Potential applications of thermophilic bacteriophages in one health

H Liu, M Kheirvari, E Tumban - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bacteriophages have a wide range of applications such as combating antibiotic resistance,
preventing food contamination for food safety, and as biomarkers to indirectly assess the …

[HTML][HTML] Functional biology and biotechnology of thermophilic viruses

RK Doss, M Palmer, DA Mead… - Essays in …, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Viruses have developed sophisticated biochemical and genetic mechanisms to manipulate
and exploit their hosts. Enzymes derived from viruses have been essential research tools …

RNA-ligase-dependent biases in miRNA representation in deep-sequenced small RNA cDNA libraries

M Hafner, N Renwick, M Brown, A Mihailović, D Holoch… - Rna, 2011 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Sequencing of small RNA cDNA libraries is an important tool for the discovery of new RNAs
and the analysis of their mutational status as well as expression changes across samples. It …

Classification of Myoviridae bacteriophages using protein sequence similarity

R Lavigne, P Darius, EJ Summer, D Seto… - BMC microbiology, 2009 - Springer
Background We advocate unifying classical and genomic classification of bacteriophages by
integration of proteomic data and physicochemical parameters. Our previous application of …

Marine T4-type bacteriophages, a ubiquitous component of the dark matter of the biosphere

J Filée, F Tétart, CA Suttle… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Tailed bacteriophages are the most abundant biological entities in marine environments.
However, most of these marine phages are uncharacterized because few of their hosts have …

Highly efficient single-stranded DNA ligation technique improves low-input whole-genome bisulfite sequencing by post-bisulfite adaptor tagging

F Miura, Y Shibata, M Miura, Y Sangatsuda… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) is the current gold standard of methylome
analysis. Post-bisulfite adaptor tagging (PBAT) is an increasingly popular WGBS protocol …

Genomic and proteomic characterization of the broad-host-range Salmonella phage PVP-SE1: creation of a new phage genus

SB Santos, AM Kropinski, PJ Ceyssens… - Journal of …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT (Bacterio) phage PVP-SE1, isolated from a German wastewater plant, presents
a high potential value as a biocontrol agent and as a diagnostic tool, even compared to the …

Direct comparison of nick-joining activity of the nucleic acid ligases from bacteriophage T4

DR Bullard, RP Bowater - Biochemical Journal, 2006 - portlandpress.com
The genome of bacteriophage T4 encodes three polynucleotide ligases, which seal the
backbone of nucleic acids during infection of host bacteria. The T4Dnl (T4 DNA ligase) and …

RNA substrate specificity and structure-guided mutational analysis of bacteriophage T4 RNA ligase 2

J Nandakumar, CK Ho, CD Lima, S Shuman - Journal of Biological …, 2004 - ASBMB
Here we report that bacteriophage T4 RNA ligase 2 (Rnl2) is an efficient catalyst of RNA
ligation at a 3′-OH/5′-PO 4 nick in a double-stranded RNA or an RNA· DNA hybrid. The …

The capsid of the T4 phage superfamily: the evolution, diversity, and structure of some of the most prevalent proteins in the biosphere

AM Comeau, HM Krisch - Molecular biology and evolution, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The Escherichia coli bacteriophage T4 has served as a classic system in phage biology for
more than 60 years. Only recently have phylogenetic analyses and genomic comparisons …