The first paenibacillus larvae bacteriophage endolysin (PlyPl23) with high potential to control American foulbrood

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Oliveira, Ana ^a   Leite, Marta ^a   Kluskens, Leon D ^a   Santos, Sílvio B ^a   Melo, Luís D R ^a   Azeredo, Joana ^a   Schuch, Raymond ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b ContraFect Corporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; N ACETYLMURAMOYLALANINE AMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN ENDOLYSIN; PROTEIN PLYPL23; ROYAL JELLY; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ENDOLYSIN; PROTEINASE;

AMERICAN FOULBROOD; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; APICULTURE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUROPE; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; HONEY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PAENIBACILLUS; PAENIBACILLUS LARVAE; PH MEASUREMENT; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL SPORE; BEE; DRUG EFFECTS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BEES; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; LARVA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PAENIBACILLUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84937952325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132095     Document Type: Article

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