Sally Byers

Staphylococcus species infected by a bacteriophage with a tail that is both curved and contractile | mBio Past work has seen over-representation of Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates in genome and biology studies on staphylococci. Here, we show by a selective plating analysis of municipal wastewater ...

A wonderful paper about a bacteriophage defying boundaries #staphylococcus #bacteriophage journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

JS1 is a #phage that does not respect host species boundaries, but it does look stylish as it binds, enters in and kills them all.

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The textbooks show #phages with stumpy-tails (podo-type) or contractile-tails (myo-type) or flexible-tails. (sipho-type). Meet JS1, a flexible AND contractile phage.

Images of phage JS1 by EM showed that it's flexed tail. Contractile phages should be straight, JS1 isn’t.
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A very cool molecular machine, the bacteriophage JS1, has taught us several surprising things

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Who knew telomere phages could be so interesting?