ReviewVirology2012
Pirates of the Caudovirales.
Review in Virology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.
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64 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Limitations and safety aspects related to the use of bacteriophages in food production.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2026Article
- Genetics, ecology and evolution of phage satellites.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2025Review
- Structure of the Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophage 80α neck shows details of the DNA, tail completion protein, and tape measure protein.Structure (London, England : 1993) · 2025Article
- Molecular piracy in deep-sea hydrothermal vent: phage-plasmid interactions revealed by phage-FISH inApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Global phylogenomic analysis ofMicrobial genomics · 2025Article
- The Psu protein of phage satellite P4 inhibits transcription termination factor ρ by forced hyper-oligomerization.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Hijackers, hitchhikers, or co-drivers? The mysteries of mobilizable genetic elements.PLoS biology · 2024Article
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- An autonomous plasmid as an inovirus phage satellite.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2024Article
- Diverse Prophage Elements ofCells · 2024Article
- Structure of the Portal Complex from Staphylococcus aureus Pathogenicity Island 1 Transducing Particles In Situ and In Isolation.Journal of molecular biology · 2024Article
- Phage-inducible chromosomal minimalist islands (PICMIs), a novel family of small marine satellites of virulent phages.Nature communications · 2024Article
- AeLife · 2024Article
- Bacteriophage Production in Compliance with Regulatory Requirements.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Review
- Evolution of exploitation and replication of giant viruses and virophages.Virus evolution · 2024Article
- Simultaneous entry as an adaptation to virulence in a novel satellite-helper system infecting Streptomyces species.The ISME journal · 2023Article
- Open questions in the social lives of viruses.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2023Review
- AbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Molecular piracy is a biological phenomenon in which one replicon (the pirate) uses the structural proteins encoded by another replicon (the helper) to package its own genome and thus allow its propagation and spread. Such piracy is dependent on a complex web of interactions between the helper and the pirate that occur at several levels, from transcriptional control to macromolecular assembly. The best characterized examples of molecular piracy are from the E. coli P2/P4 system and the S. aureus SaPI pathogenicity island/helper system. In both of these cases, the pirate element is mobilized and packaged into phage-like transducing particles assembled from proteins supplied by a helper phage that belongs to the Caudovirales order of viruses (tailed, dsDNA bacteriophages). In this review we will summarize and compare the processes that are involved in molecular piracy in these two systems.
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