A lipopolysaccharide-dependent phage infects a pseudomonad phytopathogen and can evolve to evade phage resistance
S. L. Warring, L. M. Malone, J. Jayaraman, R. A. Easingwood, L. A. Rigano, R. A. Frampton, S. B. Visnovsky, S. M. Addison, L. Hernandez, A. R. Pitman, E. Lopez Acedo, T. Kleffmann, M. D. Templeton, M. Bostina, P. C. Fineran
This paper studies a phage that infects a plant pathogen, showing it uses LPS as a receptor and can evolve to bypass bacterial resistance.
bioRxiv · Jun 10, 2022Microbiology