Over the past few decades, the interest in lactic acid bacteria (LAB) has been steadily
growing. This is mainly due to their industrial use, their health benefits as probiotic bacteria …

Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect bacteria shaping microbial communities
and ecosystems. They have gained attention as potential agents against antibiotic …

Abstract The accuracy of Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT) sequencing has significantly
improved thanks to new flowcells, sequencing kits, and basecalling algorithms. However …

Deazaguanine DNA modifications are widespread in phages, particularly in those with
pathogenic hosts. Pseudomonas phage iggy substitutes∼ 16.5% of its genomic 2 …

In the last decade, powerful high-throughput sequencing approaches have emerged to
analyse microbial transcriptomes at a global scale. However, to date, applications of these …

Since the original discovery of bacteriophages by William Twort in 1915, and Félix d'Hérelle
in 1917, there have been numerous reports describing the use of these “filterable viruses” in …

Many prokaryotic Argonaute (pAgo) proteins act as programmable nucleases that use small
guide DNAs for recognition and cleavage of complementary target DNA. Recent studies …

DNA methylation serves as the primary mode of epigenetic regulation in prokaryotes,
particularly through transcriptional regulation. With the rapid implementation of third …

Co-evolution of bacterial defense systems and phage counter defense mechanisms has
resulted in an intricate biological interplay between bacteriophages and their prey. To evade …

Single-stranded DNA bacteriophages of the Microviridae family are major components of the
global virosphere. Microviruses are highly abundant in aquatic ecosystems and are …