Biocommunication of Phages

ISBN-13: 9783030458843 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 502 str.

Guenther Witzany

Spis treści

1.What Does Communication of Phages Mean?
Guenther   Witzany               

2. Phage-Phage, Phage-Bacteria, and Phage-Environment Communication               
 Steve Abedon

 3. Phage communication and the ecological implications on microbial interactions, diversity, and function
     Xiaolong  Liang, Mark  Radosevich
 

4. Phage-Phage  Interactions
    Jimmy  T. Trinh, Lanying Zeng
 

5. Social interactions among  bacteriophages
    Pilar Domingo-Calap, Rafael Sanjuán
 

6. Phage protein interactions in the inhibition mechanism of bacterial cells
    Chandrabose  Selvaraj,  Sanjeev  Kumar Singh
 

7. Are phages parasites  or symbionts of bacteria?
    Lorena Rodríguez-Rubio, Pedro Blanco-Picazo, Maite Muniesa
 

8. Microbial communication networks:sketching a methodology to analyze communication involving  bacteriophages inside environmental  communities
   Charles Bernard, Philippe Lopez, Eric Bapteste
 

9. Information stored in the phage  particle: Lactobacillus delbrueckii bacteriophage LLH as a case
 Patricia Munsch-Alatossava, Tapani   Alatossava

 
10. Archaeal viruses and their interactions with CRISPR-Cas systems
     Roger A. Garrett, Shiraz A. Shah, Laura Martinez-Alvarez, Xu Peng 

11. Filamentous  phages affect virulence  of the phytopathogen Ralstonia solanacearum
     Yuichi Tasaka, Takeru  Kawasaki, Takashi Yamada
 

12. Intra-population interactions and the evolution of RNA phages
     Esther  Lazaro 

13. ssRNA phages: life cycle,structure and applications
     Kaspars Tars 

14. Phages as therapy or "dietary  supplements"against multiresistant bacteria?
     Karin  Moelling 

15. Bacteriophage applications and biological safety (or how should I  train my dog not to bite me!) 
     Robert  Armon 

16. Phage therapy: an alternative to antibiotics
     Elena Criscuolo, Sara Spadini 

17. Bacteriophage as a therapeutic agent to combat bacterial infection: A journey from history to application
     Umesh Panwar, Murali  Aarthy, Sanjeev Kumar  Singh 

18. Phagetherapy: Clinical  applications  – Critical  appraisal of randomized controlled trials
     Xavier  Wittebole, Steve Opal 

19. Bacteriophage therapies targets multiple diseases caused by protein misfolding
     Beka Solomon
 

20. Phage therapy in cystic fibrosis. Challenges  and perspectives     
   Ersilia Vita Fiscarelli, Martina Rossitto, Paola Rosati

21. Bacteriophage applications for food Safety
      Ayman  El-Shibiny, Alyaa  Dawoud
 

22. Bacteriophages for environmental  applications: Effect of trans-organismic communication on wastewater treatments        
   Soumya Chatterjee,  Sonika   Sharma

 

O autorze

Guenther Witzany is philosopher and developed a new philosophy of biology based on the current empirical data in all domains of cellular life, virology and RNA-biology. In a series of books he applied his theory of biocommunication to all organismic kingdoms. Theory of biocommunication is the first and only theory that integrates all living agents empiristically in a non-reductionistic and non-mechanistic way and opens a ground breaking understanding of life through analyses of sign-mediated interactions within and between cells, tissues, organs, and organisms.

Blurb

This is the first book to systemize all levels of communicative behavior of phages. Phages represent the most diverse inhabitants on this planet. Until today they are completely underestimated in their number, skills and competences and still remain the dark matter of biology. 

Phages have serious effects on global energy and nutrient cycles. Phages actively compete for host. They can distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘non-self’ (complement same, preclude others). They process and evaluate available information and then modify their behaviour accordingly. These diverse competences show us that this capacity to evaluate information is possible owing to communication processes within phages (intra-organismic), between the same, related and different phage species (interorganismic), and between phages and non-phage organisms (transorganismic). This is crucial in coordinating infection strategies (lytic vs. lysogenic) and recombination in phage genomes. 

In 22 chapters, expert contributors review current research into the varying forms of phage biocommunication and Phagetherapy. 

Biocommunication of Phages aims to assess the current state of research, to orient further investigations on how phages communicate with each other to coordinate their behavioral patterns, and to inspire further investigation of the role of non-phage viruses (non-lytic, non-prokaryotic) in these highly dynamic interactional networks.