Dokland’s study, “Shape shifter: redirection of prolate phage capsid assembly by staphylococcal pathogenicity islands” was published in Nature Communications. Dokland said that Bacteriophages or ...

Worldwide, infectious diseases cause over 10 million deaths each year. Learn how pathogenicity islands and bacteriophage genes end up making these potent viruses. As the genomic sequences of viruses, ...

Viroporins play a key role in the life cycle of SARS-CoV-2 and are one of the primary determinants of viral pathogenesis. More specifically, SARS-CoV-2 viroporins are primarily responsible for ion ...

Influenza B virus is a significant respiratory pathogen responsible for seasonal influenza. In recent years the B/Yamagata lineage has demonstrated a rapid increase, predominantly featuring the ...

Gram-negative bacteria cause a variety of infectious diseases in plants and animals alike. Outbreaks of Salmonella and E. coli infections often make headlines due to their severity, and people have to ...