Characterization and Therapeutic Potential of Bacteriophage-Encoded Polysaccharide Depolymerases with β Galactosidase Activity against <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> K57 Capsular Type

• Hlavní autoři: Nikolay V. Volozhantsev (Autor), Anna M. Shpirt (Autor), Alexander I. Borzilov (Autor), Ekaterina V. Komisarova (Autor), Valentina M. Krasilnikova (Autor), Alexander S. Shashkov (Autor), Vladimir V. Verevkin (Autor), Yuriy A. Knirel (Autor)
• Médium: Kniha
• Vydáno: MDPI AG, 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Témata: article
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Bacteriophages and phage enzymes are considered as possible alternatives to antibiotics in the treatment of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Due to the ability to cleave the capsular polysaccharides (CPS), one of the main virulence factors of <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i&g...