Viridax™ |Bacteriophage |Glossary
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Below illustrated animation - 6 cell loop /
approximately 45 seconds
5 Step Process
1. A Bacteriophage virus attaches to the
surface of a bacterial cell at specific receptor binding sites.
2. The Bacteriophage then pierces the
bacterial cell wall with its tail spike and inserts its DNA into the bacterial
cell.
3. The Bacteriophage DNA is integrated into
the bacterial DNA, and the bacterium then synthesizes the components of new
Bacteriophage.
4. The Bacteriophage components are then
assembled into several hundred new Bacteriophage per bacterial cell.
5. A lytic enzyme destroys the bacterial
cell wall releasing the new Bacteriophage to infect and destroy other bacterial
cells about every 20 minutes until all bacterial cells are destroyed.
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