ReviewEMBO reports2019
Filamentous phages: masters of a microbial sharing economy.
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114 citing papers in PubMed.
- Microbial ecology of shallow groundwater ecosystems.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Genome-wide characterization of host factors involved in single-stranded RNA and DNA phage infection pathways.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- LAMBDA: a prophage detection benchmark for genomic language models.NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2026Article
- Perturbations shift the composition of bacterial DNA carried by virus-like particles in the murine gut microbiome.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Temperature-modulated persistent dsRNA phage infection selectively excludes superinfection and promotes generation of new viral variants.Microbiology spectrum · 2026Article
- A 3'UTR-derived small RNA modulates the life cycle of the cholera toxin-encoding filamentous phage, CTXϕ.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Do plasmid-dependent phages enable the survival of costly plasmids?bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Phosphorylation of PfiA modulates Pf4 phage production through PfiA/PfiT stoichiometric reconfiguration inScience advances · 2026Article
- LAMBDA: A Prophage Detection Benchmark for Genomic Language Models.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Mutations in filamentous bacteriophages spark eco-evolutionary feedbacks in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Expanding the genetic code: phage-driven evolution of pyrrolysyl-synthetase for site-specific incorporation of synthetic phenylalanine and tyrosine derivatives.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2026Article
- Enhancing propagation and purification efficiency of M13 bacteriophage for improved phage display applications.Biology methods & protocols · 2026Article
- Neisseria meningitidis filamentous phage MDA promotes colonisation by selecting hyperadhesive pili variants.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Prophage border curation reveals horizontal transfer of lysogeny-related elements between filamentous and double jelly-roll phages.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Experimental Coevolution Reveals That Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum PhcA Contributes to the Infection of Filamentous Phage RSCq.Molecular plant pathology · 2025Article
- Effects of bacteriophages on gut microbiome functionality.Gut microbes · 2025Review
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- Metabolic remodeling of microorganisms by mobile genetic elements alters mutualistic community composition.mSystems · 2025Article
- Crosstalk between inovirus core gene and accessory toxin-antitoxin system mediates polylysogeny.Nature communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
Bacteriophage ("bacteria eaters") or phage is the collective term for viruses that infect bacteria. While most phages are pathogens that kill their bacterial hosts, the filamentous phages of the sub-class Inoviridae live in cooperative relationships with their bacterial hosts, akin to the principal behaviours found in the modern-day sharing economy: peer-to-peer support, to offset any burden. Filamentous phages impose very little burden on bacteria and offset this by providing service to help build better biofilms, or provision of toxins and other factors that increase virulence, or modified behaviours that provide novel motile activity to their bacterial hosts. Past, present and future biotechnology applications have been built on this phage-host cooperativity, including DNA sequencing technology, tools for genetic engineering and molecular analysis of gene expression and protein production, and phage-display technologies for screening protein-ligand and protein-protein interactions. With the explosion of genome and metagenome sequencing surveys around the world, we are coming to realize that our knowledge of filamentous phage diversity remains at a tip-of-the-iceberg stage, promising that new biology and biotechnology are soon to come.
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