Induction and migration of cryptic/defective <Emphasis Type="Italic">Salmonella enterica</Emphasis> prophages as a consequence of infection with lytic phages is an additional factor in stability of a coevolutionary vector |
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Authors: | E A Pleteneva O V Shaburova J Azeredo V N Krylov |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Microbiology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India; |
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Abstract: | The influence of infection of natural isolates of Salmonella enterica with lytic (nonlysogenic) phages on the expression of resident cryptic or defective prophages in host bacteria was studied.
The induction of defective/cryptic phages after infection with nonlysogenic phages and packaging of bacterial chromosomal
fragments in capsids of defective phages is demonstrated. This may lead to migration and wide distribution of both the genomes
of defective phages per se and various fragments of the bacterial chromosome (including pathogenic islands) in new bacterial
strains with concomitant change of their properties, the acquired new features of pathogenicity among them. |
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