Thank you for your sweet comment, I am glad you enjoyed it! My lab partner and I said the first word that came to our mind and mixed it together. One of those words was ‘tiger’ and the other was ‘head’. Hence the name Tigerhead!
Thanks for sharing your research! I think your video was cut out at the end so I was curious to understand how could you modify your temperate phage to improve its efficacy in killing bacteria? Would you modify the probe or the capsule for the phage? Or, any other type of modification?
Great question, thank you for asking this! By removing the repressor gene (prevents the lytic genes from being presented) and by removing the integration genes (which allows the phage to combine its DNA with that of the bacteria) a temperate phage will lose its lysogenic properties.
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Thank you for this interesting presentation! Out of pure curiosity, where does the name tigerhead come from?
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Thank you for your sweet comment, I am glad you enjoyed it! My lab partner and I said the first word that came to our mind and mixed it together. One of those words was ‘tiger’ and the other was ‘head’. Hence the name Tigerhead!
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Thanks for sharing your research! I think your video was cut out at the end so I was curious to understand how could you modify your temperate phage to improve its efficacy in killing bacteria? Would you modify the probe or the capsule for the phage? Or, any other type of modification?
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Great question, thank you for asking this! By removing the repressor gene (prevents the lytic genes from being presented) and by removing the integration genes (which allows the phage to combine its DNA with that of the bacteria) a temperate phage will lose its lysogenic properties.
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Thank you!
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