Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...because phages frequently alter their DNA by adding methyl groups, glycosyl groups, and other modifications...post, I will describe a useful and cost-effective method that our lab (the Szymanski lab, which has recently...examples of RBPs successfully identified using this method.
Step 1: Prepare a random fragment library of phage...nitrogen gas tank with a pressure regulator. Other methods for physical shearing exist as well, such as sonication...sonication and needle shearing. Essentially, any method that results in the bulk of resultant fragments...library construction for functional genomic and metagenomic screening." Applied and environmental microbiology...