Vesicles Spread Susceptibility to Phages

Gal Ofir; Rotem Sorek

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2016.12.035

Vesicles Spread Susceptibility to Phages

Cell. 2017 Jan 12;168(1-2):13-15. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.12.035. Epub 2017 Jan 12.

Authors

Gal Ofir¹, Rotem Sorek²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel.
² Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 28086086
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.12.035

Abstract

Extracellular membrane vesicles from bacteria are now shown to transfer phage receptors from susceptible to resistant cells, thus making them transiently sensitive to phage infection (Tzipilevich et al.).

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MeSH terms

Bacteriophages*