Corals have multiple roles in maintaining ocean health and are some of the world’s most diverse ecosystems. The coral animal is host to a multitude of taxa, including symbiotic dinoflagellate algae, fungi, bacteria, protists, and viruses. Environmental stressors and disease agents can perturb the delicate balance of the coral host...
The purpose of this research was to determine whether the transducing phage Pl picks up original bacterial chromosome segments and whether these segments are always the same size. The plan of approach was to grow the donor bacteria Escherichia coli C600 gal⁺ (galactose) in minimal media containing the heavy isotopes...
Cysteine inhibition of phage multiplication in Escherichia
coli has been described by a number of workers. More recently
cysteine has been found to lower the yield of Streptomyces griseus
phage. The present study sought a more complete description of the
"cysteine effect" as it has been noted in the S....
The most frequent cause of insufficient acid production during
fermentation of dairy products is bacteriophage infection of lactic
starter cultures. Previously, efforts to minimize this problem have
dealt primarily with the host range relationships of the viruses and
susceptibility patterns of the lactic streptococci. This study was
undertaken to characterize...
Circular dichroism (CD) spectra were obtained for bacteriophage T4 lysozyme and three of its mutants in the presence and absence of colloidal silica nanoparticles. Mutant lysozymes were produced by substitution of the isoleucine at position 3 with tryptophan, cysteine and leucine. Each substitution resulted in an altered structural stability, quantified...