Strategies for surface immobilization of whole bacteriophages: A review

L O'connell, PR Marcoux… - ACS Biomaterials Science …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bacteriophage immobilization is a key unit operation in emerging biotechnologies, enabling
new possibilities for biodetection of pathogenic microbes at low concentration, production of …

Design and control of compostability in synthetic biopolyesters

PK Samantaray, A Little, AM Wemyss… - ACS Sustainable …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The aerobic composting and anaerobic digestion of plastics is a promising route to
recovering the multidimensional value from biodegradable single-use plastics. At present …

Engineering antibacterial activities and biocompatibility of hyperbranched lysine-based random copolymers

H Liu, X Liu, YQ Cao, M Liu, MM Han, SX Ji - Chinese Journal of Polymer …, 2023 - Springer
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been considered as an alternative to small molecule
antibiotics since they are difficult to develop antimicrobial resistance. Hyperbranched …

Xanthomonas citri MinC Oscillates from Pole to Pole to Ensure Proper Cell Division and Shape

ASG Lorenzoni, GC Dantas, T Bergsma… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Xanthomonas citri (Xac) is the causal agent of citrus canker, a disease that affects citrus
crops and causes economic impact worldwide. To further characterize cell division in this …

Optical bacteriophage susceptibility testing by SPR (surface plasmon resonance)

L O'Connell, Y Roupioz… - Plasmonics in Biology and …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The proliferation of multiresistant bacteria is having an increasing and profound impact on
the world. A credible alternative to antibiotics is bacteriophage therapy, which are expected …

Microbial metabolism and growth under conditions of starvation modelled as the sliding mode of a differential inclusion

OA Nev, HA van den Berg - Dynamical Systems, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
We consider a model of bacterial growth with variable internal stores, extended with
adaptive resource allocation and investigate the behaviour of this model under conditions of …

[PDF][PDF] Rheology and linear dichroism of dilute solutions of flexible and semiflexible polymers in shear flow

IM Pincus - 2022 - scholar.archive.org
Although the non-equilibrium behaviour of polymer solutions is generally well understood,
particularly in extensional flow, there remain several unanswered questions for dilute …

Investigating the effect of bacteriophages on bacterial FtsZ localisation

GK Dhanoa, I Kushnir, U Qimron, DI Roper… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Escherichia coli is one of the most common Gram-negative pathogens and is responsible for
infection leading to neonatal meningitis and sepsis. The FtsZ protein is a bacterial tubulin …

Exploring the Genetic Interactions of Quinolone Resistance Mutations in Escherichia coli

CE Porter - 2023 - repository.library.carleton.ca
Globally, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a rapidly growing public health concern which
demands the need for new treatment strategies. One promising approach is the use of drug …

Cancer drugs as drivers of antibiotic resistance

J Guðmundsdóttir - 2023 - munin.uit.no
Antibiotics are the cornerstone for modern medicine, and their introduction into clinical use
has made common medical procedures such as surgeries and cancer chemotherapy …