Elucidating Physicochemical Features of Holin Proteins Responsible for Bacterial Cell Lysis.

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Bacterial resistance to conventional antibiotics stimulated the development of so-called "phage therapies" that rely on cell lysis, which is a process of destroying bacterial cells due to their infections by bacterial viruses. For λ bacteriophages, it is known that the critical role in this process is played by holin proteins that aggregate in cellular membranes before breaking them apart. While multiple...

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