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CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY
卷 56, 期 -, 页码 109-117出版社
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2020.09.015
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- National Institutes of Health [GM27099]
- Center for Phage Technology at Texas A&M University - Texas AM AgriLife
The small lytic phages (Microviridae and Leviviridae), effect bacterial lysis with the product of a single gene. The three well-studied single-gene lysis (Sgl) proteins (E of \phi wX174, A(2) of Q beta, and Lys(M) of phage M) lack direct muralytic activity, and have been shown to function as `protein antibiotics' by acting as noncompetitive inhibitors of conserved peptidoglycan (PG) biosynthesis enzymes, MurA, MraY, and MurJ respectively. The fourth, protein L of MS2, does not inhibit PG biosynthesis but instead is hypothesized to trigger host autolytic response through an unknown mechanism. Recent advances in metaomics approaches have led to an explosion in the available genomes of small lytic phages. Of the thousands of new genomes, only one annotated Sgl shared some sequence similarity with a known Sgl (L of MS2), highlighting the diversity in Sgls. The newly available genomic space serves as an untapped resource for discovering novel Sgls.
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