Discovery of an expansive bacteriophage family that includes the most abundant viruses from the human gut.

ABSTRACT: Metagenomic sequence analysis is rapidly becoming the primary source of virus discovery ^1-3 . A substantial majority of the currently available virus genomes come from metagenomics, and some of these represent extremely abundant viruses, even if never grown in the laboratory. A particularly striking case of a virus discovered via metagenomics is crAssphage, which is by far the most abundant human-associated virus known, comprising up to 90% of sequences in the gut virome ⁴ . Over 80% of the predicted proteins encoded in the approximately 100 kilobase crAssphage genome showed no significant similarity to available protein sequences, precluding classification of this virus and hampering further study. Here we combine a comprehensive search of genomic and metagenomic dat

SUBMITTER: Yutin N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5736458 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature