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Structural Analysis Of Predicted Proteins Using Alphafold, Brydon P. Wall
Structural Analysis Of Predicted Proteins Using Alphafold, Brydon P. Wall
Undergraduate Research Posters
The function of around 67% of predicted proteins from genes in Mycobacteriophage CheetoDust can not be confidently predicted using traditional techniques and can only be functionally labeled “hypothetical proteins”. However, a new approach using AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence tool to generate a structural prediction from a sequence, can take advantage of structurally conserved regions that were previously obfuscated to gain new insights and visualize data in new ways.
Since amino acid sequences are more conserved than its corresponding DNA sequence, amino acid sequences are used when predicting the function of the corresponding translated protein. Until recently, predicting structure from an …
Isolation Of A Novel Phage Otoolekemple52, Thomas O. Raymond
Isolation Of A Novel Phage Otoolekemple52, Thomas O. Raymond
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A bacteriophage is a virus capable of infecting bacteria like ubiquitous soil-dwelling genus Bacillus. Within the Bacillus genus, there is the “ACT family” made up of B. thuringiensis, B. cereus, and B. anthracis, which are highly related but with different pathogenic characteristics. Because of this, phages isolated using a species in this group may have a broad host range encompassing several species from Bacillus. Since B. cereus and B. anthracis can result in fatal to mild sickness in humans, the non-pahtogenic B. thuringiensis kurstaki was used to discover and characterize novel phages. The phage OTooleKemple52 was isolated …
Integrating Phage Therapy Into Western Medicine, Jacob B. Jaminet
Integrating Phage Therapy Into Western Medicine, Jacob B. Jaminet
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The World Health Organization has described the rise of antibiotic use as a “global heath security emergency” (who.int). With the growing concern about antibiotic resistant bacteria, there has been an increased interest in bacteriophages. Bacteriophages are high-specific viruses that only infect bacteria. The use of bacteriophages medicinally to treat bacteria is called phage therapy. Research in phage therapy gained momentum until the introduction of antibiotics. While the USA and other Western countries accepted antibiotics, the Soviet Union and their satellite nations still continued to research phages. Since the funding for research was supplied by the Soviet military, the results of …