- cell.
Integration of
prophages into the
bacterial host is the
characteristic step of the
lysogenic cycle of
temperate phages.
Prophages remain latent in the...
- bacteria's
genome to form the
prophage. In its
inactive form, a
prophage gets p****ed on each time the host cell divides. If
prophages become active, they can...
- to as
prophages. However,
proviruses are
distinctly different from
prophages and
these terms should not be used interchangeably.
Unlike prophages, proviruses...
- Hall AR (February 2021). "Fitness
benefits to
bacteria of
carrying prophages and
prophage-encoded antibiotic-resistance
genes peak in
different environments"...
-
genome are
produced during in situ replication, some of
these replicated prophages excise normally (instead of
being packaged in situ),
producing normal...
- Stx2,
expressed by
genes considered to be part of the
genome of
lambdoid prophages. The
toxins are
named after Kiyoshi Shiga, who
first described the bacterial...
- Herskovits, Anat A. (16
September 2015). "A new
perspective on lysogeny:
prophages as
active regulatory switches of bacteria".
Nature Reviews Microbiology...
- (March 1999). "Evolutionary
relationships among diverse bacteriophages and
prophages: all the world's a phage".
Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences...
-
significant number of
transposable genetic elements,
repeat elements,
cryptic prophages, and
bacteriophage remnants. Most
genes have only a
single copy. More...
-
Bacteriophages have been
described for many
species of Streptococcus. 18
prophages have been
described in S.
pneumoniae that
range in size from 38 to 41...
