Host Specificity of the Dickeya Bacteriophage PP35 Is Directed by a Tail Spike Interaction With Bacterial O-Antigen, Enabling the Infection of Alternative Non-pathogenic Bacterial Host

Dickeya solani is a recently emerged virulent bacterial potato pathogen that poses a major threat to world agriculture. Because of increasing antibiotic resistance and growing limitations in antibiotic use, alternative antibacterials such as bacteriophages are being developed. Myoviridae bacteriopha...

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Main Authors: Anastasia P. Kabanova, Mikhail M. Shneider, Aleksei A. Korzhenkov, Eugenia N. Bugaeva, Kirill K. Miroshnikov, Evelina L. Zdorovenko, Eugene E. Kulikov, Stepan V. Toschakov, Alexander N. Ignatov, Yuriy A. Knirel, Konstantin A. Miroshnikov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.03288/full