Sentences with phrase «small phages»
Thus, the two small phages characterized for their lysis strategy, Qβ and the small DNA phage φX174, effect host lysis by targeting different enzymes in the multistep, universally conserved pathway of cell wall biosynthesis.
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Scientists had long wondered how Q Beta and other small phages eliminate bacteria.
«It looks like small phages are a gold mine for protein antibiotics.»
Not exact matches
Still, since then, phage therapy research has only puttered along on a small scale.
Bacteria incorporate small bits of DNA from phages into their CRISPR region and use that information to fight off the phages by chewing up their DNA.