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AbstractLactococcus lactisis a lactic acid bacterium widely used as starter culture for the manufacture of fermented milk products like quark, buttermilk and cheese. Bacteriophage infection of starter cultures is one of the biggest causes of fermentation failure and, therefore, lactococcal phages have received great attention from the scientific community in the past decades. In this work we present evidence for the establishment of a carrier state life cycle (CSLC) by a bacteriophage belonging to the c2 species, in the model laboratory strainL. lactisMG1363. Our results show that infection ofL. lactisMG1363 with a second, dissimilar, c2 bacteriophage can induce the CSLC phage to enter an active lytic life cycle. The viral progeny obtained after this infection is a mixed population of phages with differences in their genome sequences and host ranges, indicative of an extremely rapid evolution process. We discuss the possible implications of this phage-host interaction, both with respect to bacteriophage evolution and phage adaptation to different hosts.IMPORTANCEOur results broaden the current know-how on the yet poorly investigated phage-host interaction mechanism of CSLC, propose a new bacteriophage evolution mechanism, and demonstrate that the outcome of phage infections is possibly more intricate than presently acknowledged.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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