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PLoS Pathogens, 2009 Bacteriophages are major genetic factors promoting horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between bacteria. Their roles in dynamic bacterial genome evolution have been increasingly highlighted by the fact that many sequenced bacterial genomes contain multiple ...
Md Asadulghani +7 more
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DNA sequence heterogeneity of Campylobacter jejuni CJIE4 prophages and expression of prophage genes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Campylobacter jejuni carry temperate bacteriophages that can affect the biology or virulence of the host bacterium. Known effects include genomic rearrangements and resistance to DNA transformation. C. jejuni prophage CJIE1 shows sequence variability and
Clifford G Clark +5 more
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Development of a Prophage Typing System and Analysis of Prophage Carriage in Streptococcus pneumoniae [PDF]
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2009 ABSTRACT The frequency of prophage carriage was tested in a collection of 108 clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae . A PCR-based assay was developed to allow classification of the prophage into the three groups recently identified according to genome comparisons (P. Romero, N. Croucher, N.
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Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2003 SUMMARY The majority of the bacterial genome sequences deposited in the National Center for Biotechnology Information database contain prophage sequences. Analysis of the prophages suggested that after being integrated into bacterial genomes, they undergo a complex decay process consisting of inactivating point mutations ...
Carlos, Canchaya +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Actinobacteria represent one of the largest bacterial phyla harboring many species of high medical, biotechnological and ecological relevance. Prophage elements are major contributors to bacterial genome diversity and were shown to significantly shape ...
Vikas Sharma +3 more
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Prophage Hunter: an integrative hunting tool for active prophages [PDF]
Nucleic Acids Research, 2019 Abstract Identifying active prophages is critical for studying coevolution of phage and bacteria, investigating phage physiology and biochemistry, and engineering designer phages for diverse applications. We present Prophage Hunter, a tool aimed at hunting for active prophages from whole genome assembly of bacteria.
Wenchen Song +14 more
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Characterizing RecA-Independent Induction of Shiga toxin2-encoding Phages by EDTA Treatment [PDF]
, 2012 The bacteriophage life cycle has an important role in Shiga toxin (Stx) expression. The induction of Shiga toxin-encoding phages (Stx phages) increases toxin production as a result of replication of the phage genome, and phage lysis of the host cell also
Muniesa Maite +8 more
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BMC Microbiology, 2021 Background The global rise in the incidence of non-tuberculosis mycobacterial infections is of increasing concern due their high levels of intrinsic antibiotic resistance.
Jaycee Cushman +5 more
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An Efficient, Counter-Selection-Based Method for Prophage Curing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains
Viruses, 2021 Prophages are bacteriophages in the lysogenic state, where the viral genome is inserted within the bacterial chromosome. They contribute to strain genetic variability and can influence bacterial phenotypes. Prophages are highly abundant among the strains
Esther Shmidov +5 more
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Identification of novel prophage regions in Xenorhabdus nematophila genome and gene expression analysis during phage-like particle induction [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Background Entomopathogenic Xenorhabdus bacteria are endosymbionts of Steinernema nematodes and together they form an insecticidal mutualistic association that infects a wide range of insect species. Xenorhabdus produce an arsenal of toxins and secondary
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