CTXφ Bacteriophage

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Overview

The CTXφ bacteriophage (often abbreviated as CTX bacteriophage) is a lysogenic, filamented phage that is responsible for turning the previously non-infectious Vibrio cholerae into a highly pathogenic microbe that causes disease in humans.[1]

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Infection, Replication & Lysing of Host Cell

Colony of Marburg virus. Transmission electron microscope image taken by Dr. Tom Geisbert
Figure 1: The life cycle of the CTXφ Bacteriophage with Vibrio cholerae as its host.
Link: wordpress.com/2020/04/25/a-bacteriophage-makes-v-cholera-a-killerbug/


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CT & non-CT Toxins

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References

  1. Davis, B. M., Kimsey, H. H., Chang, W., & Waldor, M. K. (1999). "The Vibrio cholerae O139 Calcutta bacteriophage CTXφ is infectious and encodes a novel repressor." Journal of Bacteriology, 181(21), 6779-6787.
  2. Hodgkin, J. and Partridge, F.A. "Caenorhabditis elegans meets microsporidia: the nematode killers from Paris." 2008. PLoS Biology 6:2634-2637.
  3. Bartlett et al.: Oncolytic viruses as therapeutic cancer vaccines. Molecular Cancer 2013 12:103.


Edited by Tara Cerny, student of Joan Slonczewski for BIOL 116 Information in Living Systems, 2019, Kenyon College.