Gut Phage Database: phage mining in the cave of wonders

MVP: a microbe–phage interaction database

Phages invade microbes, accomplish host lysis and are of vital importance in shaping the community structure of environmental microbiota. More importantly, most phages have very specific hosts; they are thus ideal tools to manipulate environmental microbiota at species-resolution. The main purpose of MVP (Microbe Versus Phage) is to provide a comprehensive catalog of phage-microbe interactions ...

phage typing of coagulase positive staphylococci

in determination of particular types of coagulate positive staphylococci (staphylococcus aurous) causing different diseases, especially hospital sepsis and food poisonings; 186 strains of coagulase positive staphylococci from different provinces in iran were phage typed. because of various sources of the strains, the results had some differences, as 15.8 percent or 15 strains separated from chi...

Puzzling Peptides from a Phage Display Library

The commercial availability of random peptide libraries displayed on the M13 phage is increasing their use forstudies on epitope identification, enzyme inhibitors, receptor ligands, etc. In this study two experimentswhere planned for selection of peptides. First with sheep antibodies, the positive selector was IgG, preparedon Protein G column from a pool of 11 sheeps immunized...

Eliminating helper phage from phage display

Phage display technology involves the display of proteins or peptides, as coat protein fusions, on the surface of a phage or phagemid particles. Using standard technology, helper phage are essential for the replication and assembly of phagemid particles, during library production and biopanning. We have eliminated the need to add helper phage by using 'bacterial packaging cell lines' that provi...

Isolation and characterization of a phage active against streptomyces griseus