Antibiotic resistant bacteria are widely spread in environments. However, the compositions of bacteria with antibiotic resistance in subtropical fish pond sediment are still unclear. In present study, to analyze the compositions of norfloxacin resistant bacteria in subtropical fish pond sediments, we selectively cultured the sediment bacteria collected from six subtropical fish ponds located in southern China using the basic medium with 50 µg/ml of norfloxacin, and analyzed their compositions using MiSeq high-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons. Our results showed that various norfloxacin resistant bacteria existed in the fish pond sediments. And most of them were Gram-negative bacteria. Their spatial distribution was mainly influenced by environmental heterogeneity of the ponds. These results implied that norfloxacin resistance was widespread in Gram-negative bacteria in the fish pond sediments located in southern China. These finding provided reference information to prevent fish infected diseases and to assess the risk of antibiotic resistant bacteria in the fish pond sediments.

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Aspergillus niger is one of the major pathogenic fungi causing postharvest grape decay. The development of antifungal agents is beneficial to reduce the loss of grapes during storage. The aim of this study was to investigate the antifungal mechanism of cyclosporin A (CsA). It was indicated that the rot development on grapes caused by A. niger was almost completely inhibited with CsA in vivo at a concentration of 200 mg/L. The transcriptomic analysis revealed that the expression levels of genes involved in rRNA processing and ribosome biogenesis were down-regulated, whereas those related to β-glucosidases and chitinases were up-regulated. The results implied that CsA may disturb rRNA and ribosome formation to obstruct protein synthesis, accelerate chitin and glucan degradation to destruct cell walls, and ultimately reduce postharvest decay caused by A. niger in grapes. This study evaluated the potential of CsA as a grape preservative and provided new insights into the mechanisms underlying the molecular response in A. niger with the treatment of CsA.

Breast cancer ranks first among female cancers and has become a major public health problem in the current society. More studies indicated that these cancers are related to the change in the gut microbiome that can cause metabolic and immune system disorders in the body. However, there are few studies on the changes in gut microbiome caused by the onset of breast cancer, and the relationship between breast cancer and gut microbiome needs to be further clarified. In this study, we inoculated 4T1 breast cancer cells to induce breast cancer tumorigenesis in mice and collected their feces samples at different stages during this process. These intestinal florae were analyzed using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, and the results showed that at the phylum level, the ratio of Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes decreased with the development of the tumor; at the family level, the intestinal microbiome had obvious variations of Lachnospiraceae, Bacteroidaceae, Erysipelotrichaceae, etc. The Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) and COG annotation demonstrated that decreased abundance of cancer-related signaling pathways. This study elucidated the relationship between breast cancer and intestinal microbiome, and the research results can be used as an important biomarker for the diagnosis of breast cancer.