the word "bacteriophage" literally means "bacteria eater," because bacteriophages destroy their host cells. All bacteriophages are composed of a nucleic acid molecule that is surrounded by a ...

Huge, bacteria-eating viruses could be a game-changer for antibiotics that currently struggle to fend off deadly infections.

plays a critical role in replication (e.g., retroviruses, that reverse transcribe RNA templates into complementary DNA) and genome mutations (e.g., diversity-generating retroelements in ...

Jumbo phages use a protein shield to protect their DNA from bacterial attacks. A special handshake controls which molecules ...

All PGRPs have at least one C-terminal PGRP domain, which is homologous to bacteriophage and bacterial type 2 amidases. Insect short PGRPs are present in the haemolymph, cuticle, fat body cells ...

Bacteriophages, natural "predators" of bacteria ... that are resistant to most phages due to the intricacies of the cell wall structure. This surprised us, as the closest relatives of Sxt1 ...

The Phage Genomics Lab courses ,sponsored by the HHMI Science Education Alliance, offers introductory biology students an authentic research experience. Students isolate novel bacteriophage from the ...

A bacteriophage, also called a phage, is a type of virus that cannot infect human cells. However, the bacteriophage name reveals its useful purpose: It is a bacteria eater that can infect and ...

To investigate the downstream effects of phage consumption by mammalian cells, Barr and his team applied highly purified T4 phage, a well studied bacteriophage that infects Escherichia coli, across ...

“It is a really nice piece of work that elegantly demonstrates the influence of inflammation on bacteriophage activity in the gut,” medical microbiologist Chloe James of the University of Salford in ...

Aims: Novel anticancer strategies have employed bacteriophages as drug carriers and display platforms for anticancer agents; however, bacteriophage-based platforms maintain their natural ...