Targeting the gut microbiota for cancer therapy

MR Fernandes, P Aggarwal, RGF Costa… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Growing evidence suggests that the gut microbiota modulates the efficacy and toxicity of
cancer therapy, most notably immunotherapy and its immune-related adverse effects. The …

Key determinants of success in fecal microbiota transplantation: From microbiome to clinic

S Porcari, N Benech, M Valles-Colomer, N Segata… - Cell host & …, 2023 - cell.com
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has achieved satisfactory results in preventing the
recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection, but these positive outcomes have only been …

The person-to-person transmission landscape of the gut and oral microbiomes

M Valles-Colomer, A Blanco-Míguez, P Manghi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The human microbiome is an integral component of the human body and a co-determinant
of several health conditions,. However, the extent to which interpersonal relations shape the …

Extending and improving metagenomic taxonomic profiling with uncharacterized species using MetaPhlAn 4

A Blanco-Míguez, F Beghini, F Cumbo, LJ McIver… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metagenomic assembly enables new organism discovery from microbial communities, but it
can only capture few abundant organisms from most metagenomes. Here we present …

Targeted suppression of human IBD-associated gut microbiota commensals by phage consortia for treatment of intestinal inflammation

S Federici, S Kredo-Russo, R Valdés-Mas… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Human gut commensals are increasingly suggested to impact non-communicable diseases,
such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), yet their targeted suppression remains a …

Intestinal Akkermansia muciniphila predicts clinical response to PD-1 blockade in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer

L Derosa, B Routy, AM Thomas, V Iebba, G Zalcman… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Aside from PD-L1 expression, biomarkers of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs)
in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are needed. In a previous retrospective analysis, we …

Nivolumab plus ipilimumab with or without live bacterial supplementation in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a randomized phase 1 trial

N Dizman, L Meza, P Bergerot, M Alcantara, T Dorff… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Previous studies have suggested that the gut microbiome influences the response to
checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs) in patients with cancer. CBM588 is a bifidogenic live bacterial …

A non-antibiotic-disrupted gut microbiome is associated with clinical responses to CD19-CAR-T cell cancer immunotherapy

CK Stein-Thoeringer, NY Saini, E Zamir… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Increasing evidence suggests that the gut microbiome may modulate the efficacy of cancer
immunotherapy. In a B cell lymphoma patient cohort from five centers in Germany and the …

Variability of strain engraftment and predictability of microbiome composition after fecal microbiota transplantation across different diseases

G Ianiro, M Punčochář, N Karcher, S Porcari… - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is highly effective against recurrent Clostridioides
difficile infection and is considered a promising treatment for other microbiome-related …

Cross-cohort gut microbiome associations with immune checkpoint inhibitor response in advanced melanoma

KA Lee, AM Thomas, LA Bolte, JR Björk… - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The composition of the gut microbiome has been associated with clinical responses to
immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment, but there is limited consensus on the specific …