The lytic and lysogenic cycles are the two main phases of a virus’ infective lifecycle and route to replication. The lytic cycle, or virulent infection, involves a virus taking control of a host cell ...

In a recent study published in the journal PLoS Pathogens, researchers analyze prophages of the LF82 strain of adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) to better understand their behavior in vitro ...

Using a module exchange approach, we have tested a longstanding model for the role of Cro repressor in λ prophage induction. This epigenetic switch from lysogeny to the lytic state occurs on ...

Journal of Plant Pathology, Vol. 99, No. 1 (March 2017), pp. 233-238 (6 pages) Soil and plant samples from black rot infected fields were processed to isolate wild type Xanthomonas campestris pv.

Scientists describe a new mechanism impacting the phage-bacterial arms race, a nanosized epibiotic parasite, TM7x, which helps its host bacterium (a Schaalia odontolytica strain called XH001) achieve ...

Overuse of antibiotics has accelerated the emergence of antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) bacterial species. The World Health Organization named antibacterial resistance as a top public health threat to ...

A newly revealed mechanism of horizontal gene transfer improves understanding of how antibiotic resistance is transferred between bacteria. The increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance (AR) is a ...

This image shows the "sink-source" dynamic between host bacterium (Schaalia odontolytica XH001) and lytic phage LC001. This dynamic is caused by the co-existence of phage-sensitive XH001 and the phage ...