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A New Sugar for an Old Phage: a c-di-GMP-Dependent Polysaccharide Pathway Sensitizes Escherichia coli for Bacteriophage Infection

Published:2021-12-21 Issue:6 Volume:12 Page:
ISSN:2150-7511
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Author:

Sellner Benjamin¹,Prakapaitė Rūta¹,van Berkum Margo¹,Heinemann Matthias¹^ORCID,Harms Alexander¹^ORCID,Jenal Urs¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Abstract

Because bacterial surface glycans are in direct contact with the environment they can provide essential protective functions during infections or against competing bacteria. But such structures are also “Achilles’ heels” since they can serve as primary receptors for bacteriophages.

Funder

Swiss National Science Foundation

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Microbiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mbio.03246-21

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