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Tamsin Redgwell (Copenhagen University Hospital) and colleagues published a new paper on prophage induction in infant gut microbiomes, showing most prophages were actively induced and may modulate host bacterial functionality through access

Siva Uppalapati (University of Colorado School of Medicine) and colleagues discovered that a Salmonella prophage terminase is redox sensitive — it unexpectedly switches into acting as a tRNAse under oxidative stress, arresting host translat

Paper: Learn to decipher active prophages from metagenomes using PropagAtE (Prophage Activity Estimator), an automated software tool for estimating if a prophage is in the lytic or lysogenic stage of infection

Paper: Genomic analysis of prophages from Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates.

A temperate phage model system reveals new strains, species, prophage integration loci, conserved proteins and lysogeny management components.

Graça Pinto (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a research article in FEMS Microbiology ecology on the interactions of phage ace and shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli during biocontrol. This work demonstrated that

Michael Roach (Flinders University) and colleagues published a new paper in F1000 Research entitled Philympics: Prophage Predictions Perplex Programs. They present a library of gold-standard bacterial genome annotations that include manuall

Tamsin Redgwell (Copenhagen University Hospital) and colleagues published a preprint in bioRxiv describing how prophages in the infant gut are largely induced, and may be functionally relevant to their hosts. They found prophages in the inf

Steven Sutcliffe (McGill University), Michael Shamash and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses showing how common medications lead to prophage induction in human gut bacteria. They tested anti-inflammatory, chemotherapy, mild analges

Esther Shmidov (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) and colleagues published a new paper on a counter selection-based novel method of curing prophages in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. They validated their method with local PCR amplification and whole-ge

Amjad Khan (Western University, Canada) and colleagues published a paper in PLOS Computational Biology showing that evolution along the parasitism-mutualism continuum determines the genetic repertoire of prophages.

Anna Dragos (Technical University of Denmark) wrote a blog post for Nature Microbiology entitled 'Breaking bad of prophages during lab evolution - from strange observation to revelation'. She talks about how her group noted an intriguing pa

Phage genomes are usually identified based on sequence similarity to genomes already in databases. Kimmo Sirén (The GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen) and colleagues published a new preprint showing rapid discovery of novel prophage

Multicopy plasmids contribute to antimicrobial resistance gene transfer, and although many don't contain mobility genes, they've been observed to contain phage fragments. Lorena Rodríguez-Rubio (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) and colleagu

Only a handful of prophage genomes targeting the phytopathogen Erwinia are available. In a new paper published in Frontiers in Microbiology, Nikita Zrelovs (Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre) and colleagues delved into temperate

Siân Owen (Harvard Medical School) and colleagues published a new preprint on a new prophage-encoded defense protein that simultaneously suppresses phage epidemics in a population (through abortive infection) and provides self-immunity to t

DBSCAN-SWA is a new tool for prophage detection, recently published as a preprint by Rui Gan (Harbin Institute of Technology, China) and colleagues. Preprint | Github.

Heather Allison (University of Liverpool) and Chloe James (University of Salford) are hiring two postdocs, one at Liverpool and one at Salford, for a joint project entitled “Prophage host interactions: pulling back the curtains on Pseudomon

Want to mine prophage regions from large metagenomic datasets? Phigaro is a command-line application created by Elizaveta Starikova (Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Physical-Chemical Medicine, Russia) and colleagues. It detects prop

Want to mine prophage regions from large metagenomic datasets? Phigaro is a command-line application created by Elizaveta Starikova (Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Physical-Chemical Medicine, Russia) and colleagues. It detects prop