<i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> Phage M198 and Its Therapeutic Potential by Lika Leshkasheli, Ia Kusradze, Darejan Bolkvadze, Lia Askilashvili, Maria Chichashvili, Giorgi Tsertsvadze, Elisabed Zaldastanishvili

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Crosstalk between the Intestinal Virome and Other Components of the Microbiota, and Its Effect on Intestinal Mucosal Response and Diseases by Njinju Asaba Clinton, Sodiq Ayobami Hameed, Eugene Kusi Agyei, Joy Chinwendu Jacob, Victor Oyewale Oyebanji, Cyril Ekabe Jabea

“…Nonetheless, the existing studies on the virome have largely been focused on the bacteriophages as these represent the main component of the virome with little information on endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) and eukaryotic viruses. …”
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Phage-Derived Endolysins Against Resistant Staphylococcus spp.: A Review of Features, Antibacterial Activities, and Recent Applications by Mina Golban, Javad Charostad, Hossein Kazemian, Hamid Heidari

“…These enzymes, which are also referred to as lysins, are a unique class of hydrolytic enzymes synthesized by double-stranded DNA bacteriophages. They possess glycosidase, lytic transglycosylase, amidase, and endopeptidase activities, effectively destroying the peptidoglycan layer and resulting in bacterial lysis. …”
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A historical perspective on the multifunctional outer membrane channel protein TolC in Escherichia coli by Mallory Wright, Mandeep Kaur, Laura K. Thompson, Georgina Cox

“…It also acts as a receptor for specific bacteriophages and the colicin E1 toxin. This review highlights key discoveries over the past six decades and emphasizes the remaining gaps in understanding how TolC contributes to physiological functions in E. coli.…”
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How to survive the mutational meltdown: lessons from plant RNA viruses by Lafforgue, Guillaume, Lefebvre, Marie, Michon, Thierry, Elena, Santiago F.

“…This phenomenon has been extensively observed in experiments involving microorganisms, including bacteriophages and yeast. While the impact of Muller’s ratchet on viruses has been largely studied in bacteriophages and animal RNA viruses, its effects on plant RNA viruses remain poorly documented. …”
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EFFECT OF PHAGOTHERAPY IN A PATIENT WITH ATOPIC DERMATITIS: A CLINICAL CASE STUDY by Сергей Федорович Гладков, Нина Константиновна Перевощикова, Наталья Степановна Черных

“…Current research emphasizes the potential of bacteriophages in modeling the gut microbiota of children in the first months of life, allowing very effective management of AM.…”
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Innovative Approaches to Suppressing Pseudomonas aeruginosa Growth and Virulence: Current Status and Future Directions by Sandip Patil, Xiaowen Chen, Feiqiu Wen

“…We delve into the bacterium’s virulence factors, discussing existing strategies like antibiotics, bacteriophages, probiotics, and small-molecule inhibitors. …”
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Gut Inflammation and Immunity: What Is the Role of the Human Gut Virome? by Alfredo Focà, Maria Carla Liberto, Angela Quirino, Nadia Marascio, Emilia Zicca, Grazia Pavia

“…The human virome comprises viruses that infect host cells, virus-derived elements in our chromosomes, and viruses that infect other organisms, including bacteriophages and plant viruses. The development of high-throughput sequencing techniques has shown that the human gut microbiome is a complex community in which the virome plays a crucial role into regulation of intestinal immunity and homeostasis. …”
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Smaller Fleas: Viruses of Microorganisms by Paul Hyman, Stephen T. Abedon

“…These viruses of microorganisms, or VoMs, in fact exist as the world’s most abundant somewhat autonomous genetic entities and include the viruses of domain Bacteria (bacteriophages), the viruses of domain Archaea (archaeal viruses), the viruses of protists, the viruses of microscopic fungi such as yeasts (mycoviruses), and even the viruses of other viruses (satellite viruses). …”
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Some Effective Tight-Binding Models for Electrons in DNA Conduction: A Review by Hiroaki Yamada, Kazumoto Iguchi

“…In addition, we investigated the localization properties of electronic states in several actual DNA sequences such as bacteriophages of Escherichia coli, human-chromosome 22, compared with those of the artificial disordered sequences with correlation. …”
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Biochemistry of Bacterial Biofilm: Insights into Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms and Therapeutic Intervention by Kashish Azeem, Sadaf Fatima, Asghar Ali, Ayesha Ubaid, Fohad Mabood Husain, Mohammad Abid

“…Nanomaterials with inherent antimicrobial properties, quorum-sensing inhibitors disrupting bacterial communication, and bacteriophages as biofilm-specific viral agents are highlighted as potential alternatives. …”
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Understanding biofilm--phage interactions in cystic fibrosis patients using mathematical frameworks by Emerenini Blessing O., Hartung Doris, Reyes Grimaldo Ricardo N. G., Canner Claire, Williams Maya, Agyingi Ephraim, Osgood Robert

“…Phage therapy utilizes bacteriophages that attack bacteria, to penetrate and eradicate biofilms. …”
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High Level Bioaerosol Protection against Infective Aerosols: How Medical Face Masks Compare against Respirators by Christian M. Sterr, Aline Dick, Lena Schellenberger, Julian Zirbes, Claudia Nonnenmacher-Winter, Frank Günther

“…To determine the as-worn bioaerosol protection efficacy of different face coverings and estimate the possible protective function against airborne diseases, we challenged different respirators and medical masks on a standardized dummy head with a bioaerosol containing MS2 bacteriophages as virus surrogates. In our experiments, FFP2 respirators showed the highest filtration efficacy 94 ± 4 (SD) % followed by medical masks 93 ± 3 (SD) % and KN95 respirators 90 ± 7 (SD) %. …”
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Chloramphenicol and gentamicin reduce the evolution of resistance to phage ΦX174 by suppressing a subset of E. coli LPS mutants. by Lavisha Parab, Jordan Romeyer Dherbey, Norma Rivera, Michael Schwarz, Jenna Gallie, Frederic Bertels

“…Bacteriophages infect gram-negative bacteria by attaching to molecules present on the bacterial surface, often lipopolysaccharides (LPS). …”
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Nanopore sequencing of protozoa: Decoding biological information on a string of biochemical molecules into human-readable signals by Branden Hunter, Timothy Cromwell, Hyunjin Shim

“…Such characteristics are also prevalent in other host-dependent parasites, such as bacteriophages. The taxonomic classification results showed a high proportion of nanopore reads identified as T. brucei in the infected blood samples, with no significant identification in the control blood samples and fecal samples. …”
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Phage Cocktail Alleviates Bacterial Canker of Kiwifruit by Modulating Bacterial Community Structure in Field Trial by Ran Hu, Xiaohan Xu, Yajun Jia, Cancan Zhu, Lin Wang, Minxin Song, Qian Xu, Mian Xia, Xiaoqing He, Yi Jin

“…<i>actinidiae</i>. Bacteriophages are regarded as promising biocontrol agents against kiwifruit bacterial pathogens due to their exceptional host specificity and environmentally friendly nature. …”
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Current understanding of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms in bacteria (analytical review) by O. V. Pruntova, V. S. Russaleyev, N. B. Shadrova

“…Horizontal gene transfer, including free DNA transformation, transduction by bacteriophages and plasmid-involving conjugation, is believed to play an important role in antimicrobial resistance spread. …”
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Functional genomic insights into Floricoccus penangensis ML061-4 isolated from leaf surface of Assam tea by Patthanasak Rungsirivanich, Elvina Parlindungan, Jennifer Mahony, Witsanu Supandee, Narumol Thongwai, Douwe van Sinderen

“…The ML061-4 genome was evaluated for genes associated with complex carbohydrate metabolism, bacterial adhesion, virulence factors, pathogenicity, bacteriophages, antiviral defence systems as well as toxin- and antibiotic-resistance associated genes, and genes involved in toxin production, secondary metabolite biosynthesis and xenobiotics biodegradation. …”
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Simplified MS2 phage-like particle production including a novel maturation protein internal fusion affinity tag by Enos C. Kline, Rose Duong, Qin Wang, Barry R. Lutz

“…Phage-like particles (PLPs) are fabricated self-assembling nanoparticles derived from the structural elements of bacteriophages. These particles have biotechnological utility because of the ability to easily modify surface chemistry and compartmentalize nucleic acids or other materials. …”
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The future of plant lectinology: Advanced technologies and computational tools by Vinicius J.S. Osterne, Kyria S. Nascimento, Benildo S. Cavada, Els J.M. Van Damme

“…Phage display libraries enable the identification of carbohydrate-mimetic peptides and the development of ligands for lectins by presenting diverse peptide libraries on bacteriophages. Genomic and transcriptomic analyses facilitate the exploration of the lectome in various plant species by scanning entire datasets to identify genes that contain lectin motifs—specific conserved amino acid sequences involved in carbohydrate recognition—and lectin domains, the larger structural regions that facilitate and stabilize these interactions. …”
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