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Bacteriophages and their potential for treatment of gastrointestinal diseases
Published in Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology (01-02-2022)“…Although bacteriophages have been overshadowed as therapeutic agents by antibiotics for decades, the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria and a better…”
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Phage spanins: diversity, topological dynamics and gene convergence
Published in BMC bioinformatics (15-09-2018)“…Spanins are phage lysis proteins required to disrupt the outer membrane. Phages employ either two-component spanins or unimolecular spanins in this final step…”
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Spanin Complex Is Essential for Lambda Lysis
Published in Journal of Bacteriology (01-10-2012)“…Phage lysis is a ubiquitous biological process, the most frequent cytocidal event in the biosphere. Lysis of Gram-negative hosts has been shown to require…”
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Galaxy and Apollo as a biologist-friendly interface for high-quality cooperative phage genome annotation
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-11-2020)“…In the modern genomic era, scientists without extensive bioinformatic training need to apply high-power computational analyses to critical tasks like phage…”
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Membrane fusion during phage lysis
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (28-04-2015)“…In general, phages cause lysis of the bacterial host to effect release of the progeny virions. Until recently, it was thought that degradation of the…”
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Rapid de novo evolution of lysis genes in single-stranded RNA phages
Published in Nature communications (26-11-2020)“…Leviviruses are bacteriophages with small single-stranded RNA genomes consisting of 3-4 genes, one of which ( sgl ) encodes a protein that induces the host to…”
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Control of Pierce's Disease by Phage
Published in PloS one (24-06-2015)“…Pierce's Disease (PD) of grapevines, caused by Xylella fastidiosa subsp. fastidiosa (Xf), is a limiting factor in the cultivation of grapevines in the US…”
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Bacteriophages of wastewater foaming-associated filamentous Gordonia reduce host levels in raw activated sludge
Published in Scientific reports (09-09-2015)“…Filamentous bacteria are a normal and necessary component of the activated sludge wastewater treatment process, but the overgrowth of filamentous bacteria…”
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Comparative genomics of Acinetobacter baumannii and therapeutic bacteriophages from a patient undergoing phage therapy
Published in Nature communications (30-06-2022)“…In 2016, a 68-year-old patient with a disseminated multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection was successfully treated using lytic bacteriophages…”
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Structural basis of Acinetobacter type IV pili targeting by an RNA virus
Published in Nature communications (29-03-2024)“…Acinetobacters pose a significant threat to human health, especially those with weakened immune systems. Type IV pili of acinetobacters play crucial roles in…”
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Systematic and scalable genome-wide essentiality mapping to identify nonessential genes in phages
Published in PLoS biology (04-12-2023)“…Phages are one of the key ecological drivers of microbial community dynamics, function, and evolution. Despite their importance in bacterial ecology and…”
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Spatial and temporal control of lysis by the lambda holin
Published in mBio (14-02-2024)“…The infection cycle of phage λ terminates in lysis mediated by three types of lysis proteins, each disrupting a layer in the bacterial envelope: the S105…”
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The Phage T4 Antiholin RI Has a Cleavable Signal Peptide, Not a SAR Domain
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (11-08-2021)“…Holin/endolysin-mediated lysis of phage T4 of Escherichia coli is tightly regulated by the antiholins RI and RIII. While regulation by the cytoplasmic RIII…”
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The Essential Escherichia coli Apolipoprotein N-Acyltransferase (Lnt) Exists as an Extracytoplasmic Thioester Acyl-Enzyme Intermediate
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (19-01-2010)“…Escherichia coli apolipoprotein N-acyltransferase (Lnt) transfers an acyl group from sn-1-glycerophospholipid to the free α-amino group of the N-terminal…”
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Characterization of Novel Virulent Broad-Host-Range Phages of Xylella fastidiosa and Xanthomonas
Published in Journal of Bacteriology (01-01-2014)“…Article Usage Stats Services JB Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley…”
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Holin triggering in real time
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (11-01-2011)“…During λ infections, the holin S105 accumulates harmlessly in the membrane until, at an allele-specific time, suddenly triggering to form irregular holes of…”
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Visualization of pinholin lesions in vivo
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (28-05-2013)“…Lambdoid phage 21 uses a pinholin–signal anchor release endolysin strategy to effect temporally regulated host lysis. In this strategy, the pinholin S ²¹68…”
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Endolysin Regulation in Phage Mu Lysis
Published in mBio (28-06-2022)“…Bacteriophage Mu is a paradigm coliphage studied mainly because of its use of transposition for genome replication. However, in extensive nonsense mutant…”
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The transcriptional regulator CtrA controls gene expression in Alphaproteobacteria phages: Evidence for a lytic deferment pathway
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (19-08-2022)“…Pilitropic and flagellotropic phages adsorb to bacterial pili and flagella. These phages have long been used to investigate multiple aspects of bacterial…”
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Micron-scale holes terminate the phage infection cycle
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (02-02-2010)“…Holins are small phage-encoded proteins that accumulate harmlessly in the cytoplasmic membrane during the infection cycle until suddenly, at an allele-specific…”
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