openalexNature Communications2026-07-24
Carbohydrate-active enzymes of soil prophages enhance global carbon cycling potential
Hanpeng Liao, Chaofan Ai, Chen Liu, Hongbo Zhang, Dong Zhang, Pengfa Li, et al.
Recent work suggests that soil-borne viruses play an important role in controlling carbon (C) cycling and stocks. However, the contribution of individual prophage (i.e., temperate phages residing within bacterial hosts during lysogenic cycle) to C degradation remains largely undo…