Publications

Polypeptides synthesized by common bacteria in the human gut improve rodent metabolism

Yong Fan, Liwei Lyu, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Wanliang Zhang, Mareike Bongers, Andreas Koulouktsis, Mengliu Yang, Vita Sereika-Bejder, Tulika Arora, Evelina Stankevic, Jeremy Armetta, Franziska Zosel, Charlotta D de la Cour, Lotte Simonsen, Alina Kulakova, Michael Wierer, Pernille Harris, Joachim Gæde, Peter Rossing, Filip K Knop, Tune H Pers, Tue Haldor Hansen, Trine Nielsen, Ling Li, Kristian Strømgaard, Gangyi Yang, Morten Otto Alexander Sommer, Oluf Pedersen

Nature Microbiology (2025)

Intestinal pH: a major driver of human gut microbiota composition and metabolism

Julius E Brinck, Anurag K Sinha, Martin F Laursen, Lars O Dragsted, Jeroen Raes, Ruben Vazquez Uribe, Jens Walter, Henrik M Roager, Tine R Licht

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology (2025)

Advanced Microbiome Therapeutics Accelerate MASLD Recovery by Restoring Intestinal Microbiota Equilibrium and the Gut-Liver Axis in a Mouse Model

Johnson Lok, Congjia Chen, Valeria Iannone, Ambrin Farizah Babu, Emily Kwun Kwan Lo, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Troels Holger Vaaben, Mikko Kettunen, Otto Savolainen, Ursula Schwab, Morten Otto Alexander Sommer, Kati Hanhineva, Marjukka Kolehmainen, Hani El-Nezami, Carlos Gómez-Gallego

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (2025)

Advanced microbiome therapeutics for oral delivery of peptides and proteins: Advances, challenges, and opportunities

Hitesh P Gelli, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Stephen T Buckley, Jan Terje Andersen, Morten OA Sommer

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (2025)

The effect of aldafermin expressing-Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 along with dietary change on visceral adipose tissue in MASLD mouse model

Valeria Iannone, Maija Vaittinen, Carlos Gómez-Gallego, Santtu Mikkonen, Johnson Lok, Giuseppe D’Auria, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Ida Tikkanen, Morten OA Sommer, Hani El-Nezami, Marjukka Kolehmainen

International Journal of Obesity (2025)

Modulating tumor immunity using advanced microbiome therapeutics producing an indole metabolite

Troels Holger Vaaben, Ditte Olsen Lützhøft, Andreas Koulouktsis, Ida Melisa Dawoodi, Camilla Stavnsbjerg, Lasse Kvich, Ismail Gögenur, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Morten OA Sommer

EMBO Reports (2025)

Metagenome-guided culturomics for the targeted enrichment of gut microbes

Jeremy Armetta, Simone S Li, Troels Holger Vaaben, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Morten OA Sommer

Nature communications (2025)

Advanced microbiome therapeutics as a novel modality for oral delivery of peptides to manage metabolic diseases

Ruben Vazquez-Uribe**, Karl Alex Hedin, Tine Rask Licht, Max Nieuwdorp, Morten OA Sommer

Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism (2024)

Enhancing intestinal absorption of a macromolecule through engineered probiotic yeast in the murine gastrointestinal tract

Hitesh P Gelli, Karl Alex Hedin, Martin F Laursen, Ruben-Vazquez Uribe, Morten OA Sommer

Trends in Biotechnology (2024)

Genetic heterogeneity of engineered Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 strains during scale-up simulation

Lara P Munkler, Elsayed T Mohamed, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Victoria Visby Nissen, Peter Rugbjerg, Andreas Worberg, John M Woodley, Adam M Feist, Morten OA Sommer

Metabolic Engineering (2024) 

AI is a viable alternative to high throughput screening: a 318-target study

Atomwise AIMS program

Scientific Reports (2024)

Heterologous expression and antimicrobial potential of class II bacteriocins

Carola Elisa Heesemann Rosenkilde, Ditte Olsen Lützhøft, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Morten OA Sommer

Gut microbes (2024)

Candida expansion in the human gut is associated with an ecological signature that supports growth under dysbiotic conditions

Bastian Seelbinder, Zoltan Lohinai, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Sascha Brunke, Xiuqiang Chen, Mohammad Mirhakkak, Silvia Lopez-Escalera, Balazs Dome, Zsolt Megyesfalvi, Judit Berta, Gabriella Galffy, Edit Dulka, Anja Wellejus, Glen J Weiss, Michael Bauer, Bernhard Hube, Morten OA Sommer, Gianni Panagiotou

Nature Communications(2023)

Changes in liver metabolic pathways demonstrate efficacy of the combined dietary and microbial therapeutic intervention in MASLD mouse model

Valeria Iannone, Ambrin Farizah Babu, Johnson Lok, Carlos Gómez-Gallego, Giuseppe D’Auria, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Troels Holger Vaaben, Mareike Bongers, Santtu Mikkonen, Maija Vaittinen, Ida Tikkanen, Mikko Kettunen, Anton Klåvus, Ratika Sehgal, Dorota Kaminska, Jussi Pihlajamaki, Kati Hanhineva, Hani El-Nezami, Morten OA Sommer, Marjukka Kolehmainen

Molecular Metabolism (2023)

Saccharomyces boulardii promoters for control of gene expression in vivo

Carmen Sands, Karl Alex Hedin, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe*, Morten OA Sommer

Microbial Cell Factories (2023) 

Programming Probiotics: Diet-Responsive Gene Expression and Colonization Control in Engineered S. boulardii

Deniz Durmusoglu, Daniel J Haller, Ibrahim S Al’Abri, Katie Day, Carmen Sands, Andrew Clark, Adriana San-Miguel, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Morten OA Sommer, Nathan C Crook

ACS Synthetic Biology (2023)

Cold Exposure and Oral Delivery of GLP-1R Agonists by an Engineered Probiotic Yeast Strain Have Antiobesity Effects in Mice

Karl Alex Hedin, Hongbin Zhang, Vibeke Kruse, Vanessa Emily Rees, Fredrik Backhed, Thomas U Greiner, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe*, Morten OA Sommer

ACS Synthetic Biology (2023)

Engineered E. coli Nissle 1917 for delivery of bioactive IL-2 for cancer immunotherapy

Sarunas Tumas, Trine Sundebo Meldgaard, Troels Holger Vaaben, Sara Suarez Hernandez, Annemette Tengstedt Rasmussen, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe*, Sine Reker Hadrup, Morten OA Sommer

Scientific Reports (2023)

Characterization of  8 bacterial biosensors for diagnostic and therapeutic applications

Troels Holger Vaaben, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe*, Morten OA Sommer

ACS synthetic biology (2023)

Identification of effective cell penetration peptides with minimal impact on gut commensals

Hitesh P. Gelli, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe*, Morten OA Sommer

Frontiers in Pharmacology (2023)

Biocontainment strategies for in vivo applications of Saccharomyces boulardii 

Karl Alex Hedin, Vibeke Kruse, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe*, Morten OA Sommer*

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (2022)

Effects of broad-spectrum antibiotics on the probiotic yeast Saccharomyces boulardii colonisation in a mouse

Karl Alex Hedin, Vanessa Emily Rees, Hongbin Zhang, Vibeke Kruse, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe*, Morten OA Sommer

Scientific Reports (2022) 

Identification and Optimization of Novel Small-molecule Cas9 Inhibitors by Cell-based High-throughput Screening

Sang-Woo Lee, Kim Tai Tran, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Charlotte Held Gotfredsen, Mads Hartvig Clausen, Blanca Lopez Mendez, Guillermo Montoya, Anders Bach, Morten OA Sommer

Journal of medicinal chemistry (2022)

Challenging the hypothesis of bile acids de novo biosynthesis by marine bacteria

Felipe Gonzalo Tueros, Mostafa M Hashim Ellabaan, Marcus Henricsson, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Fredrik Backhed, Morten OA Sommer

Microbiology and Biotechnology letters (2022)

Escherichia coli promoters with consistent expression throughout the murine gut

Jeremy Armetta, Michael Schantz-Klausen, Denis Shepelin, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Martin Iain Bahl, Martin Frederik Laursen, Tine Rask Licht, Morten OA Sommer

ACS Synthetic Biology (2021)

AcrIIA22 is a novel anti-CRISPR that impairs SpyCas9 activity by relieving DNA torsion of target plasmid

Kevin J Forsberg, Danica T Schmidtke, Rachel Werther, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Deanna Hausman, Morten OA Sommer, Barry L Stoddard, Brett K Kaiser, Harmit S Malik

PLOS Biology (2021)

Bacterial resistance to CRISPR-Cas antimicrobials

Ruben Vazquez-Uribe**, Christin Rathmer, Leonie Johanna Jahn, Mostafa Mostafa Hashim Ellabaan, Simone S Li, Morten OA Sommer

Scientific Reports (2021)

Metabolic modeling predicts specific gut bacteria as key determinants for Candida albicans colonization levels

Mohammad H Mirhakkak, Sascha Schäuble, Tilman E Klassert, Sascha Brunke, Philipp Brandt, Daniel Loos, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Felipe Senne de Oliveira Lino, Yueqiong Ni, Slavena Vylkova, Hortense Slevogt, Bernhard Hube, Glen J Weiss, Morten OA Sommer, Gianni Panagiotou

ISME (2020)

Antibiotics create a shift from mutualism to competition in human gut communities with a longer-lasting impact on fungi than bacteria

Bastian Seelbinder, Jiarui Chen, Sascha Brunke, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe, Rakesh Santhaman, Anne-Christin Meyer, Felipe Senne de Oliveira Lino, Ka-Fai Chan, Daniel Loos, Lejla Imamovic, Chi-Ching Tsang, Rex Pui-kin Lam, Siddharth Sridhar, Kang Kang, Bernhard Hube, Patrick Chiu-yat Woo, Morten OA Sommer, Gianni Panagiotou

Microbiome 8 (1), 1-20

Predictable modulation of cancer treatment outcomes by the gut microbiota

Ruben Vazquez-Uribe**, Yoshitaro Heshiki, Jin Li, Yueqiong Ni, Scott Quainoo, Lejla Imamovic, Jun Li, Maria Sørensen, Billy KC Chow, Glen J Weiss, Aimin Xu, Morten OA Sommer, Gianni Panagiotou

Microbiome 8 (1), 1-14 (2020)

Discovery and characterization of Cas9 inhibitors disseminated across seven bacterial phyla

Ruben Vazquez-Uribe**, Eric van der Helm, Maria-Anna Misiakou, Sang-Woo Lee, Stefan Kol, Morten OA Sommer

Cell host & microbe 25 (2), 233-241. e5 (2019)

* Ruben Vazquez Uribe as corresponding author

** First author publications of Ruben Vazquez Uribe

Patents

Ruben V. Uribe is the co-inventor of several issued patents and additional patent applications licensed to public and private companies. 

  1. Altering microbial populations and modifying microbiotaUS Patent no. 12226430B2
  2. Method for the modulation of cancer treatment based on analyzing the gut microbiomeWO Patent no. 2021176036
  3. Drug-delivering bacteriaWO Patent no. 2023175124
  4. Methods for treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases (nafld) using advanced microbiome therapeuticsWO Patent no. 2023208816, US Patent no. 18857837
  5. Inhibitors of crispr-cas associated activityWO Patent no. 2019185751
  6. Single-vector type i vectorsUS Patent no. 11851663B2
  7. Engineered bacteria secreting cytokines for use in cancer immunotherapyWO Patent no. 2023161371
  8. A high-throughput platform to select for regulators of crispr-cas associated activityWO Patent no. 2019185750