Filamentous phages: masters of a microbial sharing economy

ID Hay, T Lithgow - EMBO reports, 2019 - embopress.org
Abstract Bacteriophage (“bacteria eaters”) or phage is the collective term for viruses that
infect bacteria. While most phages are pathogens that kill their bacterial hosts, the …

Phage display based biosensing: Recent advances and challenges

M Wang, S Pang, H Zhang, Z Yang, A Liu - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Phage display enables to screen probes such as peptide, antibody and nanobody with high
specificity and affinity to the target, providing excellent probes for various analytical or …

Cryo-electron microscopy of the f1 filamentous phage reveals insights into viral infection and assembly

R Conners, RI León-Quezada, M McLaren… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Phages are viruses that infect bacteria and dominate every ecosystem on our planet. As well
as impacting microbial ecology, physiology and evolution, phages are exploited as tools in …

Structure and assembly of filamentous bacteriophages

DA Marvin, MF Symmons, SK Straus - Progress in biophysics and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Filamentous bacteriophages are interesting paradigms in structural molecular biology, in
part because of the unusual mechanism of filamentous phage assembly. During assembly …

An autonomous plasmid as an inovirus phage satellite

N Schmid, D Brandt, C Walasek… - Applied and …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacterial viruses (phages) are potent agents of lateral gene transfer and thus are important
drivers of evolution. A group of mobile genetic elements, referred to as phage satellites …

Viral hijack of filamentous surface structures in archaea and bacteria

C Tittes, S Schwarzer, TEF Quax - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The bacterial and archaeal cell surface is decorated with filamentous surface structures that
are used for different functions, such as motility, DNA exchange and biofilm formation …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation of the M13 life cycle I: Assembly of a genetically-structured deterministic chemical kinetic simulation

SW Smeal, MA Schmitt, RR Pereira, A Prasad, JD Fisk - Virology, 2017 - Elsevier
To expand the quantitative, systems level understanding and foster the expansion of the
biotechnological applications of the filamentous bacteriophage M13, we have unified the …

Filamentous phage: structure and biology

J Rakonjac, M Russel, S Khanum, SJ Brooke… - … antibodies for infectious …, 2017 - Springer
Ff filamentous phage (fd, M13 and f1) of Escherichia coli have been the workhorse of phage
display technology for the past 30 years. Dominance of Ff over other bacteriophage in …

Structure, biology, and applications of filamentous bacteriophages

J Rakonjac, VAM Gold… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2024 - cshprotocols.cshlp.org
The closely related Escherichia coli Ff filamentous phages (f1, fd, and M13) have taken a
fantastic journey over the past 60 years, from the urban sewerage from which they were first …

Filamentous bacteriophages: biology and applications

J Rakonjac - eLS, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Filamentous bacteriophages (family Inoviridae) contain a circular single-stranded DNA
genome packaged into long filaments. They do not lyse bacteria; instead, they are secreted …