Alrafaie, A.M. orcid.org/0000-0002-9638-2458 and Stafford, G.P. orcid.org/0000-0002-5600-2465 (2023) Enterococcal bacteriophage: a survey of the tail associated lysin landscape. Virus Research, 327. 199073. ISSN 0168-1702
Abstract
Bacteriophages are viruses that exclusively infect bacteria which require local degradation of cell barriers. This degradation is accomplished by various lysins located mainly within the phage tail structure. In this paper we surveyed and analysed the genomes of 506 isolated bacteriophage and prophage infecting or harboured within the genomes of the medically important Enterococcus faecalis and faecium. We highlight and characterise the major features of the genomes of phage in the morphological groups podovirus, siphovirus and myovirus, and explore their categorisation according to the new ICTV classifications, with a focus on putative extracellular lysins chiefly within tail modules. Our analysis reveals a range of potential cell-wall targeting enzyme domains that are part of tail, tape measure or other predicted base structures of these phages or prophages. These largely fall into protein domains targeting pentapeptide or glycosidic linkages within peptidoglycan but also potentially the enterococcal polysaccharide antigen (EPA) and wall teichoic acids of these species (i.e., Pectinesterases and Phosphodiesterases). Notably, there is a great variety of domain architectures that reveal the diversity of evolutionary solutions to attack the Enterococcus cell wall. Despite this variety, most phage and prophage possess a putative endopeptidase (70%), reflecting the ubiquity of this cell surface barrier. We also identified a predicted lytic transglycosylase domain belonging to the glycosyl hydrolase (GH) family 23 and present exclusively within tape measure proteins. Our data also reveal distinct features of the genomes of podo-, sipho- and myo-type viruses that most likely relate to their size and complexity. Overall, we lay a foundation for expression of recombinant TAL proteins and engineering of enterococcal and other phage that will be invaluable for researchers in this field.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Bacteriophages; Enterococcus; Prophage; Tail-associated lysin; Bacteriophages; Prophages; Biological Evolution; Bacteria; Enterococcus |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Clinical Dentistry (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2024 17:03 |
Last Modified: | 02 Feb 2024 18:49 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.virusres.2023.199073 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:208661 |
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