Phage endolysins are adapted to specific hosts and are evolutionarily dynamic

Frank Oechslin; Xiaojun Zhu; Moira B. Dion; Rong Shi; Sylvain Moineau

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001740

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Phage endolysins are adapted to specific hosts and are evolutionarily dynamic

Frank Oechslin ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Frank.Oechslin@gmail.com

Affiliations Département de biochimie, de microbiologie, et de bio-informatique, Faculté des sciences et de génie, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada, Groupe de recherche en écologie buccale, Faculté de médecine dentaire, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8473-8795

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Xiaojun Zhu,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département de biochimie, de microbiologie, et de bio-informatique, Faculté des sciences et de génie, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
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Moira B. Dion,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Département de biochimie, de microbiologie, et de bio-informatique, Faculté des sciences et de génie, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada, Groupe de recherche en écologie buccale, Faculté de médecine dentaire, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
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Rong Shi,

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département de biochimie, de microbiologie, et de bio-informatique, Faculté des sciences et de génie, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
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Sylvain Moineau

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Département de biochimie, de microbiologie, et de bio-informatique, Faculté des sciences et de génie, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada, Groupe de recherche en écologie buccale, Faculté de médecine dentaire, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada, Félix d’Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada
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Phage endolysins are adapted to specific hosts and are evolutionarily dynamic

Frank Oechslin,
Xiaojun Zhu,
Moira B. Dion,
Rong Shi,
Sylvain Moineau

Published: August 1, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001740

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