Bacteriophage (Phage)

The similarity between animal viruses and bacteriophage in their structure, physicochemical properties and infection dynamics is striking. Bacteriophage are viruses infecting bacteria. Phage are known to be specific for E. coli, staphylococcus and all bacterial genus. Most phage can grow to an infections titer of 10¹⁰to 10¹² plaque forming units per ml of culture. Virapur has applied many of the techniques we have developed in understanding animal viruses to the bacteriophage.

We offer custom construction of recombinant bacteriophage containing your gene of interest.

• You might want to express a gene in bacteriophage to perform panning for reactive antibody or a companion protein.
• Clients have used engineered bacteriophage containing control genes as lysis controls for viral PCR assays.

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Phage Plaque Assay Protocol

VIRAPUR phage product photographed by NanoImaging Services