Resumen de Programming Bacteriophages by Swapping Their Specificity Determinants

Moran G. Goren, Ido Yosef, Udi Qimron

• Bacteriophages, bacteria's natural enemies, may serve as potent antibacterial agents. Their specificity for certain bacterial sub-species limits their effectiveness, but allows selective targeting of bacteria. Lu and colleagues present a platform for such targeting through alteration of bacteriophages’ host specificity by swapping specificity domains in their host-recognition ligand.