Sentences with phrase «phage attacks»

Rapidly changing viromes would have signaled an «arms race» in which threatened bacteria were adapting to survive phage attacks, and the phages were adapting to avoid bacterial defenses.

Some bacteria protect themselves against phage attacks with a system called CRISPR, which stores pieces of past invaders» DNA so bacteria can recognize and fend off those phages in the future (SN: 4/15/17, p. 22).

Then, the researchers tracked how well the bacteria resisted phage attacks when various genes in a family were deleted.

A tiny phage attacks an E. coli cell in this false - color image from a transmission electron microscope.

A phage attacks its host bacterium by injecting its DNA into the bacteria cell.

And not only that, but each phage attacks particular kinds of bacteria,» Kutter explains.

Not exact matches

The antibiotic, Epimerox, targets weaknesses in bacteria that have long been exploited by viruses that attack them, known as phage, and has even been shown to protect animals from fatal infection by Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax.

A phage is a type of virus that attacks and infiltrates bacteria.

It attacked Pseudomonas through its pump, a molecule called outer - membrane - porin M. Chan dubbed the virus of his dreams OMKO1 (short for outer - membrane - porin M knockout dependent phage # 1).

Phages, shown here surrounding and attacking a bacterial cell, are part of a newly discovered type of immunity that protects mucus - covered human tissue from bacterial infection.