Mucoidy, a general mechanism for maintaining lytic phage in populations of bacteria
W. N. Chaudhry, E. Lee, A. Worthy, Z. Weiss, M. Grabowicz, N. Vega, B. R. Levin
The paper shows that mucoidy in E. coli allows lytic phages to persist in bacterial populations through frequent transitions between mucoid and non-mucoid states.
bioRxiv · Jun 14, 2020Microbiology