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Prophage Genomics and Ecology in the Family Rhodobacteraceae

Microorganisms, 2021
Roseobacters are globally abundant bacteria with critical roles in carbon and sulfur biogeochemical cycling. Here, we identified 173 new putative prophages in 79 genomes of Rhodobacteraceae.
Kathryn Forcone, Felipe H. Coutinho, Giselle S. Cavalcanti, Cynthia B. Silveira   +3 more
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Prediction, Diversity, and Genomic Analysis of Temperate Phages Induced From Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Strains

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is a notorious foodborne pathogen containing stx genes located in the sequence region of Shiga toxin (Stx) prophages.
Yujie Zhang, Yujie Zhang, Yen-Te Liao, Alexandra Salvador, Xiaohong Sun, Vivian C. H. Wu   +5 more
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Global diversity and distribution of prophages are lineage-specific within the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex

BMC Genomics, 2022
Background Ralstonia solanacearum species complex (RSSC) strains are destructive plant pathogenic bacteria and the causative agents of bacterial wilt disease, infecting over 200 plant species worldwide.
Samuel T. E. Greenrod, Martina Stoycheva, John Elphinstone, Ville-Petri Friman   +3 more
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Cryptic Prophages Contribution for Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli Introgression

Microorganisms, 2022
Campylobacter coli and C. jejuni, the causing agents of campylobacteriosis, are described to be undergoing introgression events, i.e., the transference of genetic material between different species, with some isolates sharing almost a quarter of its ...
Luís Tanoeiro, Mónica Oleastro, Alexandra Nunes, Andreia T. Marques, Sílvia Vaz Duarte, João Paulo Gomes, António Pedro Alves Matos, Jorge M. B. Vítor, Filipa F. Vale   +8 more
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Prophage Activation Triggers Extracellular Synthesis of DNA in Bacterial Biofilms via Rolling Circle Replication

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Shewanella oneidensis and Bacillus subtilis, both harboring prophages, reveal a novel biosynthetic route to scalable and programmable DNA superstructures in flower‐ and wire‐like shapes, respectively. Activation of prophages is achieved via 3‐hour starvation and monitored using reporter strains.
Gabriel Antonio S. Minero, Line Mørkholt Lund, Lasse Hyldgaard Klausen, Obinna Markraphael Ajunwa, Mingdong Dong, Rikke Louise Meyer, Victoria Birkedal, Kai Thormann   +7 more
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Prevalence, Diversity and UV-Light Inducibility Potential of Prophages in Bacillus subtilis and Their Possible Roles in Host Properties

Viruses, 2022
Bacillus subtilis is an important bacterial species due to its various industrial, medicinal, and agricultural applications. Prophages are known to play vital roles in host properties.
Haftom Baraki Abraha, Youbin Choi, Woobin Hyun, Jae-Won Lee, Hai Seong Kang, Min Seo So, Donghyun Shin, Jong-Hyun Jung, Desta Berhe Sbhatu, Kwang-Pyo Kim   +9 more
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Mining of Thousands of Prokaryotic Genomes Reveals High Abundance of Prophages with a Strictly Narrow Host Range

mSystems, 2022
Phages and prophages are one of the principal modulators of microbial populations. However, much of their diversity is still poorly understood. Here, we extracted 33,624 prophages from 13,713 complete prokaryotic genomes to explore the prophage diversity
Gamaliel López-Leal, Laura Carolina Camelo-Valera, Juan Manuel Hurtado-Ramírez, Jérôme Verleyen, Santiago Castillo-Ramírez, Alejandro Reyes-Muñoz   +5 more
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Deciphering Active Prophages from Metagenomes

mSystems, 2022
Temperate phages (prophages) are ubiquitous in nature and persist as dormant components of host cells (lysogenic stage) before activating and lysing the host (lytic stage). Actively replicating prophages contribute to central community processes, such as
Kristopher Kieft, Karthik Anantharaman
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Evolution along the parasitism-mutualism continuum determines the genetic repertoire of prophages.

PLoS Computational Biology, 2020
Integrated into their bacterial hosts' genomes, prophage sequences exhibit a wide diversity of length and gene content, from highly degraded cryptic sequences to intact, functional prophages that retain a full complement of lytic-function genes. We apply
Amjad Khan, Alita R Burmeister, Lindi M Wahl   +2 more
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Characterization of Clinical and Carrier Streptococcus agalactiae and Prophage Contribution to the Strain Variability

Viruses, 2020
Streptococcus agalactiae (group B Streptococcus, GBS) represents a leading cause of invasive bacterial infections in newborns and is also responsible for diseases in older and immunocompromised adults. Prophages represent an important factor contributing
Aneta Lichvariková, Katarina Soltys, Tomas Szemes, Livia Slobodnikova, Gabriela Bukovska, Jan Turna, Hana Drahovska   +6 more
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