inoviridae

Summary

Summary: A family of rod-shaped or filamentous bacteriophages consisting of single-stranded DNA. There are two genera: INOVIRUS and PLECTROVIRUS.

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  1. Yeh T. Complete nucleotide sequence of a new filamentous phage, Xf109, which integrates its genome into the chromosomal DNA of Xanthomonas oryzae. Arch Virol. 2017;162:567-572 pubmed publisher
    Unlike Ff-like coliphages, certain filamentous Inoviridae phages integrate their genomes into the host chromosome and enter a prophage state in their infectious cycle...
  2. Ahmad A, Stulberg M, Mershon J, Mollov D, Huang Q. Molecular and biological characterization of ?Rs551, a filamentous bacteriophage isolated from a race 3 biovar 2 strain of Ralstonia solanacearum. PLoS ONE. 2017;12:e0185034 pubmed publisher
    ..Electron microscopy suggested that ?Rs551 is a member of the family Inoviridae, and is about 1200 nm long and 7 nm wide...
  3. Narulita E, Addy H, Kawasaki T, Fujie M, Yamada T. The involvement of the PilQ secretin of type IV pili in phage infection in Ralstonia solanacearum. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2016;469:868-72 pubmed publisher
    ..pilQ mutation in Ralstonia solanacearum on the host physiology including susceptibility to several phage types (Inoviridae, Podoviridae and Myoviridae)...
  4. Peletskaya E, Glinsky G, Deutscher S, Quinn T. Identification of peptide sequences that bind the Thomsen-Friedenreich cancer-associated glycoantigen from bacteriophage peptide display libraries. Mol Divers. 1996;2:13-8 pubmed
    ..Thus, random bacteriophage peptide display libraries may be a rich source of sequences that bind to carbohydrate antigen structures...
  5. Dalsgaard A, Serichantalergs O, Forslund A, Lin W, Mekalanos J, Mintz E, et al. Clinical and environmental isolates of Vibrio cholerae serogroup O141 carry the CTX phage and the genes encoding the toxin-coregulated pili. J Clin Microbiol. 2001;39:4086-92 pubmed
    ..This study stresses the importance of monitoring V. cholerae non-O1, non-O139 serogroup strains for their virulence gene content as a means of assessing their epidemic potential...
  6. Jespers L, Jenne S, Lasters I, Collen D. Epitope mapping by negative selection of randomized antigen libraries displayed on filamentous phage. J Mol Biol. 1997;269:704-18 pubmed
    ..This approach may be useful for isolating mutants with altered antigenic or functional properties and in general to map critical regions for protein-protein interactions...
  7. Liu J, Liu Q, Shen P, Huang Y. Isolation and characterization of a novel filamentous phage from Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. Arch Virol. 2012;157:1643-50 pubmed publisher
    ..Electron microscopy showed that ?SHP1 resembled members of the family Inoviridae and was about 2.1 ?m long...
  8. Noronha E, Wang X, Desai S, Kageshita T, Ferrone S. Limited diversity of human scFv fragments isolated by panning a synthetic phage-display scFv library with cultured human melanoma cells. J Immunol. 1998;161:2968-76 pubmed
    ..This phenomenon, which parallels the in vivo immunodominance of certain Ags, implies that the antigenic profile of the cells used for panning determines the specificity of the preponderant population of isolated Abs...
  9. Vinje J, Oudejans S, Stewart J, Sobsey M, Long S. Molecular detection and genotyping of male-specific coliphages by reverse transcription-PCR and reverse line blot hybridization. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2004;70:5996-6004 pubmed
    ..In summary, we developed a novel method for standardized genotyping of F+ coliphages as a useful tool for large-scale MST studies...

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  1. Klieve A, Bain P, Yokoyama M, Ouwerkerk D, Forster R, Turner A. Bacteriophages that infect the cellulolytic ruminal bacterium Ruminococcus albus AR67. Lett Appl Microbiol. 2004;38:333-8 pubmed
    ..To isolate bacterial viruses that infect the ruminal cellulolytic bacterium Ruminococcus albus...
  2. Ackermann H. Bacteriophage observations and evolution. Res Microbiol. 2003;154:245-51 pubmed
    ..Bacteriophages are polyphyletic, arose repeatedly in different hosts, and constitute 11 lines of descent. Tailed phages appear as monophyletic and as the oldest known virus group...
  3. Bonnycastle L, Brown K, Tang J, Scott J. Assaying phage-borne peptides by phage capture on fibrinogen or streptavidin. Biol Chem. 1997;378:509-15 pubmed
    ..We show here that, by this method, bifunctional phage can be produced that will bind to immobilized streptavidin or fibrinogen...
  4. Iannolo G, Minenkova O, Gonfloni S, Castagnoli L, Cesareni G. Construction, exploitation and evolution of a new peptide library displayed at high density by fusion to the major coat protein of filamentous phage. Biol Chem. 1997;378:517-21 pubmed
    ..We propose that the assembly secretion process is favoured in phages displaying this family of peptides since they fit the groove between two adjacent PVIII subunits by making advantageous molecular contacts on the phage surface...
  5. Yu M, Slater M, Ackermann H. Isolation and characterization of Thermus bacteriophages. Arch Virol. 2006;151:663-79 pubmed
    ..S.A. The phages belonged to the Myoviridae, Siphoviridae, Tectiviridae, and Inoviridae families. Over 50% of isolates were isometric or filamentous...
  6. Faruque S, Asadulghani -, Saha M, Alim A, Albert M, Islam K, et al. Analysis of clinical and environmental strains of nontoxigenic Vibrio cholerae for susceptibility to CTXPhi: molecular basis for origination of new strains with epidemic potential. Infect Immun. 1998;66:5819-25 pubmed
    ..cholerae are more likely to possess the TCP pathogenicity island and hence to be infected by CTXPhi, leading to the origination of potential new epidemic clones...
  7. Leclerc H, Edberg S, Pierzo V, Delattre J. Bacteriophages as indicators of enteric viruses and public health risk in groundwaters. J Appl Microbiol. 2000;88:5-21 pubmed
    ..There has been a lack of association of bacteriophage recovery with gastroenteritis outbreaks due to enteric viruses. There is only a small epidemiological database concerning the occurrence of enteric viruses in groundwater...
  8. Peters E, Schatz P, Johnson S, Dower W. Membrane insertion defects caused by positive charges in the early mature region of protein pIII of filamentous phage fd can be corrected by prlA suppressors. J Bacteriol. 1994;176:4296-305 pubmed
    ..The suppressor strains should be useful for increasing the diversity of peptides displayed on pIII in phage libraries...
  9. Davis B, Kimsey H, Chang W, Waldor M. The Vibrio cholerae O139 Calcutta bacteriophage CTXphi is infectious and encodes a novel repressor. J Bacteriol. 1999;181:6779-87 pubmed
    ..Analysis of the prophage arrays generated by sequentially integrated CTX phages revealed that pathogenic V. cholerae O139 Calcutta probably arose via infection of an O139 CTX(ET)phi lysogen by CTX(calc)phi...
  10. Ackermann H. Salmonella phages examined in the electron microscope. Methods Mol Biol. 2007;394:213-34 pubmed publisher
    ..Sixteen filamentous or isometric phages are members of the Inoviridae, Leviviridae, Microviridae, and Tectiviridae families (9%)...
  11. Cole D, Long S, Sobsey M. Evaluation of F+ RNA and DNA coliphages as source-specific indicators of fecal contamination in surface waters. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2003;69:6507-14 pubmed
    ..Monitoring of F+ coliphage groups can indicate the presence and major sources of microbial inputs to surface waters, but environmental effects on the relative occurrence of different groups need to be considered...
  12. Jenne S, Brepoels K, Collen D, Jespers L. High resolution mapping of the B cell epitopes of staphylokinase in humans using negative selection of a phage-displayed antigen library. J Immunol. 1998;161:3161-8 pubmed
    ..Comprehensive mapping of the most relevant sites of Sak that are antigenic for humans will guide efforts to modulate the immunogenicity of this therapeutically important molecule...
  13. Dente L, Vetriani C, Zucconi A, Pelicci G, Lanfrancone L, Pelicci P, et al. Modified phage peptide libraries as a tool to study specificity of phosphorylation and recognition of tyrosine containing peptides. J Mol Biol. 1997;269:694-703 pubmed
    ..Furthermore, our approach permits us to reveal an "extended" consensus indicating that residues that do not seem to influence binding in natural peptides can make productive contacts, at least in linear peptides...
  14. d Alençon E, Petranovic M, Michel B, Noirot P, Aucouturier A, Uzest M, et al. Copy-choice illegitimate DNA recombination revisited. EMBO J. 1994;13:2725-34 pubmed
    ..We conclude that it occurred by copy-choice DNA recombination, and propose that other events of recombination between short direct repeats might be a result of the same process...
  15. Nasu H, Iida T, Sugahara T, Yamaichi Y, Park K, Yokoyama K, et al. A filamentous phage associated with recent pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 strains. J Clin Microbiol. 2000;38:2156-61 pubmed
    ..parahaemolyticus O3:K6 strains. The ORF8 gene can be a useful genetic marker for the identification of the recently widespread O3:K6 strains of V. parahaemolyticus...
  16. Miceli R, DeGraaf M, Fischer H. Two-stage selection of sequences from a random phage display library delineates both core residues and permitted structural range within an epitope. J Immunol Methods. 1994;167:279-87 pubmed
  17. Haramoto E, Kitajima M, Katayama H, Asami M, Akiba M, Kunikane S. Application of real-time PCR assays to genotyping of F-specific phages in river water and sediments in Japan. Water Res. 2009;43:3759-64 pubmed publisher
    ..Thirty-two (38%) plaques were not classified as the F-specific phage genogroups, indicating the limited applicability of these real-time PCR assays to a wide range of aquatic environmental samples worldwide...
  18. Lafaye P, Choumet V, Demangel C, Bon C, Mazie J. Biologically active human anti-crotoxin scFv isolated from a semi-synthetic phage library. Immunotechnology. 1997;3:117-25 pubmed
    ..The display of repertoires of antibody fragments on the surface of filamentous bacteriophages offers a new way of making antibodies with predefined binding specificities...
  19. Spada S, Krebber C, Pluckthun A. Selectively infective phages (SIP). Biol Chem. 1997;378:445-56 pubmed
    ..Phage propagation becomes strictly dependent on the protein-ligand interaction. This method shows promise both in the area of library screening and in the optimization of peptides or proteins...
  20. Muller B, Lafay F, Demangel C, Perrin P, Tordo N, Flamand A, et al. Phage-displayed and soluble mouse scFv fragments neutralize rabies virus. J Virol Methods. 1997;67:221-33 pubmed
    ..A cocktail of multispecific neutralizing antibodies could contain monovalent, bivalent or tetravalent scFv fragments, for passive immunoglobulin therapy...