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Kanika Chauhan, Sharif S. Aly, Terry W. Lehnbauer, Karen Tonooka, Kathy Glenn, Paul Rossitto, and Maria L. Marco. 2021. Development of a molecular diagnostic multiplex qPCR assay for detection of Mycoplasma species in milk as important causes of contagious mastitis in dairy cattle. PeerJ. 9: e11881 doi: 10.7717/peerj.11881
Jessica M. Moon, Peter Finnegan, Richard A. Stecker, Hanna Lee, Kayla M. Ratliff, Ralf Jäger, Martin Purpura, Carolyn M. Slupsky, Maria L. Marco, Craig J. Wissent, Jason Theodosakis, and Chad M. Kerksick. 2021. Impact of glucosamine supplementation on gut health. Nutrients. 13(7):2180. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13072180
Annabelle O. Yu, Elissa A. Goldman, Jason T. Brooks, Benjamin L. Golomb, Irene S. Yim, Velitchka Gotcheva, Angel Angelov, Eun Bae Kim, and Maria L. Marco. 2021. Strain diversity of plant-associated Lactiplantibacillus plantarum. Microbial Biotechnology. 14(5), 1990–2008. doi:10.1111/1751-7915.13871
Yetong Xu, Anne Katrine Bolvig, Brendan McCarthy-Sinclair, Maria L Marco, Knud Erik Bach Knudsen, Mette Skou Hedemann, and Helle Nygaard Lærke 2021. The role of rye bran and antibiotics on the digestion, fermentation process and short-chain fatty acid production and absorption in an intact pig model. Food and Function. 12(7):2886-2900.
Riley L. Hughes, William H. Horn, Peter Finnegan, John W. Newman, Maria L. Marco, Nancy L. Keim, and Mary E. Kable. 2021. Resistant starch type 2 from wheat improves glycemic response with concurrent alterations in gut microbiota composition. 2021. Nutrients. 13(2), 645; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13020645
Zhengyao Xue, Jason T Brooks, Zachary Quart, Eric T Stevens, Mary E Kable, Jessie Heidenreich, Jeremy Mcleod, and Maria L Marco. 2021. Identification and confirmation of slit defect-causing bacteria in Cheddar cheese. mSystems.
10.1128/mSystems.01114-20
Maria L Marco, Mary Ellen Sanders, Michael Gänzle, Marie Claire Arrieta, Paul D. Cotter, Luc De Vuyst, Colin Hill, Wilhelm Holzapfel, Sarah Lebeer, Dan Merenstein, Gregor Reid, Benjamin E. Wolfe, and Robert Hutkins. 2021. Expert consensus document: The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) consensus statement on fermented foods. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41575-020-00390-5
Maria L Marco, Colin Hill, Robert Hutkins, Joanne Slavin, Daniel J. Tancredi, Daniel Merenstein, and Mary Ellen Sanders. 2020. Should there be a recommended daily intake of microbes? The Journal of Nutrition. 150 (12): 3061–3067 https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/nxaa323
Maria L. Marco. 2020. Defining how microorganisms benefit human health. Microbial Biotechnology. DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13685
Zachary A. Bendiks, Knud E.B. Knudsen, Michael J. Keenan, and Maria L. Marco. 2020. Conserved and variable responses of the gut microbiome to resistant starch type 2. Nutrition Research. 77:12-28. doi: 10.1016/j.nutres.2020.02.009
Solomon A. Mekonnen, Daniel Merenstein, Claire M. Fraser, and Maria L. Marco. 2020. Molecular mechanisms of probiotic prevention of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 61:226-234 doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2020.01.005
Katti Horng, Clarissa Santos-Rocha, Irina Grishina, Lauren Hirao, Anne Fenton, Sandipan Datta, Guochun Jiang, Maria L. Marco, Sumathi Sankaran-Walters, Cecilia Giulivi, Gino Cortopass, Satya Dandekar. 2019. Rapid reversal of gut epithelial barrier disruption in chronic SIV infection by L. plantarum through PPARa-mediated recovery of mitochondrial bioenergetics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (49) 24819-24829 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1908977116
Annabelle O. Yu, Johan H. J. Leveau, and Maria L. Marco. 2019. Abundance, diversity, and plant-specific adaptations of plant-associated lactic acid bacteria. Environmental Microbiology Reports. doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12794
Riley L. Hughes, Maria L. Marco, James P. Hughes, Nancy L. Keim, Mary E. Kable. 2019. The role of the gut microbiome in predicting response to diet and the development of precision nutrition models. Part I: Overview of Current Methods, Advances in Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmz022
Riley L. Hughes, Mary E. Kable, Maria L. Marco, Nancy L. Keim, 2019. The role of the gut microbiome in predicting response to diet and the development of precision nutrition models. Part II:Results. https://doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmz049
Zhengyuan Zhai, Cristina Torres-Fuentes, Dustin D. Heeney, and Maria L Marco. 2019. Synergy between probiotic Lactobacillus casei and milk to maintain barrier integrity of intestinal epithelial cells. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Jan 10. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.8b06657
Sandra Appelt, Sharif S. Aly, Karen Tonooka, Kathy Glenn, Zhengyao Xue, Terry W. Lehenbauer, and Maria L. Marco. 2019. Development and comparison of LAMP and qPCR assays for the detection of Mycoplasma bovis in milk. Journal of Dairy Science. Jan 3. pii: S0022-0302(19)30011-6. doi: 10.3168/jds.2018-15306
Dustin D. Heeney, Zhengyuan Zhai, Zach Bendiks, Javad Barouei,, Alice Martinic, Carolyn Slupsky, and Maria L. Marco. 2018. Lactobacillus plantarum bacteriocin maintains epithelial barrier integrity to reduce diet-induced obesity. Gut Microbes. doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2018.1534513
Zhengyao Xue, Mary E Kable, and Maria L Marco. 2018. Impact of DNA sequencing and analysis methods on 16S rRNA gene bacterial community analysis of dairy products. mSphere 3(5) 410-18. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00410-18
Xiaochen Yin, Dustin Heeney, Yanin Tab Srisengfa, Benjamin L. Golomb, Stephen M. Griffey, and Maria L. Marco. 2017 Bacteriocin biosynthesis contributes to the anti-inflammatory capacities of probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum. Beneficial Microbes October 25:1-12 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29065706. Recommended on F1000Prime
Xiaochen Yin, Michelle R. Salemi, Brett S. Phinney, Velitchka Gotcheva, Angel Angelov, and Maria L. Marco. 2017. Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp. bulgaricus milk- and low-temperature-associated proteomes. mSystems 2(5): e00027-17. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28951887
Dustin D. Heeney, Mélanie G Gareau, and Maria L. Marco. 2017. Intestinal Lactobacillus in health and disease, a driver or just along for the ride? Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 49:140-147 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28866243
Benjamin L. Golomb, Annabelle O. Yu, Laurynne C. Coates, and Maria L. Marco. 2017. The Lactococcus lactis KF147 non-ribosomal peptide synthetase/polyketide synthase system confers resistance to oxidative stress during growth on plant leaf tissue lysate. Microbiology Open 10.1002/mbo3.519. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28921941
Javad Barouei, Zach Bendiks, Alice Martinic, Darya Mishchuk, Dustin Heeney, Yu-Hsin Hsieh, Dorothy Kieffer, Jose Zaragoza, Roy Martin, Carolyn Slupsky, and Maria L Marco. 2017. Microbiota, metabolome, and immune alterations in obese mice fed a high fat diet containing type 2 resistant starch. Molecular Food Nutrition Research 61(11). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28736992
Xiaochen Yin and Maria L. Marco. 2017. Host diet changes the population dynamics of indigenous and dietary Lactobacillus in the digestive tract. Scientific Reports 7: 7267 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07428-
Abigail J. Kanyer, Gail M. Bornhorst, Maria L. Marco and Charles W. Bamforth. 2017. Is beer a source of prebiotics? Journal of the Institute of Brewing DOI 10.1002/jib.439. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jib.439/
Anne Katrine Bolvig, Natalja P. Nørskov, Mette Skou Hedemann, Leslie Foldager, Brendan McCarthy-Sinclair, Maria L. Marco, Helle N. Lærke and Knud Erik Bach Knudsen. 2017. The effect of antibiotics and diet on enterolactone concentration and metabolome studied by targeted and non-targeted LC-MS metabolomics. Journal of Proteome Research. DOI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28294620
Jose Zaragoza, Zachary Bendiks, Charlotte Tyler, Mary E. Moore, Tom Williams, Yelizaveta Luchkovska, Elaine Chow, Kyria Boundy Mills, and Maria L Marco. 2017. Effects of exogenous yeast and bacteria on microbial population dynamics and outcomes of olive fermentations. mSphere. http://msphere.asm.org/content/2/1/e00315-16
Danielle N. Cooper, Mary E. Kable, Maria L. Marco, Angela De Leon, Bret Rust, Julita E. Baker, William Horn, Dustin Burnett, Nancy L. Keim. 2017. The effects of moderate whole grain consumption on fasting glucose and lipids, gastrointestinal symptoms, and microbiota. Nutrients. 9(2). doi: 10.3390/nu9020173.
Maria L. Marco, Dustin Heeney, Sylvie Binda, Christopher J. Cifelli, Paul D. Cotter, Benoit Foligné, Michael Gänzle, Remco Kort, Gonca Pasin, Anne Pihlanto, Eddy J. Smid, and Robert Hutkins. 2017. Health benefits of fermented foods: microbiota and beyond. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 44:94–102. 10.1016/j.copbio.2016.11.010
Yu-Hsin Hsieh, Courtney M. Peterson, Anne Raggio, Michael J. Keenan, Roy J. Martin, Eric Ravussin, and Maria L. Marco. 2016. Impact of different fecal processing methods on assessments of bacterial diversity in the human intestine. Frontiers in Microbiology 7:1642 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27812352
Maria L Marco and Benjamin L Golomb. 2016. Fermented foods, Lactobacillus and Health. Feature Article in Microbe 11:349-354. http://www.asmscience.org/content/journal/microbe/10.1128/microbe.11.349.1
Mary E. Moore, Yanin Srisengfa, Miles Laird, Jose Zaragoza, Jeremy McLeod, Jessie Heidenreich, and Maria L. Marco. The core and seasonal microbiota of raw bovine milk in tanker trucks and the impact of transfer to a milk processing facility. mBio.
7(4): e00836-16. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27555305
Pallavi Daggumati, Sandra Appelt, Zimple Matharu, Maria L. Marco, Erkin Seker. Sequence-specific electrical purification of nucleic acids with nanoporous gold electrodes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(24):7711–7717. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27244455
Stine Hald, Anne Grethe Schioldan, Mary E. Moore, Anders Dige, Helle Nygaard Lærke, Jørgen Agnholt, Knud Erik Bach Knudsen, Kjeld Hermansen, Maria L. Marco, Søren Gregersen, Jens Frederik Dahlerup. A diet rich in arabinoxylan and resistant starch changes the intestinal microbiota and fecal concentrations of short-chain fatty acids in subjects with metabolic syndrome. Plos One. 11(7): e0159223. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0159223
Benjamin L. Golomb, Lauren A. Hirao, Satya Dandekar, and Maria L. Marco. 2016. Gene expression of Lactobacillus plantarum and the commensal microbiota in the ileum of healthy and early SIV-infected rhesus macaques. Scientific Reports. 6:24723. http://www.nature.com/articles/srep24723
Charlotte Tyler, Lauren Kopit, Carolyn Doyle, Annabelle Yu, Jeroen Hugenholtz, and Maria L Marco. 2016. Polyol production during heterofermentative growth of the plant isolate Lactobacillus florum 2F. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 120(5):1336-45. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26913577
Wenting Ju, Anne-Laure Moyne, Maria L Marco. 2016. RNA-based detection does not accurately enumerate living Escherichia coli O157:H7 cells on plants. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7:233. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26955370
Dorothy Kieffer, Brian Piccolo, Nosratola Vaziri, Shuman Liu, Wei Lau, Mahyar Khazaeli, Sohrab Nazertehrani, Mary Moore, Maria L. Marco, Roy Martin, and Sean Adams. 2016. Resistant starch alters gut microbiome and metabolomics profiles concurrent with amelioration of chronic kidney disease in rats. American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology.(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26841824). This paper was selected by the American Physiological Society to be recognized as among the best recently published articles in physiological research
Michael J. Keenan, Maria L. Marco, Donald K. Ingram, Roy J. Martin. 2015. Improving healthspan via changes in gut microbiota and fermentation. Age (Dordr). 37(5):98. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26371059
Bokyung Lee, Xiaochen Yin, Stephen M. Griffey, and Maria L. Marco. 2015. Attenuation of colitis by Lactobacillus casei BL23 is dependent on the dairy delivery matrix. Applied Environmental Microbiology 81(18):6425-35. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26162873
Bokyung Lee, Sybille Tachon, Richard A Eigenheer, Brett S Phinney, and Maria L. Marco. 2015. Lactobacillus casei low-temperature, dairy-associated proteome promotes persistence in the mammalian digestive tract. Journal of Proteome Research 14(8):3136-47. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26148687
Zhou, J. C., Feller, B., Hinsberg, B., Sethi, G., Feldstein, P., Hihath, J., Seker, E., Marco, M., Knoesen, A. & Miller, R. 2015. Immobilization-mediated reduction in melting temperatures of DNA–DNA and DNA–RNA hybrids: Immobilized DNA probe hybridization studied by SPR. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 481:72-79. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927775715003866
Benjamin L. Golomb and Maria L. Marco. 2015. Lactococcus lactis metabolism and gene expression during growth on plant tissues. Journal of Bacteriology 197(2):371-81. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25384484
Lauren A Hirao, Irina Grishina, Olivier Bourry, William K Hu, Monsicha Somrit, Sumathi Sankaran-Walters, Chris A Gaulke, Anne N Fenton, Jay A Li, Robert W Crawford, Frank Chuang, Ross Tarara, Maria L. Marco, Andreas J Bäumler, Holland Cheng, and Satya Dandekar. 2014. Early mucosal sensing by Paneth cells induces IL-1β causing gut epithelial disruption in SIV infection. Plos Pathogens. 10(8):e1004311. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25166758
Thomas Williams and Maria L. Marco. 2014. Phyllosphere microbiota composition and microbial community transplantation on lettuce plants grown indoors. MBio. E01564-14. http://mbio.asm.org/content/5/4/e01564-14
Mary Ellen Sanders, Todd R. Klaenhammer, Arthur C. Ouwehand, Bruno Pot, Eric Johansen, James T. Heimbach, Maria L.
Marco, Julia Tennilä, Paul Ross, Charles Franz, Nicolas Pagé, R. David Pridmore, Greg Leyer, Seppo Salminen, Duane Charbonneau,Emma Call, and Irene Lenoir-Wijnkoop. 2014. Effects of genetic, processing, or product formulation
changes on efficacy and safety of probiotics. Annuals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1309:1-18. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24571253
Lauren M Kopit, Eun Bae Kim, Roland J Siezen, Linda J Harris, Maria L. Marco. 2014. Safety of the surrogate Enterococcus
faecium NRRL B-2354 for use in thermal process validation. Applied Environmental Microbiolology. 80(6):1899-909. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24413604
Eun Bae Kim and Maria L Marco. 2013. Non-clinical and clinical Enterococcus faecium but not Enterococcus faecalis have distinct structural and functional genomic features. 80(1):154-65. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24141120
Sybille Tachon, Bokyung Lee, and Maria L. Marco. 2013. Diet alters probiotic Lactobacillus persistence and function in
the intestine. Environmental Microbiology. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24118739
Xuan He, Maria L. Marco, and Carolyn M. Slupsky. Perspectives of food and nutrition on gut microbiota. 2013. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 61 (40), pp 9559–9574. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf4029046
Lauren H. Nagy, Irina Grishina, Monica Macal, William K. Hu, Sumathi Sankaran-Walters, Christopher A. Gaulke, Richard Pollard, Jennifer Brown, Maria Suni, Andreas J. Baumler, Smita Ghanekar, Maria L. Marco, and Satya Dandekar. 2013. Inflammatory response of antigen presenting cells to commensal Lactobacillus through p38-MAPK signaling in chronic
HIV infection. PlosOne. e72789. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0072789
Thomas Williams, Anne-laure Moyne, Linda J. Harris, and Maria L. Marco. 2013. Season, irrigation, leaf age, and Escherichia coli inoculation influence the bacterial diversity in the lettuce phyllosphere. PlosOne. e68642. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068642
Maria L. Marco and Sybille Tachon. 2012 Environmental factors influencing the efficacy of probiotic bacteria. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 24(2):207-13. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23102489
Benjamin L. Golomb, Vanessa Morales, Alesia Jung, Bianca Yau, Kyria L. Boundy-Mills, and Maria L. Marco. 2012. Effects of pectinolytic yeast on the microbial composition and spoilage of olive fermentation. Food Microbiology. 33(1):97-106
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Sybille Tachon, June Zhou, Michael Keenan, Roy Martin, and Maria L. Marco. 2012. The intestinal microbiota in aged mice is modulated by dietary resistant starch and correlated to improvements in host responses. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. In press. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22909308
Jessica M. Moon, Peter Finnegan, Richard A. Stecker, Hanna Lee, Kayla M. Ratliff, Ralf Jäger, Martin Purpura, Carolyn M. Slupsky, Maria L. Marco, Craig J. Wissent, Jason Theodosakis, and Chad M. Kerksick. 2021. Impact of glucosamine supplementation on gut health. Nutrients. 13(7):2180. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13072180
Annabelle O. Yu, Elissa A. Goldman, Jason T. Brooks, Benjamin L. Golomb, Irene S. Yim, Velitchka Gotcheva, Angel Angelov, Eun Bae Kim, and Maria L. Marco. 2021. Strain diversity of plant-associated Lactiplantibacillus plantarum. Microbial Biotechnology. 14(5), 1990–2008. doi:10.1111/1751-7915.13871
Yetong Xu, Anne Katrine Bolvig, Brendan McCarthy-Sinclair, Maria L Marco, Knud Erik Bach Knudsen, Mette Skou Hedemann, and Helle Nygaard Lærke 2021. The role of rye bran and antibiotics on the digestion, fermentation process and short-chain fatty acid production and absorption in an intact pig model. Food and Function. 12(7):2886-2900.
Riley L. Hughes, William H. Horn, Peter Finnegan, John W. Newman, Maria L. Marco, Nancy L. Keim, and Mary E. Kable. 2021. Resistant starch type 2 from wheat improves glycemic response with concurrent alterations in gut microbiota composition. 2021. Nutrients. 13(2), 645; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13020645
Zhengyao Xue, Jason T Brooks, Zachary Quart, Eric T Stevens, Mary E Kable, Jessie Heidenreich, Jeremy Mcleod, and Maria L Marco. 2021. Identification and confirmation of slit defect-causing bacteria in Cheddar cheese. mSystems.
10.1128/mSystems.01114-20
Maria L Marco, Mary Ellen Sanders, Michael Gänzle, Marie Claire Arrieta, Paul D. Cotter, Luc De Vuyst, Colin Hill, Wilhelm Holzapfel, Sarah Lebeer, Dan Merenstein, Gregor Reid, Benjamin E. Wolfe, and Robert Hutkins. 2021. Expert consensus document: The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) consensus statement on fermented foods. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41575-020-00390-5
Maria L Marco, Colin Hill, Robert Hutkins, Joanne Slavin, Daniel J. Tancredi, Daniel Merenstein, and Mary Ellen Sanders. 2020. Should there be a recommended daily intake of microbes? The Journal of Nutrition. 150 (12): 3061–3067 https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/nxaa323
Maria L. Marco. 2020. Defining how microorganisms benefit human health. Microbial Biotechnology. DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13685
Zachary A. Bendiks, Knud E.B. Knudsen, Michael J. Keenan, and Maria L. Marco. 2020. Conserved and variable responses of the gut microbiome to resistant starch type 2. Nutrition Research. 77:12-28. doi: 10.1016/j.nutres.2020.02.009
Solomon A. Mekonnen, Daniel Merenstein, Claire M. Fraser, and Maria L. Marco. 2020. Molecular mechanisms of probiotic prevention of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 61:226-234 doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2020.01.005
Katti Horng, Clarissa Santos-Rocha, Irina Grishina, Lauren Hirao, Anne Fenton, Sandipan Datta, Guochun Jiang, Maria L. Marco, Sumathi Sankaran-Walters, Cecilia Giulivi, Gino Cortopass, Satya Dandekar. 2019. Rapid reversal of gut epithelial barrier disruption in chronic SIV infection by L. plantarum through PPARa-mediated recovery of mitochondrial bioenergetics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (49) 24819-24829 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1908977116
Annabelle O. Yu, Johan H. J. Leveau, and Maria L. Marco. 2019. Abundance, diversity, and plant-specific adaptations of plant-associated lactic acid bacteria. Environmental Microbiology Reports. doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12794
Riley L. Hughes, Maria L. Marco, James P. Hughes, Nancy L. Keim, Mary E. Kable. 2019. The role of the gut microbiome in predicting response to diet and the development of precision nutrition models. Part I: Overview of Current Methods, Advances in Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmz022
Riley L. Hughes, Mary E. Kable, Maria L. Marco, Nancy L. Keim, 2019. The role of the gut microbiome in predicting response to diet and the development of precision nutrition models. Part II:Results. https://doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmz049
Zhengyuan Zhai, Cristina Torres-Fuentes, Dustin D. Heeney, and Maria L Marco. 2019. Synergy between probiotic Lactobacillus casei and milk to maintain barrier integrity of intestinal epithelial cells. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Jan 10. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.8b06657
Sandra Appelt, Sharif S. Aly, Karen Tonooka, Kathy Glenn, Zhengyao Xue, Terry W. Lehenbauer, and Maria L. Marco. 2019. Development and comparison of LAMP and qPCR assays for the detection of Mycoplasma bovis in milk. Journal of Dairy Science. Jan 3. pii: S0022-0302(19)30011-6. doi: 10.3168/jds.2018-15306
Dustin D. Heeney, Zhengyuan Zhai, Zach Bendiks, Javad Barouei,, Alice Martinic, Carolyn Slupsky, and Maria L. Marco. 2018. Lactobacillus plantarum bacteriocin maintains epithelial barrier integrity to reduce diet-induced obesity. Gut Microbes. doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2018.1534513
Zhengyao Xue, Mary E Kable, and Maria L Marco. 2018. Impact of DNA sequencing and analysis methods on 16S rRNA gene bacterial community analysis of dairy products. mSphere 3(5) 410-18. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00410-18
Xiaochen Yin, Dustin Heeney, Yanin Tab Srisengfa, Benjamin L. Golomb, Stephen M. Griffey, and Maria L. Marco. 2017 Bacteriocin biosynthesis contributes to the anti-inflammatory capacities of probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum. Beneficial Microbes October 25:1-12 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29065706. Recommended on F1000Prime
Xiaochen Yin, Michelle R. Salemi, Brett S. Phinney, Velitchka Gotcheva, Angel Angelov, and Maria L. Marco. 2017. Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp. bulgaricus milk- and low-temperature-associated proteomes. mSystems 2(5): e00027-17. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28951887
Dustin D. Heeney, Mélanie G Gareau, and Maria L. Marco. 2017. Intestinal Lactobacillus in health and disease, a driver or just along for the ride? Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 49:140-147 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28866243
Benjamin L. Golomb, Annabelle O. Yu, Laurynne C. Coates, and Maria L. Marco. 2017. The Lactococcus lactis KF147 non-ribosomal peptide synthetase/polyketide synthase system confers resistance to oxidative stress during growth on plant leaf tissue lysate. Microbiology Open 10.1002/mbo3.519. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28921941
Javad Barouei, Zach Bendiks, Alice Martinic, Darya Mishchuk, Dustin Heeney, Yu-Hsin Hsieh, Dorothy Kieffer, Jose Zaragoza, Roy Martin, Carolyn Slupsky, and Maria L Marco. 2017. Microbiota, metabolome, and immune alterations in obese mice fed a high fat diet containing type 2 resistant starch. Molecular Food Nutrition Research 61(11). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28736992
Xiaochen Yin and Maria L. Marco. 2017. Host diet changes the population dynamics of indigenous and dietary Lactobacillus in the digestive tract. Scientific Reports 7: 7267 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07428-
Abigail J. Kanyer, Gail M. Bornhorst, Maria L. Marco and Charles W. Bamforth. 2017. Is beer a source of prebiotics? Journal of the Institute of Brewing DOI 10.1002/jib.439. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jib.439/
Anne Katrine Bolvig, Natalja P. Nørskov, Mette Skou Hedemann, Leslie Foldager, Brendan McCarthy-Sinclair, Maria L. Marco, Helle N. Lærke and Knud Erik Bach Knudsen. 2017. The effect of antibiotics and diet on enterolactone concentration and metabolome studied by targeted and non-targeted LC-MS metabolomics. Journal of Proteome Research. DOI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28294620
Jose Zaragoza, Zachary Bendiks, Charlotte Tyler, Mary E. Moore, Tom Williams, Yelizaveta Luchkovska, Elaine Chow, Kyria Boundy Mills, and Maria L Marco. 2017. Effects of exogenous yeast and bacteria on microbial population dynamics and outcomes of olive fermentations. mSphere. http://msphere.asm.org/content/2/1/e00315-16
Danielle N. Cooper, Mary E. Kable, Maria L. Marco, Angela De Leon, Bret Rust, Julita E. Baker, William Horn, Dustin Burnett, Nancy L. Keim. 2017. The effects of moderate whole grain consumption on fasting glucose and lipids, gastrointestinal symptoms, and microbiota. Nutrients. 9(2). doi: 10.3390/nu9020173.
Maria L. Marco, Dustin Heeney, Sylvie Binda, Christopher J. Cifelli, Paul D. Cotter, Benoit Foligné, Michael Gänzle, Remco Kort, Gonca Pasin, Anne Pihlanto, Eddy J. Smid, and Robert Hutkins. 2017. Health benefits of fermented foods: microbiota and beyond. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 44:94–102. 10.1016/j.copbio.2016.11.010
Yu-Hsin Hsieh, Courtney M. Peterson, Anne Raggio, Michael J. Keenan, Roy J. Martin, Eric Ravussin, and Maria L. Marco. 2016. Impact of different fecal processing methods on assessments of bacterial diversity in the human intestine. Frontiers in Microbiology 7:1642 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27812352
Maria L Marco and Benjamin L Golomb. 2016. Fermented foods, Lactobacillus and Health. Feature Article in Microbe 11:349-354. http://www.asmscience.org/content/journal/microbe/10.1128/microbe.11.349.1
Mary E. Moore, Yanin Srisengfa, Miles Laird, Jose Zaragoza, Jeremy McLeod, Jessie Heidenreich, and Maria L. Marco. The core and seasonal microbiota of raw bovine milk in tanker trucks and the impact of transfer to a milk processing facility. mBio.
7(4): e00836-16. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27555305
Pallavi Daggumati, Sandra Appelt, Zimple Matharu, Maria L. Marco, Erkin Seker. Sequence-specific electrical purification of nucleic acids with nanoporous gold electrodes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(24):7711–7717. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27244455
Stine Hald, Anne Grethe Schioldan, Mary E. Moore, Anders Dige, Helle Nygaard Lærke, Jørgen Agnholt, Knud Erik Bach Knudsen, Kjeld Hermansen, Maria L. Marco, Søren Gregersen, Jens Frederik Dahlerup. A diet rich in arabinoxylan and resistant starch changes the intestinal microbiota and fecal concentrations of short-chain fatty acids in subjects with metabolic syndrome. Plos One. 11(7): e0159223. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0159223
Benjamin L. Golomb, Lauren A. Hirao, Satya Dandekar, and Maria L. Marco. 2016. Gene expression of Lactobacillus plantarum and the commensal microbiota in the ileum of healthy and early SIV-infected rhesus macaques. Scientific Reports. 6:24723. http://www.nature.com/articles/srep24723
Charlotte Tyler, Lauren Kopit, Carolyn Doyle, Annabelle Yu, Jeroen Hugenholtz, and Maria L Marco. 2016. Polyol production during heterofermentative growth of the plant isolate Lactobacillus florum 2F. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 120(5):1336-45. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26913577
Wenting Ju, Anne-Laure Moyne, Maria L Marco. 2016. RNA-based detection does not accurately enumerate living Escherichia coli O157:H7 cells on plants. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7:233. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26955370
Dorothy Kieffer, Brian Piccolo, Nosratola Vaziri, Shuman Liu, Wei Lau, Mahyar Khazaeli, Sohrab Nazertehrani, Mary Moore, Maria L. Marco, Roy Martin, and Sean Adams. 2016. Resistant starch alters gut microbiome and metabolomics profiles concurrent with amelioration of chronic kidney disease in rats. American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology.(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26841824). This paper was selected by the American Physiological Society to be recognized as among the best recently published articles in physiological research
Michael J. Keenan, Maria L. Marco, Donald K. Ingram, Roy J. Martin. 2015. Improving healthspan via changes in gut microbiota and fermentation. Age (Dordr). 37(5):98. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26371059
Bokyung Lee, Xiaochen Yin, Stephen M. Griffey, and Maria L. Marco. 2015. Attenuation of colitis by Lactobacillus casei BL23 is dependent on the dairy delivery matrix. Applied Environmental Microbiology 81(18):6425-35. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26162873
Bokyung Lee, Sybille Tachon, Richard A Eigenheer, Brett S Phinney, and Maria L. Marco. 2015. Lactobacillus casei low-temperature, dairy-associated proteome promotes persistence in the mammalian digestive tract. Journal of Proteome Research 14(8):3136-47. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26148687
Zhou, J. C., Feller, B., Hinsberg, B., Sethi, G., Feldstein, P., Hihath, J., Seker, E., Marco, M., Knoesen, A. & Miller, R. 2015. Immobilization-mediated reduction in melting temperatures of DNA–DNA and DNA–RNA hybrids: Immobilized DNA probe hybridization studied by SPR. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 481:72-79. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927775715003866
Benjamin L. Golomb and Maria L. Marco. 2015. Lactococcus lactis metabolism and gene expression during growth on plant tissues. Journal of Bacteriology 197(2):371-81. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25384484
Lauren A Hirao, Irina Grishina, Olivier Bourry, William K Hu, Monsicha Somrit, Sumathi Sankaran-Walters, Chris A Gaulke, Anne N Fenton, Jay A Li, Robert W Crawford, Frank Chuang, Ross Tarara, Maria L. Marco, Andreas J Bäumler, Holland Cheng, and Satya Dandekar. 2014. Early mucosal sensing by Paneth cells induces IL-1β causing gut epithelial disruption in SIV infection. Plos Pathogens. 10(8):e1004311. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25166758
Thomas Williams and Maria L. Marco. 2014. Phyllosphere microbiota composition and microbial community transplantation on lettuce plants grown indoors. MBio. E01564-14. http://mbio.asm.org/content/5/4/e01564-14
Mary Ellen Sanders, Todd R. Klaenhammer, Arthur C. Ouwehand, Bruno Pot, Eric Johansen, James T. Heimbach, Maria L.
Marco, Julia Tennilä, Paul Ross, Charles Franz, Nicolas Pagé, R. David Pridmore, Greg Leyer, Seppo Salminen, Duane Charbonneau,Emma Call, and Irene Lenoir-Wijnkoop. 2014. Effects of genetic, processing, or product formulation
changes on efficacy and safety of probiotics. Annuals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1309:1-18. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24571253
Lauren M Kopit, Eun Bae Kim, Roland J Siezen, Linda J Harris, Maria L. Marco. 2014. Safety of the surrogate Enterococcus
faecium NRRL B-2354 for use in thermal process validation. Applied Environmental Microbiolology. 80(6):1899-909. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24413604
Eun Bae Kim and Maria L Marco. 2013. Non-clinical and clinical Enterococcus faecium but not Enterococcus faecalis have distinct structural and functional genomic features. 80(1):154-65. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24141120
Sybille Tachon, Bokyung Lee, and Maria L. Marco. 2013. Diet alters probiotic Lactobacillus persistence and function in
the intestine. Environmental Microbiology. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24118739
Xuan He, Maria L. Marco, and Carolyn M. Slupsky. Perspectives of food and nutrition on gut microbiota. 2013. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 61 (40), pp 9559–9574. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf4029046
Lauren H. Nagy, Irina Grishina, Monica Macal, William K. Hu, Sumathi Sankaran-Walters, Christopher A. Gaulke, Richard Pollard, Jennifer Brown, Maria Suni, Andreas J. Baumler, Smita Ghanekar, Maria L. Marco, and Satya Dandekar. 2013. Inflammatory response of antigen presenting cells to commensal Lactobacillus through p38-MAPK signaling in chronic
HIV infection. PlosOne. e72789. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0072789
Thomas Williams, Anne-laure Moyne, Linda J. Harris, and Maria L. Marco. 2013. Season, irrigation, leaf age, and Escherichia coli inoculation influence the bacterial diversity in the lettuce phyllosphere. PlosOne. e68642. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068642
Maria L. Marco and Sybille Tachon. 2012 Environmental factors influencing the efficacy of probiotic bacteria. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 24(2):207-13. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23102489
Benjamin L. Golomb, Vanessa Morales, Alesia Jung, Bianca Yau, Kyria L. Boundy-Mills, and Maria L. Marco. 2012. Effects of pectinolytic yeast on the microbial composition and spoilage of olive fermentation. Food Microbiology. 33(1):97-106
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Sybille Tachon, June Zhou, Michael Keenan, Roy Martin, and Maria L. Marco. 2012. The intestinal microbiota in aged mice is modulated by dietary resistant starch and correlated to improvements in host responses. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. In press. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22909308