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ArticleGastroenterology report2022

Phage-mediated horizontal gene transfer and its implications for the human gut microbiome.

Tatiana Borodovich, Andrey N Shkoporov, R Paul Ross, Colin Hill

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Article in Gastroenterology report, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 108 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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108citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

108 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 172 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tatiana BorodovichAPC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0183-6251
Andrey N ShkoporovAPC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
R Paul RossAPC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Colin HillAPC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8527-1445
University College Cork · IE

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in the microbiome has profound consequences for human health and disease. The spread of antibiotic resistance genes, virulence, and pathogenicity determinants predominantly occurs by way of HGT. Evidence exists of extensive horizontal transfer in the human gut microbiome. Phage transduction is a type of HGT event in which a bacteriophage transfers non-viral DNA from one bacterial host cell to another. The abundance of tailed bacteriophages in the human gut suggests that transduction could act as a significant mode of HGT in the gut microbiome. Here we review in detail the known mechanisms of phage-mediated HGT, namely specialized and generalized transduction, lateral transduction, gene-transfer agents, and molecular piracy, as well as methods used to detect phage-mediated HGT, and discuss its potential implications for the human gut microbiome.

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gene transductiongut phageomehorizontal gene transferphage-mediated gene transfer

Identifiers

PMID35425613
PMCPMC9006064
OpenAlexW4221042154

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