Temperate and lysogenic infection: Are they the same? November 28, 2022 Lysogenic cycle Lysogenic infection An infection that results in prophage genome replication but does not explicitly involve virion production except after subsequent prophage induction….
Are bacterial biofilms susceptible to bacteriophage attack? November 5, 2022 The study of the pathogenesis of diseases caused by harmful bacteria aids in the development of knowledge on how to battle these microbes. Bacteria…
Jumbo phage chimallin (ChmA) protein: The answer to CRISPR-Cas bacterial defense system? August 19, 2022 Loughlin et, 2020 Jumbo phages are bacteriophages (phages) with genetic information (genomes) larger than 200 kilobases. These phages are known as “jumbo” because they…
How bacteria’s programed cell death stop phage infection spread in the population April 21, 2022 Programmed cell death (PCD), sometimes termed apoptosis refers to any form of cell death mediated by an intracellular death program. Apoptosis is more precisely defined as…
Is it possible for bacteria to develop bacteriophage resistance? March 31, 2022 Bacteriophages are ancient viruses that exclusively parasitize bacteria. They are extremely diverse in their host range and they target bacteria of all different kinds…
Can lysogenic phages be trained to enter into the lytic cycle? October 10, 2021 Have you ever come across the word phage training? Phages are viruses that eat up bacteria; that’s what many of us know. They are…
