Identification of a ligand on the wip1 bacteriophage highly specific for a receptor on bacillus anthracis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 4355-4364

  Kan, Sherry ^a   Fornelos, Nadine ^b   Schuch, Raymond ^a,c   Fischetti, Vincent A ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c Raymond Schuch ContraFect Corporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGAND;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE WIP1; GENE PRODUCT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS SPIKE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, VIRAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; LIGANDS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, VIRUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TECTIVIRIDAE;

EID: 84885458675     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00655-13     Document Type: Article

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