ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
The book of Lambda does not tell us that naturally occurring lysogens of
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 12 papers.
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- The joint action of antibiotics, bacteriophage, and the innate immune response in the treatment of bacterial infections.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- The evolution of heteroresistance via small colony variants in Escherichia coli following long term exposure to bacteriostatic antibiotics.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The Evolution of Heteroresistance via Small Colony Variants inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Bacterial resistance to temperate phage is influenced by the frequency of lysogenic establishment.iScience · 2024Article
- Valp1, a Newly Identified Temperate Phage Facilitating Coexistence of Lysogenic and Non-Lysogenic Populations ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Bacterial Virus Forcing of Bacterial O-Antigen Shields: Lessons from Coliphages.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
The most significant difference between bacteriophages functionally and ecologically is whether they are purely lytic (virulent) or temperate. Virulent phages can only be transmitted horizontally by infection, most commonly with the death of their hosts. Temperate phages can also be transmitted horizontally, but upon infection of susceptible bacteria, their genomes can be incorporated into that of their host's as a prophage and be transmitted vertically in the course of cell division by their lysogenic hosts. From what we know from studies with the temperate phage Lambda and other temperate phages, in laboratory culture, lysogenic bacteria are protected from killing by the phage coded for by their prophage by immunity; where upon infecting lysogens, the free temperate phage coded by their prophage is lost. Why are lysogens not only resistant but also immune to the phage coded by their prophage since immunity does not confer protection against virulent phages? To address this question, we used a mathematical model and performed experiments with temperate and virulent mutants of the phage Lambda in laboratory culture. Our models predict and experiments confirm that selection would favor the evolution of resistant and immune lysogens, particularly if the environment includes virulent phage that shares the same receptors as the temperate. To explore the validity and generality of this prediction, we examined 10 lysogenic
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