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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Prophages or prophage remnants are found in chromosomes of many bacterial strains and might increase the environmental fitness and/or virulence of their hosts.
Nikita Zrelovs +2 more
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Epigenetics as a first exit problem
, 2001 We develop a framework to discuss stability of epigenetic states as first exit problems in dynamical systems with noise. We consider in particular the stability of the lysogenic state of the lambda prophage, which is known to exhibit exceptionally large ...
Aurell, E., Sneppen, K.
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Exponential sensitivity of noise-driven switching in genetic networks [PDF]
, 2008 Cells are known to utilize biochemical noise to probabilistically switch between distinct gene expression states. We demonstrate that such noise-driven switching is dominated by tails of probability distributions and is therefore exponentially sensitive ...
Mehta, Pankaj +2 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Phages have a major impact on microbial populations. In this work, we discuss how predation, transduction, lysogeny, and phage domestication lead to symbio-centric genomic interactions between bacteria and phages, ranging from antagonistic to mutualistic.
Lucas P. P. Braga +5 more
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Biochemical Studies of Lysogeny
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1960 SUMMARY 1. The physical characteristics of X virus obtained from ultra- violet induction of Escherichia coli K12X have been compared with those of X virus obtained by infection of the sensitive host E. coli W-1485. No significant differences were observed, and it has been concluded that the present evidence supports the view that the X virus from ...
R P, MACKAL +3 more
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Lysogen stability is determined by the frequency of activity bursts from the fate‐determining gene
Molecular Systems Biology, 2010 The ability of living cells to maintain an inheritable memory of their gene‐expression state is key to cellular differentiation. Bacterial lysogeny serves as a simple paradigm for long‐term cellular memory.
Chenghang Zong +4 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 As reported in many aquatic environments, recent studies in terrestrial ecosystems implicate a role for viruses in shaping the structure, function, and evolution of prokaryotic soil communities.
Krishnakali Roy +7 more
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Giant number fluctuations in microbial ecologies
, 2012 Statistical fluctuations in population sizes of microbes may be quite large depending on the nature of their underlying stochastic dynamics. For example, the variance of the population size of a microbe undergoing a pure birth process with unlimited ...
Das, Dibyendu +2 more
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ΦCrAss001 represents the most abundant bacteriophage family in the human gut and infects Bacteroides intestinalis [PDF]
, 2018 peer-reviewedCrAssphages are an extensive and ubiquitous family of tailed bacteriophages, predicted to infect bacteria of the order Bacteroidales. Despite being found in ~50% of individuals and representing up to 90% of human gut viromes, members of this
Draper, Lorraine A. +6 more
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mBio, 2020 Clostridioides difficile is an important nosocomial pathogen that causes approximately 500,000 cases of C. difficile infection (CDI) and 29,000 deaths annually in the United States.
Kurt Selle +11 more
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