Enterococcus faecalis Prophage Dynamics and Contributions to Pathogenic Traits

Phage dUTPases Control Transfer of Virulence Genes by a Proto-Oncogenic G Protein-like Mechanism

(2013) María Ángeles Tormo-Más et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Prophage Excision Activates Listeria Competence Genes that Promote Phagosomal Escape and Virulence

(2012) Lev Rabinovich et al.   CELL

The rise of the Enterococcus: beyond vancomycin resistance

(2012) Cesar A. Arias et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Transcriptional Regulator PerA Influences Biofilm-Associated, Platelet Binding, and Metabolic Gene Expression in Enterococcus faecalis

(2012) Scott M. Maddox et al.   PLoS One

Staphylococcal pathogenicity island interference with helper phage reproduction is a paradigm of molecular parasitism

(2012) G. Ram et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A composite bacteriophage alters colonization by an intestinal commensal bacterium

(2012) B. A. Duerkop et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The roles of SaPI1 proteins gp7 (CpmA) and gp6 (CpmB) in capsid size determination and helper phage interference

(2012) Priyadarshan K. Damle et al.   VIROLOGY

Pirates of the Caudovirales

(2012) Gail E. Christie et al.   VIROLOGY

Comparative Genomics of Enterococci: Variation in Enterococcus faecalis, Clade Structure in E. faecium, and Defining Characteristics of E. gallinarum and E. casseliflavus

(2012) K. L. Palmer et al.   mBio

Phage-Like Streptococcus pyogenes Chromosomal Islands (SpyCI) and Mutator Phenotypes: Control by Growth State and Rescue by a SpyCI-Encoded Promoter

(2012) Julie Scott et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Site-specific recombinases as tools for heterologous gene integration

(2011) Nobutaka Hirano et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Comparative genomic analysis reveals significant enrichment of mobile genetic elements and genes encoding surface structure-proteins in hospital-associated clonal complex 2 Enterococcus faecalis

(2011) Margrete Solheim et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Insight into antimicrobial susceptibility and population structure of contemporary human Enterococcus faecalis isolates from Europe

(2011) A. Kuch et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Bacteriophage-mediated transduction of antibiotic resistance in enterococci

(2011) R. Mazaheri Nezhad Fard et al.   LETTERS IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Activation of a prophage-encoded tyrosine kinase by a heterologous infecting phage results in a self-inflicted abortive infection

(2011) David I. Friedman et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Transcriptional regulators of the GAD acid stress island are carried by effector protein-encoding prophages and indirectly control type III secretion in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7

(2011) Jai J. Tree et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Large-Scale Screening of a Targeted Enterococcus faecalis Mutant Library Identifies Envelope Fitness Factors

(2011) Lionel Rigottier-Gois et al.   PLoS One

Bacteriophage Crosstalk: Coordination of Prophage Induction by Trans-Acting Antirepressors

(2011) Sébastien Lemire et al.   PLoS Genetics

Phage-induced lysis enhances biofilm formation in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1

(2010) Julia Gödeke et al.   ISME Journal

Moonlighting bacteriophage proteins derepress staphylococcal pathogenicity islands

(2010) María Ángeles Tormo-Más et al.   NATURE

A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

(2010) Junjie Qin et al.   NATURE

The phage-related chromosomal islands of Gram-positive bacteria

(2010) Richard P. Novick et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Prophage Spontaneous Activation Promotes DNA Release Enhancing Biofilm Formation in Streptococcus pneumoniae

(2010) Margarida Carrolo et al.   PLoS One

Cryptic prophages help bacteria cope with adverse environments

(2010) Xiaoxue Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Cholera- and Anthrax-Like Toxins Are among Several New ADP-Ribosyltransferases

(2010) Robert J. Fieldhouse et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Dispersion of Multidrug-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Isolates Belonging to Major Clonal Complexes in Different Portuguese Settings

(2009) A. R. Freitas et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Role of reactive oxygen species in antibiotic action and resistance

(2009) Daniel J Dwyer et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Position paper: The creation of a rational scheme for the nomenclature of viruses ofBacteriaandArchaea

(2009) Andrew M. Kropinski et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative Genomics and Transduction Potential of Enterococcus faecalis Temperate Bacteriophages

(2009) A. Yasmin et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

SaPI mutations affecting replication and transfer and enabling autonomous replication in the absence of helper phage

(2009) Carles Úbeda et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Specificity of staphylococcal phage and SaPI DNA packaging as revealed by integrase and terminase mutations

(2009) Carles Ubeda et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Killing niche competitors by remote-control bacteriophage induction

(2009) L. Selva et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phage-Mediated Intergeneric Transfer of Toxin Genes

(2009) J. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

The Defective Prophage Pool of Escherichia coli O157: Prophage–Prophage Interactions Potentiate Horizontal Transfer of Virulence Determinants

(2009) Md Asadulghani et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The biofilm life cycle and virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are dependent on a filamentous prophage

(2008) Scott A Rice et al.   ISME Journal

Phage-Associated Mutator Phenotype in Group A Streptococcus

(2008) J. Scott et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Large scale variation in Enterococcus faecalis illustrated by the genome analysis of strain OG1RF

(2008) Agathe Bourgogne et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY