BacteriophagePub Date : 2013-01-01Epub Date: 2013-05-21DOI: 10.4161/bact.25098
Lawrence D Goodridge
{"title":"Bacteriophages for managing Shigella in various clinical and non-clinical settings.","authors":"Lawrence D Goodridge","doi":"10.4161/bact.25098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4161/bact.25098","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The control of shigellosis in humans enjoys a prominent position in the history of bacteriophage therapy. d'Herelle first demonstrated the efficacy of phage therapy by curing 4 patients of shigellosis, and several subsequent studies confirmed the ability of phages to reduce <i>Shigella</i> based infection. <i>Shigella</i> spp continue to cause millions of illnesses and deaths each year and the use of phages to control the disease in humans and the spread of the bacteria within food and water could point the way forward to the effective management of an infectious disease with global influence.</p>","PeriodicalId":8686,"journal":{"name":"Bacteriophage","volume":"3 1","pages":"e25098"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4161/bact.25098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31194149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BacteriophagePub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.4161/bact.24767
Joseph Osmundson, Seth A Darst
{"title":"Biochemical insights into the function of phage G1 gp67 in Staphylococcus aureus.","authors":"Joseph Osmundson, Seth A Darst","doi":"10.4161/bact.24767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4161/bact.24767","url":null,"abstract":"Bacteriophage (phage) are among the most diverse and abundant life forms on Earth. Studies have recently used phage diversity to identify novel antimicrobial peptides and proteins. We showed that one such phage protein, Staphylococcus aureus (Sau) phage G1 gp67, inhibits cell growth in Sau by an unusual mechanism. Gp67 binds to the host RNA polymerase (RNAP) through an interaction with the promoter specificity σ subunit, but unlike many other σ-binding phage proteins, gp67 does not disrupt transcription at most promoters. Rather, gp67 prevents binding of another RNAP domain, the α-C-terminal domain, to upstream A/T-rich elements required for robust transcription at rRNA promoters. Here, we discuss additional biochemical insights on gp67, how phage promoters escape the inhibitory function of gp67, and methodological advancements that were foundational to our work.","PeriodicalId":8686,"journal":{"name":"Bacteriophage","volume":"3 1","pages":"e24767"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4161/bact.24767","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31192112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BacteriophagePub Date : 2013-01-01Epub Date: 2013-05-21DOI: 10.4161/bact.25029
William Cenens, Angella Makumi, Mehari Tesfazgi Mebrhatu, Rob Lavigne, Abram Aertsen
{"title":"Phage-host interactions during pseudolysogeny: Lessons from the Pid/dgo interaction.","authors":"William Cenens, Angella Makumi, Mehari Tesfazgi Mebrhatu, Rob Lavigne, Abram Aertsen","doi":"10.4161/bact.25029","DOIUrl":"10.4161/bact.25029","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the study of phage infection has a long history and catalyzed much of our current understanding in bacterial genetics, molecular biology, evolution and ecology, it seems that microbiologists have only just begun to explore the intricacy of phage-host interactions. In a recent manuscript by Cenens et al. we found molecular and genetic support for pseudolysogenic development in the <i>Salmonella</i> Typhimurium-phage P22 model system. More specifically, we observed the existence of phage carrier cells harboring an episomal P22 element that segregated asymmetrically upon subsequent divisions. Moreover, a newly discovered P22 ORFan protein (Pid) able to derepress a metabolic operon of the host (<i>dgo</i>) proved to be specifically expressed in these phage carrier cells. In this addendum we expand on our view regarding pseudolysogeny and its effects on bacterial and phage biology.</p>","PeriodicalId":8686,"journal":{"name":"Bacteriophage","volume":"3 1","pages":"e25029"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/e4/20/bact-3-e25029.PMC3694060.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31194148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BacteriophagePub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.4161/bact.24323
Sean Ferguson, Cheryl Roberts, Eric Handy, Manan Sharma
{"title":"Lytic bacteriophages reduce Escherichia coli O157: H7 on fresh cut lettuce introduced through cross-contamination.","authors":"Sean Ferguson, Cheryl Roberts, Eric Handy, Manan Sharma","doi":"10.4161/bact.24323","DOIUrl":"10.4161/bact.24323","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The role of lytic bacteriophages in preventing cross contamination of produce has not been evaluated. A cocktail of three lytic phages specific for <i>E. coli</i> O157:H7 (EcoShield™) or a control (phosphate buffered saline, PBS) was applied to lettuce by either; (1) immersion of lettuce in 500 ml of EcoShield™ 8.3 log PFU/ml or 9.8 log PFU/ml for up to 2 min before inoculation with <i>E. coli</i> O157:H7; (2) spray-application of EcoShield™ (9.3 log PFU/ml) to lettuce after inoculation with <i>E. coli</i> O157:H7 (4.10 CFU/cm<sup>2</sup>) following exposure to 50 μg/ml chlorine for 30 sec. After immersion studies, lettuce was spot-inoculated with <i>E. coli</i> O157:H7 (2.38 CFU/cm<sup>2</sup>). Phage-treated, inoculated lettuce pieces were stored at 4°C for and analyzed for <i>E. coli</i> O157:H7 populations for up to 7 d. Immersion of lettuce in 9.8 log PFU/ml EcoShield™ for 2 min significantly (p < 0.05) reduced <i>E. coli</i> O157:H7 populations after 24 h when stored at 4°C compared with controls. Immersion of lettuce in suspensions containing high concentrations of EcoShield™ (9.8 log PFU/ml) resulted in the deposition of high concentrations (7.8 log log PFU/cm<sup>2</sup>) of bacteriophages on the surface of fresh cut lettuce, potentially contributing to the efficacy of the lytic phages on lettuce. Spraying phages on to inoculated fresh cut lettuce after being washed in hypochlorite solution was significantly more effective in reducing <i>E. coli</i> O157:H7 populations (2.22 log CFU/cm<sup>2</sup>) on day 0 compared with control treatments (4.10 log CFU/cm<sup>2</sup>). Both immersion and spray treatments provided protection from <i>E. coli</i> O157:H7 contamination on lettuce, but spray application of lytic bacteriophages to lettuce was more effective in immediately reducing <i>E. coli</i> O157:H7 populations fresh cut lettuce.</p>","PeriodicalId":8686,"journal":{"name":"Bacteriophage","volume":"3 1","pages":"e24323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/d4/25/bact-3-e24323.PMC3694057.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31192110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BacteriophagePub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.4161/bact.24219
Anni-Maria Ormälä, Matti Jalasvuori
{"title":"Phage therapy: Should bacterial resistance to phages be a concern, even in the long run?","authors":"Anni-Maria Ormälä, Matti Jalasvuori","doi":"10.4161/bact.24219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4161/bact.24219","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bacteriophage therapy, the use of viruses that infect bacteria as antimicrobials, has been championed as a promising alternative to conventional antibiotics. Although in the laboratory bacterial resistance against phages arises rapidly, resistance so far has been an only minor problem for the effectiveness of phage therapy. Resistance to antibiotics, however, has become a major issue after decades of extensive use. Should we expect similar problems after long-term use of phages as antimicrobials? Like antibiotics, phages are often noted to be drivers of bacterial evolution. Should we expect phage-treated pathogens to develop a general resistance to phages over time, a resistance against which only, for example, hypothetically co-evolved phages might be infective? Here we argue that the global infection patterns of phages suggest that this is not necessarily a concern as environmental phages often can infect bacteria with which those phages lack any recent co-evolutionary history.</p>","PeriodicalId":8686,"journal":{"name":"Bacteriophage","volume":"3 1","pages":"e24219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4161/bact.24219","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31192109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BacteriophagePub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.4161/bact.23829
Philip Serwer, Wen Jiang
{"title":"Dualities in the analysis of phage DNA packaging motors.","authors":"Philip Serwer, Wen Jiang","doi":"10.4161/bact.23829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4161/bact.23829","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The DNA packaging motors of double-stranded DNA phages are models for analysis of all multi-molecular motors and for analysis of several fundamental aspects of biology, including early evolution, relationship of in vivo to in vitro biochemistry and targets for anti-virals. Work on phage DNA packaging motors both has produced and is producing dualities in the interpretation of data obtained by use of both traditional techniques and the more recently developed procedures of single-molecule analysis. The dualities include (1) reductive vs. accretive evolution, (2) rotation vs. stasis of sub-assemblies of the motor, (3) thermal ratcheting vs. power stroking in generating force, (4) complete motor vs. spark plug role for the packaging ATPase, (5) use of previously isolated vs. new intermediates for analysis of the intermediate states of the motor and (6) a motor with one cycle vs. a motor with two cycles. We provide background for these dualities, some of which are under-emphasized in the literature. We suggest directions for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":8686,"journal":{"name":"Bacteriophage","volume":" ","pages":"239-255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4161/bact.23829","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40228201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BacteriophagePub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.4161/bact.23146
Nichole Cumby, Alan R Davidson, Karen L Maxwell
{"title":"The moron comes of age.","authors":"Nichole Cumby, Alan R Davidson, Karen L Maxwell","doi":"10.4161/bact.23146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4161/bact.23146","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prophage-encoded genes can provide a variety of benefits for their bacterial hosts. These beneficial genes are often contained within \"moron\" elements. Morons, thus termed as the insertion of the DNA encoding them adds \"more on\" the genome in which they are found, are independent transcriptional units disseminated among phage genomes through horizontal gene transfer. Morons have been identified in the majority of phage genomes and they have been found to play diverse roles in bacterial physiology. At present, we are only beginning to ascribe functions to the many proteins encoded within these ubiquitous genetic elements. Recently, we discovered that the first described moron-encoded protein, gp15 of phage HK97, is expressed from the HK97 prophage and functions as a superinfection exclusion protein, protecting its host from genome injection by other phages. This work and the growing body of data pertaining to other morons challenges the traditional view of phages as purely parasites of bacteria and emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between bacteria and prophages.</p>","PeriodicalId":8686,"journal":{"name":"Bacteriophage","volume":"2 4","pages":"225-228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4161/bact.23146","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31483691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BacteriophagePub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.4161/bact.23557
Damien Maura, Laurent Debarbieux
{"title":"On the interactions between virulent bacteriophages and bacteria in the gut.","authors":"Damien Maura, Laurent Debarbieux","doi":"10.4161/bact.23557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4161/bact.23557","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We recently described the targeting of O104:H4 <i>Escherichia coli</i> in mouse gut by several virulent bacteriophages, highlighting several issues relating to virus-host interactions, which we discuss further in this addendum to the original publication.</p>","PeriodicalId":8686,"journal":{"name":"Bacteriophage","volume":"2 4","pages":"229-233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4161/bact.23557","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31484479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BacteriophagePub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.4161/bact.23830
Tim R Blower, Francesca L Short, Peter C Fineran, George P C Salmond
{"title":"Viral molecular mimicry circumvents abortive infection and suppresses bacterial suicide to make hosts permissive for replication.","authors":"Tim R Blower, Francesca L Short, Peter C Fineran, George P C Salmond","doi":"10.4161/bact.23830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4161/bact.23830","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The global interplay between bacteria and bacteriophages has generated many macromolecules useful in biotechnology, through the co-evolutionary see-saw of bacterial defense and viral counter-attack measures. Bacteria can protect themselves using abortive infection systems, which induce altruistic suicide in an infected cell and therefore protect the clonal population at the expense of the infected individual. Our recent paper describes how bacteriophage ΦTE successfully subverted the activity of a plasmid-borne abortive infection system. ΦTE evolved mimics of the small RNA antitoxin that naturally inhibits the active toxin component of this anti-viral mechanism. These mutant phages further manipulated the behavior of the host population, through transduction of the plasmid encoding the abortive infection system. Transductants thereby became enslaved by the abortive infection system, committing suicide in response to infection by the original phage population. In effect, the new host was infected by an \"addictive altruism,\" to the advantage of the resistant bacteriophage.</p>","PeriodicalId":8686,"journal":{"name":"Bacteriophage","volume":"2 4","pages":"234-238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4161/bact.23830","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31484893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BacteriophagePub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.4161/bact.23530
Fanny B Iriarte, Aleksa Obradović, Mine H Wernsing, Lee E Jackson, Botond Balogh, Jason A Hong, M Timur Momol, Jeffrey B Jones, Gary E Vallad
{"title":"Soil-based systemic delivery and phyllosphere in vivo propagation of bacteriophages: Two possible strategies for improving bacteriophage persistence for plant disease control.","authors":"Fanny B Iriarte, Aleksa Obradović, Mine H Wernsing, Lee E Jackson, Botond Balogh, Jason A Hong, M Timur Momol, Jeffrey B Jones, Gary E Vallad","doi":"10.4161/bact.23530","DOIUrl":"10.4161/bact.23530","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Soil-based root applications and attenuated bacterial strains were evaluated as means to enhance bacteriophage persistence on plants for bacterial disease control. In addition, the systemic nature of phage applied to tomato roots was also evaluated. Several experiments were conducted applying either single phages or phage mixtures specific for <i>Ralstonia solanacearum</i>, <i>Xanthomonas perforans</i> or <i>X. euvesicatoria</i> to soil surrounding tomato plants and measuring the persistence and translocation of the phages over time. In general, all phages persisted in the roots of treated plants and were detected in stems and leaves; although phage level varied and persistence in stems and leaves was at a much lower level compared with persistence in roots. Bacterial wilt control was typically best if the phage or phage mixtures were applied to the soil surrounding tomatoes at the time of inoculation, less effective if applied 3 days before inoculation, and ineffective if applied 3 days after inoculation. The use of an attenuated <i>X. perforans</i> strain was also evaluated to improve the persistence of phage populations on tomato leaf surfaces. In greenhouse and field experiments, foliar applications of an attenuated mutant <i>X. perforans</i> 91-118:∆<i>OPGH</i> strain prior to phage applications significantly improved phage persistence on tomato foliage compared with untreated tomato foliage. Both the soil-based bacteriophage delivery and the use of attenuated bacterial strains improved bacteriophage persistence on respective root and foliar tissues, with evidence of translocation with soil-based bacteriophage applications. Both strategies could lead to improved control of bacterial pathogens on plants.</p>","PeriodicalId":8686,"journal":{"name":"Bacteriophage","volume":" ","pages":"215-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/6f/1e/bact-2-215.PMC3594209.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40227571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}