supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT)(No.2019R1F1A1056904).
Background:Endolysins,the bacteriophage-originated peptidoglycan hydrolases,are a promising replacement for antibiotics due to immediate lytic activity and no antibiotic resistance.The objectives of this study were to...
Hallym University Research Fund and by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)Funded by the Ministry of Education(NRF-2020R1C1C1008694&NRF-2020R1I1A3074575).
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria and can choose any one of the two alternative pathways for infection,i.e.,lysis or lysogeny.Phage lysis is one of the conventional biological processes required to sprea...
Supported by Winkler Bacterial Overgrowth Research Fund(in part)
The practice of phage therapy, which uses bacterial viruses(phages) to treat bacterial infections, has been around for almost a century. The universal decline in the effectiveness of antibiotics has generated renewed ...
With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Prof.Han Wenyu’s laboratory at the College of Veterinary Medicine,Jilin University,reported the structural and biochemical characterization of stap...
provided by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province,China (ZR2015CM020 and ZR2013 CQ024)
The widespread use of antibiotics has caused serious drug resistance. Bacteria that were once easily treatable are now extremely difficult to treat. Endolysin can be used as an alternative to antibiotics for the treat...