ArticleISME communications2022
The presence of plasmids in bacterial hosts alters phage isolation and infectivity.
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- The Potential of Phage Treatment to Inactivate Planktonic and Biofilm-FormingMicroorganisms · 2024Article
- Characterization and Abundance of Plasmid-Dependent Alphatectivirus Bacteriophages.Microbial ecology · 2024Article
- Isolation and characterization of a phage collection against Pseudomonas putida.Environmental microbiology · 2024Article
- Structure-functional characterization of Lactococcus AbiA phage defense system.Nucleic acids research · 2024Article
- Correlation ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Evolutionary and co-evolutionary phage training approaches enhance bacterial suppression and delay the emergence of phage resistance.ISME communications · 2024Article
- Bacteriophage-mediated approaches for biofilm control.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Antibiotic resistance genes are often carried by plasmids, which spread intra- and inter genera bacterial populations, and also play a critical role in bacteria conferring phage resistance. However, it remains unknown about the influence of plasmids present in bacterial hosts on phage isolation and subsequent infectivity. In this study, using both Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas putida bacteria containing different plasmids, eight phages were isolated and characterized in terms of phage morphology and host range analysis, in conjunction with DNA and protein sequencing. We found that plasmids can influence both the phage isolation process and phage infectivity. In particular, the isolated phages exhibited different phage plaquing infectivity towards the same bacterial species containing different plasmids. Furthermore, the presence of plasmids was found to alter the expression of bacteria membrane protein, which correlates with bacterial cell surface receptors recognized by phages, thus affecting phage isolation and infectivity. Given the diverse and ubiquitous nature of plasmids, our findings highlight the need to consider plasmids as factors that can influence both phage isolation and infectivity.
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