Bacteriophages inhibit and evade cGAS-like immune function in bacteria

E Huiting, X Cao, J Ren, JS Athukoralage, Z Luo… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
A fundamental strategy of eukaryotic antiviral immunity involves the cGAS enzyme, which
synthesizes 2′, 3′-cGAMP and activates the effector STING. Diverse bacteria contain …

Bacteriophages of Pseudomonas

PJ Ceyssens, R Lavigne - Future microbiology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Pseudomonas species and their bacteriophages have been studied intensely since the
beginning of the 20th century, due to their ubiquitous nature, and medical and ecological …

Antagonistic coevolution of marine planktonic viruses and their hosts

JBH Martiny, L Riemann, MF Marston… - Annual review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The potential for antagonistic coevolution between marine viruses and their (primarily
bacterial) hosts is well documented, but our understanding of the consequences of this rapid …

[HTML][HTML] Antagonistic coevolution accelerates molecular evolution

S Paterson, T Vogwill, A Buckling, R Benmayor… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Abstract The Red Queen hypothesis proposes that coevolution of interacting species (such
as hosts and parasites) should drive molecular evolution through continual natural selection …

Quality-controlled small-scale production of a well-defined bacteriophage cocktail for use in human clinical trials

M Merabishvili, JP Pirnay, G Verbeken, N Chanishvili… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
We describe the small-scale, laboratory-based, production and quality control of a cocktail,
consisting of exclusively lytic bacteriophages, designed for the treatment of Pseudomonas …

Host–parasite coevolutionary arms races give way to fluctuating selection

AR Hall, PD Scanlan, AD Morgan, A Buckling - Ecology letters, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 635–642 Abstract Host–parasite coevolution is a key driver of
biological diversity and parasite virulence, but its effects depend on the nature of …

[HTML][HTML] Unifying classical and molecular taxonomic classification: analysis of the Podoviridae using BLASTP-based tools

R Lavigne, D Seto, P Mahadevan… - Research in …, 2008 - Elsevier
We defined phage genera by measuring genome relationships by the numbers of shared
homologous/orthologous proteins. We used BLAST-based tools (CoreExtractor. vbs and …

Isolation and in vitro evaluation of bacteriophages against MDR-bacterial isolates from septic wound infections

RR Pallavali, VL Degati, D Lomada, MC Reddy… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Multi-drug resistance has become a major problem for the treatment of pathogenic bacterial
infections. The use of bacteriophages is an attractive approach to overcome the problem of …

Antibacterial activity of Acinetobacter baumannii phage ϕAB2 endolysin (LysAB2) against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria

MJ Lai, NT Lin, A Hu, PC Soo, LK Chen… - Applied microbiology …, 2011 - Springer
To investigate the nature and origin of the antibacterial activity of the lytic phage ϕAB2
toward Acinetobacter baumannii, we successfully isolated and characterized a novel phage …

Reticulate representation of evolutionary and functional relationships between phage genomes

G Lima-Mendez, J Van Helden… - Molecular biology …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Bacteriophage genomes show pervasive mosaicism, indicating the importance of horizontal
gene exchange in their evolution. Phage genomes represent unique combinations of …