Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...MIcrobiology Pages
The problem: Host binding proteins are hard to find
Sequencing and cloning phage DNA can...evolution of their bacterial prey. Currently, receptor binding proteins (RBPs, the host recognition factors of...study. These are highly useful for the biotech industry, which is in the process of capitalizing on phage..., phages represent a reservoir of carbohydrate binding proteins waiting to be explored and exploited. ...phage genome to be probed for proteins with host-binding activity without the need for genome sequencing...sequenced genome that encode for functional cell-binding proteins in the (all-too-common) event that homology-based...coli and subsequent proteins screened for cell-binding abilities (6).
This can be accomplished using a...