Monday, 1 November 2010

The Isolation and Characterization of Novel Mycobacteriophages

From: University of Tennessee Honors Program

Honors Thesis Projects

University of Tennessee, Knoxville Year 2004

The Isolation and Characterization of Novel Mycobacteriophages

Elizabeth Ann Fleming

University of Tennessee - Knoxville




"Conclusion

Although none of the new phages isolated were lytic for M. ulcerans, two known phages, D29 and Bxz2, were lytic. It is not surprising that D29 was one of the two phages able to infect M ulcerans because the established host range for D29 is very large and includes both slow and fast-growing species. Jan Rybniker continued to study D29 by carrying out experiments, which tested its ability to be used as phage therapy in animal models infected with M. ulcerans...."

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Mycobacteriophage Proteomes comparison
(my contribution: four "in silico " proteome simulations in a single superimposing of pictures)