Phages Infecting<i>Vibrio vulnificus</i>Are Abundant and Diverse in Oysters (<i>Crassostrea virginica</i>) Collected from the Gulf of Mexico

DePaola, Angelo; Motes, Miles L.; Chan, Amy M.; Suttle, Curtis A.

doi:10.1128/aem.64.1.346-351.1998

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“…Vibriophages capable of infecting V. parahaemolyticus are abundant in sediment and water (Baross et al, 1978;Comeau et al, 2006). In addition, phages specific to V. vulnificus were abundant in the water and sediment of the Gulf of Mexico (DePaola et al, 1997(DePaola et al, , 1998. The V. vulnificus phages isolated were morphologically diverse and exhibited different patterns of host infectivity (Pelon et al, 1995;DePaola et al, 1998).…”

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“…In addition, phages specific to V. vulnificus were abundant in the water and sediment of the Gulf of Mexico (DePaola et al, 1997(DePaola et al, , 1998. The V. vulnificus phages isolated were morphologically diverse and exhibited different patterns of host infectivity (Pelon et al, 1995;DePaola et al, 1998). CTXF has been shown to move from V. cholerae to closely related species such as V. mimicus, leading to the emergence of toxigenic V. mimicus (Boyd et al, 2000).…”

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“…Similarly, V. parahaemolyticus exhibits phenotypic switching, resulting in changes in capsular polysaccharide production and in biofilm structure in response to changing environmental conditions (McCarter, 1998;Enos-Berlage et al, 2005). Vibrios in the environment can frequently possess plasmids and phages (DePaola et al, 1998;Hardies et al, 2003;Comeau et al, 2006;Comeau & Suttle, 2007); however, it is unclear how these MGEs may contribute to survival under changing environmental conditions . We demonstrated in a previous study that a V. parahaemolyticus environmental strain isolated from Spartina-dominated salt marsh sediment had horizontally acquired an nifH homolog and the ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen at low levels (Criminger et al, 2007).…”

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The contribution of mobile genetic elements to the evolution and ecology of Vibrios

Hazen

et al. 2010

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

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An increase in the frequency of seafood-borne gastroenteritis in humans and Vibrio-related disease of fish and invertebrates has generated interest in the ecology of disease-causing Vibrios and the mechanisms driving their evolution. Genome sequencing studies have indicated a substantial contribution of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) to the evolution of Vibrios. Of particular interest is the contribution of HGT to the evolution of Vibrios pathogens and the adaptation of disease-causing Vibrios for survival in diverse environments. In this review, we discuss the diversity and distribution of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) isolated from Vibrios and the contribution of these elements to the expansion of the ecological and pathogenic niches of the host strain. Much of the research on Vibrio MGEs has focused on understanding phages and plasmids and we will primarily discuss the evolution of these elements and also briefly highlight the other diverse elements characterized from Vibrios, which includes genomic islands and conjugative elements.

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Section: Phagesmentioning

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Section: Mges Facilitate the Expansion Of The Vibrio Ecological Nichementioning

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The contribution of mobile genetic elements to the evolution and ecology of Vibrios

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“…such as V. paraheamolyticus, V. cholerae, V. fluvials, V. vulnificus and V. harveyi have been isolated from seafoods. However, published reports on bacteriophages from V. alginolyticus is rare (Spencer 1960;Kellogg et al, 1995;De Paola et al, 1998;Pasharawipas et al, 2005;Vinod et al, 2006;Chrisolite et al, 2008;Busico-Salcedo and Owens, 2013). The present study reports isolation and characterisation of a V. alginolyticus lytic bacteriophage from the brackishwater clam M. meretrix.…”

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Isolation and characterisation of Vibrio alginolyticus lytic bacteriophage φVa-1 from brackishwater clam Meritrix meritrix in India

Abhilash¹,

Alavandi

2017

Indian J. Fish.

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The Gram negative bacterium Vibrio alginolyticus is generally found in marine and brackishwater systems. A lytic bacteriophage capable of specifically infecting V. alginolyticus was isolated from the brackishwater clam (Meretrix meretrix) using agar overlay technique. The phage produced plaques 3 mm in dia, which increased to 5 mm overnight on tryptone soya agar (TSA) plates and the optimum temperature and pH was found to be 32°C and 7.5 respectively. The phage was designated as φVa-1 and nucleic acid characterisation confirmed that the phage has double stranded DNA. Transmission electron microscopic observations revealed that the bacteriophage had hexagonal structure with a long contractile tail and the phage was found to belong to the family Myoviridae.

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“…Reports on the isolation of bacteriophages belonging to the family Podoviridae from the aquaculture ecosystems are scanty. A member of this group infecting V. vulnificus isolated from Gulf Coast oysters has been earlier described (DePaola et al, 1998).…”

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Characterization of four lytic transducing bacteriophages of luminescent Vibrio harveyi isolated from shrimp (Penaeus monodon) hatcheries

Sanjeevi

Bagthasingh

Alavandi

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FEMS Microbiol Lett

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Four lytic bacteriophages designated as φVh1, φVh2, φVh3, and φVh4 were isolated from commercial shrimp hatcheries, possessing broad spectrum of infectivity against luminescent Vibrio harveyi isolates, considering their potential as biocontrol agent of luminescent bacterial disease in shrimp hatcheries, and were characterized by electron microscopy, genomic analysis, restriction enzyme analysis (REA), and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Three phages φVh1, φVh2, and φVh4 had an icosahedral head of 60-115 nm size with a long, noncontractile tail of 130-329 × 1-17 nm, belonged to the family Siphoviridae. φVh3 had an icosahedral head (72 ± 5 nm) with a short tail (27 × 12 nm) and belonged to Podoviridae. REA with DraI and PFGE of genomic DNA digested with ScaI and XbaI and cluster analysis of their banding patterns indicated that φVh3 was distinct from the other three siphophages. PFGE-based genome mean size of the four bacteriophages φVh1, φVh2, φVh3, and φVh4 was estimated to be about 85, 58, 64, and 107 kb, respectively. These phages had the property of generalized transduction as demonstrated by transduction with plasmid pHSG 396 with frequencies ranging from 4.1 × 10(-7) to 2 × 10(-9) per plaque-forming unit, suggesting a potential ecological role in gene transfer among aquatic vibrios.

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Phages InfectingVibrio vulnificusAre Abundant and Diverse in Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) Collected from the Gulf of Mexico

Cited by 52 publications

References 31 publications

The contribution of mobile genetic elements to the evolution and ecology of Vibrios

The contribution of mobile genetic elements to the evolution and ecology of Vibrios

Isolation and characterisation of Vibrio alginolyticus lytic bacteriophage φVa-1 from brackishwater clam Meritrix meritrix in India

Characterization of four lytic transducing bacteriophages of luminescent Vibrio harveyi isolated from shrimp (Penaeus monodon) hatcheries

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