Extremely long tail provides structural window into how bacteria-infecting viruses called phages assemble. A recent study in the Journal of Biological Chemistry has revealed the secret behind an ...

Phages, viruses that attack bacteria, have a head and a tail. The head contains the phage's genetic material and the tail is used to identify a potential host, that is, a bacterial cell into which ...

Hör said that Bil’s conjugation to the spike protein likely inhibits the interaction between the phage and its entry receptor on new host cells, which could explain why some of the tailed progenies ...

Phages are bundles of tangled ... Freeman was able to recreate the tail tube and, perhaps most tantalizingly, the tip of the tail, which binds to the bacteria. Currently, researchers do not ...

Each phage possesses specific features that influence bacterial infection. For clinical applications, researchers mostly use bacteriophages belonging to the order Caudovirales, also known as tailed ...

Unlike many of the viruses that infect humans and animals that contain only one compartment, phages consist of a tail attached to a spiky, prismlike protein shell that contains their DNA.

Louis. Today, he is a senior scientist at Pfizer. “Recent research,” he notes, “has primarily focused on tailed-phages and Microviridae. Phages can be lytic or exhibit other life cycles such ...

The study, "A synthetic biology approach to assemble and reboot clinically relevant Pseudomonas aeruginosa tailed phages," was published in the journal Microbiology Spectrum. "Antimicrobial ...

driving its tail through the cell’s membrane and allowing its genome to enter its new host. One of two possible fates awaits the unfortunate bacterium. “Lysogenic” phages weave their own ...

Phages, viruses that attack bacteria, consist of a head containing genetic material, and a tail that identifies bacterial cells and injects viral genetic material into them. Once injected ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Soon after joining the faculty at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine in March 2020, Kathryn Kauffman, assistant professor of oral biology, created a laboratory to ...