A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Chromosomal Pathogenicity Islands Co-opt Phage Capsids to Facilitate Horizontal Spread.

Fillol-Salom et al. describe a mechanism by which an Escherichia coli pathogenicity island is preferentially packaged into a phage particle, thus promoting the spread of pathogenic traits among Gram-negative bacteria while protecting them from lytic infection.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Molecules and Cells

• Publication date

  2019-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.molcel.2019.08.011PMID 31491424
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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