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A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Chromosomal Pathogenicity Islands Co-opt Phage Capsids to Facilitate Horizontal Spread
Heather A Feaga1, Jonathan Dworkin1
1Department of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Molecular Cell
|September 7, 2019
Abstract:
Fillol-Salom et al. describe a mechanism by which an Escherichia coli pathogenicity island is preferentially packaged into a phage particle, thus promoting the spread of pathogenic traits among Gram-negative bacteria while protecting them from lytic infection.