Intestinal phages interact with bacteria and are involved in human diseases

H Shuwen, D Kefeng - Gut Microbes, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Phages are the most abundant and diverse biological entities on Earth and exert specific
effects on bacterial hosts. The coexistence of phages and bacteria in the intestinal tract is …

Beyond restriction modification: epigenomic roles of DNA methylation in prokaryotes

BP Anton, RJ Roberts - Annual Review of Microbiology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The amount of bacterial and archaeal genome sequence and methylome data has greatly
increased over the last decade, enabling new insights into the functional roles of DNA …

Unveil the secret of the bacteria and phage arms race

Y Wang, H Fan, Y Tong - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bacteria have developed different mechanisms to defend against phages, such as
preventing phages from being adsorbed on the surface of host bacteria; through the …

Proteomic Study of the Interactions between Phages and the Bacterial Host Klebsiella pneumoniae

I Bleriot, L Blasco, O Pacios… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Phages and bacteria have acquired resistance mechanisms for protection. In this context,
the aims of the present study were to analyze the proteins isolated from 21 novel lytic …

[PDF][PDF] Barriers to genetic manipulation of Enterococci: Current approaches and future directions

AL Krause, TP Stinear, IR Monk - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium are Gram-positive commensal gut bacteria
that can also cause fatal infections. To study clinically relevant multi-drug resistant E …

Comparative Genomics Analysis Provides New Insights into High Ethanol Tolerance of Lactiplantibacillus pentosus LTJ12, a Novel Strain Isolated from Chinese …

J Wang, C Lu, Q Xu, Z Li, Y Song, S Zhou, L Guo… - Foods, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lactic acid bacteria have received a significant amount of attention due to their probiotic
characteristics. The species Lactiplantibacillus plantarum and Lactiplantibacillus pentosus …

Characterization of the type I restriction modification system broadly conserved among group A streptococci

S DebRoy, WC Shropshire, CN Tran, H Hao, M Gohel… - Msphere, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Although prokaryotic DNA methylation investigations have long focused on immunity against
exogenous DNA, it has been recently recognized that DNA methylation impacts gene …

Systematic identification of gene-altering programmed inversions across the bacterial domain

O Milman, I Yelin, R Kishony - Nucleic Acids Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Programmed chromosomal inversions allow bacteria to generate intra-population genotypic
and functional heterogeneity, a bet-hedging strategy important in changing environments …

Enhanced transformation efficiency in Treponema denticola enabled by SyngenicDNA‐based plasmids lacking restriction–modification target motifs

CD Johnston, MP Goetting‐Minesky… - Molecular Oral …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Oral spirochetes are among a small group of keystone pathogens contributing to
dysregulation of tissue homeostatic processes that leads to breakdown of the tissue and …

Impacts of Mycoplasma agalactiae restriction-modification systems on pan-epigenome dynamics and genome plasticity

E Dordet-Frisoni, C Vandecasteele… - Microbial …, 2022 - microbiologyresearch.org
DNA methylations play an important role in the biology of bacteria. Often associated with
restriction modification (RM) systems, they are important drivers of bacterial evolution …