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The Promise and Pitfalls of Prophages
, 2023 Abstract Phages dominate every ecosystem on the planet. While virulent phages sculpt the microbiome by killing their bacterial hosts, temperate phages provide unique growth advantages to their hosts through lysogenic conversion. Many prophages benefit their host, and prophages are responsible for genotypic and phenotypic differences ...
Jody C. McKerral +8 more
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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 +5 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 +8 more
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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 +3 more
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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 +9 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.
Romero, Patricia +2 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 Soft Rot Pectobacteriaceae (SRP; Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp., formerly known as pectinolytic Erwinia spp.) are necrotrophic bacterial pathogens infecting a large number of plant species worldwide, including agriculturally-important crops ...
Robert Czajkowski
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Prophage Finder: A Prophage Loci Prediction Tool for Prokaryotic Genome Sequences
In Silico Biology: Journal of Biological Systems Modeling and Multi-Scale Simulation, 2006 Prophage loci often remain under-annotated or even unrecognized in prokaryotic genome sequencing projects. A PHP application, Prophage Finder, has been developed and implemented to predict prophage loci, based upon clusters of phage-related gene products encoded within DNA sequences.
Michael Bose, Robert Barber
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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 +2 more
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Viruses, 2021 The interaction between gut bacterial and viral microbiota is thought to be important in human health. While fluctuations in female genital tract (FGT) bacterial microbiota similarly determine sexual health, little is known about the presence ...
Anna-Ursula Happel +10 more
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