Dormant phages communicate via arbitrium to control exit from lysogeny

Short-range quorum sensing controls horizontal gene transfer at micron scale in bacterial communities

(2021) Jordi van Gestel et al.   Nature Communications

Regulation of prophage induction and lysogenization by phage communication systems

(2021) John B. Bruce et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The arbitrium system controls prophage induction

(2021) Aisling Brady et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ratiometric population sensing by a pump-probe signaling system in Bacillus subtilis

(2020) Heiko Babel et al.   Nature Communications

A Bacterial Tower of Babel: Quorum-Sensing Signaling Diversity and Its Evolution

(2020) Nitzan Aframian et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Widespread Utilization of Peptide Communication in Phages Infecting Soil and Pathogenic Bacteria

(2019) Avigail Stokar-Avihail et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Spatial, Temporal, and Phylogenetic Scales of Microbial Ecology

(2019) Joshua Ladau et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Structural insights into DNA recognition by AimR of the arbitrium communication system in the SPbeta phage

(2019) Zeyuan Guan et al.   Cell Discovery

Look Who’s Talking: T-Even Phage Lysis Inhibition, the Granddaddy of Virus-Virus Intercellular Communication Research

(2019) Stephen Abedon   Viruses-Basel

Structural basis of the arbitrium peptide–AimR communication system in the phage lysis–lysogeny decision

(2018) Qiang Wang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Clonality and non-linearity drive facultative-cooperation allele diversity

(2018) Ishay Ben-Zion et al.   ISME Journal

Structure Regulates Phage Lysis–Lysogeny Decisions

(2018) Jimmy T. Trinh et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Structural basis of AimP signaling molecule recognition by AimR in Spbeta group of bacteriophages

(2018) Xiangkai Zhen et al.   Protein & Cell

Phagebook: The Social Network

(2017) Alexander P. Hynes et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Communication between viruses guides lysis–lysogeny decisions

(2017) Zohar Erez et al.   NATURE

Mechanism of bacterial gene rearrangement: SprA-catalyzed precise DNA recombination and its directionality control by SprB ensure the gene rearrangement and stable expression of spsM during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis

(2017) Kimihiro Abe et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Single-peptide DNA-dependent RNA polymerase homologous to multi-subunit RNA polymerase

(2017) David Forrest et al.   Nature Communications

Commentary: Communication between Viruses Guides Lysis–Lysogeny Decisions

(2017) Stephen T. Abedon   Frontiers in Microbiology

Construction and Analysis of Two Genome-Scale Deletion Libraries for Bacillus subtilis

(2017) Byoung-Mo Koo et al.   Cell Systems

Why Be Temperate: Lessons from Bacteriophage λ

(2016) Sylvain Gandon   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Bacteriophage secondary infection

(2015) Stephen T. Abedon   VIROLOGICA SINICA

Inexpensive Multiplexed Library Preparation for Megabase-Sized Genomes

(2015) Michael Baym et al.   PLoS One

Impact of Spontaneous Prophage Induction on the Fitness of Bacterial Populations and Host-Microbe Interactions

(2014) Arun M. Nanda et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Developmentally-Regulated Excision of the SPβ Prophage Reconstitutes a Gene Required for Spore Envelope Maturation in Bacillus subtilis

(2014) Kimihiro Abe et al.   PLoS Genetics

Condition-Dependent Transcriptome Reveals High-Level Regulatory Architecture in Bacillus subtilis

(2012) P. Nicolas et al.   SCIENCE

Bacillus subtilisCwlP of the SP-β Prophage Has Two Novel Peptidoglycan Hydrolase Domains, Muramidase and Cross-linkage Digesting dd-Endopeptidase

(2010) I Putu Sudiarta et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Cre/lox System and PCR-Based Genome Engineering in Bacillus subtilis

(2008) X. Yan et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A conserved anti-repressor controls horizontal gene transfer by proteolysis

(2008) Baundauna Bose et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY