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@article{Alqurainy:2022:10.1101/2022.09.08.507074,
author = {Alqurainy, N and Miguel-Romero, L and Moura, de Sousa J and Chen, J and Rocha, EPC and Fillol-Salom, A and Penadés, JR},
doi = {10.1101/2022.09.08.507074},
title = {A widespread family of phage-inducible chromosomal islands only steals bacteriophage tails to spread in nature},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.08.507074},
year = {2022}
}
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AB - <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Phage satellites interfere with helper phage packaging through the production of small-capsids, where only satellites can be packaged. So far, in all the analysed systems, the satellite-sized capsids are composed of phage proteins. Here we report the first demonstration that a family of phage-inducible chromosomal island (PICIs), a type of satellites, encodes all the proteins required for both the production of the small-sized capsids and the exclusive packaging of the PICIs into these capsids. Therefore, this new family, that we have named cf-PICIs (<jats:underline>c</jats:underline>apsid forming PICIs), only requires phage tails to generate infective PICI particles. Remarkably, the representative cf-PICI reproduces without cost for their helper phages, suggesting that the relationship between these elements is not parasitic but commensalistic. Finally, our phylogenomic studies indicate that cf-PICIs are present both in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and have evolved at least three times independently to spread widely into the satellite universe.</jats:p>
AU - Alqurainy,N
AU - Miguel-Romero,L
AU - Moura,de Sousa J
AU - Chen,J
AU - Rocha,EPC
AU - Fillol-Salom,A
AU - Penadés,JR
DO - 10.1101/2022.09.08.507074
PY - 2022///
TI - A widespread family of phage-inducible chromosomal islands only steals bacteriophage tails to spread in nature
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.08.507074
ER -