Open AccessVesicles Spread Susceptibility to Phages
Author(s) -
Gal Ofir,
Rotem Sorek
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2016.12.035
Subject(s) - biology , bacteria , microbiology and biotechnology , bacterial virus , bacteriophage , extracellular , receptor , virology , gene , escherichia coli , genetics
Extracellular membrane vesicles from bacteria are now shown to transfer phage receptors from susceptible to resistant cells, thus making them transiently sensitive to phage infection (Tzipilevich et al.).
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