Analyzing diversity of reverse-transcriptase-containing viruses through global metagenomics
Viral reverse transcriptase (RT) plays a critical role in replication (e.g., retroviruses, that reverse transcribe RNA ...
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Bacteriophages could improve Salmonella control in poultry
New research from the University of Guelph will focus on determining if bacteriophages can replace antibiotics to reduce the incidence of Salmonella in poultry. “Those of us in academia are really ...
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As bacteria grows resistant to antibiotics, bacteriophage therapy gets a second look
Boyd English is the first patient in Western Canada to have the pain in his hip treated with bacteriophages. That’s using viruses to kill bacteria. English broke his hip in 1973 and got a hip ...
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Lytic vs Lysogenic – Understanding Bacteriophage Life Cycles
The lysogenic cycle, or non-virulent infection, involves the virus assimilating its genome with the host cell’s genome to achieve replication without killing the host. Bacteriophage (phage) are ...
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Lambda phage
Bacteriophage lambda virion (schematic ... The mRNA transcript is digested by bacterial RNase starting from the cleaved hairpin loop at sib. The lysogenic lifecycle begins once the cI protein reaches ...