Publications

2020

Mathieu A, Dion M, Deng L, Tremblay D, Moncaut E, Shah SA, Stokholm J, Krogfelt KA, Schjørring S, Bisgaard H, Nielsen DS, Moineau S, Petit MA. Virulent coliphages in 1-year-old children fecal samples are fewer, but more infectious than temperate coliphages. Nat Commun. 2020 Jan 17;11(1):378. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-14042-z.

Sausset R, Petit MA, Gaboriau-Routhiau V, De Paepe M. New insights into intestinal phages. Mucosal Immunol. 2020 

2019

Bertrand C, Thibessard A, Bruand C, Lecointe F, Leblond P. Bacterial NHEJ: a never ending story. Mol Microbiol. 2019 May;111(5):1139-1151. Review. 

Cornuault JK, Moncaut E, Loux V, Mathieu A, Sokol H, Petit MA, De Paepe M. The enemy from within: a prophage of Roseburia intestinalis systematically turns lytic in the mouse gut, driving bacterial adaptation by CRISPR spacer acquisition. ISME J. 2019 Dec 11.

Dugat-Bony E, Lossouarn J, De Paepe M, Sarthou AS, Fedala Y, Petit MA, Chaillou S. Viral metagenomic analysis of the cheese surface: A comparative study of rapid procedures for extracting viral particles.Food Microbiol. 2020 Feb;85:103278.

Lossouarn, J.; Briet, A.; Moncaut, E.; Furlan, S.; Bouteau, A.; Son, O.; Leroy, M.; DuBow, M.S.; Lecointe, F.; Serror, P.; Petit, M.-A. Enterococcus faecalis Countermeasures Defeat a Virulent Picovirinae Bacteriophage. Viruses 2019, 11, 48.

2018

Roux S, Adriaenssens EM, Dutilh BE, Koonin EV, Kropinski AM, Krupovic M, Kuhn JH, Lavigne R, Brister JR, Varsani A, Amid C, Aziz RK, Bordenstein SR, Bork P, Breitbart M, Cochrane GR, Daly RA, Desnues C, Duhaime MB, Emerson JB, Enault F, Fuhrman JA, Hingamp P, Hugenholtz P, Hurwitz BL, Ivanova NN, Labonté JM, Lee KB, Malmstrom RR, Martinez-Garcia M, Mizrachi IK, Ogata H, Páez-Espino D, Petit MA, Putonti C, Rattei T, Reyes A, Rodriguez-Valera F, Rosario K, Schriml L, Schulz F, Steward GF, Sullivan MB, Sunagawa S, Suttle CA, Temperton B, Tringe SG, Thurber RV, Webster NS, Whiteson KL, Wilhelm SW, Wommack KE, Woyke T, Wrighton KC, Yilmaz P, Yoshida T, Young MJ, Yutin N, Allen LZ, Kyrpides NC, Eloe-Fadrosh EA. (2018) Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG). Nat Biotechnol.17. .

Geoffrey Hutinet, Arthur Besle, Olivier Son, Stephen McGovern, Raphaël Guerois, Marie-Agnès Petit, Françoise Ochsenbein and François Lecointe (2018) Sak4 of Phage HK620 Is a RecA Remote Homolog With Single-Strand Annealing Activity Stimulated by Its Cognate SSB Protein. Front. Microbiol., 24 April 2018

Cornuault, J., Petit, M.A., Mariadassou, M., Benevides, L., Moncaut, E., Langella, P., Sokol, H., De Paepe, M. (2018) Phages infecting Faecalibacterium prausnitzii belong to novel viral genera that help decipher intestinal viromes. Microbiome, Apr 3;6(1):65. doi: 10.1186/s40168-018-0452-1.

2017

Diard M, Bakkeren E, Cornuault JK, Moor K, Hausmann A, Sellin ME, Loverdo C, Aertsen A, Ackermann M, De Paepe M, Slack E, Hardt WD. Inflammation boosts bacteriophage transfer between Salmonella spp. Science. 2017 Mar 17;355(6330):1211-1215. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf8451. Epub 2017 Mar 16. PMID: 28302859.

Brézellec P, Petit MA, Pasek S, Vallet-Gely I, Possoz C, Ferat JL. Domestication of Lambda Phage Genes into a Putative Third Type of Replicative Helicase Matchmaker (2017).  Genome Biol Evol. 2017 Jun 1;9(6):1561-1566. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evx111

2016

Hoff G, Bertrand C, Zhang L, Piotrowski E, Chipot L, Bontemps C, Confalonieri F, McGovern S, Lecointe F, Thibessard A, Leblond P. Multiple and Variable NHEJ-Like Genes Are Involved in Resistance to DNA Damage in Streptomyces ambofaciens. Front Microbiol. 2016 Nov 28;7:1901. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01901. PMID: 27965636; PMCID: PMC5124664.

Pourcel C, Midoux C, Latino L, Petit MA, Vergnaud G. Complete Genome Sequences of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Phages vB_PaeP_PcyII-10_P3P1 and vB_PaeM_PcyII-10_PII10A. Genome Announc. 2016 Nov 17;4(6). pii: e00916-16. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00916-16.

François Enault, Arnaud Briet, Léa Bouteille, Simon Roux, Matthew B. Sullivan, Marie-Agnès Petit. Phages rarely encode antibiotic resistance genes : a cautionary tale for virome analysis (2016)  ISME Journal (doi: 10.1038/ismej.2016.90)

Hadrien Delattre , Oussema Souiai, Khema Fagoonee, Raphaël Guerois,Marie-Agnès Petit. Phagonaute: A web-based interface for phage synteny browsing and protein function prediction (2016).  Virology 496, 42-50.

Bonanno L, Petit MA, Loukiadis E, Michel V, Auvray F. Heterogeneity in induction level, infection ability and morphology of Stx phages from dairy and human Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O26:H11 isolates (2016). .Appl Environ Microbiol. pii: AEM.03463-15.

De Paepe M., Tournier L., Moncaut E., Son O., Langella Ph., Petit M.-A.. Carriage of lambda latent virus is costly for its bacterial host due to frequent reactivation in monoxenic mouse intestine (2016) PLoS Genet. 12(2): e1005861.doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005861

McGovern S, Baconnais S, Roblin P, Nicolas P, Drevet P, Simonson H, Piétrement O, Charbonnier JB, Le Cam E, Noirot P, Lecointe F. C-terminal region of bacterial Ku controls DNA bridging, DNA threading and recruitment of DNA ligase D for double strand breaks repair. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Jun 2;44(10):4785-4806. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw149. Epub 2016 Mar 9. PMID: 26961308; PMCID: PMC4889933.

2015

Menouni R, Hutinet G, Petit MA, Ansaldi M. Bacterial genome remodeling through bacteriophage recombination. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2015 Jan;362(1):1-10.

2014

Lopes A, Tavares P, Petit MA, Guérois R, Zinn-Justin S. Automated classification of tailed bacteriophages according to their neck organization. BMC Genomics. 2014 Nov 27;15:1027.

De Paepe M, Leclerc M, Tinsley CR, Petit MA. Bacteriophages: an underestimated role in human and animal health? Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2014 Mar 28;4:39. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00039.

De Paepe M, Hutinet G, Son O, Amarir-Bouhram J, Schbath S, Petit MA. Temperate phages acquire DNA from defective prophages by relaxed homologous recombination: the role of Rad52-like recombinases. PLoS Genet. 2014 Mar 6;10(3):e1004181.

Vayssier-Taussat M, Albina E, Citti C, Cosson JF, Jacques MA, Lebrun MH, Le Loir Y, Ogliastro M, Petit MA, Roumagnac P, Candresse T. Shifting the paradigm from pathogens to pathobiome: new concepts in the light of meta-omics. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2014 Mar 5;4:29. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00029. eCollection 2014. Review.

2011

Amarir-Bouhram J, Goin M, Petit MA. Low efficiency of homology-facilitated illegitimate recombination during conjugation in Escherichia coli. PLoS One. 2011;6(12):e28876.

Touzain F, Petit MA, Schbath S, El Karoui M. DNA motifs that sculpt the bacterial chromosome. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2011 Jan;9(1):15-26.

2010

Anne Lopes, Jihane Amarir-Bouhram, Guilhem Faure, Marie-Agnès Petit, Raphaël Guerois. 2010. Detection of novel recombinases in bacteriophage genomes unveils Rad52, Rad51 and Gp2.5 remote homologs. Nucleic Acids Research 38, 3952-3962

Fabrice Touzain, Erick Denamur, Claudine Médigue, Valérie Barbe, Meriem El Karoui and Marie-Agnès Petit. 2010. Small Variable Segments Constitute a Major Type of Diversity of Bacterial Genomes at the Species Level. Genome Biology 11, R45

2009

Deloger M, El Karoui M, Petit MA.. 2009. A genomic distance based on MUM indicates discontinuity between most bacterial species and genera. J Bacteriol. 2009 Jan;191(1):91-9. PMID: 18978054