Phages infecting Faecalibacterium prausnitzii belong to novel viral genera that help to decipher intestinal viromes

Jeffrey K. Cornuault; Marie-Agnès Petit; Mahendra Mariadassou; Leandro Benevides; Elisabeth Moncaut; Philippe Langella; Harry Sokol; Marianne De Paepe

doi:10.1186/s40168-018-0452-1

Table 1 Main characteristics of the eight proposed F. prausnitzii phage genera

From: Phages infecting Faecalibacterium prausnitzii belong to novel viral genera that help to decipher intestinal viromes

Proposed genus	Classification (Virfam)	Bacterial hosts	Prophage name	Strains with complete prophage^a	Common features				Evidence of activity
Proposed genus	Classification (Virfam)	Bacterial hosts	Prophage name	Strains with complete prophage^a	Genome size, kb	RT	Integrase type	Recombinase	CRISPR spacers^a	Viral contig
“FPlagaffevirus”	Myoviridae type 1, cluster 6	F. prausnitzii B. hansenii CM62/1	Lagaffe	A2-165, B. hansenii 20583, CM62/1	48.3	Yes	IS30 TPase	ERF		Yes
“FPmushuvirus”	Myoviridae type1, cluster 8 “Saltoviridae”	F. prausnitzii	Mushu	A2-165, C_4543, C_4574	36.4	Yes	Mu TPase			Yes
“FPmushuvirus”	Myoviridae type1, cluster 8 “Saltoviridae”	Ruminococcaceae bacterium D16	MushuRBD16	R. bacterium D16	36.2	Yes	Mu TPase
“FPlughvirus”	Siphoviridae type 1, cluster 1	F. prausnitzii	Lugh	C_4574, C_4543	34.1		Tyr Int	Sak4	C_4544
			Lugh4544	C_4544	35.9		Tyr Int	ERF
			Lugh4542	C_4542	36.4		Tyr Int	ERF
			LughKLE1255	KLE1255	36.6		Tyr Int	ERF
			Lugh4540	C_4540	31.1		Tyr Int	Sak4
			LughL2-6	L2-6	31.2		Tyr Int
“FPtaranisvirus”	Myoviridae type 1, cluster 6	F. prausnitzii	Taranis	C_4574, C_4543	56.0	Yes	LSR	Sak4	C_4541(2), L2/6
“FPtaranisvirus”	Myoviridae type 1, cluster 6	F. prausnitzii	TaranisL2-6	L2-6	41.9		LSR	Sak4	C_4541
“FPeponavirus”	Myoviridae type 1, cluster 6	F. prausnitzii	Epona	C_4573, C_4575	49.5	Yes	LSR		C_4541, C_4575
“FPeponavirus”	Myoviridae type 1, cluster 6	F. prausnitzii	EponaM21-2	M21/2	48.5	Yes	LSR
“FPtoutatisvirus”	Myoviridae type 1, cluster 6	F. prausnitzii	Toutatis	C_4542	54.7	Yes	LSR		C_4541
			ToutatisL2-6	L2-6	53.6	Yes	LSR		C_4541
			ToutatisKLE1255	KLE1255	54.5	Yes	LSR		C_4541, L2/6	Yes
			ToutatisSL3/3	SL3/3	50.1		LSR
“FPbrigitvirus”	Myoviridae type 1, cluster 7	F. prausnitzii	Brigit	C_4644	61.6	Yes	LSR	RecT	C_4541
“FPoengusvirus”	Siphoviridae type 1, cluster 2	F. prausnitzii	Oengus	C_4542	58.4		Tyr Int			Yes

RT retron-type reverse transcriptase, Tpase transposase, Tyr int tyrosine recombinase superfamily, LSR large serine recombinase, CM62/1 unclassified clostridium sp. CM62/1
^aC_ stands for CNCM

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