Experimental Evolution of the TolC-Receptor Phage U136B Functionally Identifies a Tail Fiber Protein Involved in Adsorption through Strong Parallel Adaptation-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Experimental Evolution of the TolC-Receptor Phage U136B Functionally Identifies a Tail Fiber Protein Involved in Adsorption through Strong Parallel Adaptation

Published:2023-06-28 Issue:6 Volume:89 Page:
ISSN:0099-2240
Container-title:Applied and Environmental Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:Appl Environ Microbiol

Author:

Burmeister Alita R.¹²³^ORCID,Tzintzun-Tapia Eddy¹²,Roush Carli¹²^ORCID,Mangal Ivan¹²,Barahman Roxanna¹²,Bjornson Robert D.⁴,Turner Paul E.¹²⁵⁶

Affiliation:

1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

2. BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

3. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

4. Yale Center for Research Computing, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

5. Microbiology Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

6. Center for Phage Biology and Therapy, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Abstract

Antibiotic resistance is a persistent problem in health care and a factor that may help maintain bacterial diversity in natural environments. Bacteriophages (“phages”) are viruses that specifically infect bacteria.

Funder

Yale Undergraduate STARS II Fellowship

Yale Undergraduate Summer Experience Award

Felix Biotechnology

HHS | National Institutes of Health

National Science Foundation

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/aem.00079-23