Bacteriophages biological

Moineau, S. and Ldvesque, C. (2005) Control of bacteriophages in industrial fermentations. In Bacteriophages Biology and Applications ((eds) E. Kutter and A. Sulakvelidze), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 285-296. 

Rakonjac, J., Beimett, N.J., Spagnuolo, J., Gagic, D., Russel, M., 2011. Filamentous bacteriophage biology, phage display and nanotechnology applications. Curr. Issues Mol. Biol. 13, 51-76. 

Viruses are classified initially on the basis of the hosts they infect. Thus we have animal viruses, plant viruses, and bacterial viruses. Bacterial viruses, sometimes called bacteriophages (or phage for short, from the Greek phago meaning to eat), have been studied primarily as convenient model systems for research on the molecular biology and genetics of virus reproduction. Many of the basic concepts of... 

When a virus multiplies, the genome becomes released from the coat. This process occurs during the infection process. The present chapter is divided into three parts. The first part deals with basic concepts of virus structure and function. The second part deals with the nature and manner of multiplication of the bacterial viruses (bacteriophages). In this part we introduce the basic molecular biology of virus multiplication. The third part deals with important groups of animal viruses, with emphasis on molecular aspects of animal virus multiplication. 

Keywords Bacteriophage therapy Bioterrorism Biological warfare... 

Glonti T (2004) Study of the biological properties of bacteriophages active against P. aemginosa and evaluation of their potential use for sanitation of the environment. CandSci dissertation, Tbilisi, Georgia... 

XEMBL3A Bacteriophage E. coli Genomic library construction. Reduced chance of escape from laboratory biological containment... 

While it is easy to visualize the assembly of oligomeric proteins, it is not as easy to imagine how complex objects such as eukaryotic cilia (Fig. 1-8) or the sarcomeres of muscle (Fig. 19-6) are formed. However, study of the assembly of bacteriophage particles and other small biological objects has led to the concepts of self-assembly and assembly pathways, concepts that are now applied to every aspect of the architecture of cells. 

In all biological systems, gene expression is regulated so that gene products are produced either before or as they are needed. In this chapter we examine the mechanisms that ensure efficient regulation in the bacterium Escherichia coli and the bacteriophage A. 

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