Mushuvirus is the most widespread phage genus in the human gut. ๐
Together with other family members, these viruses occur in 89% of humans worldwide, including the Iceman รtzi!
How is it possible that they were hidden in previous metagenomic analyses?
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Huge congrats to @vyshakhrp.bsky.social for pulling this through, and to our fantastic collaborators from University of Wroclaw, University of Copenhagen, Lund University and Manchester Metropolitan University!
We modelled all 382 RBPs with AlphaFold3 and resolved 39 structurally distinct classes โ including 18 never described before โ across all morphotypes. This is what the structural diversity of Klebsiella phage RBPs actually looks like.