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Filamentous phages of Ralstonia solanacearum: double-edged swords for pathogenic bacteria

Some phages from genus Inovirus use host or bacteriophage-encoded site-specific integrases or recombinases establish a prophage state. During integration or excision, a superinfective form can be produced. The three states (free, prophage, and superinfective) of such phages exert different effects o...

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Autor principal: Yamada, Takashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3816273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24204365
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2013.00325
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description Some phages from genus Inovirus use host or bacteriophage-encoded site-specific integrases or recombinases establish a prophage state. During integration or excision, a superinfective form can be produced. The three states (free, prophage, and superinfective) of such phages exert different effects on host bacterial phenotypes. In Ralstonia solanacearum, the causative agent of bacterial wilt disease of crops, the bacterial virulence can be positively or negatively affected by filamentous phages, depending on their state. The presence or absence of a repressor gene in the phage genome may be responsible for the host phenotypic differences (virulent or avirulent) caused by phage infection. This strategy of virulence control may be widespread among filamentous phages that infect pathogenic bacteria of plants.
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spelling pubmed-38162732013-11-07 Filamentous phages of Ralstonia solanacearum: double-edged swords for pathogenic bacteria Yamada, Takashi Front Microbiol Microbiology Some phages from genus Inovirus use host or bacteriophage-encoded site-specific integrases or recombinases establish a prophage state. During integration or excision, a superinfective form can be produced. The three states (free, prophage, and superinfective) of such phages exert different effects on host bacterial phenotypes. In Ralstonia solanacearum, the causative agent of bacterial wilt disease of crops, the bacterial virulence can be positively or negatively affected by filamentous phages, depending on their state. The presence or absence of a repressor gene in the phage genome may be responsible for the host phenotypic differences (virulent or avirulent) caused by phage infection. This strategy of virulence control may be widespread among filamentous phages that infect pathogenic bacteria of plants. Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3816273/ /pubmed/24204365 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2013.00325 Text en Copyright © 2013 Yamada. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Filamentous phages of Ralstonia solanacearum: double-edged swords for pathogenic bacteria
title Filamentous phages of Ralstonia solanacearum: double-edged swords for pathogenic bacteria
title_full Filamentous phages of Ralstonia solanacearum: double-edged swords for pathogenic bacteria
title_fullStr Filamentous phages of Ralstonia solanacearum: double-edged swords for pathogenic bacteria
title_full_unstemmed Filamentous phages of Ralstonia solanacearum: double-edged swords for pathogenic bacteria
title_short Filamentous phages of Ralstonia solanacearum: double-edged swords for pathogenic bacteria
title_sort filamentous phages of ralstonia solanacearum: double-edged swords for pathogenic bacteria
topic Microbiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3816273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24204365
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2013.00325
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