Sentences with phrase «bacterial hosts»

The researchers created thousands of tailored DNA strands at once by coaxing viruses to replicate the strands inside bacterial hosts, they report.

While anthrax is caused by a bacterium that invades and kills its animal host, bacteriophages, literally «bacteria eaters» are viruses that invade and kill bacterial hosts.

It enters its bacterial host by force, squeezing in between the cell wall and inner membrane.

The tailspike protein (TSP) of Salmonella typhimurium phage P22 is a part of the apparatus by which the phage attaches to the bacterial host and hydrolyzes the O antigen.

Once the bacterial hosts are gone, the phages will also die, Leverentz explains.

Chan and Turner began studying OMKO1 and its bacterial hosts in petri dishes.

These gene snippets spread when their bacterial hosts reproduce or acquire them from nearby dead cells.

«Our results show that once a plasmid encoding resistance genes is transferred to a bacterial host, the probability that the bacteria will lose the encoded resistances is quite low, even absent a selective pressure,» said Kempf

They also excel at adapting to environmental conditions more quickly than their bacterial hosts.

Plasmids also need a mechanism to prevent themselves from making too many copies, which would strangle their bacterial host.

Plasmids are rings of bare DNA containing a handful of genes that are essentially freeloaders, borrowing most of what they need to live from their bacterial host.