In this issue, Gishizky and coworkers describe yet another use for phage display—a method for mapping protein–protein interactions that is faster than two-hybrid systems and that allows the ...

If Pnkp and Rnl1 are not present, depletion of the pool of functional tRNA Lys by PrrC blocks phage protein synthesis and arrests the infection before it can spread. However, Pnkp and Rnl1 repair the ...

This study introduces smRandom-seq2, a high-throughput and high-resolution single-microbe RNA sequencing method, which ...

particularly a ubiquitin-like protein,” said Corbett. To understand how Bil works, Sorek’s team compared phage progeny from infected bacteria with and without the system. They performed density ...

But doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital attempted an untested "phage therapy", which uses viruses to infect and kill bacteria. Isabelle is now learning to drive and studying for her A-levels.

“The field of phage biology has seen an explosion over ... the team created different fluorescent labels for the genetic ...

Phage are obligate intracellular viruses that specifically infect bacteria ... Their genetic material is contained in a prism shaped head, surrounded by a protein capsid. This is connected to the ...

In a new study, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers reveal a bacterial immune system that thwarts the phages’ plot by attaching a small protein molecule to their tails. The components of this ...

If the phage's protective capsid protein is present, CmdC disassociates from CmdT and CmdA and interacts with the phage ...

which are part of the cell's protein-building machinery. "We're not entirely sure how those RNA fragments are helping the phage escape CRISPR, but we think they might be indirectly preventing ...