长尾病毒科
肌病毒科
温泉
热稳定性
生物
遗传学
生物化学
基因
噬菌体
古生物学
大肠杆菌
酶
作者
Timothy J. Marks,Isabella R. Rowland
出处
期刊:Methods in molecular biology
日期:2023-11-15
卷期号:: 73-88
标识
DOI:10.1007/978-1-0716-3549-0_4
摘要
Bacteriophages are ubiquitous in all environments that support microbial life. This includes hot springs, which can range in temperatures between 40 and 98 °C and pH levels between 1 and 9. Bacteriophages that survive in the higher temperatures of hot springs are known as thermophages. Thermophages have developed distinct adaptations allowing for thermostability in these extreme environments, including increased G + C DNA percentages, reliance upon the pentose phosphate metabolic pathway to avoid oxidative stress, and a codon preference for those with a GNA sequence leading to increased hydrophobic interactions and disulfide bonds. In this review, we discuss the diversity of characterized thermophages in hot spring environments that span five viral families: Myoviridae, Siphoviridae, Tectiviridae, Sphaerolipoviridae, and Inoviridae. Potential industrial and medicinal applications of thermophages will also be addressed.
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