ArticleScientific reports2021
Putative plasmid prophages of Bacillus cereus sensu lato may hold the key to undiscovered phage diversity.
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Abstract
Bacteriophages are bacterial viruses and the most abundant biological entities on Earth. Temperate bacteriophages can form prophages stably maintained in the host population: they either integrate into the host genome or replicate as plasmids in the host cytoplasm. As shown, tailed temperate bacteriophages may form circular plasmid prophages in many bacterial species of the taxa Firmicutes, Gammaproteobacteria and Spirochaetes. The actual number of such prophages is thought to be underestimated for two main reasons: first, in bacterial whole genome-sequencing assemblies, they are difficult to distinguish from actual plasmids; second, there is an absence of experimental studies which are vital to confirm their existence. In Firmicutes, such prophages appear to be especially numerous. In the present study, we identified 23 genomes from species of the Bacillus cereus group that were deposited in GenBank as plasmids and may belong to plasmid prophages with little or no homology to known viruses. We consider these putative prophages worth experimental assays since it will broaden our knowledge of phage diversity and suggest that more attention be paid to such molecules in all bacterial sequencing projects as this will help in identifying previously unknown phages.
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