosystem processes?

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Plant ionomics : From elemental profiling to environmental adaptation

FUNDING UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council grant BB/L027739/1 and BB/L000113/1 (to D.E.S.), the US National Institutes of Health grant 2R01GM078536 (to D.E.S.), and the US National Science Foundation grant IOB 0419695 (to D.E.S.) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We wish to thank our collaborators Mary Lou Guerinot, Niko Geldner, and Christian Hermans for kindly allowing us to incorporate in this update unpublished data on BRUTUS, SGN1, and SGN3, respectively. We also thank Mary Lou Guerinot, Niko Geldner, Takehiro Kamiya, and the ERACAPS Root Barrier project for productive discussions relating to ionomics and the plant ionome. No conflict of interest declared.

Identifying potential mechanisms enabling acidophily in the ammonia-oxidizing archaeon "Candidatus Nitrosotalea devanaterra"

FUNDING INFORMATION This work, including the efforts of Luis Sayavedra-Soto, was funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) (0541797). This work, including the efforts of Laura E. Lehtovirta-Morley, James I. Prosser, and Graeme W. Nicol, was funded by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) (NE/I027835/1). Graeme W. Nicol is also supported by the AXA Research Fund.

A Prospective Surveillance Study of Candidaemia : Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Antifungal Treatment and Outcome in Hospitalized Patients

Funding This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award for Medical Mycology and Fungal Immunology 097377/Z/11/Z. Data collection was supported by a grant from Pfizer. GR was also supported by a research fellowship grant from Gilead Sciences. The collection of the isolates was funded by a Gilead Fellowship to GR.

The roles of zinc and copper sensing in fungal pathogenesis

Open Access funded by Wellcome Trust Acknowledgements ERB is funded by the BBSRC (BB/M014525/1). DW is supported by a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society (Grant Number 102549/Z/13/Z). We additionally acknowledge the MRC and University of Aberdeen for funding (MR/N006364/1) and the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award for Medical Mycology and Fungal Immunology (097377/Z/11/Z). Finally, we acknowledge FungiDB and the Candida Genome Database [ 56 and 57].

Signalling through MyD88 drives surface expression of the mycobacterial receptors MCL (Clecsf8, Clec4d) and Mincle (Clec4e) following microbial stimulation

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the staff of the animal facility for their support and care for our animals. Funding was provided by the Wellcome Trust (102705) and Medical Research Council (UK) (MR/J004820/1) and a University of Aberdeen Studentship to BK.

Wheat bran promotes enrichment within the human colonic microbiota of butyrate-producing bacteria that release ferulic acid

This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Acknowledgements: The authors acknowledge support from the Scottish Government Food Land and People programme (RESAS). We would like to thank Lorraine Scobbie and Gary Duncan for technical support. Funding for JP, AWW and 454 pyrosequencing was provided by the Wellcome Trust (grant number 098051).

Ruminococcal cellulosome systems from rumen to human

This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The authors appreciate the kind assistance of Miriam Lerner (ImmunArray Ltd. Company, Rehovot, Israel) with experiments involving the MicroGrid II arrayer. This research was supported by a grant (No. 1349) to EAB also from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) and a grant (No. 24/11) issued to RL by The Sidney E. Frank Foundation also through the ISF. Additional support was obtained from the establishment of an Israeli Center of Research Excellence (I-CORE Center No. 152/11) managed by the Israel Science Foundation, from the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), Jerusalem, Israel, by the Weizmann Institute of Science Alternative Energy Research Initiative (AERI) and the Helmsley Foundation. The authors also appreciate the support of the European Union, Area NMP.2013.1.1-2: Self-assembly of naturally occurring nanosystems: CellulosomePlus Project number: 604530 and an ERA-IB Consortium (EIB.12.022), acronym FiberFuel. HF and SHD acknowledge support from the Scottish Government Food Land and People programme and from BBSRC grant no. BB/L009951/1. In addition, EAB is grateful for a grant from the F. Warren Hellman Grant for Alternative Energy Research in Israel in support of alternative energy research in Israel administered by the Israel Strategic Alternative Energy Foundation (I-SAEF). E.A.B. is the incumbent of The Maynard I. and Elaine Wishner Chair of Bio-organic Chemistry

An Efficient Route to N-Monosubstituted Guanidino-Lactams

Date of Acceptance: 05/06/2015