Bacteriophages and phage-inspired nanocarriers for targeted delivery of therapeutic cargos

M Karimi, H Mirshekari, SMM Basri, S Bahrami… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2016 - Elsevier
The main goal of drug delivery systems is to target therapeutic cargoes to desired cells and
to ensure their efficient uptake. Recently a number of studies have focused on designing bio …

Phage therapy for mosquito larval control: a proof-of-principle study

CV Tikhe, G Dimopoulos - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The mosquito microbiota has a profound impact on multiple biological processes ranging
from reproduction to disease transmission. Interestingly, the adult mosquito microbiota is …

Metagenomic analysis of dairy bacteriophages: extraction method and pilot study on whey samples derived from using undefined and defined mesophilic starter …

MK Muhammed, W Kot, H Neve, J Mahony… - Applied and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Despite being potentially highly useful for characterizing the biodiversity of phages,
metagenomic studies are currently not available for dairy bacteriophages, partly due to the …

Isolation, Characterisation and Complete Genome Sequence of a Tequatrovirus Phage, Escherichia phage KIT03, Which Simultaneously Infects Escherichia coli O157:H7 and …

NH Pham-Khanh, H Sunahara, H Yamadeya… - Current …, 2019 - Springer
Escherichia coli O157: H7 and Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica are the pathogens that
frequently cause foodborne illness. Bacteriophage applications have been proposed as …

Isolation and characterization of lytic phage vB_EcoM_JS09 against clinically isolated antibiotic-resistant avian pathogenic Escherichia coli and enterotoxigenic …

Y Zhou, H Bao, H Zhang, R Wang - Intervirology, 2015 - karger.com
Objectives: To characterize the lytic coliphage vB_EcoM_JS09 (phage JS09) isolated from
sewage samples of a swine farm in Jiangsu Province, China, which infects antibiotic …

Suggestion for a new bacteriophage genus for the Klebsiella pneumoniae phage vB_KpnS-Carvaje

JC Sousa, S Sillankorva, A Faustino, CM Carvalho - Current Genetics, 2022 - Springer
This work describes the newly isolated Klebsiella pneumoniae phage vB_KpnS-Carvaje that
presents unique features in relation to other phages reported to date. These findings provide …

The odd “RB” phage—Identification of arabinosylation as a new epigenetic modification of DNA in T4-like phage RB69

JA Thomas, J Orwenyo, LX Wang, LW Black - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
In bacteriophages related to T4, hydroxymethylcytosine (hmC) is incorporated into the
genomic DNA during DNA replication and is then further modified to glucosyl-hmC by phage …

Temporal stability and genetic diversity of 48-year-old T-series phages

D Subedi, JJ Barr - Msystems, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT T-series phages have been model organisms for molecular biology since the
1940s. Given that these phages have been stocked, distributed, and propagated for …

Genome sequence of the enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli bacteriophage UFV-AREG1

MES Lopez, LS Batalha, PMP Vidigal… - Genome …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Here, we present the genome sequence of the Escherichia coli bacteriophage UFV-AREG1.
This phage was isolated from cowshed wastewater and showed specificity for …

Bacterial defense systems and methods of identifying thereof

F Zhang, L Gao - US Patent App. 17/085,937, 2021 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND To survive from attacks by viruses (eg, phages), bacteria have developed a
variety of defense systems, including proteins and nucleic acids that help recognize and …