Bacteriophages, or phages for short, are viruses that infect bacteria. Using phages therapeutically could be very useful in fighting antibiotic-resistant pathogens, but the molecular interactions ...
BioRxiv (2023) PubMed PMID: 37546940; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10402079. The mammalian innate immune system uses cyclic GMP–AMP synthase (cGAS) to synthesize the cyclic dinucleotide 2′,3′-cGAMP during ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract When host cells are in low abundance, temperate bacteriophages opt for dormant (lysogenic) infection. Phage lambda implements this strategy by ...
University of Toronto researchers have made the first discovery of a virus that infects Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria ...
A phage is a virus specific to bacteria in that the mechanism of phage self-replication relies on hijacking the cellular machinery of a bacterium and are thus unable to survive in other hosts. Phage ...