FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Phage-inducible chromosomal minimalist islands (PICMIs), a novel family of small marine satellites of virulent phages BT AF Barcia-Cruz, Rubén Goudenège, David Moura de Sousa, Jorge A. Piel, Damien Marbouty, Martial Rocha, Eduardo P. C. Le Roux, Frederique AS 1:1,2;2:1,3;3:4;4:1,3;5:5;6:4;7:1,3,6; FF 1:;2:PDG-RBE-PHYTNESS;3:;4:PDG-RBE-PFOM;5:;6:;7:PDG-RBE-PHYTNESS; C1 Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, F-29688, Roscoff cedex, France Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, CIBUS-Faculty of Biology, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Ifremer, Unité Physiologie Fonctionnelle des Organismes Marins, ZI de la Pointe du Diable, CS 10070, F-29280, Plouzané, France Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR3525, Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Paris, France Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Organization and Dynamics of Viral Genomes Group, CNRS UMR 3525, Paris, F-75015, France Département de microbiologie, infectiologie et immunologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada C2 UNIV SORBONNE, FRANCE UNIV SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN IFREMER, FRANCE INST PASTEUR, FRANCE INST PASTEUR, FRANCE UNIV MONTREAL, CANADA SI ROSCOFF SE PDG-RBE-PHYTNESS PDG-RBE-PFOM IN WOS Ifremer UPR DOAJ copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe IF 16.6 TC 1 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00873/98449/107897.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00873/98449/107898.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00873/98449/107899.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00873/98449/107900.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00873/98449/107901.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00873/98449/107902.zip https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00873/98449/107903.zip https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00873/98449/107904.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00873/98449/107905.zip LA English DT Article AB Phage satellites are bacterial genetic elements that co-opt phage machinery for their own dissemination. Here we identify a family of satellites, named Phage-Inducible Chromosomal Minimalist Islands (PICMIs), that are broadly distributed in marine bacteria of the family Vibrionaceae. A typical PICMI is characterized by reduced gene content, does not encode genes for capsid remodelling, and packages its DNA as a concatemer. PICMIs integrate in the bacterial host genome next to the fis regulator, and encode three core proteins necessary for excision and replication. PICMIs are dependent on virulent phage particles to spread to other bacteria, and protect their hosts from other competitive phages without interfering with their helper phage. Thus, our work broadens our understanding of phage satellites and narrows down the minimal number of functions necessary to hijack a tailed phage. PY 2024 PD JAN SO Nature Communications SN 2041-1723 PU Springer Science and Business Media LLC VL 15 IS 1 UT 001148371500012 DI 10.1038/s41467-024-44965-1 ID 98449 ER EF