Karina Ilchenko
karinailchenko.bsky.social
Karina Ilchenko
@karinailchenko.bsky.social
🚨 New preprint! 🧬

𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐠𝐞-𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐬 (𝐏-𝐏𝐬) are fascinating elements: both 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 and 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐬 ➡️ tricky to detect.

We present 𝐭𝐲𝐏𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐠 — the first 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥 🛠️designed specifically for P-Ps:
✅ Accurate
✅ Sensitive
✅ Easy to use

📖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Efficient detection and typing of phage-plasmids
Phage-plasmids are temperate phages that replicate as plasmids during lysogeny. Despite their high diversity, they carry genes similar to phages and plasmids. This leads to gene exchanges, and to the ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Reposted by Karina Ilchenko
Excited🚨to share our first work on the human gut phageome doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Always inspiring to work with @epcrocha.bsky.social , Erick D, Camille d'H and everyone else within this super dynamic consortium
@inrae-france.bsky.social+@pasteur.fr+@inserm.fr! Many thanks for this great journey!🙌
Third-generation cephalosporin antibiotics induce phage bursts in the human gut microbiome.
The use of antibiotics disrupts the gut microbiota, potentially leading to long-term health issues and the spread of resistance. To investigate the impact of antibiotics on phage populations, we follo...
doi.org
February 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM