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Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny.
Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
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Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed.
- Capsular Polysaccharide Safeguards a Prophage-Bacterium Symbiosis by Preventing Collateral Attack and Promoting Viral Transmission.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Prophage-Derived Molecules as Anti-Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Animal gut microbes and microbiomes in the 21st century and beyond.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Review
- Research on Prophages in Aquaculture from the Perspective of Paradigm Borrowing: Advances in Pathogen Virulence, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Environmental Regulation.Microorganisms · 2026Review
- Phage host range: determinants, dynamics and applications.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Recent Advances in the Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Anti-Phage Defence Systems.Microbial biotechnology · 2026Article
- Classification of Sir2-HerA systems reveals a multilayered regulatory cascade gating the type III antiphage activity.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- Temperate phages enhance bacterial host fitness via RNA-guided flagellar remodelling.Nature microbiology · 2026Article
- A broad-spectrum phage-encoded mechanism to disarm bacterial type IV filaments.PLoS pathogens · 2026Article
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- The stoichiometry of minor-to-major pilins regulates the dynamic activity of the type IVa competence pilus in Vibrio cholerae.PLoS genetics · 2026Article
- Isolation of novel phages from a resistant Dorea longicatena strain reveals genes associated with phage resistance.Npj viruses · 2026Article
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- Rage against the mean: a perspective on measuring fitness of individual phage particles.Npj viruses · 2026Review
- A broad-spectrum phage-encoded mechanism to disarm bacterial type IV filaments.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- A prophage-expressed type IV pilus component provides anti-phage defense.Cell reports · 2026Article
- Bacterial defense systems: Mechanisms, homology to eukaryotic immune systems, and applications.Zoological research · 2026Review
- Advances in mycobacteriophage research: from lytic mechanisms to one health applications.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Review
- FimX regulates type IV pilus localization via the Pil-Chp chemosensory system inMolecular biology of the cell · 2025Article
- Building permits-control of type IV pilus assembly by PilB and its cofactors.Journal of bacteriology · 2024Review
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Abstract
In microbial communities, viruses compete for host cells and have evolved diverse mechanisms to inhibit competitors. One strategy is superinfection exclusion, whereby an established viral infection prevents a secondary infection of the same cell
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