{"id":175350,"date":"2023-11-03T07:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/umbc-team-makes-first-ever-observation-of-a-virus-attaching-to-another-virus-university-of-maryland-baltimore-county"},"modified":"2023-11-03T07:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T12:23:30","slug":"umbc-team-makes-first-ever-observation-of-a-virus-attaching-to-another-virus-university-of-maryland-baltimore-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/umbc-team-makes-first-ever-observation-of-a-virus-attaching-to-another-virus-university-of-maryland-baltimore-county","title":{"rendered":"UMBC Team Makes First-ever Observation Of A Virus Attaching To Another Virus: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a paper published in the Journal of the International Society of Microbial Ecology<\/em><\/a>, a UMBC team and colleagues from Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) describe the first observation of a satellite bacteriophage (a virus that infects bacterial cells) consistently attaching to a helper bacteriophage at its \u201cneck\u201d\u2014where the capsid joins the tail of the virus.<\/p>\n

In detailed electron microscopy images taken by Tagide deCarvalho<\/strong><\/a>, assistant director of the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences core facilities<\/a> and first author on the new paper, 80 percent (40 out of 50) helpers had a satellite bound at the neck. Some of those that did not had remnant satellite tendrils present at the neck. Erill, senior author on the paper, describes them as appearing like \u201cbite marks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I saw it, I was like, \u2018I can\u2019t believe this,\u2019\u201d deCarvalho says. \u201cNo one has ever seen a bacteriophage\u2014or any other virus\u2014attach to another virus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a paper published in the Journal of the International Society of Microbial Ecology, a UMBC team and colleagues from Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) describe the first observation of a satellite bacteriophage (a virus that infects bacterial cells) consistently attaching to a helper bacteriophage at its \u201cneck\u201d\u2014where the capsid joins the tail of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}