Scripps Research team offers insights that could aid development of phage therapies against Mycobacteria The pathogens which ...

“When phage infect a bacterial cell, the EPI vesicle protects the genome of the virus during early stages of ... Because most phages simply inject their DNA directly into the host, effectively ...

Mycobacteria are the world’s most deadly bacteria—causing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

Researchers have been investigating how these single-celled organisms withstand phage infections ... employed genome sequencing to catalog hundreds of thousands of new DNA memories generated ...

“Discovering DNA related to the black widow spider toxin gene came as a total surprise because it is the first time that a phage . . . has been found carrying animal-like DNA,” Vanderbilt University’s ...

This system stores DNA from previous infections. When a known phage tries to re-enter ... the naturally dormant phage to pull parts of the viral genetic code into their genome,” said Modell. “When we ...

viral DNA is amplified, and phage proteins are synthesized and assembled into a capsid. Finally, the cell lyses, releasing new virions (Ge et al., 2020). In the lysogenic cycle, the viral genetic ...