| Title: | Novel Siphoviridae Bacteriophages infecting Bacteroides uniformis contain diversity generating retroelement |
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| Authors: | ID Hedžet, Stina (Author)
ID Rupnik, Maja (Author)
ID Accetto, Tomaž (Author) |
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| Files: |  Hedzet-2021-Novel__i_Siphoviridae__i__Bacterio.pdf (2,30 MB)
MD5: 23D181C6A8CE421EFFFCCBFD5BF041F5
 https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9050892
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Scientific work |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | MF - Faculty of Medicine
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| Abstract: | Intestinal phages are abundant and important components of gut microbiota, yet the isolated and characterized representatives that infect abundant gut bacteria are sparse. Here we describe the isolation of human intestinal phages infecting Bacteroides uniformis. Bacteroides is one of the most common bacterial groups in the global human gut microbiota; however, to date not many Bacteroides specific phages are known. Phages isolated in this study belong to a novel viral genus, Bacuni, within the Siphoviridae family. Their genomes encode diversity-generating retroelements (DGR), which were shown in other bacteriophages to promote phage adaptation to rapidly changing environmental conditions and to broaden their host range. Three isolated phages showed 99.83% genome identity but one of them infected a distinct B. uniformis strain. The tropism of Bacuni phages appeared to be dependent on the interplay of DGR mediated sequence variations of gene encoding putative phage fimbrial tip proteins and mutations in host genes coding for outer-membrane proteins. We found prophages with up to 85% amino acid similarity over two-thirds of the Bacuni phage genome in the B. acidifaciens and Prevotella sp. genomes. Despite the abundance of Bacteroides within the human microbiome, we found Bacuni phages only in a limited subset of published gut metagenomes. |
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| Keywords: | gut, Bacteroides, virome, prophage, diversity-generating retroelement, uniformis, Siphoviridae |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Submitted for review: | 26.03.2021 |
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| Article acceptance date: | 19.04.2021 |
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| Publication date: | 21.04.2021 |
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| Publisher: | MDPI |
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| Year of publishing: | 2021 |
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| Number of pages: | Str. 1-16 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 9, Št. 5, št. članka 892 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-89917  |
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| UDC: | 579 |
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| ISSN on article: | 2076-2607 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 61197059 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/microorganisms9050892 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 19.08.2024 |
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| Views: | 201 |
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| Downloads: | 16 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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