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Yet for temperate phages the genetic and functional basis of such capsular specificity remains less well understood. Depolymerases appear unexpectedly rare in prophage genomes, raising unresolved questions about which prophage genes mediate capsular specificity, whether this apparent scarcity reflects biological or ecological differences versus annotation limitation, and whether prophage-encoded receptor-binding proteins (RBPs) are functionally active. To address these questions, we analysed 3,900\n                    <jats:italic>Klebsiella<\/jats:italic>\n                    genomes from diverse ecological niches to identify prophage-encoded proteins mediating capsular specificity. We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) correlating prophage protein clusters (from 8,105 prophages) with confidently assigned bacterial K-loci. GWAS revealed statistically supported predictors of capsular specificity for 16 of the 35 most diverse K-loci analysed. 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Nearly one-third of K-loci yielded no statistically significant predictors. A targeted experimental screen of 50 candidate prophage depolymerases showed that 34 failed to yield detectable recombinant expression, and neither sequence similarity, structural prediction, nor prophage genomic context reliably predicted activity. Of the 14 active enzymes, 5 targeted a K-type different from that predicted of their bacterial host, and enzyme specificity was not consistently explained by sequence or structural homology. Comparison with GWAS predictions revealed that 10 of the 12 strongest GWAS predictors were experimentally validated, while 2 remained inconclusive. Together, these results highlight the intrinsic difficulty of predicting activity and capsular specificity of prophage-encoded RBPs from genomic information alone. Finally, analysis of 4,598 high-completeness prophages revealed that SGNH-domain hydrolases are among the most prevalent enzymatic domains in prophage RBPs. 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