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 ...

A phage is a virus that invades a bacterial cell. While harmless to human cells, phages are potentially deadly to bacteria since many phages enter a cell in order to hijack its machinery in order to ...

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 ...

The term prophage was coined in 1952 by André Lwoff, who along with François Jacob and Jacques Monod, discovered that phages use lysogeny (incorporation into the chromosome) as a means to replicate, ...

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Coral is a complicated holobiont, harboring an array of life forms at different scales, including coral cells, zooxanthellae, and associated bacteria, archaea, and viruses. A research group led by ...

Intron Biotechnology Inc. has announced the identification of lysogenic bacteriophages prophage and jamphage in the pancreatic cancer-related microbiome. This identification was achieved as part of ...

LEXINGTON, Mass., June 6, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Agenus Inc. (Nasdaq:AGEN), a leading developer of therapeutic vaccines for cancer and infectious diseases, today announced results from a Phase 2 ...

New Phase 2 Data From Brain Cancer Study With Agenus' Prophage Vaccine (HSPPC-96) Presented at Plenary Session of AANS LEXINGTON, Mass., April 17, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Agenus Inc. (Nasdaq:AGEN) ...

Agenus Inc. (NASDAQ: AGEN), announced final results from a single-arm, multi-institutional, open-label, Phase 2 study showing that patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) who ...

Researchers have uncovered a two-component system of Butters prophage genes that encode proteins that 'collaborate' to block entry and subsequent infection of some phages, but not others. Their ...