Lin XB, Liu T, Schmaltz R, Ramer-Tait AE, Walter JW, Gänzle MG. Competitiveness of reutericyclin producing and nonproducing Limosilactobacillus reuteri in food and intestinal ecosystems: a game of rock, paper, and scissors? 2024. Lett Appl Microbiol. 77(2):ovae007.
Ahmad R, Kumar B, Thapa I, Talmon GA, Salomon J, Ramer-Tait AE, Bastola DK, Dhawan P, Singh AB. Loss of claudin-3 expression increases colitis risk by promoting gut dysbiosis. 2023. Gut Microbes. 15(2):2282789.
Cunningham KC, Smith DR, Villageliú DN, Ellis CM, Ramer-Tait AE, Price JD, Wyatt TA, Knoell DL, Samuelson MM, Molina PE, Welsh DA, Samuelson DR. Human alcohol-microbiota mice have increased susceptibility to bacterial pneumonia. 2023. Cells. 2(18), 2267.
Samuelson DR, Smith DR, Cunningham KC, Haq S, Villageliu DN, Ellis CM, Chowdhury NB, Ramer-Tait AE, Price JD, Knoell DL. The inherited intestinal microbiota from myeloid-specific Zip8 KO mice impairs pulmonary host defense against pneumococcal pneumonia. 2023. Pathogens. 12(5):639.
Sprockett DD, Price JD, Juritsch AF, Schmaltz RJ, Real MVF, Goldman S, Sheehan M, Ramer-Tait AE, Moeller AH. Home-site advantage for host-species specific gut microbiota. 2023. Sci. Adv. 9(19):eadf5499.
Kittana H, Gomes-Neto JC, Heck K, Juritsch AF, Sughroue J, Xian Y, Mantz S, Segura Muñoz RR, Cody LA, Schmaltz RJ, Anderson CL, Moxley RA, Hostetter JM, Fernando SC, Clarke J, Kachman SD, Cressler CE, Benson AK, Walter J, Ramer-Tait AE. Evidence for a causal role for Escherichia coli strains identified as adherent-invasive (AIEC) in intestinal inflammation. 2023. mSphere. Mar 8:e0047822.
Yang Q, Van Haute M, Korth N, Sattler S, Rose D, Juritsch A, Shao J, Beede K, Schmaltz R, Price J, Toy J, Ramer-Tait AE, Benson AK. The waxy mutation in sorghum and other cereal grains reshapes the gut microbiome by reducing levels of multiple beneficial species. 2023. Gut Microbes. 15:1.
Smith C, Van Haute MJ, Xian Y, Segura Munoz RR, Liu S, Schmaltz RJ, Ramer-Tait AE, Rose DJ. Carbohydrate utilization by the gut microbiome determines host health responsiveness to whole grain type and processing methods. 2022. Gut Microbes. 14(1):2126275.
Segura Munoz RR, Mantz S, Martínez I, Li F, Schmaltz RJ, Pudlo NA, Urs K, Martens EC, Walter J, Ramer-Tait AE. Experimental evaluation of ecological principles to understand and modulate the outcome of bacterial strain competition in gut microbiomes. 2022. ISME J. 16(6):1594.
Reitmeier S, Hitch TCA, Treichel N, Fikas N, Hausmann B, Ramer-Tait AE, Neuhaus K, Berry D, Haller D, Lagkouvardos I, Clavel T. Handling of spurious sequences affects the outcome of high-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon profiling. 2021. ISME Commun. 1:31.
Xian Y, Fan R, Shao J, Toney AM, Chung S, Ramer-Tait AE. Polyphenolic fractions isolated from red raspberry whole fruit, pulp, and seed differentially alter the gut microbiota of mice with diet-induced obesity. 2021. J Funct Foods. 76:104288.
Streidl T, Karkossa I, Segura Muñoz RR, Eberl C, Zaufel A, Plagge J, Schmaltz R, Schubert K, Basic M, Schneider KM, Afify M, Trautwein C, Tolba R, Stecher B, Doden HL, Ridlon JM, Ecker J, Moustafa T, von Bergen M, Ramer-Tait AE, Clavel T. The gut bacterium Extibacter muris produces secondary bile acids and influences liver physiology in gnotobiotic mice. 2020. Gut Microbes. 13(1):e1854008.
Aluthge ND, Tom WA, Bartenslager AC, Burkey TE, Miller PS, Heath KD, Kreikemeier-Bower C, Kittana H, Schmaltz RJ, Ramer-Tait AE, Fernando SC. Differential longitudinal establishment of human fecal bacterial communities in germ-free porcine and murine models. 2020. Commun Biol. 3:760.
Segura Munoz RR, Quach T, Gomes-Neto JC, Xian Y, Pena PA, Weier S, Pellizzon MA, Kittana H, Cody LA, Geis AL, Heck K, Schmaltz RJ, Bindels LB, Cahoon EB, Benson AK, Clemente TE, Ramer-Tait AE. Stearidonic-enriched soybean oil modulates obesity, glucose metabolism, and fatty acid profiles independently of Akkermansia muciniphila. 2020. Mol Nutr Food Res. 64(17):e2000162.
Li Y, Elmén L, Segota I, Xian Y, Tinoco R, Feng Y, Fujita Y, Segura Munoz RS, Schmaltz R, Bradley LM, Ramer-Tait A, Zarecki R, Long T, Peterson SN, Ronai ZA. Prebiotic-induced anti-tumor immunity attenuates tumor growth. 2020. Cell Rep. 30(6):1753-1766.
Nemet I, Saha PP, Gupta N, Zhu W, Romano KA, Skye SM, Cajka T, Mohan ML, Li L, Wu Y, Funabashi M, Ramer-Tait AE, Prasad SVN, Fiehn O, Rey FE, Tang WHW, Fischbach MA, DiDonato JA, Hazen SL. A cardiovascular disease-linked gut microbial metabolite acts via adrenergic receptors. 2020. Cell. 180(5):862-877.
Marsteller NL, Goodman RE, Andoh-Kumi K, Luan F, Bøgh KL, Baumert J. Evaluating the potential allergenicity of dietary proteins using model strong to non-allergenic proteins in germ-free mice. 2020. Food Chem Toxicol. 141:111398.
Rattanaprasert M, van Pijkeren JP, Ramer-Tait A, Quintero-Villegas M, Kok CR, J Walter, Hutkins R. Characterization of genes involved in galactooligosaccharide metabolism in Lactobacillus reuteri and their ecological role in the gastrointestinal tract. 2019. Appl Environ Microbiol. 85:e01788-19.
Moeller A, Gomes-Neto J, Mantz S, Kittana H, Segura Munoz R, Schmaltz R, Ramer-Tait A, Nachman M. Experimental evidence for adaptation to species-specific gut microbiota in house mice. 2019. mSphere. 4(4). pii:e00387-19.
Li Y, Tinoco R, Elmén L, Segota I, Xian Y, Fujita Y, Sahu A, Zarecki R, Marie K, Feng Y, Khateb A, Frederick DT, Ashkenazi SK, Kim H, Perez EG, Day CP, Segura Muñoz RS, Schmaltz R, Yooseph S, Tam MA, Zhang T, Avitan-Hersh E, Tzur L, Roizman S, Boyango I, Bar-Sela G, Orian A, Kaufman RJ, Bosenberg M, Goding CR, Baaten B, Levesque MP, Dummer R, Brown K, Merlino G, Ruppin E, Flaherty K, Ramer-Tait A, Long T, Peterson SN, Bradley LM, Ronai ZA. Gut microbiota dependent anti-tumor immunity restricts melanoma growth in Rnf5-/- mice. 2019. Nat Commun. 10:1492.
Li X, Leonardi I, Semon A, Doron I, Gao IH, Putzel GG, Kim Y, Kabata H, Artis D, Fiers WD, Ramer-Tait AE, Iliev ID. Response to fungal dysbiosis by gut-resident CX3CR1+ mononuclear phagocytes aggravates allergic airway disease. 2018. Cell Host Microbe. 24:1-10.
Kittana H, Gomes-Neto JC, Sanderfer K, Geis AL, Segura Muñoz RR, Cody LA, Schmaltz RJ, Bindels LB, Sinha R, Hostetter JM, Benson AK, Ramer-Tait AE. Commensal Escherichia coli strains can promote intestinal inflammation via differential interleukin-6 production. 2018. Front Immunol. 9:2318.
Martínez I, Maldonado-Gomez XM, Gomes-Neto JC, Kittana H, Ding H, Schmaltz R, Joglekar P, Cardona RJ, Marsteller NL, Kembel SW, Benson AK, Peterson DA, Ramer-Tait AE, Walter J. Experimental evaluation of the importance of colonization history in early-life gut microbiota assembly. 2018. eLIFE. 7. pii:e36521.
Lin XB, Wang T, Stothard P, Corander J, Wang J, Baines J, Knowles SCL, Baltrūnaitė L, Tasseva G, Schmaltz R, Tollenaar S, Cody LA, Grenier T, Wu W, Ramer-Tait AE, Walter J. Ecological facilitation among members of multi-species biofilms in the mouse gastrointestinal tract. 2018. ISME J. 12:2770-2784.
Kittana H, Quintero-Villegas MI, Bindels LB, Gomes-Neto JC, Schmaltz RJ, Segura Munoz RR, Cody EA, Moxley R, Hostetter J, Hutkins RW, Ramer-Tait AE. Galactooligosaccharide supplementation provides protection against Citrobacter rodentium-induced colitis without limiting pathogen burden. 2018. Microbiology. 164:154-162.
Gomes-Neto JC, Kittana H, Mantz S, Segura Munoz RR, Schmaltz RJ, Bindels LB, Clarke J, Hostetter JM, Benson AK, Walter J, Ramer-Tait AE. A gut pathobiont synergizes with the microbiota to instigate inflammatory disease marked by immunoreactivity against other symbionts but not itself. 2017. Sci Rep. 7:17707.
Gomes-Neto JC, Mantz S, Held K, Sinha R, Segura Munoz RR, Schmaltz R, Benson AK, Walter J, Ramer-Tait AE. A real-time PCR assay for accurate quantification of the individual members of the Altered Schaedler Flora microbiota in gnotobiotic mice. 2017. J Microbiol Methods. 135:52-62.
Bindels LB, Segura Munoz RR, Gomes Neto JC, Mutemberezi V, Martínez I, Salazar N, Cody EA, Quintero-Villegas MI, Kittana H, de los Reyes-Gavilán CG, Schmaltz RJ, Muccioli GG, Walter J, Ramer-Tait AE. Resistant starch can improve insulin sensitivity independently of the gut microbiota. 2017. Microbiome. 5:12.
Loy A, Pfann C, Steinberger M, Hanson B, Herp S, Brugiroux S, Gomes-Neto JC, Boekschoten M, Schwab C, Urich T, Ramer-Tait A, Rattei T, Stecher B, Berry D. Lifestyle and horizontal gene transfer-mediated evolution of Mucispirillum schaedleri, a core member of the murine gut microbiota. 2017. mSystems. 2: e00171-16.
Duar RM, Frese SA, Lin XB, Fernando SC, Burkey TE, Tasseva G, Peterson DA, Blom J, Wenzel CQ, Szymanski CM, Walter J. Experimental evaluation of host adaptation of Lactobacillus reuteri to different vertebrate species. 2017. Appl Environ Microbiol. 83:e00132-17.
Yang J, Bindels LB, Munoz RS, Martinez I, Walter J, Ramer-Tait AE, Rose DJ. Disparate metabolic responses in mice fed a high-fat diet supplemented with maize derived non-digestible feruloylated oligo- and polysaccharides are linked to changes in the gut microbiota. 2016. PLoS One. 11:e0146144.
Druart C, Bindels LB, Schmaltz R, Neyrinck AM, Cani PD, Walter J, Ramer-Tait AE, Delzenne NM. Ability of the gut microbiota to produce PUFA-derived bacterial metabolites: proof of concept in germ-free versus conventionalized mice. 2015. Mol Nutr Food Res. 59(8):1603-13.
Perez-Muñoz ME, Bergstrom K, Peng V, Schmaltz R, Jimenez-Cardona R, Marsteller N, McGee S, Clavel T, Ley R, Fu J, Xia L, Peterson DA. Discordance between changes in the gut microbiota and pathogenicity in a mouse model of spontaneous colitis. 2014.Gut Microbes 5(3):286-485.
Frese SA, MacKenzie DA, Peterson DA, Schmaltz R, Fangman T, Zhou Y, Zhang C, Benson AK, Cody LA, Mulholland F, Juge N, Walter J. Molecular characterization of host-specific biofilm formation in a vertebrate gut symbiont. 2013. PLOS Genetics 9(12): e1004057.
Cullender TC, Chassaing B, Janzon A, Kumar K, Muller CE, Werner JJ, Angenent LT, Bell ME, Hay AG, Peterson DA, Walter J, Vijay-Kumar M, Gewirtz AT, Ley RE. Innate and adaptive immunity interact to quench microbiome flagellar motility in the gut. 2013. Cell Host Microbe. 14(5):571-81.
Oh PL, Benson AK, Peterson DA, Patil PB, Moriyama EN, Roos S, Walter J. Diversification of the gut symbiont Lactobacillus reuteri as a result of host-driven evolution. 2010. The ISME Journal, 4(3):377-387.