Mimicking biological functionality with polymers for biomedical applications

JJ Green, JH Elisseeff - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
The vast opportunities for biomaterials design and functionality enabled by mimicking nature
continue to stretch the limits of imagination. As both biological understanding and …

Phages in nature

MRJ Clokie, AD Millard, AV Letarov, S Heaphy - Bacteriophage, 2011‏ - Taylor & Francis
Phages are the most abundant organisms in the biosphere and they are a ubiquitous feature
of prokaryotic existence. A bacteriophage is a virus which infects a bacterium. Archaea are …

Protospacer recognition motifs: mixed identities and functional diversity

SA Shah, S Erdmann, FJM Mojica, RA Garrett - RNA biology, 2013‏ - Taylor & Francis
Protospacer adjacent motifs (PAMs) were originally characterized for CRISPR-Cas systems
that were classified on the basis of their CRISPR repeat sequences. A few short 2–5 bp …

5500 Phages examined in the electron microscope

HW Ackermann - Archives of virology, 2007‏ - Springer
“Phages” include viruses of eubacteria and archaea. At least 5568 phages have been
examined in the electron microscope since the introduction of negative staining in 1959 …

[كتاب][B] Processes in microbial ecology

DL Kirchman - 2018‏ - books.google.com
Microbial ecology is the study of interactions among microbes in natural environments and
their roles in biogeochemical cycles, food web dynamics, and the evolution of life. Microbes …

Phage classification and characterization

HW Ackermann - Bacteriophages: Methods and protocols, volume 1 …, 2009‏ - Springer
Prokaryote viruses include 14 officially accepted families and at least five other potential
families awaiting classification. Approximately 5,500 prokaryote viruses have been …

The enigmatic archaeal virosphere

D Prangishvili, DH Bamford, P Forterre… - Nature Reviews …, 2017‏ - nature.com
One of the most prominent features of archaea is the extraordinary diversity of their DNA
viruses. Many archaeal viruses differ substantially in morphology from bacterial and …

Viruses of the Archaea: a unifying view

D Prangishvili, P Forterre, RA Garrett - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2006‏ - nature.com
DNA viruses of the Archaea have highly diverse and often exceptionally complex
morphotypes. Many have been isolated from geothermally heated hot environments, raising …

A putative viral defence mechanism in archaeal cells

R Lillestøl, P Redder, RA Garrett, KIM Brügger - Archaea, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
Clusters of regularly spaced direct repeats, separated by unconserved spacer sequences,
are ubiquitous in archaeal chromosomes and occur in some plasmids. Some clusters …

Defining life: the virus viewpoint

P Forterre - Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 2010‏ - Springer
Are viruses alive? Until very recently, answering this question was often negative and
viruses were not considered in discussions on the origin and definition of life. This situation …