Scanlan Pauline D, Buckling Angus, Hall Alex R
Teagasc Food Research Center; Moorepark , Fermoy, Co Cork, Ireland.
Biosciences; ESI; University of Exeter; Penryn Campus , Cornwall, UK.
Bacteriophage. 2015 May 21;5(2):e1050153. doi: 10.1080/21597081.2015.1050153. eCollection 2015 Apr-Jun.
Antagonistic coevolution between bacteria and phages (reciprocal selection for resistance and infectivity) has been demonstrated in a wide range of natural ecosystems, as well as experimental populations of microbes, yet exploiting knowledge of coevolution for the prophylactic and therapeutic use of phages is under-explored. In this addendum to our recent paper we discuss how real-time coevolution studies using experimental populations of bacteria and phages can provide novel insight into the changes in bacterial phenotypes that result from resistance evolution against coevolving phages, and how this may ultimately improve our understanding of phage therapy and ability to design effective treatments.
细菌与噬菌体之间的拮抗协同进化(对耐药性和感染性的相互选择)已在广泛的自然生态系统以及微生物实验群体中得到证实,然而,利用协同进化知识将噬菌体用于预防和治疗方面的探索还不够充分。在我们近期论文的这篇附录中,我们讨论了利用细菌和噬菌体实验群体进行的实时协同进化研究如何能够为因对抗协同进化噬菌体产生耐药性进化而导致的细菌表型变化提供新的见解,以及这最终如何可能增进我们对噬菌体疗法的理解和设计有效治疗方法的能力。