The intricate organizational strategy of nucleus-forming phages

A Prichard, J Pogliano - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2024 - Elsevier
Nucleus-forming phages (chimalliviruses) encode numerous genes responsible for creating
intricate structures for viral replication. Research on this newly appreciated family of phages …

An essential and highly selective protein import pathway encoded by nucleus-forming phage

CJ Morgan, E Enustun, EG Armbruster… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Targeting proteins to specific subcellular destinations is essential in prokaryotes,
eukaryotes, and the viruses that infect them. Chimalliviridae phages encapsulate their …

Latent infection of an active giant endogenous virus in a unicellular green alga

MP Erazo-Garcia, U Sheyn, ZK Barth, RJ Craig… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Latency is a common strategy in a wide range of viral lineages, but its prevalence in giant
viruses remains unknown. Here we describe the activity and viral production from a 617 kbp …

Addressing Antibiotic Resistance with Bacterial Cytological Profiling: A High-Throughput Method for Antibiotic Discovery

J Salgado, J Rayner, N Ojkic - 2024 - preprints.org
Developing new antibiotics poses a significant challenge in the fight against antimicrobial
resistance (AMR), a critical global health threat responsible for approximately 5 million …