ArticleVirus evolution2017
Insights into origin and evolution of α-proteobacterial gene transfer agents.
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- Gene transfer agents: The ambiguous role of selfless viruses in genetic exchange and bacterial evolution.Molecular microbiology · 2025Review
- New evidence supports the prophage origin of RcGTA.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2024Article
- Cloud-based introduction to BASH programming for biologists.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2024Article
- Control of a gene transfer agent cluster in Caulobacter crescentus by transcriptional activation and anti-termination.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Co-evolution of gene transfer agents and their alphaproteobacterial hosts.Journal of bacteriology · 2024Article
- With a pinch of salt: metagenomic insights into Namib Desert salt pan microbial mats and halites reveal functionally adapted and competitive communities.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
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- Viriforms-A New Category of Classifiable Virus-Derived Genetic Elements.Biomolecules · 2023Article
- Selection for Translational Efficiency in Genes Associated with Alphaproteobacterial Gene Transfer Agents.mSystems · 2022Article
- Shared properties of gene transfer agent and core genes revealed by comparative genomics of Alphaproteobacteria.Microbial genomics · 2022Article
- Prophage-like gene transfer agents promote Caulobacter crescentus survival and DNA repair during stationary phase.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Virus-derived gene transfer agents benefit host cells by providing templates for DNA repair.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Loss of the Rhodobacter capsulatus Serine Acetyl Transferase Gene,Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- The archetypal gene transfer agent RcGTA is regulated via direct interaction with the enigmatic RNA polymerase omega subunit.Cell reports · 2022Article
- Gene Transfer Agents in Bacterial Endosymbionts of Microbial Eukaryotes.Genome biology and evolution · 2022Article
- Formal recognition and classification of gene transfer agents as viriforms.Virus evolution · 2022Article
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Abstract
Several bacterial and archaeal lineages produce nanostructures that morphologically resemble small tailed viruses, but, unlike most viruses, contain apparently random pieces of the host genome. Since these elements can deliver the packaged DNA to other cells, they were dubbed gene transfer agents (GTAs). Because many genes involved in GTA production have viral homologs, it has been hypothesized that the GTA ancestor was a virus. Whether GTAs represent an atypical virus, a defective virus, or a virus co-opted by the prokaryotes for some function, remains to be elucidated. To evaluate these possibilities, we examined the distribution and evolutionary histories of genes that encode a GTA in the α-proteobacterium
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