Temporal Variations in Cigarette Tobacco Bacterial Community Composition and Tobacco-Specific Nitrosamine Content Are Influenced by Brand and Storage Conditions
Chopyk J, Chattopadhyay S, Kulkarni P, Smyth E, Hittle L, Paulson J, Pop M, Buehler S, Clark P, Mongodin E, Sapkota A. Temporal Variations in Cigarette Tobacco Bacterial Community Composition and Tobacco-Specific Nitrosamine Content Are Influenced by Brand and Storage Conditions. Frontiers In Microbiology 2017, 08: 358. PMID: 28326071, PMCID: PMC5339245, DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00358.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchOperational taxonomic unitsCore bacterial operational taxonomic unitsStorage conditionsBacterial operational taxonomic unitsV3V4 hypervariable regionBacterial community compositionTaxonomic unitsDay 0Illumina MiSeqRRNA geneCommunity compositionMicrobial ecosystemBacterial communitiesHypervariable regionTobacco-specific nitrosamine contentTime series experimentsBacillus pumilusNitrosamine contentAbundanceRelative humidityStorageIlluminaMiSeqLiquid chromatographyV3V4Mentholation affects the cigarette microbiota by selecting for bacteria resistant to harsh environmental conditions and selecting against potential bacterial pathogens
Chopyk J, Chattopadhyay S, Kulkarni P, Claye E, Babik K, Reid M, Smyth E, Hittle L, Paulson J, Cruz-Cano R, Pop M, Buehler S, Clark P, Sapkota A, Mongodin E. Mentholation affects the cigarette microbiota by selecting for bacteria resistant to harsh environmental conditions and selecting against potential bacterial pathogens. Microbiome 2017, 5: 22. PMID: 28202080, PMCID: PMC5312438, DOI: 10.1186/s40168-017-0235-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsQuantitative Insights Into Microbial EcologyResistant to harsh environmental conditionsBacterial pathogensHarsh environmental conditionsV3-V4 hypervariable regionIllumina MiSeq platformHuman bacterial pathogensBacterial community profilesBacterial community richnessPotential bacterial pathogensEnvironmental conditionsRRNA geneMiSeq platformAbundant generaBacterial microbiotaBacterial communitiesMicrobial ecologyGenomic DNACommunity richnessBacterial compositionHypervariable regionPCR amplificationCommunity profilesPseudomonas putidaLysis protocol