All Outputs (31)

Genomic analysis of two novel bacteriophages infecting acinetobacter beijerinckii and halotolerans species (2023)
Journal Article
Gomes, M., Domingues, R., Turner, D., & Oliveira, H. (2023). Genomic analysis of two novel bacteriophages infecting acinetobacter beijerinckii and halotolerans species. Viruses, 15(3), 643. https://doi.org/10.3390/v15030643

Bacteriophages are the most diverse genetic entities on Earth. In this study, two novel bacteriophages, nACB1 (Podoviridae morphotype) and nACB2 (Myoviridae morphotype), which infect Acinetobacter beijerinckii and Acinetobacter halotolerans, respecti... Read More about Genomic analysis of two novel bacteriophages infecting acinetobacter beijerinckii and halotolerans species.

Four principles to establish a universal virus taxonomy (2023)
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Simmonds, P., Adriaenssens, E. M., Zerbini, F. M., Abrescia, N. G. A., Aiewsakun, P., Alfenas-Zerbini, P., …Vasilakis, N. (2023). Four principles to establish a universal virus taxonomy. PLoS Biology, 21(2), e3001922. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001922

A universal taxonomy of viruses is essential for a comprehensive view of the virus world and for communicating the complicated evolutionary relationships among viruses. However, there are major differences in the conceptualisation and approaches to v... Read More about Four principles to establish a universal virus taxonomy.

Abolishment of morphology-based taxa and change to binomial species names: 2022 taxonomy update of the ICTV bacterial viruses subcommittee (2023)
Journal Article
Turner, D., Shkoporov, A. N., Lood, C., Millard, A. D., Dutilh, B. E., Alfenas-Zerbini, P., …Adriaenssens, E. M. (2023). Abolishment of morphology-based taxa and change to binomial species names: 2022 taxonomy update of the ICTV bacterial viruses subcommittee. Archives of Virology, 168(2), 74. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-022-05694-2

This article summarises the activities of the Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses for the period of March 2021−March 2022. We provide an overview of the new taxa proposed in 2021, approved by the Execu... Read More about Abolishment of morphology-based taxa and change to binomial species names: 2022 taxonomy update of the ICTV bacterial viruses subcommittee.

Complete genome sequence of Pseudomonas Phage Motto (2022)
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Manohar, P., Loganathan, A., Nachimuthu, R., Loh, B., Ma, L., Turner, D., & Leptihn, S. (2022). Complete genome sequence of Pseudomonas Phage Motto. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 11(11), https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00740-22

We describe the complete genome sequence of bacteriophage Motto, which infects clinical strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Motto is a T1-like siphovirus related to members of the family Drexlerviridae and has a capsid width of;57 nm and a tail length... Read More about Complete genome sequence of Pseudomonas Phage Motto.

The control of waterborne pathogenic bacteria in fresh water using a biologically active filter (2022)
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Steven, J. A. C., Thorn, R. M. S., Robinson, G. M., Turner, D., Lee, J. E., & Reynolds, D. M. (2022). The control of waterborne pathogenic bacteria in fresh water using a biologically active filter. npj Clean Water, 5(1), 30. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-022-00169-y

The aim of this study was to investigate the control of three species of bacteria commonly associated with biologically contaminated water, using biofiltration. In this study, a laboratory-scale biofilter system was used to investigate the control of... Read More about The control of waterborne pathogenic bacteria in fresh water using a biologically active filter.

Workshop on viral genomics and taxonomy (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Turner, D., Adriaenssens, E. M., & Kropinski, A. M. (2022, June). Workshop on viral genomics and taxonomy. Presented at Viruses of Microbes 2022, Guimaraes, Portugal

How many of us have isolated and sequenced a phage, gotten reads back from the sequencing facility and thought "What now?" How can I assemble the data, and should I use an automated pipeline (DFAST, RASTtk, PHANOTATE) to annotate the genome, or shall... Read More about Workshop on viral genomics and taxonomy.

Classification of bacterial viruses in the class Caudoviricetes (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Turner, D., & Adriaenssens, E. M. (2022, June). Classification of bacterial viruses in the class Caudoviricetes. Presented at Virus Taxonomy in the Age of Genomics, Pembroke College, University of Oxford

The classification of bacterial viruses has undergone substantial change in recent years as a direct result of significant increases in the number of sequenced genomes. These data revealed that the morphological families Myoviridae, Siphoviridae and... Read More about Classification of bacterial viruses in the class Caudoviricetes.

ICTV virus taxonomy profile: Chaseviridae 2022 (2022)
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Anany, H., Mahadevan, P., Turner, D., Adriaenssens, E. M., Kropinski, A. M., & ICTV Report Consortium. (2022). ICTV virus taxonomy profile: Chaseviridae 2022. Journal of General Virology, 103(4), https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001715

Members of the family Chaseviridae are lytic bacterial viruses infecting representatives of the bacterial class Gammaproteobacteria. Chaseviruses have a global distribution. Virions of members of this family have a myovirus morphology (icosahedral he... Read More about ICTV virus taxonomy profile: Chaseviridae 2022.

Diversity of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and bacteriophage-mediated spread of the Oxa23 carbapenemase (2022)
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Abouelfetouh, A., Mattock, J., Turner, D., Li, E., & Evans, B. A. (2022). Diversity of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and bacteriophage-mediated spread of the Oxa23 carbapenemase. Microbial Genomics, 8(2), Article 000752. https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000752

Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii are prevalent in low- and middle-income countries such as Egypt, but little is known about the molecular epidemiology and mechanisms of resistance in these settings. Here, we characterize carbapenem-resist... Read More about Diversity of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and bacteriophage-mediated spread of the Oxa23 carbapenemase.

Genomic diversity of bacteriophages infecting the genus acinetobacter (2022)
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Oliveira, H., Domingues, R., Evans, B., Sutton, J. M., Adriaenssens, E. M., & Turner, D. (2022). Genomic diversity of bacteriophages infecting the genus acinetobacter. Viruses, 14(2), Article 181. https://doi.org/10.3390/v14020181

The number of sequenced Acinetobacter phage genomes in the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration has increased significantly in recent years, from 37 in 2017 to a total of 139 as of January 2021 with genome sizes ranging from 31 to... Read More about Genomic diversity of bacteriophages infecting the genus acinetobacter.

Phage annotation guide: Guidelines for assembly and high-quality annotation (2021)
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Turner, D., Adriaenssens, E. M., Tolstoy, I., & Kropinski, A. M. (2021). Phage annotation guide: Guidelines for assembly and high-quality annotation. PHAGE Therapy, Applications, and Research, 2(4), 170-182. https://doi.org/10.1089/phage.2021.0013

All sequencing projects of bacteriophages (phages) should seek to report an accurate and comprehensive annotation of their genomes. This article defines 14 questions for those new to phage genomics that should be addressed before submitting a genome... Read More about Phage annotation guide: Guidelines for assembly and high-quality annotation.

Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV: Update of taxonomy changes in 2021 (2021)
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Krupovic, M., Turner, D., Morozova, V., Dyall-Smith, M., Oksanen, H. M., Edwards, R., …Adriaenssens, E. M. (2021). Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV: Update of taxonomy changes in 2021. Archives of Virology, 166, 3239–3244. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-021-05205-9

In this article, we – the Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and the Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) – summarise the results of our activities for the period March 2020 – March 2021. We report th... Read More about Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV: Update of taxonomy changes in 2021.

A roadmap for genome-based phage taxonomy (2021)
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Turner, D., Kropinski, A. M., & Adriaenssens, E. M. (2021). A roadmap for genome-based phage taxonomy. Viruses, 13(3), Article 506. https://doi.org/10.3390/v13030506

Bacteriophage (phage) taxonomy has been in flux since its inception over four decades ago. Genome sequencing has put pressure on the classification system and recent years have seen significant changes to phage taxonomy. Here, we reflect on the state... Read More about A roadmap for genome-based phage taxonomy.

From orphan phage to a proposed new family–the diversity of N4-like viruses (2020)
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Wittmann, J., Turner, D., Millard, A., Mahadevan, P., Kropinski, A., & Adriaenssens, E. (2020). From orphan phage to a proposed new family–the diversity of N4-like viruses. Antibiotics, 9(10), 663. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9100663

Escherichia phage N4 was isolated in 1966 in Italy and has remained a genomic orphan for a long time. It encodes an extremely large virion-associated RNA polymerase unique for bacterial viruses that became characteristic for this group. In recent yea... Read More about From orphan phage to a proposed new family–the diversity of N4-like viruses.

Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2018-2019 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee (2020)
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Adriaenssens, E. M., Sullivan, M. B., Knezevic, P., van Zyl, L. J., Sarkar, B. L., Dutilh, B. E., …Krupovic, M. (2020). Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2018-2019 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee. Archives of Virology, 165(5), 1253-1260. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-020-04577-8

This article is a summary of the activities of the ICTV’s Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee for the years 2018 and 2019. Highlights include the creation of a new order, 10 families, 22 subfamilies, 424 genera and 964 species. Some of our co... Read More about Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2018-2019 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee.

Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks (2019)
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Bin Jang, H., Bolduc, B., Zablocki, O., Kuhn, J. H., Roux, S., Adriaenssens, E. M., …Sullivan, M. B. (2019). Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks. Nature Biotechnology, 37(6), 632-639. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0100-8

© 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc. Microbiomes from every environment contain a myriad of uncultivated archaeal and bacterial viruses, but studying these viruses is hampered by the lack of a universal, sca... Read More about Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks.

661W photoreceptor cell line as a cell model for studying retinal ciliopathies (2019)
Journal Article
Wheway, G., Nazlamova, L., Turner, D., & Cross, S. (in press). 661W photoreceptor cell line as a cell model for studying retinal ciliopathies. Frontiers in Genetics, 10(APR), https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2019.00308

Copyright © 2019 Wheway, Nazlamova, Turner and Cross. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the ori... Read More about 661W photoreceptor cell line as a cell model for studying retinal ciliopathies.

Pectobacterium atrosepticum phage vB_PatP_CB5: A member of the proposed genus ‘Phimunavirus’ (2018)
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Buttimer, C., Lucid, A., Neve, H., Franz, C., O’Mahony, J., Turner, D., …Coffey, A. (2018). Pectobacterium atrosepticum phage vB_PatP_CB5: A member of the proposed genus ‘Phimunavirus’. Viruses, 10(8), Article 394. https://doi.org/10.3390/v10080394

© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Pectobacterium atrosepticum is a phytopathogen of economic importance as it is the causative agent of potato blackleg and soft rot. Here we describe the Pectobacterium phage vB_PatP_CB5 (abbre... Read More about Pectobacterium atrosepticum phage vB_PatP_CB5: A member of the proposed genus ‘Phimunavirus’.

Isolation and characterisation of bacteriophages for use against biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Box, J., Turner, D., & Nelson, S. (2018, June). Isolation and characterisation of bacteriophages for use against biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates. Poster presented at Microbiology Society Early Career Microbiologists’ Forum Summer Conference, Birmingham, UK

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a World Health Organization priority 1, ESKAPE pathogen that is capable of causing a wide spectrum of nosocomial and community-acquired infections. It employs a wide range of antibiotic resistance mechanisms and is often dif... Read More about Isolation and characterisation of bacteriophages for use against biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates.

The sequence of two bacteriophages with hypermodified bases reveals novel phage-host interactions (2018)
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Kropinski, A., Turner, D., Nash, J., Ackermann, H. W., Lingohr, E., Warren, R., …Ehrlich, M. (2018). The sequence of two bacteriophages with hypermodified bases reveals novel phage-host interactions. Viruses, 10(5), Article 217. https://doi.org/10.3390/v10050217

© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Bacteriophages SP-15 and ΦW-14 are members of the Myoviridae infecting Bacillus subtilis and Delftia (formerly Pseudomonas) acidovorans, respectively. What links them is that in both cases, ap... Read More about The sequence of two bacteriophages with hypermodified bases reveals novel phage-host interactions.