Phagebook: The Social Network

Alexander P Hynes; Sylvain Moineau

doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2017.02.028

Phagebook: The Social Network

Mol Cell. 2017 Mar 16;65(6):963-964. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.02.028.

Authors

Alexander P Hynes¹, Sylvain Moineau²

Affiliations

¹ Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique & PROTEO, Faculté des sciences et de génie, 1045 avenue de la Médecine, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada; Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses & GREB, Faculté de médecine dentaire, 2420 rue de la Terrasse, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.
² Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique & PROTEO, Faculté des sciences et de génie, 1045 avenue de la Médecine, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada; Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses & GREB, Faculté de médecine dentaire, 2420 rue de la Terrasse, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada. Electronic address: sylvain.moineau@bcm.ulaval.ca.

PMID: 28306511
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.02.028

Abstract

Much like social networks are used to connect with friends or relatives, bacteria communicate with relatives through quorum sensing. Viruses, though, were thought to be asocial-until now. Erez et al. (2017) reveal that viruses are also sharing information with relatives.

Keywords: Bacillus; bacteriophage; communication; lysogeny; microbiology; phage; quorum sensing; resistance; signal peptide; virus.

MeSH terms

Bacteria*
Quorum Sensing*