Jumbo bacteriophages: an overview

Y Yuan, M Gao - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Tailed bacteriophages with genomes larger than 200 kbp are classified as Jumbo phages,
and are rarely isolated by conventional methods. These phages are designated “jumbo” …

Emerging aspects of jumbo bacteriophages

A Nazir, A Ali, H Qing, Y Tong - Infection and drug resistance, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The bacteriophages have been explored at a huge scale as a model system for their
applications in many biological-related fields. Jumbo phages with a large genome size from …

Sulfur oxidation genes in diverse deep-sea viruses

K Anantharaman, MB Duhaime, JA Breier, KA Wendt… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Viruses are the most abundant biological entities in the oceans and a pervasive cause of
mortality of microorganisms that drive biogeochemical cycles. Although the ecological and …

Modeling the Architecture of Depolymerase-Containing Receptor Binding Proteins in Klebsiella Phages

A Latka, PG Leiman, Z Drulis-Kawa… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Klebsiella pneumoniae carries a thick polysaccharide capsule. This highly variable chemical
structure plays an important role in its virulence. Many Klebsiella bacteriophages recognize …

[HTML][HTML] Jumbo phages: a comparative genomic overview of core functions and adaptions for biological conflicts

L M. Iyer, V Anantharaman, A Krishnan, AM Burroughs… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Jumbo phages have attracted much attention by virtue of their extraordinary genome size
and unusual aspects of biology. By performing a comparative genomics analysis of 224 …

Klebsiella phage ΦK64-1 encodes multiple depolymerases for multiple host capsular types

YJ Pan, TL Lin, CC Chen, YT Tsai, YH Cheng… - Journal of …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The genome of the multihost bacteriophage ΦK64-1, capable of infecting Klebsiella
capsular types K1, K11, K21, K25, K30, K35, K64, and K69, as well as new capsular types …

Still Something to Discover: Novel Insights into Escherichia coli Phage Diversity and Taxonomy

IHE Korf, JP Meier-Kolthoff, EM Adriaenssens… - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study was to gain further insight into the diversity of Escherichia coli phages
followed by enhanced work on taxonomic issues in that field. Therefore, we present the …

High-resolution reconstruction of a Jumbo-bacteriophage infecting capsulated bacteria using hyperbranched tail fibers

R Ouyang, AR Costa, CK Cassidy… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Klebsiella jumbo myophage ϕKp24 displays an unusually complex arrangement of tail
fibers interacting with a host cell. In this study, we combine cryo-electron microscopy …

Archaeal community diversity and abundance changes along a natural salinity gradient in estuarine sediments

G Webster, LA O'Sullivan, Y Meng… - FEMS microbiology …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Archaea are widespread in marine sediments, but their occurrence and relationship with
natural salinity gradients in estuarine sediments is not well understood. This study …

Phages against noncapsulated Klebsiella pneumoniae: broader host range, slower resistance

M Lourenço, L Osbelt, V Passet, F Gravey… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp), a human gut colonizer and opportunistic pathogen, is a major
contributor to the global burden of antimicrobial resistance. Virulent bacteriophages …