such as phage origins of DNA replication or phage promoters that drive abortive or suicide systems in the infected cell (for example, phage-triggered suicide systems). Bacteriophages (phages ...

Their main goal is to produce more bacteriophages by injecting their genome into a bacterial host cell, using the host cell machinery to copy their genome, and expressing bacteriophage genes.

Students isolate novel bacteriophage from the environment and characterize those phage using current research techniques including electron microscopy and DNA analysis. The genomic DNA from some of ...

Professor Alice Roberts talks bacteriophages: viruses that infect ... to classify the entire world’s species according to their DNA. Bristol researchers have discovered that it is more than ...

Bacteriophages, natural "predators" of bacteria ... We selected phages that can infect it, sequenced their genomic DNA, and found an interesting Sxt1 phage," said Polina Iarema, the lead author ...

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 ...

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

In contrast to retroviruses, bacterial viruses (bacteriophages) use RT not for genome replication, but for viral gene variation within diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs) or for other ...

Founder@Hoxton VC. Bacteriophage. A bacteriophage is constituted of a proteic envelope (called capsid), containing its ... [+] nucleic acid (DNA or RNA), and a tail. The tail includes a collar ...

Two years ago, a genome-editing tool referred to as CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short ... For nearly a decade, cheese and yogurt makers have been relying on CRISPR to produce starter ...