A synthetic skin microbial community (SkinCom) enables reproducible investigations of the human skin microbiome
Asama Lekbua, Deepan Thiruppathy, Joanna K. C. Coker, Yuhan Weng, Fatemeh Askarian, Armin Kousha, Clarisse A. Marotz, Amber Hauw, Victor Nizet, Karsten Zengler
The paper introduces SkinCom, a synthetic skin microbial community, which enables reproducible in vitro and in vivo studies of the human skin microbiome and recapitulates 65.6% of in vitro responses in a human trial.
Cell Reports Methods · Aug 1, 2024Peer-reviewedMicrobiology